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“Across Stifel, we’re building momentum around our efforts to foster, cultivate, and preserve a culture of diversity and inclusion. We continue to build on past successes to ensure that Stifel attracts the best talent and remains a firm where all people – regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability/ability, veteran status, and ethnicity – can attain their full potential and contribute to meeting and exceeding our goals of where success meets success.”
Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande
Head of Corporate Responsibility
Stifel knows that to address the financial needs of the increasingly diverse and discerning communities we serve, in more than 400 locations across the country, we must deliver services that are aligned with our clients’ values and preferences. Building a diverse team plays a critical role in helping us achieve this goal.
That’s why, at Stifel, we are on a journey – a journey toward a more inclusive and diverse workplace, where our associates can build a challenging, rewarding career, where new ideas are welcomed and fresh thinking is encouraged. At Stifel, we believe in providing opportunity to qualified candidates to ensure that everyone has a fair shot at success regardless of background.
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This may seem obvious, but at Stifel, we have made it a priority. Promoting diversity and inclusion helps ensure that all team members feel they are treated respectfully, fairly, and valued.
From a leadership perspective, this requires not only a visible commitment to inclusion, but to challenge the status quo - firm wide – to enable all associates the opportunity to advance their careers.
“We strive to be a company whose diversity reflects the communities, firms, and clients with whom we work, as we contribute to their continued sustainable economic development.”
Ronald J. Kruszewski
Chairman & CEO
Stifel’s Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) was founded to engage and equip women throughout Stifel with the networking and mentoring tools to set and achieve goals in their personal and professional lives. Stifel believes that its clients are best served by professionals who are at their best and fully reflect the communities we serve. WIN is an important part of how Stifel’s professionals are putting that belief into practice. WIN includes:
“Women in our industry face many unique challenges, from balancing family life with career aspirations to finding female sponsors and mentors. Here at Stifel, we’re committed to helping our female associates address those issues head on.
WIN empowers female associates and supports them with action so they can be fearless, confident, and themselves – and that mission extends beyond our office walls. We want to support the women in our communities so they can reach their full potential, which is why we help with everything from providing the professional attire they need to make a strong first impression to improving financial literacy and everything in between.”
Crystal Schlegl
Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer, Private Client Group
Stifel is committed to attracting and retaining the best talent. This requires that we recruit talents from a broad audience and invest in associate development at every career stage. From junior professionals to senior executives, through training and engagement, we foster an environment that enables our associates to maximize client results, career growth, and company success. This is illustrated in Stifel’s Advisor of Choice, Firm of Choice, and Investment of Choice philosophy. Stifel recognizes that investing in diversity, equity, and inclusion directly contributes to attracting and retaining top talents while building an environment that encourages creativity.
Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande joined the firm in 2021. Throughout his extensive career that spans both academia and the private sector, Dr. Akande has consistently demonstrated the ability to connect with diverse constituencies.
Dr. Akande works to foster and cultivate an enabling culture that is welcoming of all people. The goal is to make Stifel a place where the best talent wants to work and where people of all backgrounds can reach their full potential.
For several years, Stifel has required all associates to participate in regular training to promote diversity and prevent workplace harassment, which includes discussion of associate and manager responsibility for fostering diversity and preventing discrimination and stereotyping, unconscious bias, best practices, confidential reporting of problems, and developments in legal and social context.
“Recruiting is an essential part of our strategy of building a diverse talent pool. But diversity is about more than just recruiting. Stifel knows that to build a pipeline of emerging talent across the spectrum of diversity, it must be recognized for what it is: a place where role models who have succeeded and continue to succeed are available to inspire incoming professionals to reach their potential and surpass their own expectations.”
Carol DeNatale
Managing Director, Institutional Group
“Stifel’s Bank and Trust companies are strengthened by our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The majority of our bank and trust employees come from a variety of backgrounds, which reflect the diversity of the clients we serve and the communities where we work and live. Embracing equal opportunity accelerates and empowers our recent and future growth. A diverse workforce brings broad perspectives together, enabling us to create value for our varying stakeholders while investing our time, talent, and resources toward advancing financial knowledge and economic opportunities for all.”
Suzanne Agin
Community Development Director, Stifel Bank & Trust
“At Stifel, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is embedded in the way we do business. It’s part of our DNA and core to our belief that having the most talented associates providing the best advice and service for our customers is fundamental to the firm’s overall success, and a key competitive advantage. As a recognized leader in Wealth Management and Investment Banking, not only by our clients, but also by external industry organizations such as JD Power and Greenwich Associates, we understand that having a diverse workforce which represents the diversity of our clients and our communities is critical to our success. We’re extremely proud of the results we’ve had attracting high quality people and teams to the firm.”
Maura Markus
Stifel Financial Corp. Board of Directors
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1These figures are based on year-end information, and may be rounded to the nearest whole percentage. Ethnicity designations and the terms “executive and senior-level officials and managers” (such as C-level officers), “first/mid-level officials and managers” (such as those directly reporting to C-level officers), and “professionals” (such as employees with professional credentials) are each used as defined by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, such that ethnicity designations other than “Hispanic or Latino” do not include individuals that identify “Hispanic or Latino.”
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