Company: TFC
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-055156
Chunk: 31

Company: TRUIST FINANCIAL CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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 company policies, practices, and disclosures in public filings. The Board and senior management endeavor to listen, consider, and respond to the results of our shareholder engagement process throughout the year in shaping the goals and objectives of Truist. During our fall 2024 engagement, shareholders were supportive of the Company’s reports and disclosures in areas related to corporate responsibility and sustainability and provided helpful feedback and views on other topics, such as changes to our executive-compensation program and one-timeperformance-based leadership awards granted in 2024. Based on the shareholder feedback during our fall 2024 engagement, we enhanced disclosures in this proxy statement regarding:

| • | Board composition and refreshment; and |

| • | changes to our executive-compensation program in 2024 and one-time performance-based leadership awards |

| 2025 Proxy Statement | |     | 29 |

Corporate Governance Communications with the Board of Directors Any shareholder or other interested party may contact the Board of Directors or any individual director by written communication mailed to:

| Board of Directors c/o Corporate Secretary Truist Financial Corporation 214 N. Tryon Street 43rd Floor, Mail Code 500-93-43-13 Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 |

Any proper communication so received will be processed by the Corporate Secretary on behalf of the Board or any individually named director. Unless, in the judgment of the Corporate Secretary, the matter is not intended or appropriate for the Board, the Corporate Secretary will prepare a summary of the communication for prompt delivery to the appropriate member(s) of the Board. Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability The Board of Directors and senior management are committed to a balanced approach to corporate responsibility and sustainability that delivers long-term value for shareholders, clients, communities, teammates, and other stakeholders. This is consistent with our purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities. Corporate responsibility and sustainability programs are expressed through activities like investments in communities and innovative technologies as well as responsible business practices and sound governance. We collaborate with commercial clients of all sizes and across all industries as they set and achieve their sustainability goals. With a client-first mentality, we help clients achieve their own corporate responsibility and sustainability objectives. Truist has maintained a focus on operational sustainability, including reducing our operational emissions. Across the enterprise, we seek opportunities to conserve or minimize consumption of energy and other resources. Truist is working enterprise-wide to improve sustainability in our governance, strategic planning, risk management, facilities, operations, and lines of business. Truist continues to make improvements in data gathering and analysis processes for