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Los AngeLes Convention Center • oCtober 5–8, 2010 • Presented by deLoitte And HewLett-PACkArd<br />
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the summit<br />
TuESDay, OcTOBEr 5<br />
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast Petree Hall-D<br />
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Leadership Seminars 500 series rooms<br />
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch Petree Hall-D<br />
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm Leadership Seminars (cont.) 500 series rooms<br />
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Welcome Reception JW Marriott LA lobby<br />
WEDnESDay, OcTOBEr 6<br />
8:30 am – 10:30 am Breakfast & Opening Plenary West Hall-B<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Session 1 400-500 series rooms<br />
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Human Resources Luncheon Petree Hall-C<br />
Women’s Leadership Luncheon Petree Hall-D<br />
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Session 2 (Extended) 400-500 series rooms<br />
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Night <strong>Out</strong>! Events:<br />
Regional Affiliate Reception Lucky Strike LA Live<br />
Lucky Strike Bowl Lucky Strike LA Live<br />
Frameline films at the JW Marriott Platinum Ballroom<br />
Frameline films at the Westin Bonaventure Santa Barbara Room<br />
ThurSDay, OcTOBEr 7<br />
8:30 am – 10:30 am Breakfast & Plenary II West Hall-B<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Session 3 400-500 series rooms<br />
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Regional Affiliate Luncheon Petree Hall-D<br />
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm Session 4 (Extended) 400-500 series rooms<br />
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Workplace Awards Reception West Hall-A<br />
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Awards Dinner West Hall-B<br />
FriDay, OcTOBEr 8<br />
9:00 am – 10:30 am Session 5 400-500 series rooms<br />
The Business Case for Marriage <strong>Equal</strong>ity Breakfast Petree Hall-C<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Session 6 400-500 series rooms<br />
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Lunch & Closing Plenary West Hall-B<br />
ExhiBiT haLL<br />
Wednesday, October 6 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm<br />
Thursday, October 7 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm<br />
rEGiSTraTiOn<br />
at a glance<br />
Tuesday, October 5 7:00 am – 6:00 pm<br />
Wednesday, October 6 7:00 am – 5:00 pm<br />
Thursday, October 7 7:00 am – 8:00 pm<br />
Friday, October 8 8:00 am – 10:00 am
2010 <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit Sponsors<br />
Presenting<br />
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Gold
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Advocate<br />
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,<br />
national origin, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.<br />
As used in this document, “Deloitte” means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/<br />
about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.<br />
Copyright © 2010 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.<br />
Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu<br />
Your first goal was to be<br />
judged on your contributions,<br />
not your gender, skin color,<br />
sexual orientation, or<br />
background<br />
So, what’s your next goal?<br />
At Deloitte, our stance is simple: If you can do the job well, you should be on our team.<br />
For us, getting the job done means attracting the best talent from all walks of life.<br />
That’s why we:<br />
• Are one of DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity<br />
• Earned a Top 10 spot on Working Mother magazine’s 2009 100 Best Companies list and<br />
were inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2008<br />
• Earned a Top 5 spot on Working Mother magazine’s Best Companies for<br />
Multicultural Women in 2010, and have been on this list for five consecutive years<br />
• Received a 100% rating in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index<br />
We know that you’ve always wanted a workplace where you would be judged on your<br />
ideas; the question now is — what will you do with it?<br />
www.deloitte.com
Welcome<br />
to the 2010<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace<br />
Summit!<br />
contents<br />
Your Summit program book has been divided into daily sections,<br />
where you will find information—including daily schedules, plenary<br />
speaker biographies, featured panel speaker biographies and workshop<br />
descriptions—for your convenience.<br />
While featured panels and workshops are open to all registered Summit<br />
participants, many workshops are targeted to specific audiences<br />
and their complexity will depend on the topic being discussed.<br />
Welcome letters .................................................................................................... 8<br />
About <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> ..............................................................................................16<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> board of directors and staff ...................................................... 17<br />
About the Summit ...............................................................................................20<br />
Los Angeles, Convention Center and area maps ......................................22<br />
Tuesday program................................................................................................29<br />
Wednesday program .........................................................................................35<br />
Night <strong>Out</strong>! events .......................................................................................60<br />
Thursday program ..............................................................................................63<br />
Workplace Awards reception and dinner ............................................84<br />
Friday program ....................................................................................................89<br />
A to Z presenter biographies .........................................................................107<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> programs .....................................................................................203<br />
Day-by-day program schedule ..................................................................... 214<br />
Special thanks to Xerox for printing the 2010<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit program book<br />
<strong>Book</strong> design and production: William Salit Design wmsalitdesign.com<br />
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HP. Proud Sponsor of the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
We are proud to sponsor the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Advocates Summit and support<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> in championing equitable workplaces for all<br />
At Paul Hastings, diversity is much more than a policy or statement — it is who we are and how we do<br />
business. A diverse and inclusive environment is an integral part of our firm’s culture and business growth.<br />
It is our commitment to this core value that helps drive the success of our clients and our firm. To learn<br />
more, please visit us at www.paulhastings.com.<br />
18 Offices Worldwide | Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP | www.paulhastings.com
8 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
From the founding executive director<br />
Welcome to Los Angeles and the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit!<br />
For more than a decade, this gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual and<br />
transgender employees and allies—executives and employee resource<br />
group leaders, workplace experts and advocates, human resources professionals<br />
and good friends—has been the highlight of my year. Together,<br />
we have built this Summit from several hundred committed attendees<br />
with a vision, to several thousand dedicated colleagues who are literally<br />
changing workplaces for millions of employees around the world.<br />
The work that we do at the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit—from<br />
sharing innovative practices at over 140 workshops and featured<br />
events to celebrating the leaders among us at our annual Workplace<br />
Excellence awards dinner—is the catalyst for shaping the future of<br />
LGBT workplace equality. Thanks to the work that you are doing every<br />
day, corporate workplaces continue to move toward LGBT equality well<br />
ahead of legislative efforts. In these great times of change, the federal<br />
government needs to hear from all of us that eliminating all forms<br />
of discrimination for LGBT employees and families is important to a<br />
thriving business environment. Our efforts are more important than ever<br />
if we hope to continue to see meaningful progress toward extending<br />
our achievements to more employees in this country and beyond.<br />
This Summit would not be possible without hundreds of volunteer<br />
workshop presenters and panelists who readily share their expertise to<br />
make our time here so valuable. Thank you! We are indebted to each<br />
of our many sponsors, in particular our 2010 presenting sponsors Deloitte<br />
and Hewlett-Packard. Please visit the Exhibit Hall and let all of our<br />
sponsors know how much we appreciate them—and support the goods<br />
and services they provide once you return home.<br />
This year’s Summit contains more opportunities than ever to learn<br />
what is possible in becoming employers of choice for all, and by<br />
being organizations that make a difference in the community at large.<br />
I encourage each of you to be an eager participant during your time<br />
here. Network, share, learn, and commit yourself to create more<br />
workplaces where everyone can truly be out and equal.<br />
Selisse Berry<br />
Founding Executive Director
From the president of the board of directors<br />
I am excited to welcome you to the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit here in Los Angeles—my second Summit as board president.<br />
I am once again amazed this year by the tremendous amount of work<br />
required to produce this incredible event. A huge thank you to everyone<br />
involved—our generous sponsors, the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> staff, my<br />
colleagues on the board of directors, and the many volunteers who<br />
contribute their labor, ideas, and energy toward making the Summit<br />
a success. I am equally grateful for the dedicated efforts of everyone<br />
here who makes a difference for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender<br />
employees, their friends, and families every single day they go to<br />
work as their true selves.<br />
And there are many of us! We are expecting well over 2,000 attendees<br />
this year! I know that for a large number of you, this Summit will be a<br />
wonderful reunion. For more of you, it will be your first opportunity to<br />
experience the potential impact that we can make as a community<br />
working toward full equality. Get ready for something truly wonderful.<br />
I am proud to know that this year’s Workplace Summit experience—<br />
like that of years past—will result in people changing workplaces: for<br />
themselves, for those not able to be here this week, for my children’s<br />
