Our culture is built on trust and collaboration. That applies to everyone we encounter, including clients, employees, vendors, partners, and the community at large. To live up to our commitments, we intentionally and carefully foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where each person is welcomed, accepted, empowered, valued, and respected. This approach creates opportunities for all of us to succeed professionally and personally and also allows us to better empathize and understand our clients and communities.
- Diversity: To be truly diverse, we embrace all the ways in which people differ. This includes race, ethnicity, and gender, but also age, national origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, and physical appearance.
- Equity: To be truly equitable requires recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and adjust imbalances. With this in mind, we strive to create and practice policies, procedures, systems, attitudes, and actions that produce equitable power, access, opportunities, and treatments for all.
- Inclusion: To be truly inclusive, we must provide equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone, including those who may have been excluded or marginalized in the past. We embrace people from all backgrounds, identities, abilities, perspectives, and beliefs and want everyone to feel safe and have the ability to contribute, achieve, and belong.
With this as our goal, we created our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Action (IDEA) Committee with more than 20 employees that span all departments and locations. IDEA is encouraged to bring ideas to our leadership and works to:
- Promote greater diversity in the firm by recommending strategic initiatives to recruit, support, and advance professionals and staff from diverse backgrounds
- Educate ourselves on institutional inequities and marginalized groups and work to dismantle those disparities within our industry
- Sponsor activities for employees around the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Foster a firm culture that welcomes, elevates, respects, and includes all individuals
Voices of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Commitment to inclusivity and belonging
BeachFleischman has been recognized as an Inclusive Workplace for 2023 by the Best Companies Group and COLOR Magazine.
