Company Goals

1. Start a mentoring program where both male and female mentors will help guide several of our female employees to encourage, develop, and support them as needed.

2. Start a scholarship program where Sakon will provide a tech package scholarship open to both the daughters of our employees and our customers entering into technology related fields. This will be an essay competition where the winner will be awarded a laptop or MacBook and some peripheral equipment. Again, this isn’t fully fleshed out yet, but we are developing it. The idea may change but we believe in supporting young females joining the ranks of technologists.

3. We are discussing starting a summer internship for young female tech students, possible in summer of 2023. This is still in ideation, but we believe this is a good way to support our future talent.

4. We are reviewing job descriptions and making sure we maintain equity in the roles and pay scales.

Accomplishments 

Since we just began with this effort two months ago, we are still in infancy and planning stages. Next year we should be able to report against these goals and have more of our efforts materializing.

Looking Ahead

Our company President, Dan Hughes, has assigned me as a leader for achieving these goals and we have set up a team with HR and other leadership to work on the goals. We will have sessions to work through meeting the goals and developing future efforts to continuously improve. This is a long term effort and not just something that is accomplished and over. We plan to always champion women and help them, along with all our employees, to develop their skills and to grow at Sakon.