generation of employees yet to come. This is the work of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>.<br />
I urge you to make the most of your time with us in the City of Angels.<br />
We have much good work ahead of us.<br />
Kayla Shell<br />
President, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Board of Directors<br />
Legal Director, Global & Corporate Accounts, Dell<br />
welcome!<br />
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Intuit Pride<br />
Be proud<br />
At Intuit, we believe diverse teams foster inclusion and innovation.<br />
Employee networks are just one way we turn our commitment to<br />
diversity and inclusion into action. Through our networks, we develop leaders,<br />
build community, and inspire positive change.<br />
Like all of our employee networks, Intuit Pride is driven by passionate people with<br />
common interests and a desire to contribute to a better world. We are inspired to<br />
celebrate our differences and discover our commonalities. We are empowered to<br />
innovate, connect and grow together.<br />
Join us and be proud of the impact you have on the world.<br />
Learn more<br />
and apply online at<br />
www.intuitcareers.com<br />
Be yourself. Be Intuit.<br />
Intuit is the maker of great products like TurboTax, Quicken, Quick<strong>Book</strong>s and Mint.com. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
It’s our differences that make us stronger.<br />
At Xerox, diversity is more than a goal, it’s a way of life. From the mailroom to the boardroom, you’ll find a rich diversity<br />
of people with different ways of thinking and seeing the world. Why are we so committed to an inclusive corporate culture?<br />
Because it is the right thing to do. But more than this, in a business whose lifeblood is fresh ideas, we believe a variety of<br />
perspectives is critical to our success.<br />
Proud sponsor of 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
1-800-ASK-XEROX<br />
xerox.com<br />
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October 5, 2010<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
On behalf of the City of Los Angeles, it is my pleasure to welcome and<br />
congratulate all members, supporters, and guests attending the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit.<br />
I am pleased to join with the members of our community to recognize <strong>Out</strong> &<br />
<strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates for their strong commitment to defending the rights<br />
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to work in a safe and<br />
equitable environment. I applaud your efforts to develop the next generation of<br />
global business leaders within the professional and LGBT community.<br />
As a historically active supporter for LGBT civil rights and one of the most diverse<br />
cities in the world, the City of Los Angeles is proud to host this year’s summit. On<br />
May 22, 2010, our city commemorated the first annual Harvey Milk Day in<br />
California, honoring his unwavering commitment to LGBT equality, education,<br />
affordable housing and public transportation. I look forward to continue<br />
collaborating with the LGBT community to promote equality for all in the work<br />
place.<br />
I extend my best wishes for a memorable and productive event.<br />
ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA<br />
Mayor<br />
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WE’RE PROUD OF OUR DIFFERENCES. ALL 120,000 OF THEM.<br />
Commissioning a new aircraft carrier. Launching a space telescope. Building the IT infrastructure of tomorrow.<br />
Success stories like these are why Northrop Grumman is a leader in global security.<br />
At Northrop Grumman, more than 120,000 people work on projects that stretch the boundaries of possibility on land, in<br />
the air, at sea and deep into space. That demands a workforce as diverse as its workload. Smart people from all walks of<br />
life contribute countless unique perspectives every day. We’re proud to offer a workplace where each of them can shine.<br />
Achievement never ends.<br />
For all current engineering and other opportunities,<br />
please visit our website:<br />
careers.northropgrumman.com<br />
©2010 Northrop Grumman Corporation. Northrop Grumman is an <strong>Equal</strong> Opportunity Employer committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
Let the real you<br />
ring true<br />
Boyfriend. Girlfriend. Partner. Significant other. Spouse. Father. Mother.<br />
Sister. Brother. Aunt. Uncle. Family. Gay. Lesbian. Bisexual. Transgender.<br />
Straight. You.<br />
At Dell, we want you to bring your whole self to work.<br />
Dell is committed to a truly inclusive environment that reflects the full<br />
range of diversity in the global marketplace. When our employees can be<br />
open about their sexual orientation or gender identity, they bring uniquely<br />
authentic and valuable perspectives to their work.<br />
To hear more about Dell’s efforts to be a responsible corporate<br />
citizen and our commitment to diversity and inclusion, visit<br />
www.dell.com/corporateresponsibility.<br />
Dell is an AA/EO employer. Workforce diversity is an essential part of Dell’s commitment to quality and to the future. We<br />
encourage you to apply, whatever your race, gender, gender identity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital<br />
status, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
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wellsfargo.com/lgbt<br />
Community is important. It becomes your family, your friends and your home.<br />
That’s why Wells Fargo is committed to working with communities to support their<br />
fi nancial stability and growth. In fact, we have made signifi cant contributions to LGBT<br />
organizations over the past 20 years and encourage our team members to volunteer.<br />
When communities prosper, we all succeed.<br />
We proudly celebrate the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
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ABOUT<br />
DAY2<br />
the Summit<br />
The Organization<br />
Our mission<br />
Our vision<br />
Our board<br />
of directors<br />
Our staff<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
Founded by Executive Director<br />
Selisse Berry, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates is the nation’s<br />
premier nonprofit organization<br />
dedicated to achieving workplaces<br />
where full equality extends to<br />
people of all sexual orientations<br />
and gender identities. For more<br />
than a decade, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> has<br />
been working with organizations<br />
to create places of employment<br />
whose cultures embrace the contributions<br />
of lesbian, gay, bisexual<br />
and transgender employees and<br />
those who support them.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> provides widely<br />
recognized value to individuals<br />
and organizations through a<br />
range of programs designed<br />
to educate and empower,<br />
including our Building Bridges,<br />
LGBT Diversity Training and<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> University webinar<br />
series. <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> mobilizes<br />
tens of thousands of professional<br />
staff, managers and executives<br />
in <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> regional affiliate<br />
networks and our Employee<br />
Resource Group Registry.<br />
Through LGBTCareerLink, an<br />
online job search and career<br />
development portal, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
serves diversity-friendly employers<br />
and LGBT job seekers.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> has earned<br />
the trust and respect of LGBT<br />
employees and employers for<br />
producing the best attended,<br />
most informative, and most<br />
inspiring summit on LBGT workplace<br />
issues and our annual<br />
Executive Forum.<br />
Our mission<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> educates and<br />
empowers organizations, human<br />
resources professionals, employee<br />
resource groups and individual<br />
employees through programs<br />
and services that result in equal<br />
policies, opportunities, practices<br />
and benefits in the workplace,<br />
regardless of sexual orientation,<br />
gender identity, expression or<br />
characteristics.<br />
Our vision<br />
Our vision is workplace equality<br />
for all, regardless of sexual<br />
orientation, gender identity,<br />
expression or characteristics.<br />
Learn more about <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
and its programs in the “<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> programs” section.
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Board of Directors<br />
President<br />
Kayla Shell, Dell<br />
Directors<br />
Vice President<br />
Steve Sears, WGBH<br />
Mike Feldman<br />
Hewlett-Packard<br />
Company<br />
Rita Lane<br />
Apple<br />
Kyle Spainhour<br />
Motorola<br />
Secretary<br />
Eleanor Mercado,<br />
Paul Hastings<br />
Michael Guest<br />
Council for<br />
Global <strong>Equal</strong>ity<br />
Charles Lickel<br />
IBM<br />
Megan Wallent<br />
Microsoft<br />
board<br />
Treasurer<br />
Tom Johnson, Clorox<br />
Julie Hogan<br />
Xerox<br />
Christine Smith<br />
Deloitte<br />
Angie Wilson<br />
Ernst & Young<br />
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Work together. Make a difference.<br />
Citi is a proud sponsor of the<br />
2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> champions safe and<br />
equitable workplaces for lesbian,<br />
gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)<br />
people.<br />
We commend their efforts and thank<br />
them for helping to make the world a<br />
better place.<br />
© 2009 Citigroup Inc. Citi and Arc Design is a registered service mark of Citigroup Inc. Citi never sleeps is a registered service mark of Citigroup Inc.
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates Staff<br />
Selisse Berry<br />
Founding Executive<br />
Director<br />
J. Kevin Jones<br />
Deputy<br />
Director<br />
Sherrie Holmes<br />
Director of<br />
Development<br />
Beatriz Rincón<br />
Director of Finance &<br />
Operations<br />
Patricia Baillie<br />
Associate Director of<br />
Training & Professional<br />
Development<br />
Anthony Bannon<br />
Associate Director of<br />
Summit & Events<br />
Julie Beach<br />
Associate Director of<br />
Career Development<br />
Resources<br />
Stephen Gould<br />
Associate Director of<br />
NETWORKS!<br />
Pamela Berkowitz<br />
Operations<br />
Manager<br />
Dave Bueché<br />
Senior Manager,<br />
Development &<br />
Communications<br />
George Cabral<br />
Executive<br />
Assistant<br />
Stanley Ellicott<br />
Communications<br />
Project Manager<br />
staff<br />
Dani Siragusa<br />
Events<br />
Manager<br />
Luis Vera<br />
Corporate Accounts<br />
Manager<br />
Angela Wilson<br />
Senior <strong>Program</strong><br />
Associate<br />
Caitlin McCaugherty, Summit Intern, Jacob Goldstein, Summit<br />
Intern, Amanda Keating, Marketing & Communications Intern,<br />
Eric Ho, Intern, and Damaye Williams, Graduate Fellow<br />
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ABOUT<br />
DAY2<br />
the Summit<br />
About the<br />
Summit<br />
Summit details<br />
Grounds map<br />
Area map<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit is the world’s premier<br />
conference on lesbian, gay,<br />
bisexual and transgender workplace<br />
equality, providing a unique<br />
opportunity to build alliances,<br />
share ideas and take actions that<br />
