Speaking engagements for Pride 2022
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 is looking for a speaker or panelist for Pride please let me know. #Biz4LGBTI #pride2022
. (completed) May 26 — IFC (public) LGBTQ+ Inclusive Finance with the International Finance Institution (IFC/World Bank Group) — 9 a.m. EST
Launch of Inclusive Banking: Emerging Practices to Advance the Economic Inclusion of LGBTI People
- (completed) June 1st — Diligent (internal) — 11 a.m. EST –Fireside Chat
The role of the private sector and the urgency of social change on LGBTQ+ issues.
- (completed)June 1st HSBC (internal) — “24 Hours of Pride”
Fabrice and singer Mila Jam will discuss progress and challenges in LGBTQ+ inclusion globally, allyship, what the movement’s history can teach us on cohesion in times of adversity, dealing with the psychological toll and trauma of exclusion and how the corporate angle to human rights remains relevant despite backlash.
. (completed)June 8th — Msci (internal) — 9 a.m. EST The role of the private sector on LGBTQ+ rights in a difficult geopolitical context
Here is the event invitation:
MSCI Commemorates Global Pride: Get the Global Pulse on LGBTQ+ Equality
A Conversation with Fabrice Houdart, Managing Director with Out Leadership, moderated by Scott Crum, with Opening Remarks by Baer Pettit
. June 13th — Vir (internal) — 2 p.m. EST — Pride event
. June 14th — SWIFT (internal) — 9:30 a.m. — Pride@SWIFT — Kick off EMEA/US
Heroes — Be an upstander and not a bystander
Whether you’re LGBTQ+ or not, you can be a hero for the community. In this session we’ll hear from SWIFT colleagues and external speakers on the heroes that have helped them throughout their career and ask them for practical ways that you can take to be an upstanding ally. Join us and be a #HERO for the LGBTQ+ community.
Introduced by Rosemary Stone, Chief Business Development Officer, a discussion with Fabrice Houdart moderated by Helen Alexander, SWIFT.
. June 16th — Metro (internal) — 9 a.m. — the importance of private sector in LGBTIQ+ inclusion with my friend Pavel Subrt of East Meets West 400 employees joining.
. June 16th — Dropbox (internal) — 12 p.m. EST — Internal “Droptalk”
Moderated talk with Fabrice and Dropbox Foundation members, Outright Action International (on the Board of which Fabrice serves)
. June 21st — OutPerform (public) — Equality Imperative on Challenging Inequalities within the LGBTQ+ Community — 2:00 p.m. EST
With Evie Litwok (WMI), Genn Herley (TransNewYork), Edafe Okpero (“Asylum”) — Moderated by Fabrice
- June 23rd — Event with Telecom Italia
I am a speaker at the Pride month celebration event at TIM (Italy’s Telecom, one of the seven founding member companies of Parks, 40+ thousand employees in Italy and abroad) that will be held online on June 23, from 3.30 to 5 pm Italian time / 9:30 a.m. EST
. June 30th — TBD (public) Young leaders of the Securitization and Structured Finance Committee of the American Bar Association
Discussion on ESG and LGBTQ+ issues with Ira Kustin of Paul Hastings
. June 30th — Cowen (internal) — 12 p.m. EST Corporate Allyship & Advocacy in the current climate discussion