CONTENTS LETTER FROM NOEL WALLACE LETTER FROM ANN TRACY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY SUSTAINABILITY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE DRIVING SOCIAL IMPACT HELPING MILLIONS OF HOMES PRESERVING OUR ENVIRONMENT Building a Coaching Culture Ongoing coaching is a key element of our performance management process. In 2021, we continued our partnership with BetterUp, a leading provider of virtual coaching. BetterUp provided 495 Colgate leaders with personalized leadership training to accelerate their individual effectiveness and development. Not only do the participants experience high-quality coaching, they, in many cases, become champions of coaching within Colgate. In 2021, we continued offering the global learning program “Becoming a People Manager” that we launched in 2020. 187 ne w people managers completed the program, and we are committed to having all new and existing Colgate People managers participate and leverage this learning content to enable their teams to reach their full potential and perform at their best. Our ongoing Colgate Leadership Challenge for talented, early-in-career employees provides participants with exp osure and interaction with senior management, a greater understanding and connection to the global organization, personal leadership skills training and an opportunity to work on an important strategic issue for the business. Engaging Employees Colgate Connect is our global survey to assess key drivers of employee engagement. We also use shorter pulse surveys to gather more targeted and timely data at various moments of the employee journey—at the completion of the recruitment process, during the onboarding process and when leaving Colgate—to engage people and improve employee experience. This data has proven to be extremely valuable. From the 2018 Colgate Co nnect survey, we learned that our people wanted to learn more about career opportunities at Colgate. Our European team took the lead and used design thinking to create the “Build Your Best Future” program, which we activated globally in 2020 and continued this past year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we deployed surveys to all employees, including in our manufacturing plan ts, to listen and adjust what we were doing in response to the pandemic. We have used the results from these surveys to amend our approach to hybrid- and remote-working scenarios and to guide our employees as they navigate the new working paradigm. We plan to deploy another Colgate Connect survey in 2022. PAGE 25 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT