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