Kim Steppe & Erin Tselenchuk, RISEQUITY, Inc.

Kim Steppe is the CEO and oversees Partner and Client Relations for RISEQUITY, Inc., where her passion is to identify opportunities within a company and bring innovative solutions to create diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplaces where every employee belongs. 

Kim is an experienced Congressional Ambassador, having lobbied for Alzheimer's research funding and advocated at the federal and state level for public policies that improve the lives of those living with Alzheimer's disease and their families. She is currently the Board co-Vice Chair for the Alzheimer's Association of Northern California Northern Nevada, the Chair of the Public Policy Committee, and Co-Chair of the DE&ICommittee. 

Erin Tselenchuk is the Co-founder and President of RISEQUITY, Inc, and runs Programming and Development overseeing workshops, equity forums, partnership conferences, mentoring, and advanced programs that impact a company’s ability to recruit, retain and develop a diverse workforce.

Erin served as the Vice President of Marketing and Event Programs for Watermark, having produced hundreds of programs that impacted and influenced executive women from all diverse backgrounds, emerging leaders and entrepreneurs. Erin has a history of social activism through Project Hope and Rotary International.

In this episode Kim and Erin detail why companies conducting their own surveys aren’t getting a full picture of their company culture, and how founders and leaders should think about integrating their diversity, equity, inclusivity, and belonging point of view as early in the company’s founding as possible. 

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