foster safe and equitable work<br />
environments for everyone.<br />
Summit goals<br />
The purpose of the Summit is to<br />
bring together LGBT employees,<br />
human resources and diversity<br />
professionals, employee resource<br />
group leaders, executives and organizational<br />
leaders, allies and others<br />
who are working toward creating<br />
safe and equitable work environments<br />
for LGBT people everywhere.<br />
Specific goals in 2010<br />
The 2010 Summit workshops<br />
and programs share the goal of<br />
addressing the evolving learning<br />
needs of our participants, from<br />
basic skills necessary to understanding<br />
the LGBT experience to<br />
advanced specialized topics.<br />
Summit workshop<br />
committee<br />
The 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit offers more than 120 educational<br />
and powerful workshops.<br />
The workshops were selected by<br />
a committee of devoted volunteers,<br />
who were intent on providing<br />
Summit attendees with the best<br />
experience yet. Workshop committee<br />
members are:<br />
Stewart Anderson<br />
Hewlett-Packard<br />
Chris Crespo<br />
Ernst & Young LLP<br />
Lori Fox<br />
Lori Fox Diversity Consulting<br />
Bill Hendrix<br />
Dow Chemical<br />
Ken Martin<br />
Sara Lee Corporation<br />
Molly McGovern<br />
Alcoa<br />
Linda Ocasio<br />
GE Capital<br />
Roberta Park<br />
State Farm Insurance<br />
Sylvia H. Ramos<br />
Emory University<br />
Michelle Smith<br />
The Boeing Company<br />
Moonhawk River Stone<br />
M.S., LMHC, RiverStone Consulting<br />
Emma Vosicky<br />
Attorney
Registration hours<br />
Registration for the Summit and<br />
specific events will be open:<br />
Tuesday, October 5:<br />
7:00 am to 6:00 pm<br />
Wednesday, October 6:<br />
7:00 am to 5:00 pm<br />
Thursday, October 7:<br />
7:00 am to 8:00 pm<br />
Friday, October, 8:<br />
8:00 am to 10:00 am<br />
Exhibit hall information<br />
This year’s exhibit hall will feature<br />
numerous businesses dedicated<br />
to workplace equality. Visit their<br />
booths for more information.<br />
The exhibit hall is open:<br />
Wednesday, October 6:<br />
12:00 pm to 6:00 pm<br />
Thursday, October 7:<br />
12:00 pm to 7:30 pm<br />
Badges<br />
Your name badge serves as your<br />
entrance into plenaries, workshops,<br />
panels and the exhibit<br />
hall. It must be worn at all times<br />
and must be visible. If your badge<br />
is not visible, conference staff or<br />
monitors may ask to see it before<br />
allowing you into conference<br />
events.<br />
Dress code<br />
Casual office wear is appropriate<br />
for much of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit. Many attendees<br />
wear shirts with their<br />
company logos and we invite<br />
you to show your team spirit. We<br />
the summit<br />
also have <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> merchandise<br />
available at our store in the<br />
exhibit hall.<br />
Seating capacity<br />
Rooms may be crowded and<br />
space may run out at popular<br />
events. For the featured panels<br />
and concurrent workshops,<br />
seating is first-come, first-served.<br />
Once a session room is full, the<br />
session will be closed to attendees.<br />
Standing will not be allowed.<br />
Email and business<br />
services The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Cyber Station<br />
Technology is<br />
provided by Dell,<br />
a Gold Level Sponsor, with free<br />
Internet access on a first-come,<br />
first-served basis during Exhibit<br />
Hall hours.<br />
Business center<br />
The Los Angeles Convention<br />
Center is especially friendly<br />
to business travelers with its<br />
Convention Center Self-Service<br />
Business Center. This conveniently<br />
located business center<br />
provides computer, Internet, copy<br />
and printing services. Prices are<br />
available at the business center.<br />
Cell phones and<br />
electronics<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> recognizes that<br />
Summit participants may need to<br />
take work-related or family calls<br />
while they are taking part in the<br />
week’s events, but we ask that<br />
you silence your cell phones and<br />
other communication devices<br />
during workshops, plenaries and<br />
other educational forums. If you<br />
must take a call, please leave the<br />
room before answering it.<br />
Photography<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> respects that some<br />
Summit participants value their<br />
privacy and do not wish to have<br />
their photographs taken. Participants<br />
with a black dot on their<br />
credential have asked not to be<br />
photographed during the Summit.<br />
Please respect their requests.<br />
Please be aware that unless<br />
you clearly express your desire<br />
not to be photographed and<br />
avoid cameras when they<br />
appear, your image may appear<br />
in press coverage or be used for<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> promotional material.<br />
Emergencies<br />
The Los Angeles Convention<br />
Center staff is prepared and<br />
trained to deal with most emergencies.<br />
Please notify a Summit<br />
staff member if an emergency<br />
needs addressing. In serious<br />
medical situations, please call<br />
911 and then notify a Summit staff<br />
member.<br />
Contact <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> staff<br />
There are hundreds of Summit<br />
volunteers available throughout<br />
the event to answer your questions.<br />
If a volunteer is unable to<br />
answer your questions, please<br />
call 415-694-6500.<br />
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ABOUT<br />
the Summit<br />
While in downtown Los Angeles, check out:<br />
LA Live, adjacent to the Convention Center, is an<br />
entertainment complex featuring several restaurants<br />
and bars, a music venue, a bowling alley and the<br />
Grammy Museum.<br />
Other nearby museums are: The Museum of<br />
Contemporary Art (250 S. Grand Avenue),<br />
the Japanese American National Museum<br />
(369 E. First Street), and the Natural History<br />
Museum (900 Exposition Boulevard).<br />
For cultural and historical neighborhoods visit<br />
Olvera Street, Chinatown or Little Tokyo. Maybe<br />
you just want to see a live performance at the iconic<br />
Walt Disney Music Hall (111 S. Grand Avenue).<br />
Restaurants and Bars:<br />
LA Live offers several options, from simple fare to<br />
upscale dining. Additional upscale dining in the area<br />
includes Morton’s The Steakhouse<br />
(735 S. Figueroa Street),<br />
and seafood at McCormick and<br />
Schmick’s (400 S. Hope Street).<br />
Some local favorites are<br />
Engine Co. No. 28 (644 South<br />
Figueroa Street), Phillipe the Original,<br />
where the French Dip sandwich<br />
originated (1001 N. Alameda<br />
Street), Cole’s Pacific Electric Buffet<br />
(118 E. 6th Street) and Bottega<br />
Louie (700 S. Grand Avenue). You<br />
may wish to try street food on Olvera<br />
Street or Mandarin & Szechuan<br />
at Yang Chow (819 N. Broadway)<br />
while visiting Chinatown. For<br />
a post-Summit drink downtown,<br />
try Standard Hotel’s Rooftop Bar<br />
(550 S. Flower Street), The Library<br />
Bar (630 W. Sixth Street), and The<br />
Edison (108 W. 2nd Street).<br />
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Sightseeing in the greater L.A. area<br />
So many choices, so little time. Head to Hollywood<br />
to see the Walk of Fame, The Hollywood Wax<br />
Museum and Grauman’s Chinese Theater. If you<br />
enjoy the beach and a funky atmosphere, go to<br />
Santa Monica for the pier and to shop/eat on the<br />
Third Street Promenade, or try Venice Beach for a<br />
walk along the beach you won’t soon forget.<br />
For a couple more museums, check out Griffith<br />
Observatory, the Los Angeles County Museum of<br />
Art, or the famous Getty Museum, which overlooks<br />
the city.<br />
If you must do a little shopping at some of L.A.’s<br />
premier hot spots, there’s The Grove, The Americana<br />
and the famous Rodeo Drive (in Beverly Hills).<br />
If amusement and theme parks are for you, please<br />
go to Universal Studios, Disneyland, Knott’s Berry<br />
Farm or Six Flags Magic Mountain.<br />
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Restaurants<br />
and Entertainment<br />
Nokia<br />
Plaza<br />
GRAMMY<br />
Museum<br />
ESPN<br />
ESPN Zone<br />
Figueroa St.
Life<br />
Inspired.<br />
Genentech is a proud sponsor of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
For more than 30 years, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry, using human<br />
genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Now a wholly<br />
owned member of the Roche Group, Genentech has multiple therapies on the market for cancer and<br />
other serious illnesses.<br />
Our employees cite the chance to make a difference in the lives of patients as the number one reason<br />
they enjoy working at Genentech. In hiring new employees, we look for people who are inspired by<br />
this mission and who would fi t in well with the collaborative, rigorous and entrepreneurial spirit of the<br />
company culture.<br />
Innovation is at the core of everything we do at Genentech. We strive to be leaders in our fi eld through<br />
our creative approaches to scientifi c study, product development, manufacturing and commercialization.<br />
To fulfi ll our mission and remain in the forefront of our industry, we must continue to build an<br />
environment of full participation that allows us to draw on the knowledge and skills of each employee. We<br />
gain invaluable resources from our employees, our partners and our patients by harnessing their diversity<br />
of thought, style, culture, skill set and perspective.<br />
These resources enable us to continually re-imagine who we are and how we do our work. They help us<br />
make discoveries, solve problems, build high performance teams and develop our leadership. It’s our<br />
people who set us apart.<br />
As we work to deliver the next generation of breakthrough medicines, we remain committed to our<br />
employees and unique culture. Genentech offers an array of family-friendly programs, highly competitive<br />
healthcare and a variety of onsite services to help employees manage the many demands on their time.<br />
To learn more about our current opportunities, please visit http://careers.gene.com. Genentech is an equal<br />
opportunity employer.<br />
What makes Genentech a great place to work?<br />
“There are tons of people here trying to answer really tough, interesting and forward-thinking questions from various<br />
viewpoints: Research, Clinical, Commercial, Managed Care. The best thing is that people will share their thoughts<br />
and expertise with you if you’re willing to learn and listen.”<br />
What does diversity mean to you?<br />
“Respecting different points of view, giving them the space to be heard and incorporating<br />
them into our work to make things better for all involved.”<br />
careers.gene.com<br />
Richard,<br />
LGBT Employee<br />
Tisbe, Patient<br />
In January 2010, Genentech<br />
was named to FORTUNE’s<br />
list of the “100 Best<br />
Companies to Work For”<br />
for the 12th consecutive year.
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Believe in who you are, and watch<br />
the community grow stronger.<br />
At Microsoft, we believe in the power of being proud<br />
of who you are. We are committed to creating an inclusive<br />
workforce that refl ects the diversity of our customers and<br />
the communities we serve. And we ensure that employees<br />
have the tools and the opportunity they need to be<br />
themselves and reach their full potential.
