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Diversity 

Diversity is important to Lilly and to the patients we serve.

Embracing diversity at Lilly means understanding, respecting, and valuing people's differences, visible or invisible, including but not limited to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, work style, national origin, and age.

Recognizing and applying diversity of perspectives, skills, and talents engages our employees and strengthens our decision-making. Ensuring that diversity is sought, valued, and respected is critical to our company’s success and is a core expectation for company leaders.

Our commitment to diversity empowers us to generate unique insights and ideas, create solutions, and deliver innovation to improve outcomes for individual patients. We invest in and nurture relationships with diverse groups of customers, partners, advocates, suppliers, and community organizations that help us better serve those patients. These relationships extend our efforts to help reduce health disparities and to address the unique needs of all communities.

At Lilly, we’re proud of our diversity and the essential role it plays in helping us accomplish our mission.

 

 

 

 

John Lechleiter"At Eli Lilly and Company, embracing diversity is at the core of our long-held value of respect for people. It is the lens through which we are able to understand and respond to the unique needs of the millions of individuals who depend on our medicines.”

John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D.
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer