Arabian Business interviews Tahseen's Wes Schwalje on gender and entrepreneurship

  • Gender diversity leads to diversity of views that facilitates decision-making and enhance performance
  • A diverse management team has a significant signaling value for investors that higher quality decision making will avoid management missteps

Tahseen Consulting's COO Wes Schwalje spoke with Alicia Buller from Arabian Business on the importance of gender diversity when it comes generating investment. You can read Wes' take on the role of women in successful businesses below or read the full article here. 

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There is compelling evidence, further supported by the recent findings of the Kauffman Fellows Research Center, that top management teams with greater gender, international experience, and educational diversity have a significant positive impact on business performance. 

In particular, gender diversity leads to diversity of views that facilitates decision-making and enhance performance.

Let's consider the current debate about profitability versus growth currently being waged at the moment due to this year’s disappointing IPO class. 

A top-notch, diverse management team has a significant signaling value for investors that higher quality decision making will avoid management missteps that could lead to underwhelming exits. For this reason, it is no surprise that diversity has become an increasingly important investment criteria.