tuesday<br />
OCTOBER 5
8:00 am – 9:00 am<br />
Continental<br />
breakfast<br />
9:00 am – 12:00 pm<br />
Leadership<br />
seminars<br />
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm<br />
Lunch<br />
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm<br />
Leadership<br />
seminars<br />
(continued)<br />
6:00 pm – 8:00pm<br />
Welcome<br />
reception<br />
FEATURED EVENTS<br />
tuesday<br />
Attend one of six in-depth, full day seminars organized to<br />
build leadership capabilities and develop expertise important<br />
to the workplace equality movement.<br />
SpoNSoRED by MARSh & McLENNAN coMpANiES<br />
Join us at the welcome reception, where you’ll be able to reconnect with<br />
old friends and make new ones as we kick off the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit. Open to all registered Summit participants.<br />
RooM: JW Marriott Los Angeles lobby<br />
REgiSTRATioN opEN: 7:00 am – 6:00 pm<br />
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LEADERShip SEMiNARS<br />
Cultural competency/Humility for leaders<br />
Laurie b. Lippin, ph.D., Stephanie puentes<br />
The 21st century LGBT leader must understand the<br />
important intersections of race and ethnicity with sexual<br />
orientation in order to create inclusivity and strengthen<br />
his or her organization. In the service of LGBT solidarity,<br />
the cultural diversity we represent frequently is ignored<br />
or marginalized. Using a five-stage model of cultural<br />
competency, participants in this experiential workshop<br />
will examine the impact of the multiple social identities<br />
we carry and the role privilege plays within those identities.<br />
This workshop delivers a roadmap of actions to<br />
achieve the attitudinal and behavioral changes necessary<br />
for living and working together synergistically, effectively<br />
and productively in an increasingly more diverse world.<br />
Cultural competency is not a specific endpoint but a lifelong<br />
engagement and commitment that helps individuals<br />
appreciate the complexity of diverse cultural norms and<br />
work actively against the often invisible pervasiveness<br />
of majority cultural imperialism. Those who participate<br />
in this pre-Summit seminar will receive a certificate of<br />
completion at the end of the day.<br />
RooM: 502-b<br />
ERG leadership that adds value<br />
SpoNSoRED by DELL<br />
Lyne Desormeaux, Steve Salee, patrick Vitale<br />
Employee resource groups are increasingly challenged<br />
to prove their relevance and value to members, the parent<br />
organization and the community at large. To make<br />
their groups successful, ERG leaders and members must<br />
begin with self-awareness about their personal development<br />
in each of the ways they self-identify, and where<br />
they want to grow in those areas. This personal level of<br />
awareness serves as a critical foundation for understanding<br />
and further developing ERGs as well as inclusive organizations<br />
in which they can flourish. There are as many<br />
ways to achieve this value proposition as there are ERGs,<br />
and ERGs across all diverse groups can learn from one<br />
another’s experience. This full-day session is directed<br />
towards leaders of all ERGs—not only LGBT groups—and<br />
explores methods of recognizing and achieving the best<br />
of what your ERG and its members can be. Participants<br />
will come away from this seminar with processes and<br />
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tools for enhancing the value of their ERGs, and applying<br />
those practices to other ERGs across their organizations.<br />
LGBT ERG leaders are encouraged to have a peer<br />
from a non-LGBT ERG register and join them for this<br />
seminar.<br />
RooM: 515-A<br />
Implementing transgender inclusion:<br />
Comprehensive programming to ensure<br />
workplace quality<br />
Ann Dunkin, Jamison green<br />
This course is designed to expand your understanding of<br />
gender identity in the workplace. Beyond concepts and<br />
definitions, the next step is to get the latest updates and<br />
trends on the unique concerns of transgender employees,<br />
best practices on transitioning in the workplace,<br />
information on addressing benefit and health care issues<br />
and how to support inclusion of gender identity/gender<br />
expression in the workplace.<br />
RooM: 511-Abc<br />
LGBT diversity leadership Train the Trainer<br />
course<br />
Sheryl Dagang, Terry hildebrandt<br />
Have policies? Created an ERG? What’s next? Most<br />
companies want to expand the discussion around<br />
sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace<br />
and this course provides the tools. Taking the business<br />
case materials used in our national training, this course<br />
prepares employees as trainers for <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> to teach<br />
in their workplace. Certification is good for two years<br />
and includes links to the Trainer’s Network and monthly<br />
Trainer’s Forum as well as the most recent updates on<br />
LGBT workplace issues.<br />
RooM: 502-A
LEADERShip SEMiNARS<br />
LGBT Nonprofit leadership development<br />
seminar<br />
Chad Boettcher, Eric Douglas, Patricia Evert,<br />
Rashad Robinson, Dannie Tillman<br />
This full-day seminar at the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit is targeted specifically to LGBT nonprofits<br />
interested in building their media and partnership skills.<br />
The day will include a module on the 2009 Business for<br />
Change toolkit created by the Gill Foundation and Weber<br />
Shandwick that focuses on building effective partnerships<br />
between the corporate community and LGBT<br />
nonprofits. The seminar will also include a media training<br />
session, conducted by the experts at GLAAD, to assist<br />
community activists and staff of local LGBT organizations<br />
with developing media outreach campaigns to generate<br />
additional media coverage for LGBT issues in their local<br />
Raising your game at every opportunity.<br />
Just another day at the office for a high performer.<br />
At Accenture, respect for the individual<br />
is one of our core values. Join more than<br />
600 LGBT employees and straight allies in<br />
our US LGBT employee resource group and<br />
choose Accenture. You’ll enjoy a variety<br />
of opportunities and challenges that will<br />
allow you to make a difference every day.<br />
Visit accenture.com/outandequal<br />
Accenture is where you can develop your<br />
potential and grow professionally, working<br />
alongside talented colleagues. Here you can<br />
learn from our unrivalled experience, while<br />
helping our global clients achieve high<br />
performance. If this is your idea of a typical<br />
working day, then Accenture is the place to be.<br />
tuesday<br />
communities. These are invaluable skills for all nonprofit<br />
leaders in the LGBT equality movement.<br />
RooM: 515-b<br />
Regional affiliate leadership seminar<br />
Stephen gould<br />
This intensive full-day session is the annual gathering<br />
of Leadership Council members, where they can gain a<br />
deeper knowledge about the programs and direction of<br />
the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> organization as well as discuss strategy<br />
and planning for all regional affiliates. It is open to all<br />
current and entering <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership Council<br />
members, at no additional cost.<br />
RooM: Bleed 7.75”<br />
501-Abc<br />
Trim 7.5”<br />
CLEAR SPACE<br />
Accenture is a proud sponsor of the 2010<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit. We salute<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> workplace advocates for their<br />
work in promoting LGBT equality in the<br />
workplace and the community at large.<br />
Here’s to high performance at its best.<br />
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At Target, diversity is much more than a goal or campaign. It’s a core value we integrate into every area of our<br />
business — from our suppliers, to our teams, to the shopping experience in our stores. We foster an inclusive culture<br />
that allows our high-performing and diverse team to drive innovation. Target was recognized as one of DiversityInc’s<br />
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MMC is the premier global professional services firm providing advice and solutions in risk, strategy and human capital.<br />
Our business is powered by diverse people from around the world, and we embrace their different backgrounds,<br />
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wednesday<br />
OCTOBER 6
8:30 am – 10:30 am<br />
Breakfast and<br />
opening plenary<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Session 1<br />
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm<br />
Ticketed<br />
luncheons<br />
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm<br />
Session 2<br />
7:00 pm – 10:00pm<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
night out!<br />
wednesday<br />
Plenary sPeakers<br />
SpONSOREd BY HEWLETT-pAcKARd<br />
Featured events<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media on<br />
bisexual lives<br />
How we did it: LGBT Employee Resource Group of the Year finalists<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent:<br />
Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and customers<br />
SpONSOREd BY GENENTEcH<br />
LGBT demographics<br />
Human resources luncheon<br />
SpONSOREd BY iBM<br />
Featured events<br />
“prodigal Sons” screening with Kimberly Reed<br />
common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
SpONSOREd BY ciTi<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being an<br />
LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
SpONSOREd BY WELLS FARGO<br />
Kinsey Sicks<br />
Kimberly Reed<br />
Virasb Vahidi<br />
Women’s leadership luncheon: ilene chaiken and Sheila Kuehl<br />
SpONSOREd BY ERNST & YOuNG<br />
LGBT diversity in the global context<br />
Lucky Strike bowling and lounge, Regional Affiliate reception,<br />
Frameline film screenings<br />
registration oPen: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm exhibit hall oPen: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm<br />
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kimberly reed<br />
virasb vahidi<br />
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sPonsored by hewlett-PaCkard<br />
With a phenomenal performance record that includes an Off-Broadway show, an<br />
extended run in Vegas, two feature films, seven albums, and appearances throughout<br />
the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia, the Kinsey Sicks hardly need<br />
an introduction. For over 16 years America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop<br />
Quartet has served up a feast of music and comedy to audiences at performing arts<br />
centers, music venues and comedy festivals in every kind of town you can imagine,<br />
in over 40 states! Their award-winning a cappella singing, sharp satire and overthe-top<br />
drag have earned the Kinsey Sicks a diverse and devoted following.<br />
Kimberly Reed is a filmmaker living in New York City. She was named one of “25<br />
New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine, and one of “Five to<br />
Watch” by The Advocate. Reed has been awarded Fellowships at the Yaddo Artists’<br />
Community and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She directed/produced<br />
“Prodigal Sons,” which SF Weekly calls a “whiplash doc that heralds an exciting<br />
talent.” “Prodigal Sons,” a co-production with BBC Storyville and Sundance Channel,<br />
premiered at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival with a record seven screenings.<br />
The film has gone on to be shown around the world in theaters, festivals, and<br />
on television, garnering more than a dozen Jury and Audience awards, including<br />
the FIPRESCI prize. She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN,<br />
among other media outlets. Reed is a summa cum laude graduate of UC Berkeley<br />
and a Montana native.<br />
Virasb Vahidi is the chief commercial officer of American Airlines. He leads American’s<br />
planning and marketing activities including network planning, strategic alliances<br />
inclusive of American’s membership in oneworld®, corporate fleet planning, corporate<br />
real estate and revenue management, in addition to broad responsibility for<br />
the development, management, and promotion of American’s products and services,<br />
including sales and distribution, marketing and advertising, and the AAdvantage<br />
frequent flyer program. Vahidi earned a master of business administration in 1994<br />
at Paris’ Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a bachelor of science degree<br />
in applied mechanics and engineering sciences from the University of California-<br />
San Diego in 1988.
