The 2010 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity®
EXCLUSIVE • INTERVIEW
Michel
SODEXO’S GLOBAL CEO
Only seconds into the conversation
with Sodexo’s Global CEO
Michel Landel and his heartfelt
commitment to diversity
management and an inclusive
workplace becomes obvious.
“We believe our culture makes
the difference; this culture is a
differentiator,” he explains
during a private conversation
in midtown Manhattan with
DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti.
What makes this multinational hospitality-giant
leader, who employs more than 350,000 people in
It’s the value of diversity to business, the economy
and the world, he says. “The time I spent in the U.S.
was, for me, a revelation because diversity was so
high on the agenda here, so that’s probably where
it became so evident to me that it was a business
case,” he says. “There’s another thing that I really
believe helped me understand this: my wife, who
has always been a feminist … But I think she’s more
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