12 January 2022Dear Workplace Pride members and friends,First of all, let me wish you all a great start to the new year. 2021 was a huge challenge for most of us with uncertainty surrounding the pandemic impacting every element of our lives and work. Despite this, Workplace Pride was able to make…
16 December 2021Workplace Pride began 2021 by expanding our LGBTI acronym to LGBTIQ+ to embolden inclusion.To explore this and especially dig deeper around the “Q+” part, Workplace Pride held a webinar with Ali Buck of the Young@Workplace Pride program, Fred Benedosso from ASML, and Joel Bedos of IDAHOT and the SOGI…
22 November 2021Every year, the Tech@WorkplacePride programme organises an event from a different city in the Netherlands. This year’s Tech@Workplace Pride online (formerly hybrid) event was streamed from Brainport Eindhoven, on the campus of the Eindhoven University of Technology on the 18th of November.The guiding theme of this 2021 edition…
15 November 2021Press release courtesy of KLMKLM signed Workplace Pride’s Declaration of Amsterdam on Friday, 12 November. With the signing of this document, KLM commits to developing a working environment where openness and equality are fundamental and where there is an explicit awareness of diversity, inclusion and the LGBTIQ+ community.
Inspiration through solid leadership and acknowledging true LGBTIQ+ leaders2021 has seen a pandemic-weary world slowly re-open and it’s clear that things have changed.Last year saw cultures and societies straining under the pressure. Yet, despite all the obstacles, people soldiered on while leading the way for broader inclusion for LGBTIQ+ people…
Results of the 2021 Global Benchmark were celebrated at the Leadership Awards Gala on October 29. Read more about the 2021 top-scoring organizations, score trending, overall highlights and areas of focus in the official report here.Download our 2021 Global Benchmark Results here: 2021 Global Benchmark Analysis & Results To see…
Tickets are still available, get yours now!REGISTER HEREWorkplace Pride is pleased to announce the top nominees per category for our 2021 Leadership Awards Gala.The winners of the 5 categories, as well as the top-scoring organizations in the 2021…
NCOD was inaugurated in 1988 by Robert Eichberg and Jean O’Leary. Eichberg, who died in 1995 of complications from AIDS, was a psychologist from New Mexico and the founder of the personal growth workshop “The Experience”. O’Leary was an openly …
A 2018 study from Out Now Global found that 41% of LGBTQI+ 18-25-year-olds returned to the closet when starting their first job. Women aged 18-35 report being ‘out to all’ at work 29% of the time while men in the same age range are out 44% of the time.
Workplace Inclusion Day August 18th was kicked off with an empowering speech by the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium, Petra de Sutter, herself a member of the LGBTIQ+ community. With a keynote entitled “LGBTIQ Workplace Inclusion from the State level”, it really was a passionate call to action.From Left to…
