Corporate Profiles in Diversity: Cox Communications

Mae A. Douglas is a Senior Vice President with Cox Communications and has served as the company’s Chief People Officer for 7 years. She recently spoke with LatPro about Cox Communications’ diversity goals, objectives, and strategy the critical role of Hispanic and Bilingual employees at the broadband communications and entertainment company. Below is an excerpt of her interview, but you can read the entire interview here.

First, can you tell us a little about your own background and history with Cox?
I have been with Cox for 13 years. When I joined the Cox Communications family, I was part of their advertising sales organization in a human resources role. A few years later, I transitioned into an operations role where I had responsibility for part of our advertising sales organization. In 2000, I came back to human resources on the core side of our business to become a chief people officer, and I’ve been in this current role for seven years.

How do you define and meet your diversity goals and objectives? How does your department measure success?
Five years ago we received a challenge from our CEO to develop a diversity strategy that was integrated into every aspect of our business. As a response we established the Corporate Diversity Council, which is a group of senior-level diverse executives from across disciplines in our company, from both our corporate headquarters and our field locations.