Most Admired Companies of 2023: USAA

50 companies have risen from the constantly evolving and ever-challenging business environment to earn the right to call themselves Arizona’s Most Admired Companies of 2023, including USAA.

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“Most Admired Companies is the most comprehensive and prestigious annual corporate awards program in Arizona,” says Amy Lindsey, publisher of AZ Big Media, which publishes Az Business magazine and co-founded the Most Admired Companies program with the team from BestCompaniesAZ. “To be called a Most Admired Company, a business must demonstrate excellence in its leadership; corporate culture; innovation; customer relations; community engagement; and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and programs.”

Arizona’s Most Admired Companies will be recognized at a celebration dinner on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at Chateau Luxe in Phoenix. For sponsorship information, email Amy.Lindsey@azbigmedia.com. For information about the event honoring Arizona’s Most Admired Companies, email Lynette.Carrington@azbigmedia.com or click here. To buy tickets, click here.

Top Arizona executive: Wayne Peacock, president and CEO

What it does: Financial services for military, veterans and their families

DEI efforts: USAA invites employees to participate in multiple diversity, equity and inclusion business groups (DBGs), which include Adelante – Hispanic; Aspire – Women in Technology; BOLD-LGBTQ/Ally; Dunamis – Disability; Elevate – Gender Partnership; !mpact – Generations; Mosaic – Asian Pacific Islander; Peak – African American and VetNet – employee resource group for military affiliates.

Innovation: USAA’s innovative spirit is embodied in its more than 3,000 pending and issued patents. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued more than 130 patents for Medical Research and Development Command (MRDC) inventions and continues to validate USAA’s program, issuing three new MRDC patents; the most recent MRDC patent being issued Jan. 23, 2023.