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Revolution Messaging
Staff Information
As always, all media inquiries go
to Moira or -- If clients or other nonsmedia ask about the HaffPost story, here is the
information we are sharing:

A reporter contacted
Revolution with a series of anonymous complaints about Revolution Messaging centered on an incident in
December 2015, which involved inappropriate conduct by a male senior partner toward a female employee.
Revolution fired the male partner within hours of
the incident.

immediately after the
incident and over the next several weeks, Revolunon's senior leadership team offered the female employee
our lull support, including offering time off, counseling, and support in the aftermath of this event. We
continued to check in with her to ensure she
was getting the support she needed and deserved.

Sometime later, the

female employee decided to leave Revolution on her own volition. We encouraged her to stay and offered
her a range of options, but ultimately she decided to move on and she announced her decision in an email to
the staff. We wlshed her well and continue to

wish her well.

Beyond that, this article

questions Revolunon's commitment to diversity and inclusion. For years Revolution has proactively worked
to increase diversity in the progressive tech space by putting a large emphasis on training new organizers to
expand the talent pool and seeking out women

and people of color for open positions. Starting in 2015 we brought in a womenrowned HR specialty firm to
help update and improve our HR manual and provide continuing support to ensure we have policies that
reflect our values as our firm continues to grow.

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We’re proud that RevoluSon
is now a majority female firm and a majority of new hires over the last two years have been women and
people of color. More than a half dozen women have been promoted into senior leadership roles in the last
few years. Women and people of color at our company
now include a partner, our COO, CHRO, the majority of our senior leadership, and dozens of managers and
junior staffers. They include the senior most members of our email, adverSsing, graphic design, and public
relaSons departments as well as the head of
our internaSonal and West Coast office. We have always strived to live our values, and that includes treaSng
our employees fairly and providing opportuniSes for professional growth and advancement, regardless of
gender, sexual orientaSon or ethnicity.
Many of the women and people of color in our senior staff advanced to those posiSons from more junior
posiSons within the company, including our COO who started with us as an intern six years ago and went on
to prove herself at every level to rise to COO.
·
We sSll have work
to do, and RevoluSon is in the process of selecSng and retaining a first-class diversity consulSng firm to
conduct a complete and thorough review of our pracSces, culture and how the firm is run. RevoluSon’s
management will provide an all staff training
on racial and gender discriminaSon, inclusion, and sexual harassment – and management training for
managers.
·
We recently announced
a new diversity task force made up of employees from each department.
·
Overseeing these changes
will be our female Chief Human Resources Officer, formerly our HR director. We elevated this posiSon to a Clevel posiSon where it belongs and she will regularly solicit anonymous employee feedback on how
RevoluSon can improve.

·
RevoluSon Messaging
has a long record of standing strong on its progressive principles. When inappropriate staff behavior is
brought to our aPenSon, we have taken swi] and decisive acSon to make sure our employees are held
accountable – regardless of stature. We have fired
clients for mistreaSng our staff and making inappropriate remarks, and turned away contracts from
prospecSve clients that we and our staff would not feel comfortable working for.
·
It doesn’t maPer the
seniority of the employee or the value of the contract. We only want to work with those who follow our
values and treat others with respect.
·
RevoluSon is not perfect,
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 out thanks to our conversations with management over the past several days, we are confident that our
company will always strive to be better.

We intend to hold our
company accountable and make sure we institute the changes that are proposed.

If you have any questions
or concerns, please teel free to direct them to a partner, Gabe, Eden or stacey who can work to provide you

with accurate information.

Scott Goodsleln
Revolution Messaging, LLC

@revmsg

 

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