The Clorox Company<br />
Everyday People.<br />
Extraordinary Talent.<br />
We make everyday life<br />
better, every day.<br />
The Clorox Company is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer.<br />
“ I believe talent<br />
has limitless potential,<br />
and that instilling<br />
the passion to reach it<br />
is my greatest<br />
responsibility.”<br />
At The Clorox Company, our commitment to Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility is our commitment to creating a culture and environment<br />
that you can be proud to call your own. We invite you to be a part of<br />
an organization that improves the world around us by empowering<br />
you to help us make everyday life better, every day. With the unique<br />
ideas and innovation that only you can bring, we believe who you<br />
are is just as important as what you do—and we believe that makes<br />
you extraordinary.<br />
If you’re ready to show us how extraordinary you are, view our career<br />
opportunities online and reference <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> 2010.<br />
www.TheCloroxCompany.com/careers
oCtober 6<br />
WED Session 1 11:00–12:30<br />
Featured Panels<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media on bisexual lives<br />
organized by the out & equal bisexual advisory Committee<br />
amy<br />
andre<br />
heidi<br />
bruins green<br />
Bisexuality has been part of the LGBT acronym for years, but is still viewed with suspicion by many. What are the issues<br />
surrounding this little-understood population? Who are bisexuals, how many are there, and why don’t we see them at<br />
work or in our ERGs? There have been a number of stories sensationalized in the media in recent years: the 2005 New<br />
York Times article “Gay, Straight, or Lying?” for example, and the recent NCLR case defending the bisexual softball players<br />
stripped of their win for not being “gay enough.” There are always the celebrities, such as Anna Paquin, Cameron<br />
Diaz, Margaret Cho, Alan Cummings, and RuPaul, and hype surrounding bisexuality in movies like “Brokeback Mountain,”<br />
“Dodgeball,” and “Rent.” These stories have highlighted bisexuality, but none has really helped make bisexual<br />
lives comprehensible or acceptable. What impact do the media have on the experience of bisexuals in the workplace?<br />
What does research tell us about who bisexual people are? And what does understanding bisexuality mean for lesbian,<br />
gay, and straight people? A distinguished panel of scholars and authorities from the bisexual community, moderated by<br />
bisexuality researcher Heidi Bruins Green, will explore these topics and more in a lively, interactive conversation.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-b<br />
38 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
brent<br />
Chamberlain<br />
marie<br />
hartung<br />
ron<br />
owen<br />
denise<br />
Penn
Featured Panels<br />
wednesday<br />
How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the year finalists<br />
organized by out & equal networks!<br />
belinda<br />
grant-anderson<br />
Joe<br />
hoffman<br />
scott<br />
murphy<br />
reza<br />
rahaman<br />
andy<br />
smith<br />
Representatives from each of this year’s finalists will share the accomplishments that won them recognition in this<br />
year’s competition for the 2010 LGBT Employee Resource Group of the Year <strong>Out</strong>ie Award. Learn about the innovations,<br />
initiatives, and programs that defined the year’s best practices in the movement for LGBT workplace equality.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 515-a<br />
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WED Session 1 11:00–12:30<br />
Featured Panels<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent: Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA<br />
leaders and customers<br />
sPonsored by genenteCh • organized by JenniFer brown Consulting<br />
Jennifer<br />
brown<br />
marilyn<br />
nagel<br />
Jennifer Brown, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, will moderate an interactive panel discussion with<br />
senior diversity, business line, and millennial leaders on how to best engage and leverage younger generation LGBTA<br />
employees to both drive employee engagement and meet business objectives. The panel will discuss the strategies<br />
and action plans their companies have used, how they have mobilized their ERGs as a platform, and the successes<br />
and challenges faced in managing the multi-generational LGBTA workforce. The discussion will help attendees better<br />
understand and address the complex questions raised by the younger generations, such as: What does it mean to be<br />
an LGBTA leader in today’s, and tomorrow’s, organizations? What can employers accomplish by enabling the full energy<br />
and investment of this community? How does the younger generations’ sense of self, and their relationship to work,<br />
impact our strategies for building more inclusive workplaces, specifically for LGBTA talent?<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-a<br />
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elisabeth<br />
warren<br />
adam d.<br />
wasserman
Featured sPeaker<br />
LGBT demographics<br />
organized by uCla williams institute<br />
and uCla exeCutive eduCation<br />
gary J. gates<br />
Thanks in large part to the U.S. Census Bureau, we have<br />
more data about LGBT people (at least those in samesex<br />
couples) than ever before. Williams Institute Distinguished<br />
Scholar Gary Gates has analyzed this data for<br />
the past two decades to provide a portrait of the rich<br />
diversity within the LGBT community. Through his work,<br />
we know what percentage of same-sex couples are raising<br />
children, are people of color, are veterans, and live<br />
in rural areas. During this session, Dr. Gates will present<br />
the most recent demographic data about diversity within<br />
the LGBT community, and lead a discussion about how to<br />
diversify your employee resource group (ERG).<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured speaker<br />
target audienCe: all room: 411-theatre<br />
wednesday<br />
Who You<br />
Are Matters.<br />
UCLA LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL,<br />
AND TRANSGENDER<br />
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE<br />
A five month leadership journey blending online learning<br />
with three days on campus.<br />
<strong>Program</strong> Starts: April 12, 2011<br />
On-campus Session: June 6-9, 2011<br />
It takes courage to offer your unique<br />
perspective, to drive change and identify<br />
innovative ways to achieve it.<br />
Where can you learn to leverage your own unique<br />
leadership style and harvest the diverse perspectives<br />
that you bring to the table?<br />
UCLA’s groundbreaking LGBT Leadership Institute will<br />
have a tremendously positive impact on you and your<br />
organization. You will expand your horizons in these key<br />
areas:<br />
> Extraordinary leadership<br />
> Negotiating your identity in the corporate world<br />
> Effective decision making<br />
> Mentoring and networking<br />
> Bringing your “whole” self to work<br />
Supported by:<br />
Human Rights Campaign Foundation<br />
For more information contact us at 310.825.2001<br />
Innovate@UCLAExecEd.com<br />
or www.UCLAExecEd.com<br />
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WED<br />
workshoPs<br />
Beat the competition: Working together for<br />
the good of the group<br />
daniel docherty, simon Fillery, darren meader,<br />
stefano nappo, Ph.d.<br />
Members of the U.K. InterBank LGBT Forum of top investment<br />
banks will share their experience on collaborating<br />
for the benefit of all individual firm network members,<br />
and to improve life for LGBT people inside and outside<br />
network firms. This session will share know-how on the<br />
positive impact of InterBank on the LGBT community in<br />
financial services firms, in professional services and in<br />
London, and explore how U.S. companies could adapt<br />
and use the model.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 505<br />
Bling bling: How to bedazzle your LBGT<br />
recruiting event and use technology to attract<br />
diverse audiences<br />
anne evans, Jordan Freitas<br />
Looking for a way to get the most out of your LGBT<br />
recruiting event? Wonder how you can use technology to<br />
improve your diversity recruiting efforts in general? This<br />
interactive workshop will highlight new ways to transform<br />
an event into a multi-purpose affair and explore how<br />
technology can complement your overall recruiting efforts.<br />
While the main goal is to recruit top diverse talent,<br />
learn how an event and the use of social networking sites<br />
can accomplish much more. Join Ernst & Young in this<br />
engaging discussion for all the answers you’ll ever need<br />
about hosting an outstanding multi-purpose LGBT recruiting<br />
event and using technology for recruiting purposes.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 511-a<br />
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Session 1 11:00–12:30<br />
Connecting our networks for greater<br />
success—locally and beyond<br />
Chris Crespo, Paul greenall, Casey monnerjahn,<br />
greg sampedro, sarah stuart<br />
How do you connect and engage people in multiple locations,<br />
varying in size, culture and interests? Join us as we<br />
share our strategies and experiences in connecting our<br />
LGBT networks at Ernst & Young across our 90 offices. It<br />
takes more than a village as we network with our other<br />
Ernst & Young affinity groups, other companies, and<br />
organizations in our communities and beyond. Join us,<br />
along with industry and community leaders, for a presentation<br />
and panel discussion of strategies and tools that<br />
you can implement to better connect the people in your<br />
network—no matter where they sit—for results that help<br />
your members, your organization, and your overall LGBT<br />
workplace inclusion efforts.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 504<br />
Does your ERG measure up? Components of a<br />
successful employee resource group<br />
Chip newton, kaitlin Porter, mPh<br />
The ability to measure the success of an employee<br />
resource group is paramount to its continued funding<br />
and sustainability within a company. A successful ERG<br />
is one that is aligned with the priorities of the company,<br />
can measure its progress, and can show a return on<br />
investment. This presentation will discuss the tools and<br />
methods for creating the business case for your ERG,<br />
including the ability to set goals and values that tie to the<br />
company.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members, hr & diversity<br />
professionals<br />
room: 408-a
workshoPs<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT<br />
audience<br />
Jonathon aubry, angela Courtin, susan miller,<br />
lori J. Posner, hope royaltey, Judy scheer<br />
Branded entertainment is one of the fastest growing<br />
ways for marketers to reach target audiences. With multiple<br />
media platforms (print, digital, video, mobile, social,<br />
and experiential) as well as established LGBT television<br />
entities, brands are realizing opportunities to reach this<br />
audience in unique ways. Participants will learn from a<br />
panel of experts about traditional and non-traditional<br />
LGBT marketing, the creation of video content, story line<br />
integration, product placement, webisodes and sponsorships,<br />
and their impact on both LGBT visibility and the<br />
brand’s bottom line. There will be time allotted for questions<br />
from participants.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-C<br />
Everyone transitions along with an employee:<br />
Boeing’s approach to the intersection of work<br />
and situation<br />
debbie smith, michelle smith, Connie summers<br />
This workshop looks at the public nature of gender<br />
transitions and how the interactions of the transitioning<br />
employee at work, in the community, with customers,<br />
and with family influence are reflected in the workplace.<br />
We will also show how Boeing’s transgender guidelines<br />
provide an environment in which negative influences are<br />
managed to minimize both the stress on the transitioning<br />
employee and the impact on productivity.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 408-b<br />
wednesday<br />
Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em<br />
rachel beitz, larry harrington, Casey horton,<br />
kevin Janes, Frankie o’Connor, Joan Pertak, trung tieu<br />
Executive sponsors are a vital resource to employee networks<br />
as mentors, advisors, and, in the case of the LGBT<br />
networks, as highly visible champions. How do you build<br />
a good working relationship between network leaders<br />
and executive sponsors? PepsiCo, Raytheon, and Ernst &<br />
Young group leaders share their experiences in developing<br />
these relationships. Whether together for several<br />
years or only a few months, our panelists will provide<br />
best practices for establishing, maintaining, and leveraging<br />
strong sponsor-leader relationships.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members, organizational<br />
leadership (executives/management)<br />
room: 513<br />
Expanding equality in the global workplace<br />
