In this Creative HQ Session, Lauren Peate will share her winding journey into the startup world and the experiences she's had around the world which showed her why culture & DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) should be at the core of any startup. She’ll then talk about how her company, Multitudes, has taken action to prioritise people from the start – even as they launched their beta product and are working for product-market fit.

📖 About Lauren

Lauren Peate is the CEO and founder of Multitudes, a team analytics tool that provides insights to unlock happier, higher-performing teams. Before founding Multitudes, she founded and ran a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy called Ally Skills NZ, worked at Bain & Co with Fortune 500 tech companies in San Francisco, led operations for an ecommerce startup in Jordan, and advised startups across the Middle East. Lauren studied economics and Arabic at Stanford University. She’s @Lmpeate on Twitter.

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