Leading Change: Harnessing the Power of DEI in Business

It starts with values, punctuated by the Boulder Chamber’s economic vitality mission.

The Boulder community has a legacy challenge, rooted in history and present-day circumstances - a low representation of BIPOC residents. This same deficiency is reflected in the diversity of our business owners and their workforce. As we all recognize the richness of an environment that enjoys the benefits of cultural and economic diversity, this is an issue that touches our soul. In a day and age when businesses have come to recognize the critical importance of diverse perspectives to building a sustainable business, the difficulty recruiting diverse workforce talent also is an economic concern.

It is out of respect for both these core values and economic interests that the Boulder Chamber began its journey in the diversity, equity and inclusion space. It began with outreach to better understand the barriers to achieving our goals of a more diverse business community, including constraints that our own organization perpetrated. We then began to take action to remove the barriers. It began with internal steps forward that have evolved into the highest level strategic goals for our organization and encompass numerous DE&I programs, as outlined below.

We invite you to learn more about our actions and, always, to test us against our core “Inclusion” value: “Supporting opportunities that foster belonging and connection.” Your thoughts on how we can help build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community are always welcome.