"Building and working with a diverse team of colleagues who are focused on growing our business truly is something to be proud of." - Mike Morache, President and CEO

Building on our Values

Building the foundation for an inclusive culture requires accountability from every employee to live by and follow PLATO Learning's core values. We must trust each other and respect everyone's differences and see them as opportunities instead of barriers. Our integrity must be upheld in each of our working relationships, and we must be consistent and fair in all of our people practices.

Business Case: ROI on our Human Capital

As PLATO Learning strives to be an employer of choice, a key component of this effort is our ability to attract and retain the best employees. By offering a culture of inclusion, fair practices, and equal opportunity, not only do we become a preferred employer with the ability to attract top talent, but we create an environment that drives commitment, thereby reducing turnover and legal liability.

Competitive Advantage

PLATO Learning serves and supports a broad range of clients. Where we can mirror our workforce to our client populations, we immediately gain credibility because our employees understand our customers, their needs, and have the ability to help position our products and services in the market. Leveraging our employees' unique differences opens the door to new business opportunities. By encouraging different perspectives, ideas, and solutions, we enable our company to think broader, be more creative and flexible as we encounter numerous environmental and organizational changes.

In addition, our potential customers are inquiring about our diversity commitments before they make the decision to do business with us. In order for us to sustain a competitive advantage we must reflect the diversity of our clients.

Valuing Diversity

Valuing Diversity extends beyond our affirmative action plan and centers around equitable and ethical business practices. Not only do we actively recruit and promote to increase certain representations across the company, but we also foster a culture of inclusion. It's the overall PLATO Learning experience that we create for each employee, and it must be one that promotes awareness, value, and respect towards all employees.

Diversity Management

Diversity Management is a strategic approach to running a business. It capitalizes on our differences and aligns them with business opportunities. Managers strive to maximize productivity, creativity, and retention of diverse talent in order to meet the needs of our broad customer base.

"Attracting, motivating and retaining a high-performing workforce is dependent upon creating an environment that includes employees from all backgrounds and all walks of life. Diverse work teams have been found to possess the potential to achieve higher levels of performance than homogeneous teams. Diverse groups of people bring a broad range of skills, knowledge, abilities and perspectives to organizational challenges."
- Jill Lyttle, V.P. Human Resources