Friday, 16 December 2022 As part of its contribution to the 5-year Free to Be Me (F2BM) Project that aims to improve the lives of LGBTIQ+ people in 14 global south countries, Workplace Pride recently organised the first Socio-Economic Roundtable in Africa. This event, which was held at the residence…
15 December 2022 The concept of “Purple Friday” was inspired by Spirit Day in the United States, which was first held in 2010 as an expression against bullying of LGBTIQ+ youth. It is a day that calls for solidarity, focusing primarily on the LGBTIQ+ community youth and, in particular, educational…
Wednesday, 7 December 2022 As we approach the end of 2023, Workplace Pride can look back at another year full of challenges and achievements. To provide our members a good overview of this year’s events, we held our Annual Members Meeting on Thursday, December 1st. The meeting was hosted by…
Trans activists come in many forms. To dig a bit deeper into this topic the Trans+ Community at Workplace Pride organised a cross-generational talk on November 17th at the Foundation’s offices in Amsterdam. This event, which all Workplace Pride members were invited to, highlighted the experiences of two leading activists…
Workplace Pride’s second Member Exchange Session was held on November 8, 2022, on the topic of Embedding Leadership Support. Thank you to our two presenters, Jose Nava from Unilever and Ronald Niewenhuis from KPN, for sharing some great insights, to the Workplace Pride Relationship Managers for organizing, and to our…
Now that the Monkey Pox infection rate is going down in many countries including the Netherlands, it is a good moment to reflect on the implications and lessons learned for the workplace from this particular virus. In this article in the management magazine MT/Sprout Dr. Kai…
What an energising evening last Friday night at the Workplace Pride Leadership Awards Gala! Close to 400 of the Foundation’s members came to celebrate a year full of hard work and progress towards creating workplaces around the world where LGBTIQ+ can truly be themselves. Held at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange…
Congratulations go to all of those organisations that have committed a great deal of time and effort into completing the Workplace Pride 2022 LGBTIQ+ Global Benchmark survey. Their work is a good indication of how organisations are more and more taking societal changes into account in their daily business…
The groundbreaking conference entitled “The Future is Now: Workplace Inclusion in Japan” took place on Friday, September 30th, 2022 at the Accenture Innovation Hub Tokyo. This filled-to-capacity event was attended by enthusiastic members of the business community, government, and civil society. The evening before, The Embassy of the Kingdom…
Today is “Coming Out Day”, but ‘ How proud can we be? For the LGBT+ community around the, world this is both a symbolic and meaningful day in which we reflect on the many struggles that we have all experienced. But as we plan for how we can make “coming…
