About Us
We are in the Business of Building Cities.
Somos Group is a multidisciplinary team of experts partnering with clients across industries to build the cities of tomorrow. Our mission is to create effective solutions that build and sustain community resilience, promote economic development, increase social equity, and accelerate prosperity. We specialize in solving complex challenges in our built environment. Innovating is our business.
Driving Values at Somos Group
One Company, One Culture
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Emphasis on collaboration and advocating for client success through a multidisciplinary team structure.
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Ideas Matter
We promote big ideas, invest in research, and lead with innovation. New, effective solutions require new ways of seeing the world.
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Bias towards Action
Make speed a business value and measure our performance by results not process.
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Be at the Center
We make solving the greatest challenges of our time our passion and our business plan.
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Cultivate Excellence
Invest in people and systems to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
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Engage in Good Trouble
Lead with equity and social justice. Seek matters that require change in law and policy.
Statement of
Diversity
Somos Group is proud to be 100% minority owned and is certified women, minority, and LGBTQ+ owned firm. We’re built on a simple belief: excellence requires diversity and equity in all aspects of a company’s intellectual foundation, strategic outlook, and mission. To put it most simply, at SOMOS, these principles are a part of our DNA.
We know that some companies have adopted policies that embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion—and we believe this to be an exceptionally good thing. What separates SOMOS from many of its peers, however, is that, from its very inception, SOMOS has built these principles into the fabric of our very existence. We are a minority- and women-owned firm. One hundred percent of our founding partners are people of color. The same is true for our executive-level staff. This fundamentally influences the way we are building the company and our vision of the future.
It is simply not enough, however, to say that our team is incredibly diverse. Our work is aligned with broader equity goals and advancing the value and expertise of people and communities that have been historically underserved and undervalued by persistent racism and other forms of discrimination. We seek to leverage our expertise, education and work experience to empower those who may not have had the opportunities or good fortune to achieve all they might be capable of.
Our commitment to these principles is more than talk—it is reflected in our public service. Our principals and executive staff have served on the executive boards of a broad range of organizations that promote equality and empowerment, including the California Community Foundation, Latino Equality Alliance, Japanese American Bar Association, Little Tokyo Service Center, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Inclusive Action for the City and many other national and community-based organizations.
We are proud to be at the forefront of the movement to make the corporate environment—as well as American society at-large—more inclusive, socially responsible and equitable.
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