Bold Leadership Equality drives innovation: Duke Energy Building and enabling a diverse workforce is a critical element of Duke Energy’s commitment + Experimentation to delivering for its customers and its business. Central to these efforts are training and + Resources education to help employees unlock their full potential. Through grants awarded by the Duke Culture starts at the top. Setting and publishing diversity targets, Energy Foundation, the company is investing in workforce education and training programs holding the leadership team accountable and measuring progress that prepare future workers to develop are critical steps. Leaders must give employees the resources they innovative solutions for the energy industry’s need to innovate and the freedom to fail. most pressing challenges. Additionally, the company offers unconscious-bias training— Prioritize diversity and equality: Establish diversity, equal pay and already completed by the company’s top 500 advancement goals. leaders—which provides a step-by-step system Make leaders accountable: Track progress and make leaders for mitigating biases. Duke Energy’s deep accountable. commitment to building a culture rooted in equality and professional enrichment is Set up to innovate: Design-in the necessary time, space, resources empowering the company to introduce and technologies needed to innovate and continually encourage breakthrough technologies, from drone and reward innovation. technology and hydro plants to energy storage innovation, and helping it lead the way in Encourage risk-taking: Ensure that employees know they have the creating a cleaner, more reliable energy future. freedom to experiment, and help them learn from their failures. 24 GETTING TO EQUAL 2019: CREATING A CULTURE THAT DRIVES INNOVATION