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EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING

An Employer of Choice Continues to Evolve

Inclusion and Engagement Task Force Dedicated to Strengthening Company Culture
In 2020, Martin Marietta formed an Inclusion and “The team has a unique moment to help shape the next
Engagement Task Force intended to set the Company on a generation of thought leadership at Martin Marietta; that’s
journey that will ensure our culture is consistently not an opportunity we’re taking lightly,” he says. “This
welcoming and engaging with new and innovative responsibility compels us to be our best. Our interactions
thoughts, based on feedback from its current and future have been energetic and highly engaging. It’s been great.”
employees.
While the group’s formation ran parallel to many of the
Led by Chairman and CEO Ward Nye and Senior Vice national events that garnered media attention in 2020, the
President and Chief Human Resource Officer Craig LaTorre, team had actually been in the works for quite some time
the task force is comprised of 14 leaders who represent and will focus on matters that go much deeper than the
the Company’s various divisions and corporate functions as headlines, task force members say.
well as a diversity of opinions, experience, race, gender,
sexual orientation, tenure and background. “This team is discussing inclusion and engagement from a
diversity perspective, but we’re also discussing elements
“When we first met as a group, we realized quickly that like trust, valuing the opinions of others, and feeling a
the work of this task force will help strengthen our already sense of belonging – elements that align perfectly with the
extraordinary culture,” Nye says. “We’re looking at this as sentiments behind Guardian Angel and ONE,” says Aileen
a continuous improvement journey. The best elements of Gibson, Magnesia Specialties vice president of technical
Martin Marietta have always come from task forces like services and a task force member, added, “By working
this – committees of our people. Guardian Angel is a toward an even more inclusive culture, we’ll be better able
perfect example. Our World Class Task Force and the to engage our employees, which will make Martin Marietta
emergence of our ONE employee branding effort are more productive and more innovative.”
others. Just as we’ve done historically, this committee will
act deliberately to position our people and Company for “This isn’t about hitting some type of a quota or settling
sustainable growth and long-term success.” on some pre-determined number, this is about new voices
and opportunity,” Sifuentes says. “We want our people,
Referring to the effort as “a roll up (from the people) rather and anyone considering a career with us, to know that
than a rollout (from leadership),” Manny Sifuentes, director opportunity is available to all here. We want everyone to
of competitive intelligence and a task force member, agrees understand that this journey we’re on together will lead to
with Nye’s assessment and says it’s exciting to be part of this a stronger Martin Marietta.”
next phase in the Company’s evolution.

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