Diversity Management

CEO Message

DEI Makes Proterial Stronger and More Competitive

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) make Proterial stronger, healthier, more vibrant, and more impactful, and merit based organization.
Diversity gives us access to a broader spectrum of talent, bringing in new lenses to look at things through. Equity ensures that everyone enjoys equal opportunities to be heard, to be hired, to have input, and to have impact on how Proterial delivers our Mission and our Vision. Finally, Inclusion means making sure everyone feels accepted.
It’s easy to develop a strategy. The challenge is building an organization to carry it out, and that begins with culture based on our Mission, Vision and Values. DEI initiatives will help us strengthen our culture, build a competitive advantage, and win.

Proterial CEO

Sean M. Stack

A Broader Talent Pool Will Help Us Succeed in Global Markets

DEI is an evolving process. As we become a more robust global organization, we will recognize more opportunities for insight and improvement.
Fortunately, inclusion is in Proterial’s DNA, perhaps as a legacy of expanding our manufacturing base to different geographies, and we have made great strides already.
Geographical and cultural diversity is also important. My first hire non-Japanese country-regional president. He was born in India and raised in Canada before emigrating to the United States, and he also spent four years working in Japan. This is the kind of diverse experience and expertise we need to build our culture. At my first town hall, I was asked about Proterial’s strategy in the face of Japan’s declining working-age population. My answer was, first and foremost, we must become much more open to embracing female talent in engineering and other fields. As a sign of change, our biggest business today is run by our female senior executive officer.
Changes like this have a flywheel effect. Celebrating wins and highlighting the positive impact of talented people will raise the awareness and enthusiasm around our goals and how DEI fits into them—all without ever acrificing merit. From now on, we will be a broader organization with greater participation from all around the world, and that will help us achieve new success in global markets.

My Job as CEO

Proterial’s Mission is to “Make the best quality available to everyone.” That includes quality of life within the organization. We want to create opportunities for employees to grow and realize their full potential in line with our Vision: “Leading sustainability by high performance.”
My job as CEO is to lead this process: to build the right team, cultivate the right culture, and raise levels of empowerment, engagement, and accountability. We will grow faster and be more resilient by listening to leaders about their achievements and barriers and help to solve them. DEI is a cornerstone of that and therefore one of the keys to our success.

Japanese｜CEO Message

DEI Definition of PROTERIAL

Diversity

Respect and
acknowledge diverse
“individuals”
Equity

To provide fair opportunities
and an environment
where everyone is
free to express their opinions
Inclusion

To become an organization
where “individuals”
can demonstrate their abilities
and take on challenges
proactively

PROTERIAL Group positions thorough implementation of
diversity and inclusion as an important management strategy
and is working on various initiatives.

PROTERIAL Diversity Management Basic Policy

By respecting differences in gender, nationality, culture, and other factors as individual characteristics, and by ensuring diversity, including the promotion of women’s activities and the use of global human resources, we will promote innovation and increase flexibility and speed in responding to risk and change.

We will promote individual growth through active communication and shared values.
We will enhance our ability to execute as an organization and strengthen the foundation for sustainable growth.

With diversity as the engine of growth, we will “transform” ourselves into a business entity that can win on a global scale and take on the “challenge” of achieving new goals, aiming to become a world-class high-performance materials company.