vikram doctor, Julie dorf, stephen golden,<br />
michael guest<br />
This session will explore the concrete ways that corporations<br />
can take their values of equality in the workplace<br />
and apply them to their overseas operations. We will<br />
explore the current trends as monitored by the HRC<br />
Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index and other surveys, and we will<br />
highlight the opportunities for the business community<br />
through expansion of LGBT equality. We will also look at<br />
the real challenges that emerge outside the borders of<br />
the United States. As part of this session, we will consider<br />
a case study of India, where recent legal progress has<br />
cleared the way for corporations to expand their policies<br />
and benefits for their LGBT workers.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
room: 503<br />
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WED<br />
workshoPs<br />
Global mobility for LGBT professionals<br />
Patrick Callahan, kristofer knopp<br />
This workshop covers the fundamentals of international<br />
work assignments for LGBT professionals, highlighting<br />
the “Top 10 Things to Know” about working overseas. It<br />
will also identify challenges faced when working overseas,<br />
such as cultural differences, “coming out” to your<br />
foreign colleagues, and working virtually across borders.<br />
It will also briefly touch on notable LGBT laws around the<br />
globe. We will have a panel of LGBT professionals who<br />
have traveled overseas for business, worked on expatriate<br />
assignments, and managed international teams.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-b<br />
Homophobia in the black community:<br />
What’s up with DADT?<br />
toni battle, terrance dean<br />
Homosexuality is one of the last taboos in the black community,<br />
which largely has a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.<br />
Coming out is seen as putting “dirty laundry” out for discussion.<br />
Often, homosexuality is viewed as an attack on black<br />
culture’s very existence, even though many LGBT within the<br />
race have played dominant and pioneering roles in the civil<br />
rights movement and the birth of hip hop. Despite these<br />
obstacles, LGBT is alive and well in the black community<br />
and many are now not only coming out of the closet on their<br />
own terms, but are also the brothers and sisters, daughters<br />
and sons of those within the community who expound<br />
homophobic ideals. So let’s discuss the challenges and issues<br />
of homophobia in the black community as they relate<br />
to outreach and inclusion. What does “gay” really mean in<br />
black culture? Why does race politics sometimes dominate<br />
identity and the history of “us”? Hear from a straight black<br />
female and a gay black male about their personal journeys<br />
and their work in trying to sustain dialogue and implement<br />
change within their cultural community, sometimes at great<br />
professional or personal risks and costs.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 518<br />
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Session 1 11:00–12:30<br />
Move over CEI, the CCCP is here<br />
riley b. Folds, Jeff marootian<br />
In 2010, <strong>Out</strong> for Work began the first program designed<br />
to assess career resources for LGBT students, the Career<br />
Center Certification <strong>Program</strong> (CCCP). Its primary goal is<br />
to provide academic institutions, students, and busineses<br />
with an evaluation of the support available to LGBT<br />
students facing employment and workplace challenges.<br />
Hear the findings of the CCCP Report and learn how your<br />
college or university representatives, campus recruiters,<br />
and LGBT resource group members can benefit.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: higher education professionals<br />
room: 506<br />
Oppression and inequality: A look within<br />
Jim Price<br />
Our relationship with power and privilege affects our feelings<br />
of self and our interactions with others. Yet, many of<br />
us are not consciously aware of these forces and how we<br />
have internalized them. In this interactive workshop, we’ll<br />
explore the phenomena of internalized oppression and<br />
domination and how they relate to structural inequality,<br />
focusing on challenges in matters of race, gender, and<br />
sexual orientation. You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding<br />
of oppression and inequality, and practices you<br />
can use to grow as an individual and community member.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-C<br />
<strong>Out</strong> in the federal workplace: Strategies for<br />
LGBT consultants in the federal environment<br />
robert maitner<br />
This workshop is designed for those LGBT workers who<br />
find themselves regularly in the federal work environment.<br />
Those of us in the consulting world often find<br />
ourselves working for federal clients, such as the Department<br />
of Defense, Homeland Security, NASA, and other<br />
agencies. Often times the federal environment is not
workshoPs<br />
LGBT-friendly, and, depending on the administration,<br />
can often be considered hostile. With a federal workforce<br />
that is expansive and diverse, we can often find LGBT<br />
employees and allies. Strategies for working in the federal<br />
environment can be important to all out workers and<br />
consultants. Considerations include: determining how<br />
and when to be out in the federal workplace, locating<br />
potential internal resources on LGBT within the federal<br />
environment, and becoming active in LGBT affinity<br />
groups within the federal environment, if available.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 410<br />
Promoting diversity and making waves:<br />
Implementing ERGs that drive organizational<br />
change<br />
lisa a. linsky, todd solomon<br />
This workshop will provide participants with the information<br />
they need to successfully structure and implement<br />
an employee resource group that really works to make<br />
change within the organization. Participants with existing<br />
ERGs will be given an open forum to discuss their accomplishments<br />
and challenges in order to learn from their<br />
shared experiences and strategize on how to overcome<br />
common obstacles.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 409-b<br />
Real and relevant issues of LGBTQ members:<br />
Expanding how we define diversity training<br />
tim avant, todd murray, alex nicholson, Christina rock<br />
In 2010 the issues in the LGBT community are as diverse<br />
as the community itself. As successful corporations embrace<br />
the LGBT community it is our responsibility to educate<br />
our colleagues. This inspiring educational session<br />
will feature a variety of LGBT members who are impacted<br />
by issues that affect all of us. Hope’s Voice educates, empowers<br />
and challenges stigmas through the production<br />
and presentation of innovative lectures, events, print and<br />
wednesday<br />
media campaigns. We are driven by inspiring, relevant,<br />
real and often misunderstood stories of hope. Hope’s<br />
Voice presents a panel of perspectives from young LGBT<br />
members who have been affected by a variety of issues<br />
including HIV and the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The<br />
session will share the experiences of the LGBT panel,<br />
provide examples of ways to train your company on often<br />
difficult but relevant issues of LGBT employees, and<br />
provide the platform to brainstorm ways to reach your<br />
company with useful and life-changing education. It’s<br />
time to expand how we define diversity training.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 512<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
sheri burnham, kevin Fannin, John gatto, sandi guy,<br />
melinda haag, mike Perillo<br />
It’s challenging enough in some workplaces to be LGBT.<br />
But what happens when your straight boss hits on you<br />
or your co-workers deface your cubicle? What do you do<br />
when your ex life partner becomes your boss? Who do<br />
you turn to when you are falsely accused of harassing<br />
a straight subordinate? This workshop will help LGBT<br />
employees learn how to stand-up to sexual harassment<br />
at work, understand the laws that protect you, and help<br />
you address sexual harassment when you may not feel<br />
safe being out at work. The workshop includes role plays<br />
to test out how to respond to a harasser and a checklist<br />
of suggested steps for you to take when you are the<br />
victim of sexual harassment.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-a<br />
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WED Session 1 11:00–12:30<br />
So what do we do now? A guide to<br />
transgender workplace transition for<br />
LGBT and allies<br />
stephanie battaglino<br />
Speaking from her own experience as the first transgendered<br />
employee to transition on the job in New York Life’s<br />
165-year history, Stephanie takes you through each of the<br />
essential steps she took to successfully manage her workplace<br />
transition—within a company culture that had no prior<br />
experience with it. She discusses all aspects, from engaging<br />
co-workers as advocates, to working collaboratively with<br />
human resources, to establishing and modifying company<br />
equal opportunity and diversity policies. In addition, Stephanie<br />
covers an area that has had little exposure up to now:<br />
What happens after a trans woman fully assimilates into her<br />
workplace? What are the issues that she faces? Are they<br />
unique? How do they differ from those of genetic female<br />
colleagues? Do they at all? How does one stay focused on<br />
one’s responsibilities amidst all of the stress and euphoria?<br />
Join Stephanie in this engaging and enlightening workshop<br />
for the answers to these questions and more.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-b<br />
A tale of two mommies (and daddies too):<br />
Unique challenges faced by LGBT parents in<br />
the workplace<br />
scott ballina, trippe davis, angela m. duerden,<br />
lisa m. mazzola<br />
This panel discussion will explore the unique challenges<br />
faced by LGBT parents in the workplace. The panelists will<br />
discuss their personal experiences as out LGBT parents at<br />
work and methods they use to create a balance between<br />
work, advocacy, and family life. The discussion will focus<br />
on ways to ensure a more inclusive environment for LGBT<br />
families in the workplace and potential solutions to common<br />
issues that arise for LGBT working parents.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 507<br />
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Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting<br />
our phobias and “isms”<br />
stewart t. anderson, ann dunkin, terry hildebrandt,<br />
b.J. kamigaki, adam wolf<br />
Come and enjoy our humorous skits that highlight recent<br />
overt cases and instances of transphobia, biphobia, and<br />
bigenderism within the lesbian and gay rights movement.<br />
Understand how we all contribute to our own oppression<br />
through lack of knowledge of and sensitivity to gender<br />
variance and bisexual realities. Learn strategies to unite<br />
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex<br />
community.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 409-a<br />
You’ve got the policy ... what now? Using<br />
nonprofit partnerships to change corporate<br />
culture<br />
Jaclyn hedegard, Jean marie navetta<br />
With tremendous progress in the workplace, diversity<br />
practitioners, human resources specialists, and employee<br />
resource groups have a new challenge: now that we<br />
have the policies, what next? A powerful answer is to<br />
create partnerships with LGBT nonprofits to offer training,<br />
local support, and less traditional educational opportunities<br />
to inspire culture change that makes policies<br />
truly effective. MetLife and PFLAG created a model that<br />
accomplished this; successfully training over 500 people<br />
across the United States in under a year. Learn what this<br />
model is, what made it work, and how you can replicate it<br />
to transform your corporate climate beyond policy implementation.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 510
Diversity & Inclusion.<br />
It’s the foundation of who we are. <br />
© 2010 Bank of America Corporation | AR72S3B2 | AD-07-10-0443<br />
Not only does diversity celebrate our<br />
differences, it celebrates our similarities.<br />
We all have distinct perspectives and<br />
individual talents that make us unique.<br />
Recognizing and celebrating those differences<br />
is integral to Bank of America’s commitment<br />
to diversity and inclusion. Across our global<br />
footprint and in the communities we serve,<br />
the bank continues to build powerful alliances<br />
with diverse organizations.<br />
Bank of America is proud of its partnership<br />
with the LGBT community and honored to be<br />
a sponsor of the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit. We recognize the<br />
accomplishments—made throughout the<br />
business community—that stimulate<br />
advancement in diversity and inclusion<br />
and foster an environment of understanding<br />
and change.
