Backing women colleagues In 2021, women represented more than half of our workforce worldwide, and approximately four out of 10 senior executives were women. We are invested in engaging, retaining, and backing our women colleagues and helping them realize their professional potential through initiatives and programs that help them grow, develop, and thrive. For example, in India, we have established more than 20 small peer group “Lean In Circles” designed to build connection and new skills. Through customized training and partnerships with external organizations, we offer colleagues a variety of meaningful learning and development opportunities. In 2020, we launched the Ambition Project in partnership with The New York Women’s Foundation to encourage our women colleagues to fully embrace their ambition and support the ambitions of others. In 2022, we once again partnered with the New York Women’s Foundation for a global study on women’s relationship with ambition, both in their careers and personal lives—and their confidence in achieving success after a global pandemic. Amidst a rapidly changing workforce, women remain ambitious, and we continue to proudly back their aspirations. Backing colleagues with disabilities We are committed to providing colleagues with an inclusive work environment, from accessibility tools on the job to benefits that support a healthy work-life balance. In 2021, we enabled closed captioning as a standard for virtual livestream events to make broadcast content more accessible. We also launched enhanced accessibility features for online meetings, such as closed captioning, screen reader notifications, and the ability to change chat font size. These represent just a few of the resources and best practices we’ve made available to colleagues across the enterprise. To advance our disability inclusion initiatives, we’re now members of the Inclusion Works community as part of our Disability:IN partnership, in which we collaborate with disability inclusion experts to implement best practices in this space. We’ve continued our membership in the Valuable 500 in the UK, which enlists companies to keep disability inclusion on the leadership agenda and make a commitment to action. Within our company, our Disability Awareness Network (DAN) plays an important role in creating a sense of belonging and community among our colleagues with seen and unseen disabilities and raising awareness for disability inclusion. For International Day of Persons with Disabilities in December 2021, DAN brought together authors, advocates, entrepreneurs, mental health experts, and our colleagues from India, Spain, the UK, and beyond under the common theme of “Recognize More: Proudly Backing Disability Inclusion.” This virtual event was an opportunity to drive inclusion of people with disabilities by demonstrating support and helping educate allies on how best to partner with their colleagues with disabilities. In 2022, nearly 4,000 colleagues around the world joined our enterprise-wide International Women’s Day events live, featuring American Express leaders and external guests, in addition to 30 local events. For example, our Japan Women’s Network organized an event with a guest speaker on the topic of how to “Design Your Ambition.” INTRODUCTION PROMOTING DE&I ADVANCING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS BUILDING FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE OUR ESG GOVERNANCE & OPERATING RESPONSIBLY SUPPORTING DATA OUR COMMITMENT TO ESG 29