2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Expanding Our Social Handprint | Employee Experience | 210 SPEAKING OF SUSTAINABILITY Tech-based learning and development platforms such as Leading Pink, CareerHub, and Coaching for Growth are major tools for employee advancement at Owens Corning. In her role as talent lead, Kelsey Dul oversees these programs, as well as providing support for our enterprise performance management process. In her four years of working in learning and development, Kelsey has seen firsthand how these processes enhance our employees’ experiences — professionally and often personally. She shares her wisdom about the value of learning and development here. When people are engaged at work, it impacts their broader lives. ” “ Photo courtesy of Kelsey Dul On meeting the development needs of our people As an organization, we’re committed to growing and developing and promoting talent from within. In order to do that, we really need to invest in our people and support their continuous learning journey to help them get to the next level. Also, in the increasingly competitive talent landscape, employees expect employers to provide them with development resources. If we want to continue to be an employer of choice and competitive in the market, it’s really important that we provide those things. We’ve done a number of surveys and focus groups over the past couple of years, and employees have explicitly told us that this is really important to them. On the personal impacts of learning and development Learning and development goes beyond the impact of just one person. When one person is growing in a skill or improving in their leadership, the impact will be exponential to the people that they are then working with or leading at the organization. It impacts employees beyond when they’re at work. So I think when people are really engaged at work and have a great experience that feels rewarding and it feels like they’re growing and learning things, it benefits the company, but I think it also impacts people’s broader lives. When we have really great days at work, we carry that home with us. We have those positive experiences at work and it’s kind of that domino effect into the rest of our lives and our relationships and our communities outside of Owens Corning. On how our programs link people throughout the company Some of my favorite feedback that I hear about Leading Pink is that it enables people to connect across boundaries that they may have never connected across before. People are joining sessions and being really vulnerable about leadership and their own development, with people across time zones and across countries and even language differences. It helps our people solve problems more effectively, but it also makes the world feel a little bit smaller and helps us feel connected to colleagues that we may never have before. We constantly hear people saying that’s their favorite part of Leading Pink — that they got to meet with someone in a plant in Finland who has similar experiences — despite the miles that might be between us. Kelsey Dul Talent Lead