By The National Center
Publication Date: 2025-12-11 15:36:00
11 Dec 2025
Cisco’s DEI Under Scrutiny — Shareholders Insist on Measurable Returns
Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) are demanding to know whether Cisco’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs provide positive financial value to shareholders or whether they needlessly increase litigation risk.
As Cisco shareholders are voting on Proposal 5 at Cisco’s annual shareholder meeting on December 16, 2025, FEP Executive Director Stefan Padfield will say:
Platitudes about the alleged value of DEI can’t cover up the reality that DEI divides people on the basis of race and sex in ways that have been justified by DEI-proponents as “discrimination in the name of anti-discrimination.” And in addition to the obvious reputational and legal risks that come from such discrimination, no less an authority than…
