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 Focusing on Digital IQ Recognition for Our Efforts The approach to digital capability building started with a digital maturity study that allowed us to In 2021, we continued to be recognized for our training programs. We earned nine awards, including two understand the stage of digital maturity of Colgate relative to other companies and confirmed areas Gold medals, three Silver medals, and four Bronze medals, from the Brandon Hall Group, which recognizes of our strategy that needed capability development. In 2021, we conducted a Digital IQ assessment organizations that have successfully deployed learning programs with measurable results. The Gold with 3,000 digital practitioners that gave us visibility into the specific skill areas that needed to medals were in the categories of Best Advance in Learning Technology (for our ATLAS program) and Best be addressed and allowed for the formulation of tailored regional plans and personalized skill Learning Innovation for our curriculum on Selling and Negotiation Skills. plans for our employees. The upskilling initiative included broad scale (all salaried and clerical employees) and multi-level approaches, from experiential C-suite sessions to hands-on practical boot camps for digital practitioners. The learning continues with access to ongoing curated digital learning content provided through MindSpark by leading digital providers, such as Dot Native and Circus Street. Based on this approach, learners are awarded badges and certificates for lessons attended. We established an upskilling regimen for our teams in 2021 and made meaningful progress in our digital upskilling efforts, surpassing our training goal by 10% (based on the number of people successfully upskilled). Another element of our focus on digital content is an in-application digital adoption platform (WalkMe) for our customer development teams, a module of their business planning tool ATLAS. ATLAS is a platform to effectively plan, monitor and analyze volume and investment to drive real- time decision-making and deliver profitable revenue growth. WalkMe is an embedded learning application that maximizes and accelerates the impact of a digital transformation strategy by driving user adoption of digital applications and tools. Using the WalkMe tool, we were able to reduce training time from three days of live workshops and 11.5 hours of e-learnings to just three hours of virtual training supplemented by optional “drop-in” sessions. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 24