oCtober 67<br />
WED Luncheons 1:00–2:30<br />
human resources luncheon<br />
sPonsored by ibm<br />
Build valuable connections while learning from international business leaders about the role that businesses play—and<br />
the impact of HR and diversity strategies—in building local relationships outside the United States. Lunch is included<br />
with tickets for this event.<br />
room: Petree hall-C<br />
women’s leadership luncheon with ilene Chaiken<br />
and sheila kuehl<br />
sPonsored by ernst & young<br />
Join us for the fifth annual lunchtime program focused on women in<br />
the workplace, featuring special guests: musician, writer and producer<br />
Ilene Chaiken, and former California State Assemblywomen and<br />
Senator Sheila Kuehl. Open to everyone, but focused on the needs<br />
and concerns of women, this luncheon offers a great opportunity to<br />
make valuable connections. Lunch is included with tickets for this event.<br />
room: Petree hall-d<br />
©2010 Union Bank, N.A. Visit us at unionbank.com<br />
48 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
You are part of a greater community.<br />
Union Bank believes in the power of partnerships. That’s why we partner with<br />
communities and organizations like <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> to make a positive difference<br />
in the places where we work. To us, building a healthy community is the most<br />
valuable investment of all.<br />
Union Bank is proud to support <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> and sponsor the<br />
2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
Los Angeles Headquarters – 445 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90071<br />
Sebastian Beck, Diversity Specialist<br />
(213) 236-7083
American Airlines is proud<br />
to support the community<br />
that supports us. That’s why<br />
we’re the fi rst and only airline<br />
to score 100% on the HRC’s<br />
Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index<br />
every year since 2001.<br />
AmericanAirlines, We know why you fl y, AA.com and AA.com/rainbow are marks of American Airlines, Inc. oneworld is a mark of the oneworld Alliance, LLC.
oCtober 6<br />
WED<br />
Featured event<br />
“Prodigal Sons” screening<br />
kimberly reed<br />
Screening of the<br />
award-winning<br />
film “Prodigal<br />
Sons,” followed by<br />
a question-andanswer<br />
session with<br />
filmmaker Kimberly<br />
Reed. Reed dives<br />
headfirst into an<br />
unflinching portrait<br />
of her family that is<br />
absolutely engrossing<br />
and marks her<br />
coming out, in more<br />
ways than one.<br />
Returning home<br />
to a small town in<br />
Montana for her<br />
high school reunion,<br />
Reed hopes for reconciliation<br />
with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along<br />
the way “Prodigal Sons” uncovers stunning revelations, including<br />
a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth,<br />
intense sibling rivalries, and unforeseeable twists of plot and<br />
gender. Reed’s rare access delicately reveals not only the family’s<br />
most private moments, but also an epic scope as the film<br />
travels from Montana to Croatia, from jail cell to football field,<br />
from deaths to births. Reed’s compassionate vérité style of filmmaking<br />
captures the lives of her family in such an organic way<br />
that their exceptional and challenging stories defy our expectations.<br />
Questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma,<br />
and family love are effortlessly explored as the subjects freely<br />
open up their lives to the camera.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: featured event<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 515-b<br />
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Session 2 3:00–5:30
Featured Panels<br />
wednesday<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of workplace inclusion<br />
sPonsored by Citi<br />
organized by the out & equal PeoPle oF Color advisory Committee<br />
ana duarte<br />
mcCarthy<br />
vincent<br />
Pan<br />
maxim<br />
thorne<br />
victor<br />
viramontes<br />
lisa J.<br />
wicker<br />
Opportunities for career advancement and recognition based on ability, potential, and performance—regardless of<br />
how you identify—is a goal shared by everyone, especially employees who perceive that they may be marginalized<br />
based on identity. We know that employment discrimination is an important issue to an overwhelming majority of the<br />
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. Recent surveys find that it is just as important—even more—to the<br />
African American ,Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander communities. This panel looks at how different communities that<br />
intersect with the LGBT community see issues of workplace inclusion and are working to eliminate discrimination that<br />
persists.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-a<br />
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Featured event<br />
Our communities, our careers and our families: Being an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
sPonsored by wells Fargo<br />
renee<br />
brown<br />
dana<br />
rudolph<br />
In many ways, our stories as working parents are no different than those of our straight colleagues. Being a parent who<br />
is also lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, however, has aspects that are unique to our community. Listen to a panel<br />
of LGBT executives discuss how they experience the issues facing all parents who work—and those of special concern<br />
to those who identify as LGBT.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-b<br />
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michelle<br />
smith<br />
Featured sPeaker<br />
LGBT diversity in the global context<br />
Session 2 3:00–5:30<br />
stacy<br />
smithers<br />
organized by uCla williams institute and uCla exeCutive eduCation<br />
brad sears<br />
mike<br />
syers<br />
For corporations operating in today’s global economy, responding to the needs of LGBT employees doesn’t just mean<br />
consideration of the increasingly complicated legal and social landscape nationally, but internationally as well. While<br />
some regions of the world, like Canada and Western Europe, are moving ahead of the United States on LGBT rights,<br />
others, such as Africa and Asia, lag behind. Central and South America present a particularly complicated context. This<br />
session will provide an overview of the rights of LGBT people around the world and practical suggestions for addressing<br />
LGBT diversity in the rapidly changing global context.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured speaker<br />
target audienCe: all room: 411-theatre
Who am I?<br />
I wonder if people really want to know how I spent my weekend.<br />
When they ask me, I sometimes avoid the question.<br />
When I focus too much on what people might think,<br />
I’m not being true to myself.<br />
When I am true to myself, I worry that people will only see<br />
what I am rather than who I am.<br />
See things through my eyes and share my experience.<br />
Meet some of our people and see how we’re confronting<br />
the real issues of today’s workplace at pwc.com/diversity<br />
© 2010 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. All rights reserved. “PricewaterhouseCoopers” refers to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (a Delaware<br />
limited liability partnership) or, as the context requires, the PricewaterhouseCoopers global network or other member firms of the network,<br />
each of which is a separate and independent legal entity. We are proud to be an Affirmative Action and <strong>Equal</strong> Opportunity Employer.
