President and CEO
Campbell Soup Company
Campbell’s CEO Denise Morrison believes that seeking the power of different is a key ingredient to any recipe for success. Each year, Denise hosts Jeffersonian-style dinners with all the company’s employee affinity networks to discuss ideas and issues. Denise and Campbell strongly support OPEN, Campbell’s LGBTQ Pride employee network. She leads and actively participates in the company’s employee and external diversity and inclusion events, seeking out opportunities to serve on panels where she can share her leadership experiences and philosophies. Campbell’s popular Made for Real, Real Life commercials feature modern American families, including gay and lesbian couples, such as two real-life fathers mimicking their favorite Star Wars characters with their son. Through the company’s #ForAllFamilies campaign, Campbell celebrates Pride Month across the U.S. supporting major events in Philadelphia, New York and Cincinnati with their Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers and V8 beverage brands. The Pride flag is also raised at a special ceremony at the company’s World Headquarters in June, and flies all month. Additionally, under Denise’s leadership, Campbell has scored a perfect 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index eight times, and, for the eighth consecutive year, was named to HRC’s Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality and Buying Guide for Equality for 2017. Last year, Campbell expanded its parental leave policy, which is gender-neutral and guarantees 10 paid weeks off for a primary caregiver, and two for a secondary caregiver, after a birth or adoption. Denise also championed human rights principles when she joined more than 160 executives to sign an open letter urging repeal of HB-2, a measure requiring transgender persons in North Carolina to use bathrooms corresponding with the sex on their birth certificate.