Foster Global: Foster's Culture Builds Future

In this video we produced for Foster Global's 50th Anniversary, we take a look at the heart of the firm’s culture through interviews with Partners Nestor Rosin and Helene Dang.

Company culture videos are a great way to showcase what makes your company unique. They're also a powerful tool for communicating core values and priorities so that everyone—from employees to clients—knows what you stand for.

Transcript:

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As a firm that's reached 50 years, you don't get to 50 years by being the same way you were five years ago or the same way you were 10 years. You constantly have to evolve, push yourself, adapt. The more of that we have, I think it just leads to better results.

We understand that clients have different needs. They come from different backgrounds. Be able to relate and connect with them and to be able to help them means that we have to have a diverse staff that carries all the core values with them.

Our core values within the firm are excellence, they are integrity, service and community. With excellence, we are thought leaders in the immigration field, we are innovative and in we do and bringing in excellence in our everyday work and servicing our clients.

The next one, integrity, is something that I would define as doing the right thing in private. All right. When people aren't around, what are you doing?

Community, that's inside and outside of the firm. We're big believers in creating a community within our firm, so we can work collaboratively together as well as outside the firm where we can be leaders, and, we can provide community service and needs to society. And then there's service. Service to our clients but also service outside the firm to the community.

It all stems from an ownership group that is passionate, is caring, wants to get back, has experiences that they've benefited from helping out, we want to give back.

I think the key to the success of the firm is to remember why we do what we do, and it is about the people.

Because in truth, a lot of immigration laws have been on the books for years and years and years. Immigration is a very policy-driven area of law these days, but it's really about the mindset and culture of people who have to interpret and implement those laws and understand them fully and that's where I think we as a firm have played a good role and can continue doing so.

As long as we can carry forward our core values, then I think the firm will be in great hands with future leaders.

I think Foster's future is bright because the foundation that we're built upon, some of those notions. As long as we stick to them, and I think we will, then there's no reason for us not to be around another 50 years.