RKL ANNUAL REVIEW | 8 Fostering a workplace culture of trust, teamwork and accountability that inspires and fulfills our team members is essential to RKL’s mission. These ongoing efforts to cultivate innovation earned us back-to-back recognition among the Best Places to Work in PA, a statewide program that uses workplace data and employee survey results to identify the Commonwealth’s leading employers. RKL’s collaborative and problem-solving team of more than 450 professionals is the lifeblood of the firm’s continued growth and success, according to CEO Ed Monborne. Whether it is supply chain optimization, data analytics or tax reform guidance, the RKL team is on the front line with its clients, helping them solve emerging challenges and navigate a changing business landscape. This ever-widening menu of business disciplines and wide variety of types and sizes of clients offer the RKL team exposure to diverse career paths. To support its dynamic professionals and prepare the next generation of problem-solvers, RKL offers robust learning and development, mentoring and community leadership programs. For Barry Pelagatti, Exton Office Managing Partner, involvement with RKL’s talent development initiatives keep him and other firm leaders inspired for the future. “RKL team members take pride in working at an industry leading firm,” Barry says. “One of the best parts of my job is channeling the high level of enthusiasm around the new opportunities that our firm’s expansion and innovation afford us all.” This entrepreneurial mindset isn’t the only reason RKL stands as an employer of choice in Pennsylvania. Called by its mission to “enrich the lives of our team, clients and community,” the firm is equally committed to the personal growth of its team members. Social activities and team-building events in and out of the office encourage strong bonds and lasting friendships among the RKL team. Whether it’s volunteering alongside colleagues or getting involved in causes they’re personally passionate about, RKL also provides team members a number of ways to build meaningful community connections. “It’s a pretty straightforward strategy – find great talent, develop your people and they’ll be empowered to innovate and deliver solutions you never thought possible.” - Ed Monborne, CEO Q&A Favorite part of life at RKL? “Good people that want to do the right thing, whether it is for clients or for the community or for each other.” Michelle Gibbons, Small Business Principal “