Steele Strategies is a small-sized firm with an intention to grow purposefully. While DEIB efforts are often associated with large-scale organizations, that does not mean there’s not a place for DEIB in smaller environments like ours.

STEELE is driven by its purpose to elevate humanity and it is as much in our capacity to do that as a team of ten as it is as a team of 10,000.

Regardless of size, our focus centers on people. DEIB is intentionally embedded into how STEELE shows up in the world as an employer, a business, and a corporate citizen of the greater community and the world, with a commitment to respect and value the differences that make us unique and bring them together to make a collective contribution to each other and those we serve. Furthermore, as a Conscious Capitalism partner, we operate in the spirit of their credo to “endeavor to create financial, intellectual, social, cultural, emotional, spiritual, physical, and ecological wealth” for all of our stakeholders.

As an organization centered around a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging as lived values, we develop the cultural competence of our team through continuing education to equip them to understand, appreciate, and interact with internal and external stakeholders of culturally diverse backgrounds. The cultural intelligence they gain contributes to an environment of accountability that facilitates the disruption of racist and other discriminatory behaviors that would inhibit expression, collaboration, innovation, and thriving, and could ultimately impact our organizational performance and societal contribution. Similarly, as an organization where individuals live the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, these ideals permeate every level of our organization to ensure that we all operate with integrity in upholding our mission.