Materiality

Voya refreshed our materiality assessment in 2020, surveying senior leaders across the organization and external partners to help prioritize our key ESG issues. While each issue was deemed important, this exercise identified six strategic future-facing opportunities for our business to focus on and prompted a refresh to our ESG strategy.

To advance Voya's ESG strategy and better integrate and manage the identified priorities, we established our Enterprise ESG Practice Center of Excellence (ESG COE) designed to further embed ESG throughout the organization and our businesses. Our ESG COE will drive future strategy, best practices and performance while fostering innovation and is responsible for ESG performance monitoring, assessment, continuously improvement and reporting.

For information about each priority topic, including the rationale for its importance to Voya, our related management approach and how we evaluate our success in this area, follow the corresponding link below:

• Empowering Our People, which includes the following topics:
  • Company Mission & Values
  • Performance Culture
  • Training & Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion/Equal Opportunity
• Serving Our Clients, which includes the following topics:
  • Ethical Practices & Principles/Transparency
  • Responsible/Sustainable Products & Services
  • Stakeholder Engagement
• Protecting the Environment, which includes the following topics:
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Employee Engagement & Awareness
  • Green Supply Chain Program
  • Sustainability Industry Leadership
• Investing in Communities, which includes the following topics:
  • Grants & Charitable Sponsorships
  • Employee Engagement
  • Financial Resilience
  • Supplier Diversity