DIVERSITY STATEMENT
Riverbend Group, LLC is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in all of our business endeavors. Both in recruiting employees and consultants to work for our company and in recruiting highly qualified candidates on behalf of other employers, it is our avowed policy to make opportunities available to all qualified persons on an equal basis. With respect to our own internal hiring and personnel programs, we are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified individuals -- as well as administering any and all personnel policies and actions -- without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin or ancestry, handicap or disability, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, or political affiliation, in accordance with all applicable laws. Incidents involving legally proscribed discrimination or harassment by Riverbend Group principals or employees will not be tolerated, and will result in termination or other corrective action as deemed appropriate in light of the circumstances. In conducting executive search assignments and other consulting projects on behalf of our clients, we not only apply these same principles in the performance of our recruiting and related outreach activities, but also take every possible reasonable step to ensure that our client employers are aware of and abide by all pertinent anti-discrimination laws as well. We will not work with any employer that discriminates in violation of applicable law or that engages in other actions which, while not clearly illegal, violate the spirit of the applicable anti-discrimination laws and related regulations.
Riverbend Group not only places a high value on diversity in its own business, but strongly encourages employers to enhance the diversity of their executive and management ranks by regularly presenting them with opportunities to hire top candidates from a variety of backgrounds.