DICK’S integrates the concept of sportsmanship — mutual respect, honesty, integrity, and teamwork — into our workplace. These values extend to all our teammates, from our Customer Support Center (CSC) headquarters, to our five distribution centers (DCs), and across each of our retail store locations.

To develop our talent, we strive to create a just and inclusive culture that supports and encourages our teammates to bring their whole selves to work. We invest in our teammates’ growth through a comprehensive benefits package, meaningful compensation, and training programs.

GOALS

DICK’S is committed to creating a inclusive and diverse workplace. This commitment is at the core of our philosophy and is also reflected in our I&D goals.
+30 %

Increase BIPOC representation in leadership roles by 30% by 2025.

+40 %

Increase overall representation of women in store leadership to 40% by 2025.

50%

Achieve 50% BIPOC and/or women for entry-level hires for technology roles by 2025.

100%

Maintain a median gender pay ratio of 100%.

A culture of Inclusion

At DICK’S, we are fostering a culture where every teammate feels a sense of belonging and building a workplace where every person feels respected and valued for their contributions. Equally critical to our teammates’ success is the need for an emotionally safe workspace. Our I&D training efforts have never been more critical than they were in 2020, a year that underscored the role that businesses must take in addressing social and racial injustice.

Building upon the foundation laid in 2019, we accelerated our efforts through our I&D Council. In addition to strengthening our disciplinary policies, refocusing our recruitment efforts, and enhancing our training and development efforts, the I&D Council members guide our I&D strategy and help inform our approach to achieving our I&D goals.

Impact Teams' Strategic Priorities

Educate
  • Provide teammate training and experiences
  • Teach and train our communities
  • Support teammates and families
Hire & Develop
  • Broaden leadership representation
  • Increase our candidate pool
  • Develop and retain talent
  • Comply with Zero Tolerance/inclusion standards
  • Expand campus efforts
Power of Our Business
  • Provide inclusion through our national brand product
  • Provide inclusion through our vertical brand product development
  • Provide field I&D partners
  • Promote supplier diversity
  • Develop a minority bank investment initiative
Civic Action
  • Advocate for policy
  • Organize our voice
  • Mobilize our team
Insights & Analysis
  • Aggregate and analyze data
  • Promote teammate health and safety

I&D Council Achievements

Educate
  • Reached approximately 50,000 teammates from across the organization through Inclusivity sessions, investing more than 100,000 hours
  • Introduced Dialogue Circles to the organization as a safe place for hard conversations
  • Created a Courtside Team to enlist teammates from across the organization to champion our I&D efforts
  • Activated our I&D calendar to celebrate key moments with a 360-degree approach
Hire & Develop
  • Increased diversity representation on our board of directors
  • Launched new recruiting procedures to drive a more diverse workforce, with a focus on leadership positions
  • Increased our diverse representation by 11% within our internship program
  • Launched Teammate Resource Groups (TRGs) like the Women’s Influential Network (WIN)
Power of Our Business
  • Joined the National Minority Supplier Development Council
Civic Action
  • Sponsored the Beyond Sport Collective Impact Award to reduce racial inequality through sport
  • Partnered with Hiring Our Heroes, a nationwide effort to connect veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses with employment opportunities
Insight & Analysis
  • Enhanced the data-collection process for violations of our Zero Tolerance Stance
  • Added I&D questions to our Teammate Engagement Survey to measure the teammate experience

Advancing Our
I&D Commitments

DICK’S Sporting Goods is a signatory of the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Pledge — the most significant CEO-driven business commitment to advance I&D within the workplace. By signing the CEO Action pledge, we have agreed to a specific set of actions to cultivate environments where diverse experiences and perspectives are welcomed, and teammates feel comfortable and empowered to discuss I&D. We are committed to implementing the pledge within our workplace to ensure our teammates feel comfortable and empowered to discuss I&D and will support other signatories in achieving the same.

DICK’S also signed on to the Outdoor CEO Diversity Pledge to advance representation for people of color across the outdoor industry, including across staff and executive teams, media and marketing, and athletes/ambassadors.

Workforce at Dicks

Leadership:
59%Male
41%Female
12%Black
12%Hispanic
6%Other
3%Asian
0%Undisclosed gender
Board of Directors:
66%Male
34%Female
22%Black
11%Indian-American
0%Undisclosed gender

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