Throughout our history, Lenox has strived to be a collaborative workplace with a team-oriented approach to serving clients and our community. Lenox has strived to create a culture of caring that extends to not only our employees but their families and communities. Diversity and inclusion are an integral part of this culture because we truly believe that we are stronger together when our uniqueness is valued. The firm has long commissioned well-known speakers to lead employee forums and foster meaningful discussions, but recently, we took a much bolder step. Our newly inaugurated Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee will help drive our strategy in this area and develop initiatives for employee involvement.

We now have dedicated team of 25 individuals across the organization to identify opportunities for improvement, education, and collaboration. To goal of the team is to help establish a supportive and welcoming workplace environment in which employees of all backgrounds and demographic characteristics can work together.

The team has identified “pillars” or areas of focus; People First, Client, & Community. Each pillar is comprised of a leader who guides and steers the team members to identify specific goals and initiatives that support each audience. The focus of each pillar is outlined below:

• The People First pillar is focused on diversity our workforce through internal processes or opportunities that will support the attraction, retention, and growth of our talent. We’re advancing our open culture through having authentic conversations and providing learning opportunities to ensure our workforce continues to grow and thrive.
• Our Community Pillar is focuses on building partnership and publicly support minority-serving and underrepresented organizations to establish visible initiatives that will aid in create a diverse employee population. The community pillar is also comprised of our internal employee run charitable organization Lenox Cares. Through this partnership we can further enhance our community engagement through by providing financial support and offering employees the opportunity to volunteer their time and talents at the institutions they care about most.
• Our Client Pillar is focused on enriching the relationship between Lenox Advisors and our clients by sourcing opportunities to both illustrate our diversity and inclusion practices, as well as develop offering relevant to D&I priorities. We are able to empower those relationships, we can add value in sharing best practices for implementation of diversity initiatives in their own businesses.

Deena Byrne, Human Resources Manager
Melissa Dziemian, Director of Marketing