Personal and professional development of LGBTQ+ staff is a worthy venture. It is not only good business but also sends a clear signal to societies that demand private companies acquire a social license to operate. From internal Employee Resource Group (ERG) to external networking opportunities, a clear recipe to empowering…

Meet the Out LGBTQ+ Corporate Board Members in Fortune 500 30 seats (0.5%) in 28 companies (5%) occupied by 23 out LGBTQ+ people including 13 women, 3 LatinX, 3 POC This list is the only one keeping continuous track of LGBTQ+ Board representation globally. There has been some movement in…

Statement on FCA policy statement (PS 22/3) — June, 2022 On 20 April 2022, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced new rules requiring listed companies to report information and disclose against targets regarding two underrepresented groups, women and ethnic minorities, on their boards and executive management. On 28 July…

The decision by Grindr, a company owned by straight people, but with many LGBTQ+ employees and consumers (and soon investors) to have a 60% LGBTQ+ Board raises a serious question for companies in similar situation and without any out LGBTQ+ representation on their board. How long can they sustain this…

Hopefully 2022 is the year mainstream national LGBTQ+ organizations hit rock bottom. Unable to articulate a response to anti-LGBTQ+ legislations, dragged deep into debates where public support is lacking, supporting unelectable political candidates, losing key corporate allies, yet being in bed with unpalatable others, bullying dissent into silence and involved…

Pride is a great opportunity to remind corporations and their employees that they hold one of the keys to bring urgently needed global social change on LGBTQ+ issues. I will speak in 11 companies this June and hope you can join me. If your business, employee resource group, law firm…

LGBTQ+ allyship in the workplace: creating room for belonging Remarks at the European Central Banks System — SSM-wide IDAHOBIT event May 17, 2022 Fabrice Houdart, Treasurer of the IDAHOBIT Secretariat While there is no hierarchy of discrimination against marginalized communities, there is a singular specificity to the LGBTQ+ experience: early…

Spoiler alert: this time it is not about self-hatred, it is about preserving personal gains Our community’s leadership clearly failed us in its campaign, or lack thereof, to prevent Florida’s HB 1557, the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, from passing in the first place (noted: we started pressuring politicians and businesses…

Today the New York Times newsletter’s headline read “Good morning. How did L.G.B.T. rights again become the subject of a culture war?”. The authors outlined two explanations: a “new conservative aggressiveness” resulting from the Trump era; and “conservative public opinion on gender identity and transgender rights”. I would include three…