Our Core Values

Teamwork

We put our best efforts forward to ensure the team’s success.

We support each other and assume the best intentions.
We demonstrate our commitment to collective success by collaborating within and across teams.
We communicate professionally, honestly, and openly about successes and challenges.
We acknowledge and balance our colleagues’ strengths with talents and strengths of our own.

We ensure employee-owners at every level of the company are treated fairly and have the tools they need for success.

We communicate expectations and hold each other accountable.
We continually assess and improve our policies and approach to support equity, diversity, and inclusion.
We proactively seek employee-owner input on decisions and processes that impact the company, employee-owners, clients, and partners.
We are transparent with how we reach decisions.

We consistently deliver high-quality outputs we are proud of and stand behind our work.

We allocate sufficient resources to projects and ensure staff have appropriate training to conduct their assigned tasks.
We collect, document, and analyze data using appropriate scientific methods and best practices to ensure results are accurate and defensible.
We employ hard work, critical thinking, attention to detail, and a willingness to pursue and refine new strategies and techniques.
We use continuous improvement tools to regularly examine our processes and make appropriate changes to improve the quality of our outcomes.

We balance the time and energy spent at work with outside commitments such as family, individual passions, and community responsibilities.

We proactively communicate our personal and professional needs.
When planning or accepting work, we consider our capacity and communicate openly with our team to ensure manageable and equitable workloads.
We support flexible schedules so each employee-owner can balance professional and personal commitments while recognizing that expectations vary across the different roles at Stone.

We are honest, transparent, and consistent and conduct our work with integrity.

We conduct ourselves ethically and are committed to scientific integrity in producing and reporting data and deliverables.
We recognize that mistakes are inevitable and are honest and proactive in resolving them.
We recognize and respect personal limits as they relate to our professional competency, physical ability, and workload.

We ensure our colleagues feel valued, respected, and safe.

We enter conversations with open minds and allow empathy and kindness to direct our actions.
We are good custodians of our shared resources.
We treat others the way they want to be treated.