At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 80,000 associates work across the globe at 29 unique operating companies within four platforms-life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust-our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 6,500% over the past 25 years.
And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, our work helps improve millions of lives.
We know that diversity and inclusion (D+I) are essential to our success. Diverse work teams create more innovative solutions and products to better meet the needs of the marketplaces we serve. Therefore, we aspire to increase the diversity of our leadership teams and associate populations around the globe. Our diversity and inclusion journey began several years ago. As a first step, we have established goals to improve gender representation globally.We truly believe our partnership with Femtec will support us in attracting more high potential and engaged female STEM talents and support them in developing to successful professionals and leaders.