We all know that climate change disproportionately affects marginalized communities, but it's also imperative to understand how the climate crisis impacts people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ensuring your company meets diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices will help insure that your company includes a broad range of perspectives, and represents the interests of everyone impacted by — and ready to solve —climate change.

Highly inclusive companies are more likely than ever to improve their bottom line — consistently achieving up to 120% of their financial goals. DEI nurtures creativity and innovation, and enhances employees’ sense of belonging and engagement. Higher retention rates, psychological safety, and greater willingness to stay with the company for the long term are benefits of an inclusive environment.

That’s why, with a consulting team at Berkeley Haas, we made a DEI playbook tailored for early-stage startups, so you can ensure you’re creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company from the beginning.