PayPal hosted participants in the final day of the OutNEXT 2018 Global Summit for a networking social at their offices downtown, ending the week of Summit activities with a bang. Select photos are below:
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“Companies have to do a wholesale rethinking of their customers... That’s not a new idea, it’s just not an idea that every company out there has paid attention to before this. It’s like Black Lives Matters has ripped the Band-Aid off.” - Todd Sears, Out Leadership Founder & CEO
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#LGBTQ #BlackLivesMatter #OutLeadership WWD
Belonging in Fashion, Equality in the Spotlight
The industry has a chance now to open its mind as Black Lives Matter and Pride Month reframe the challenge.#ProudlyResilient by Out Leadership will be leading a conversation about the new groundbreaking HBO Documentary Films, Welcome To Chechnya. From Academy Award-nominated director David France (How To Survive A Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson) comes Welcome to Chechnya, a powerful and eye-opening documentary about a group of activists risking their lives to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ persecution in the repressive and closed Russian republic of Chechnya.
This panel will be moderated by Out Leadership's Managing Director for Global Equality Initiatives, Fabrice Houdart. He'll be joined by panelists Maria Sjödin, Deputy Executive Director of OutRight Action International, and Graeme Reid, Director, LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.
June 30, 12pm EDT
Join the Discussion: proudlyresilient.com/event/hbos-welcome-to-chechnya-film-discussion/
Spotlighting LGBTQ+ nonprofit: The Human Dignity Trust, the only organization working globally to support strategic litigation to challenge laws that persecute people on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
While the LGBTQ+ movement looks forward to a world without homophobia and transphobia, it too often fails to look inside itself at the racial biases that people of color face in the cis-straight world. When we fail to address and confront racism, we fail the most vulnerable among us.
In partnership with Out Leadership’s #ProudlyResilient programming, Bloomberg LP is excited to host a conversation with leaders and activists around advocacy and the intersection of queer identity and race. #Bloomberg
Racism within the LGBTQ+ Community
June 29 at 11am EST
Speakers include:
• Jim Ellis, Assistant Managing Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
• Gonzalo Casals, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
• Fred Davie, Executive Vice President & Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
• Victoria M. Rodríguez-Roldán, Trans/Gender Non-Conforming Justice Project Director, National LGBTQ Task Force
• Nicole E. Cozier, Senior Vice President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
Register here: proudlyresilient.com/event/bloomberg-member-spotlight/
TONIGHT! Wayne Brady joins the already star-studded lineup of Kinky Boots on Broadway cast members taking part in #ProudlyResilient by Out Leadership's Special Kinky Boots event!
Saturday, June 27 at 6pm EDT/New York | 11pm BST/London
Wayne Brady took over for Billy Porter (also part of tonight’s show!) as the second actor to play the character Lola in the smash Broadway hit, #KinkyBoots.
Others joining us this evening include Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, Lena Hall, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Kyle Taylor Parker, Callum Francis, and J Harrison Ghee Plus, Kinky Boots Choreographer & Creator, Jerry Mitchell.
This #pride2020 event is spotlighting nonprofit, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS! Registration & donation info at: proudlyresilient.com/event/kinky-boots
Out Leadership member firm P&G is teaming up with iHeartRadio tonight for #CantCancelPride: Helping LGBTQ+ People in Need’ -- a virtual relief benefit designed to help raise visibility and funds for LGBTQ+ communities most impacted by COVID-19. At its heart, this program is about bringing the community together at a time when we may feel more separated than ever.
Help #ProcterGamble as it pushed forward to distribute $5 million dollars in financial support to 6 LGBTQ+ organizations: National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), GLAAD, SAGE, CenterLink: The Community of LGBT Centers, and OutRight Action International.
Donate at: www.cantcancelpride.com/
And for more on P&G’s LGBTQ+ perspective and commitment to advancing equality for all, visit PG.com/LGBTQvisibility
A #ProudlyResilient by Out Leadership event, Presented by Out Leadership member firm RBC Capital Markets --
RBC Capital Markets & Out Leadership bring you a program focused on mental health and well-being in this new working from home world. Dr. Rob Archer, Psychologist and UK Director of Cognacity, will provide a short curriculum around how to focus on a better you in the virtual world.
June 26 at 12pm EDT/New York | 5pm BST/London
We invite you to join us! Register to attend: proudlyresilient.com/event/member-spotlight-rbc-capital-markets/
Event nonprofit spotlight: Ackerman Institute for the Family's Gender and Family Project, empowering youth, families, and communities with gender affirming services, training, and research.
“If your networks are all just like you, you are not going to get a diverse board.” -Linda Akutagawa, @LEAPuncaptalent
How to recruit diverse leadership talent.
#OutLeadership's #QUORUM, sponsored by @KPMG
Made possible in part by @ShearmanLaw & @Ogilvy https://t.co/zwfuHa2GAT
#OutLeadership Founder & CEO @ToddSears says allies, people part of the dominant culture but open to & accepting of minority groups, need to make clear that they are supportive.
Just how #LGBTQ people come out, allies have to come out too! #allyship @wwd https://t.co/f5rxLmWuUu
Diversity of race, sexuality & background is essential in the development of venture-backed boards. More in this diversity & success conversation.
#QUORUM by #OutLeadership, sponsored globally by @KPMG
Made possible in part by @reedsmithllp & @KKR_Co https://t.co/96LdIYstdA
AIDS & Gay Rights Activist @peterstaley spoke w/ @toddsears on how AIDS activism transformed into #BlackLivesMatters activism.
#ProudlyResilient by #OutLeadership was made possible in part by @reedsmithllp, @Barclays & @DowNewsroom.
#BLM #LGBTQ #activism https://t.co/SPbb7QTLUV
“Do I have concerns because I believe there are concerns for the company? Or do I have concerns because it is not the way I would run the company?” -Susan Angele, @KPMG
Made possible in part by @gibsondunn & @Schroders
#QUORUM #KPMG #OutLeadership #LGBTQ https://t.co/96LdIYstdA
Less than 20 openly #LGBTQ+ directors (0.3%) serve on Fortune 500 corporate boards. Learn why #diversity on board governance is so essential.
#QUORUM by #OutLeadership, sponsored globally by @KPMG
Made possible in part by @MorganLewisLaw & @EquitableFin https://t.co/96LdIYstdA