Cheers to our global gang! 🌍🌟 As the year draws to a close, we're giving a shoutout to the 13,000 amazing contributors on our platform. By leveraging Byron, the exchange within our company becomes more seamless, paving the way for new projects and strengthening our unity within Bayer. 🚀 Presenting this exclusive POAP as a massive thank you, because without you, this platform wouldn't be what it is. 🙌 Byron, an acronym for Bayer Open Network, is our Skills database for Bayer employees, including speed networking. We kicked off in 2018 as a True North grassroots side initiative, going live in 2020. Created by over 40 students and programming enthusiasts with the help of EY Croatia. Today, we have 13,000 registered users from 89 countries, in 293 cities. People have searched for something in Byron at least 25,000 times and engaged in 31,000 1:1 Speed network meetings. http://go/byron Looking ahead, we're thrilled about the future and the prospect of our community growing even larger. Can't wait for more collaborations and successes together in the coming year! 🎉✨ Art created by Lena Schermer

Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. At Bayer, we have clubs in Germany (Berlin, Wuppertal), USA (Whippany, NJ; Chesterfield and St. Louis, MO) and Dalian, China. Most of our clubs are meeting in a hybrid format – come join a meeting and try it out. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

Your Talent Development Journey! Join our Talent Development Poster Session and learn more about how you can drive your development journey at Bayer.

BLEND is the global resource group at Bayer for LGBT+ and allies. Our vision for Bayer is to be a globally visible role model for equality and encouraging individuals to be/express themselves. Our mission is to contribute to a better Life for LGBT+ and ally employees as a strategic partner for Bayer. Our value is to ensure that every employee has the right to be themselves in the workplace. We invite you to become a member of Global BLEND, participate in events, and/or organize and lead projects! Please feel free to reach out to local regional chapter leads to join local BLEND chapters. Respecting your right to be You

You have met the ENABLE GERMANY BRG Team 👋 & the representation for severely disabled people (SBV) at the Ladies League 2023. ENABLE – Diverse Abilities: ENABLE is a Business Resource Group focused on creating a work environment where we recognize, support and embrace the diverse abilities of our employees. What we do: Create awareness of the diversity of apparent and non-apparent disabilities and their prevalence. Share employee experiences and stories. Build a support network of leaders, mentors and other allies for people with different needs. Improve access to facilities (incl. emergency plans and evacuation tools) and conducting facility assessments. Strengthen awareness and improve accessibility of digital tools, processes and content. Driving awareness of and access to reasonable accommodations processes in order to help our employees and their families reach their full potential Our ENABLE GERMANY Goals are: More employees with visible & non-visible disabilities/impairments. Barrier-free entrances/buildings + presentations/meetings. Easier "coming out" + no disadvantages after "coming out". Behaving normally with everyone. Creating Awareness to skills for a job and people.

AWARE the mindfulness community at Bayer. What is mindfulness? “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; On purpose, in the present moment and nonjudgmentally.” This is the definition of mindfulness by the famous initiator of the program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, John Kabat-Zinn (University of Massachusetts, founder of the Center for Mindfulness). The concept of mindfulness is illustrated in the bestseller “Search Inside Yourself” by Chade-Meng Tan. Moreover, it connects mindfulness to emotional intelligence and neuroscience. The author developed the Search Inside Yourself training to teach participants how to become more satisfied, creative and successful by applying mindfulness practices. For more detailed information on mindfulness, please see the following link: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/mindfulness/definition What is the purpose of this community? This community was set up to make the concept of mindfulness more famous… and we would like to learn from each other! Are you curious?

GROW is Bayer's Business Resource Group for women's advancement. It is our mission to fuel Bayer’s competitive advantage through an accountable and inclusive culture that champions the growth and success of women globally. GROW supports and promotes the Ladies League.