Diversify your Boardroom: Why Todays Executive Board Positions Need to Change

Mar 3, 2021

With a lack of diversity on executive board seats across the United States and Canada, businesses are staying stagnant with growth. Diversification and inclusion in boardrooms is crucial as it allows for the experiences of a more unique audience to implement new ideas.

There’s a clear lack of diversity on executive board seats across the United States and Canada, alike. While companies and businesses have begun the expansion of increasing the amount of women in the boardroom, there’s been a stagnant change when it comes to race — and particularly, the lack of African Americans and African Canadians being considered for open board positions. There’s one Canadian whose single-handedly trying to change this fact though — and that’s Kosi Stobbs


As a first-generation Canadian with immigrant Jamaican parents, Stobbs had a dream to become something — so he did, and he was named both Vancouver and Canada's Top 40 under 40 in 2020 because of it. Between owning and operating multiple 7 and 8 figure businesses over the years, he’s seen the importance of diversification in any company — particularly of those sitting in executive board positions. He’s now committed to being a face of change for diversity and inclusion on any board of directors across the United States and Canada. And if there’s one person who could make a dent in this — it’s him.


Stobbs has a passion for business that radiates in his work. He’s the Founder and Director of Property Owl Group, and he buys companies to scale them for optimal efficiency and growth. As an engineer by trade, he has a natural proficiency in problem solving — approaching any issue with creativity, adaptability, and innovation — and his success with scaling companies is a result of that. He owes this to his upbringing, and knows that if more companies were to diversify their positions of leadership, including their corporate board members, and include people with backgrounds and experiences like his, they could reach new levels of success. 


One would think that in 2021, corporate board member positions would be full of different backgrounds, skin colors, identities, and religions — but that’s hardly the case in both the United States and Canada. And we need to do better. With people like Kosi Stobbs advocating for diversity and inclusion in boardrooms across Northern America — it seems like we’re getting on the right track at least. But he knows there’s so much more to be done. 


For more information on Kosi Stobbs and his efforts on diversifying executive board positions, you can reach out to him directly.



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