Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Brown Edwards' DEI Initiative
How We Will Accomplish Our Goal
Training
Training Our Team
Internal DEI Training
Regular, mandatory conscious and unconscious bias training to help our team remove discrimination and bias from our interactions.
Cultural Education
Expand awareness of cultural celebrations and differences in order to enhance understanding of diverse backgrounds.
Regular, mandatory conscious and unconscious bias training to help our team remove discrimination and bias from our interactions.
Cultural Education
Expand awareness of cultural celebrations and differences in order to enhance understanding of diverse backgrounds.
Recruitment
Recruitment Efforts
Unbiased Recruitment
Focus on removing bias from our recruiting and evaluation processes.
Reward Inclusive Behavior
Add criteria to our evaluations that rewards inclusive behaviors in support of diversity and equity.
Evaluate Benefit Packages
Evaluate HR services and employee benefits packages to ensure that it provides benefit that supports diverse lifestyles and needs.
Focus on removing bias from our recruiting and evaluation processes.
Reward Inclusive Behavior
Add criteria to our evaluations that rewards inclusive behaviors in support of diversity and equity.
Evaluate Benefit Packages
Evaluate HR services and employee benefits packages to ensure that it provides benefit that supports diverse lifestyles and needs.
Inform & Measure
Explore the Findings
Measure Progress
Send regular surveys to team members to assess our progress in education and understanding of key DEI concepts.
Inform BE Team Members
Provide on-going updates and regular communications to the entire BE workforce as to the committee's progress and initiatives.
Inform Externally
Provide robust information about our DEI efforts on our external website to ensure that our prospective employees and clients understand our passion and commitment to this effort.
Send regular surveys to team members to assess our progress in education and understanding of key DEI concepts.
Inform BE Team Members
Provide on-going updates and regular communications to the entire BE workforce as to the committee's progress and initiatives.
Inform Externally
Provide robust information about our DEI efforts on our external website to ensure that our prospective employees and clients understand our passion and commitment to this effort.
❝It’s a Brown Edwards imperative to embrace diversity, ensure equitable treatment and practice inclusion and it needs to be a focus within public accounting. I’m very pleased that our leadership is strongly supporting this important work. Ensuring that our firm is a place where every team member feels they can bring their true selves to work and where their ideas and individuality are valued, celebrated and supported is extremely important.❞
Leslie Roberts
DEI Committee Leader
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Meet Our Committee Members
Leslie F. Roberts
DEI Committee Leader
Leslie F. Roberts
DEI Committee Leader
Alexa Brumbaugh
DEI Committee Member
Alexa Brumbaugh
DEI Committee Member
Amy Kirk
DEI Committee Member
Amy Kirk
DEI Committee Member
Annika Behnke
DEI Committee Member
Annika Behnke
DEI Committee Member
Chris Pellegrino
DEI Committee Member
Chris Pellegrino
DEI Committee Member
Joshua Graves
DEI Committee Member
Joshua Graves
DEI Committee Member
Kristin Holland
DEI Committee Member
Kristin Holland
DEI Committee Member
Laura Sprouse
DEI Committee Member
Laura Sprouse
DEI Committee Member
Lisa Gibson
DEI Committee Member
Lisa Gibson
DEI Committee Member
