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In this video, David Armstrong, editor-in-chief and executive director of content, WealthManagement.com, and Sonya Dreizler, co-founder, Choir, dissect the struggles of bringing more diversity to the stage at conferences in financial services.

In this episode, Matt Halloran speaks with Liv Gagnon, co-founder of Choir, the first conference diversity certification and diversity-tech platform focused on amplifying the voices of underrepresented financial professionals.

Sonya and Liv join Renegade Capital to share why they believe increasing representation is important and how CHOIR is meant to help.

A group of financial professionals has introduced Choir, a platform and certification process that aims to make speakers at financial services conferences more reflective of the U.S. population. Choir’s algorithm analyzes the prominence and visibility of women, people of color and non-binary individuals scheduled to speak on stage and can be used as a benchmark…

Amid growing sources of data tracking the demographics in wealth management, a new company is using a proprietary algorithm to track representation at industry conferences. Choir launched a certification and pledge tied to a formula with hundreds of data points to measure the visibility and participation of wealth management professionals who are from underrepresented groups…

A California-based company says it has launched the “first-ever” process for diversity certification at finance conferences. Choir, which is based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, says it has a proprietary algorithm that can tap “hundreds of data points” to determine the presence and visibility of women, non-binary people and people of color at conferences.…

Meet Choir, a tech platform and certification for industry conferences to make industry events more representative of the U.S. population. The platform provides a benchmark for conference diversity, aka the Choir Certification. Read more on WTFintech? by Nicole Casperson.

“Sonya Dreizler, an impact investing consultant and founder of Solutions with Sonya, and Liv Gagnon, founder of public relations and marketing consulting firm Portaga, have teamed up to launch Choir, a diversity tech platform and certification program for financial services conferences.” Read more at Wealthmanagement.com.

Two women tired of the slow-changing business of finance conferences have started a company designed to help event organizers line up speakers who better reflect the U.S. population. Choir, a consultancy and technology platform that also creates a certification that conferences can earn, launched Tuesday with a short list of clients that it hopes to…

Just as a choir is made up of many different voices, two women are challenging financial services to include a diverse range of voices on stage at industry events. Sonya Dreizler and Liv Gagnon launched Choir, a diversity certification program for financial services conferences. Read More.