Startups Must Make Board Diversity a Priority

I have six wonderful Directors and three Observers on my board, plus myself. All are white and only one female. Here’s how we recognized the need to change and went about making it happen. Board diversity, or the lack thereof on my board, should have been obvious – I run an ESG company after all so am well acquainted with data proving diverse companies deliver superior performance. In recognition of this fact, our company put diversity targets in place early on and funded programs supporting women and minorities in tech the second we had two coins to rub together. We have meaningful progress to show for it. And yet board diversity lagged. Why?