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A Word From Our Leadership

Our Leadership Team is dedicated to furthering our diversity and inclusion efforts with a firm foundation built on awareness and education. It continues with the development and rollout of an aggressive strategy to implement our D&I platform across the organization. We will share our initiatives and rollout plans as the timeline progresses.

With your help, we will establish Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups (BRGs) across all regions to further enhance our talent acquisition, employee engagement, local market, impact, and community involvement efforts. Our mission is to build a wholly inclusive and diverse culture that ensures everyone in the Southern Glazer’s community is respected, engaged, and motivated to grow professionally and personally. In doing so, we hope to realize our vision of attracting and retaining a diverse talent pool of employees to support company growth as we remain the industry leader.

Please join us on this journey.

Cheers,

  • Wayne E. ChaplinCEO

  • Sheldon “Shelly” SteinPresident

  • Our Long Term Care Services

    “It is very important to create an atmosphere where all people bring their experience and background to advance our business goals.”

    - Jag Jeyabalan, Sr. Application Developer

  • Our Long Term Care Services

    “Inclusion is action. It's purposeful. It takes effort.”

    – Terence Goods, National Director, Diversity & Inclusion

  • Our Long Term Care Services

    "We want innovation and creativity. Diversity & inclusion brings that out."

    – Tony Green, HR Manager

  • Our Long Term Care Services

    "Middle managers have to role model diversity and inclusion. They are an integral part of making this long term endeavor successful."

    – Terry Arnold, SVP HR, Chief Human Resources Officer

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At Southern Glazer’s, our Leadership Team embraces and supports diversity and inclusion at all levels. It’s not only the right thing to do, but it’s the smart thing to do to grow our business. We must be as diverse as the brands that we offer, the customers that we supply and the communities where we work.

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Southern Glazer's is proud to have launched a national veteran and military strategy to support our veteran workforce. Our goal is to provide our veteran and military employees with the tools and professional support to create a successful career.

Our Commitment to Diversity

As we continue to grow, our diversity and inclusion efforts are paramount to our future. Our mission is to build a wholly inclusive and diverse culture that ensures each member of the Southern Glazer's community is respected, engaged, and motivated to grow professionally and personally. To accomplish this goal, we rely on leaders in our organization to share their experiences, viewpoints, and perspectives.

Anthony has a love and passion for community service. He is very active is the Kansas City Alumni Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the oldest African American Fraternity in the country. As a member of the Community Affairs team, his volunteer efforts include serving at The Habitat for Humanity Re-Start Store, Hope House, a Women’s Shelter, and the Bidwell Toy Pantry, a program benefiting the homeless.

Andy serves as the communication chair for the South Florida CHEERS to Women in Wine & Spirits business resource group. In this role, he has provided thought leadership that advances professional development for women in the workplace. He is also a founding member of South Florida CHEERS to PRIDE, a business resource group that supports education and awareness around LGBTQ causes.

Anita has been a very active leader and one of the founding members of Southern Glazer’s Dallas CHEERS to Women in Wine & Spirits. This business resource group has hosted a number of successful professional development and community outreach programs that have benefited hundreds of employees. A tenured employee of 30 years, Anita has coached and mentored a host of employees and continues to extend her servant leadership style to the overall Dallas community.

Gabriel is a part of the Southern Glazer’s Emerging Leaders Program, where he has demonstrated his capabilities as an up and coming leader at the company. He also serves as an integral part of the SGWS Missouri Diversity Council. His leadership, along with the rest of the team, led the Council to win two key awards in 2016 – The Governors Award for their tireless support of Veterans initiatives and the Southern Glazer’s Diversity Council of the Year.

Dionne is a founding member of Cheers to Diversity. Alongside a dynamic group of men and women in Nevada, the group has built incredible relationships that will drive mentoring, career development, networking, and business development opportunities. In 2017, Dionne and team partnered with SGWS’ Women Gone Wine, MGM Grand International, and Women of the Vine and Spirits to host a ground breaking professional development event with an array of industry partners.

Raul is a proud U.S. Army Veteran who graduated from the Primary Leadership (Sergeant’s) Course at the age of 20. He leverages aspects of his invaluable military experience and knowledge to continuously motivate co-workers to find and develop new paths for career growth within Southern Glazer's. In 2017, he was selected as one of the fourteen Southern California-based employees to be a part of SGWS' "Manager In Training" program, which he successfully completed. He is actively involved in the community and partners with local organizations such as Raising A Reader, a nonprofit dedicated to providing books for underprivileged youth throughout California.

Our Strategic Diversity Pillars

Create succession planning, mentoring, leadership opportunities

Align with suppliers and customers to reinforce multicultural business development

Drive employment branding, community support and brand recognition

Maintain an effective communication strategy and highlight our successes

Provide avenues to enhance the careers of our employees

Cheers to Diversity at Southern Glazer's

Our Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups

At Southern Glazer's, employees have the opportunity to join and launch Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups (BRGs) that promote a culture of inclusion through employee engagement, professional development, career growth, peer mentoring, and other actions that align with our company's Mission, Vision, and Values.

"C.H.E.E.R.S. To Diversity" is the national umbrella that drives this important companywide imperative. C.H.E.E.R.S. stands for Connecting, Hard-Working, Empowering, Educating, Respecting, and Serving.

With a total of 10 chapters across the nation, "C.H.E.E.R.S. to Women in Wine & Spirits" is dedicated to the professional development and empowerment of women at Southern Glazer's and is currently our fastest-growing BRG.

We continue to launch an array of additional BRGs throughout our organization, as showcased below.

Recent Events

  • CHEERS to Pride

    CHEERS to Pride

    In our ongoing efforts to build a company culture rooted in inclusivity, equality, fairness, and awareness, we launched CHEERS to Pride chapters in North Texas and South Florida. These chapters will help to enhance professional development, educational awareness, and mentorship opportunities for our team members who are part of the LGBTQ community, as well as all who support the community.

  • Veterans Appreciation Night

    Veterans holding flags at Baseball Park

    At Globe Life Park, the home of the Texas Rangers, we paid tribute to our Dallas-based veteran employees and their families. SGWS is proud to be recognized by VettedHeroes as a company making a difference in the veteran community.

  • C.H.E.E.R.S. to Women in Wine & Spirits
    Professional Development Event

    People at tables watching presentation

    In St. Louis and Kansas City, approximately 50 C.H.E.E.R.S. members capitalized on the opportunity to improve their resumes, interviewing skills, and LinkedIn profiles through the “Make Me Marketable” seminar led by senior female leadership within SGWS.

  • Hispanic Heritage Month

    Hispanic Heritage Party Invitation

    In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Southern Glazer’s national Diversity & Inclusion team brought our Dallas office together to celebrate, appreciate the Hispanic culture, and take part in delicious “bebidas y comidas!”

Our Corporate & Community Diversity Partners

To ensure our strategy is current and aligned with industry best practices, we are honored to collaborate with like-minded national and local organizations. Together, our efforts will continue to make a difference within the communities where Southern Glazer's and our client partners operate.

  • Mercer Logo
  • Catalyst Logo
  • Women of the Vine and Spirits
  • NEW logo
  • Plano Culture & Inclusion alliance
  • Visit Dallas
  • Womans Foodservice Forum

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