BOK Financial

Recognizing, respecting and leveraging diversity is central to our company. We view this approach not only as a good business practice but simply as the right thing to do for all employers. The company’s CEO-led Diversity & Inclusion Council was launched in early 2019, helping to bring into focus the considerable efforts already occurring across the company. Our D&I education strategy is focused on fostering a work environment where employees can be themselves, fit in, and feel compelled to help others fit in.

All of our managers at BOK Financial are assigned training on leveraging inclusion and mitigating unconscious bias.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion council goals are:

For our People and Organizational Strategies:

Foster a work environment where employees can be themselves, fit in and feel compelled to help others fit in. Foster a collaborative culture that attracts diverse customers and employees that grow and succeed together:

• Be reflective of the communities we serve
  • Recruit, retain and develop diverse talent across all levels.
  • Increase the representation of diversity across the company, especially at more senior levels.
  • Leverage data to measure DE&I progress - Evaluate promotion and retention metrics through the lens of gender, ethnicity, veteran status, disability and other diverse segments.
• Build and maintain an inclusive environment
  • Evolve our inclusion education for all employees.
  • Grow our mentor programs - increasing opportunities for females and people of color.
  • Grow our Communities of Practice - groups of employees that share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly—to continue diversifying our workforce and reinforcing our inclusive culture.
  • Continue/expand communication initiatives - Understand and compare employees’ perspectives on inclusion in our organization through questions posed in our employee engagement survey.

For our Business Execution Strategy: 

Intentionally leverage diverse perspectives to differentiate the bank in the marketplace.

• Increase DEI advocacy and integration across business practices
  • Grow and support our diverse communities.
  • Expand Diverse Supplier program and promote use of tools.