The world needs more “truth to power” spoken today. With so many core human values under siege, we have too much silence. We have too much quiet complicity — and too many compromising their principles.
So I applaud Marriott’s CEO, Anthony Capuano, and Ukraine’s President Zelensky for standing up for what is right — even if you don’t always equate running one of the world’s largest hotel brands with leading a country fighting for its survival.
At a moment when so many large corporations can’t scrape the letters DEI off their websites fast enough, Capauno met with his team to discuss how to deal with the government’s threat against equality initiatives, and then made the following public statement that reflected on the principles the company has followed for its almost 100-year history:
“The winds blow, but there are some fundamental truths for those 98 years,” Capuano said. “We welcome all to our hotels and we create opportunities for all — and fundamentally those will never change. The words might change, but that’s who we are as a company.”
