Mission:

To foster a highly respected, inclusive culture that helps foster and promote an environment that is diverse and equitable for all team member and the firm to achieve growth and deepened expertise.

Pillars of Focus:

• Advocacy
• Awareness & Education
• Community Service & Engagement

At RubinBrown, we anchor our beliefs in a key element of our firm’s cultural foundation called Be Your Best for Others. Being Your Best for Others includes being your best for every single person you encounter – at work, at home and in your community. As part of our responsibility, we recognize and appreciate what makes each person who they are as an individual. In turn, this appreciation creates collective conversations as one firm to continue our journey together.

As one united firm, we encourage our team members to do what is best for others so we can be inspired by our work, by our clients, by our families, by our communities and by each other. It is through this philosophy that we are able to come together and ultimately encourage and foster an environment of growth and change.

We will not tolerate any forms of racism in our firm. RubinBrown supports inclusion and creating a safe and supportive environment where everyone belongs and where all team members feel valued, understood and respected.

We strive to create an inclusive culture across gender, ethnicity, nationality, lifestyle, age, sexual orientation, ability and experience to create a workplace where all ideas are valued and all team members feel they are a part of something bigger.

We encourage all team members to adopt this mindset to foster opportunities to create change. Our goal is to create a culture of growth to encourage all team members to reach their highest potential through leadership development, training and coaching opportunities. In order to reach our goals to serve clients in the most effective way possible, we must foster the power of different backgrounds and perspectives and use these philosophies to help our team members grow. Through intentional experiences as a firm, such as sessions with Performance Paradigm, Reggie Butler, and more we are able to continue our journey.

At RubinBrown, all are welcome and celebrated.

Inclusion Council

The RubinBrown Inclusion Council fosters an inclusive environment at the firm in which the unique talents and perspectives of each individual are understood, valued, respected, and leveraged. The Inclusion & Diversity Council oversees various inclusion related leadership development programs and diversity and inclusion training at the firm. Success is achieved through strategic partnerships with organizations such as the National Association of Black Accountants Inc. (NABA), the Urban League, United Way, the Diversity Awareness Partnership of St. Louis (DAP), and more.
 

RubinBrown Charitable Foundation

At RubinBrown, we help live out our Be Your Best for Other’s philosophy in our communities every day. One way we do this is through the work of the RubinBrown Charitable Foundation. The Foundation supports our communities and individuals through a focus on grants supporting students within underrepresented minority groups majoring in accounting, finance, or related areas of business. The foundation awards scholarships to universities and organizations within our markets.