oCtober 6<br />
WED<br />
workshoPs<br />
Authenticity: Bring the best “you” to work<br />
and life<br />
elena deutsch, steve salee<br />
Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”<br />
But how authentic are you? How much of yourself do you<br />
bring to work, and what do you leave out? Whether the<br />
reasons are internal or external, LGBT employees and<br />
leaders—even when out—tend to hold back some of their<br />
unique qualities, and the value of those qualities doesn’t<br />
get realized in the workplace. In this fun and interactive<br />
workshop you will explore what it means to be authentic,<br />
and what makes you uniquely you. You will also create<br />
a plan to bring forward the authentic qualities that make<br />
you most powerful in your work and life.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 409-a<br />
Bisexuals at work: New global survey data<br />
heidi bruins green, Jamison green, nicholas Payne,<br />
Ph.d.<br />
What do you know about bisexual people in your company?<br />
Do they have the same issues as lesbian and gay<br />
people or heterosexuals, or are their issues different from<br />
both of those groups? We know that only a small fraction<br />
of the bisexuals in our companies are involved with LGBT<br />
employee resource groups. What do bisexual people<br />
have to say to ERGs and to company management about<br />
creating a more bi-friendly environment? A comprehensive<br />
international survey was launched in June 2010 and<br />
the emerging data are yielding an exciting look at the<br />
most elusive letter of our alphabet soup. Join the survey’s<br />
principal investigators to learn about everything you<br />
always wanted to know about bisexuals at work but were<br />
afraid to ask!<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 510<br />
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Building bridges toward LGBT diversity<br />
Pat baillie, lori Fox, Julie gedro<br />
Targeted at senior executives, managers, human resources<br />
staff, diversity professionals, customer service<br />
representatives, and the general employee population,<br />
this course is designed to help employers get the most<br />
from all employees, LGBT and non-LGBT. This training<br />
fosters increased awareness, resulting in a healthier and<br />
safer workplace where all employees are engaged in the<br />
mission of the organization, increasing the level of comfort<br />
for all and improving communication between LGBT<br />
and straight employees and the customers they serve.<br />
Developing cultural competency about LGBT employees<br />
is the first step to workplace equality.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-C<br />
The care and feeding of allies during the<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Summit<br />
rachel beitz, larry harrington, Frankie o’Connor,<br />
nichole soterwood<br />
Do you want to ensure that your allies who attend the<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit maximize the value of<br />
their Summit experience? For the past five years, Raytheon’s<br />
delegation planning team has put in place successful<br />
tools and techniques to enable our allies who attend<br />
to leave the Summit with an overwhelmingly positive<br />
experience. Many of our allies who attend <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
also attend many other diversity conferences during their<br />
careers. The Raytheon <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> planning team’s goal<br />
has been to make sure <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> is the best of all the<br />
diversity conferences they will ever attend, and we have<br />
succeeded. Learn how you can apply our game plan and<br />
lessons learned to your company.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 410
workshoPs<br />
Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT<br />
families count<br />
gary J. gates, Ph.d., ariadna “ari” gutiérrez,<br />
Che ruddell-tabisola, bob witeck<br />
In 2010, the U.S. Census and its LGBT community partners<br />
undertook an historic and unprecedented campaign<br />
of LGBT outreach and education to better ensure full participation<br />
and inclusion in this once-in-a-decade national<br />
initiative. How did it unfold? How were many untapped<br />
and marginalized communities reached? What worked,<br />
and what didn’t? What do we hope to learn about our<br />
households, and what are the enduring implications for<br />
public policy, human resources professionals, financial<br />
services, educators, marketers, social scientists, and the<br />
rest of us?<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-C<br />
Global values for a global workforce<br />
brent Chamberlain, daniel danso, madeline lasko<br />
Does your organization have offices overseas? Are you<br />
or your colleagues ever posted abroad? How can employers<br />
make sure they offer the same level of support<br />
to their LGB staff regardless of where in the world they<br />
work? This workshop explores how to make sure that<br />
your diversity and inclusion policies for U.S. employees<br />
are just as effective in overseas offices, looks at the<br />
positives and negatives of global diversity policies, and<br />
addresses the thorny issue of what happens when LGB<br />
staff are asked to relocate to countries where they may<br />
not have legislative protection or partner rights.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 503<br />
wednesday<br />
Harnessing social media for ERG outreach,<br />
awareness, and engagement<br />
aaron aanenson, aJ dronkers, Chuck stephens<br />
Learn the best practices, social and financial impacts, and<br />
other lessons that come from leveraging social media<br />
tools such as wikis, blogs, forum boards, and bookmarks<br />
to communicate across the enterprise, engaging members<br />
and reducing e-mail traffic.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 408-b<br />
Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can<br />
engage leaders and drive business results<br />
michael abata, Jim Ciccone, daniel duty, alexis kantor<br />
Many LGBT employee resource groups developed<br />
organically as employees with similar backgrounds and<br />
interests came together to socialize and compare work<br />
experiences. But many companies, including Target, are<br />
realizing the power of these groups for any number of<br />
strategic purposes, recruitment, retention, and marketing<br />
being the most often cited. The workshop will talk about<br />
what Target is doing to leverage its LGBT ERG to drive<br />
bottom-line results. Daniel Duty, Target’s GLBT Business<br />
Council executive sponsor, will share how Target’s ERG<br />
is taking strategic actions that are aligned with company<br />
objectives. This workshop will provide an interactive exercise<br />
for deeper understanding and showcase tools for<br />
ERG leaders to take back to their respective companies.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 408-a<br />
How to “engay” your community<br />
michael gavin, dwain young<br />
This workshop will discuss the importance and mutual<br />
benefits of engaging your LGBT employee resource group<br />
in the LGBT community at large. Local LGBT organizations<br />
can benefit from the help, time, and commitment of your<br />
group members. Additionally, your company’s employees<br />
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will feel more engaged in their work as a result of dedicating<br />
their help to organizations that need it. Volunteer<br />
work with local nonprofit and community-based organizations<br />
can become a vibrant part of any company’s<br />
employee value proposition. This workshop will discuss<br />
ways to create meaningful partnerships with local LGBT<br />
organizations and discuss the importance of maintaining<br />
them through volunteer events, fundraising, discussion<br />
panels, and ongoing skills-development projects. It will<br />
also discuss the importance of holistically engaging your<br />
LGBT ERG in the entire local community and involving<br />
allies in your efforts to create positive change in your<br />
community, achieve greater impact for LGBT concerns,<br />
and combat stereotypes.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: lgbt community leaders<br />
room: 506<br />
Leading by example: How ERG leaders create<br />
sustainable relationships with nonprofits<br />
gina reiss, trung tieu<br />
As corporations advance in their diversity and inclusion<br />
journeys, it is critical that they establish sustainable relationships<br />
within the communities where they reside. Never<br />
before has this been so crucial in terms of brand equity<br />
and brand loyalty. Employee resource group leaders can<br />
and should play a pivotal role in initiating and maintaining<br />
these relationships. Join us to learn how PepsiCo network<br />
leaders have harnessed the work they have already<br />
been doing to create a formal process and sustainable<br />
long-term relationships with community partners such as<br />
local and national AIDS foundations, LGBT youth centers,<br />
PFLAG, and True Child.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 501-a<br />
LGBT and Asia from IBM and Goldman Sachs<br />
stephen golden, tony tenicela<br />
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals<br />
in Asia face a number of specific challenges—both<br />
in their private and professional lives. The danger is that<br />
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such challenges can impact workplace relationships, affect<br />
the health of LGBT employees, and impair productivity<br />
and performance. That’s why Goldman Sachs and IBM<br />
have been encouraging companies to adopt best practices<br />
in promoting workplace equality for LGBT employees.<br />
This workshop will explore the cultural context for LGBT<br />
issues, the workplace challenges that LGBT employees<br />
face, and the realistic and practical steps companies can<br />
take in Asia to create inclusive workplaces.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-b<br />
LGBT legislative issues and brand reputation<br />
wesley Combs, michael wascom, helga ying<br />
Levi Strauss took a very public position opposing Proposition<br />
8. American Airlines has testified in Congress in<br />
support of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations<br />
Act, which would provide health and other benefits<br />
for same-sex partners of federal employees. More and<br />
more, companies are publicly endorsing the Employment<br />
Non-Discrimination Act, as well as opposing anti-gay<br />
legislation at the state level because it negatively impacts<br />
their business. Come hear from two companies, American<br />
Airlines and Levi Strauss, that set the standard for<br />
integrating LGBT legislative issues in their overall diversity<br />
strategy. The session will be moderated by Witeck-<br />
Combs Communications, which will present the business<br />
case for these approaches by providing data and marketplace<br />
experience in guiding companies through this<br />
political landscape.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 409-b<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership Council orientation<br />
stephen gould<br />
The Leadership Council is the group of volunteers who<br />
lead the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> regional affiliates. This extended<br />
session is an orientation for all <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership<br />
Council members, providing in-depth information on <strong>Out</strong><br />
& <strong>Equal</strong> programs, regional affiliate structure and proce
workshoPs<br />
dures, and programming ideas. This session fulfills the<br />
orientation requirement of Leadership Council members,<br />
and is open to prospective Council members as well.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: out & equal leadership council members<br />
room: 507<br />
Raising the bar: The new corporate equality<br />
index criteria and data from the 2011 report<br />
deena Fidas, daryl herrschaft, bryan Parsons<br />
Since 2002, the HRC Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index has been<br />
the nation’s premiere benchmark and roadmap for LGBT<br />
equality in corporate America. Effective in 2011, the new<br />
criteria—CEI 3.0—will raise the bar on three metrics: parity<br />
in health benefits; organizational competency on LGBT<br />
issues; and public commitment to the LGBT community.<br />
We will discuss changes to the CEI, the latest data from<br />
the 2011 report, and the resources needed to implement<br />
these changes in time for 2012 CEI.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-b<br />
Transgender 101: Transgender information for<br />
the non-trans community<br />
stephanie C. battaglino, sandra zurawicz<br />
What are the differences between transgender, crossdressing,<br />
and transsexual? How does the transgender experience<br />
differ from the greater LGB community’s? What<br />
is involved in coming out? What about the bathroom?<br />
These and other issues will be discussed. This workshop<br />
is specifically aimed at giving allies and other interested<br />
parties greater insight to understanding transgendered<br />
individuals in your company and how to assist and support<br />
them in their life-changing transition.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 504<br />
wednesday<br />
Uneasy alliances: The elusive search for<br />
common ground between diverse employee<br />
communities<br />
terry howard, kent Johnson, steve lyle<br />
As employees identify and form groups around race, gender,<br />
religion, or LGBT issues, what is the potential for conflict<br />
or competition? What are the potential opportunities<br />
that can get lost in the emotions? This panel discussion<br />
will honestly address the risks—real and imagined—of<br />
conflict between employee networks and propose strategies<br />
for channeling the energy and passion into collaboration<br />
and other constructive action. Attendees will learn<br />
how to recognize and balance potentially competing<br />
interests, and uncover bonds of common interest, while<br />
creating an inclusive workplace.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 505<br />
The unique legal and financial challenges<br />
facing the LGBT community<br />
Philip J. hoskins, steven w. schmitt, CFP(r), mba,<br />
kyle d. young, CFP(r)<br />
Federally-recognized marriage, state-recognized marriage,<br />
civil union, domestic partnership—understanding<br />
these terms and the differences between them can<br />
truly be the deciding factor in assuring proper legal and<br />
financial planning for you and your family. The lack of<br />
federal recognition of LGBT individuals and couples creates<br />
countless legal and financial challenges. Identifying<br />
these inequalities is the first step in leveling the playing<br />
field for all members of the community. During this<br />
workshop, we will introduce many of the key legal and<br />
financial challenges faced by the LGBT community. Once<br />
each challenge is presented, we will highlight several of<br />
the planning techniques available to resolve or eliminate<br />
each. The topics covered will be discussed from a federal<br />
perspective and will therefore relate to each individual in<br />
attendance, regardless of their economic position or their<br />
relationship status. Specifically, we will cover: the major<br />
U.S. tax law changes enacted since our workshop last<br />
year (which have a major impact on the community); how<br />
to assure your assets pass to the people you choose;<br />
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workshoPs<br />
ways to minimize income, estate, and inheritance taxes;<br />
and the major differences between a spousal and a<br />
non-spousal beneficiary. New to this presentation will be<br />
an overview of the many legal challenges we face as a<br />
community. A case study will be discussed following our<br />
presentation to emphasize the concepts covered. Materials<br />
will be distributed to support the issues discussed<br />
and to advise on action items participants can take back<br />
to their personal and professional lives.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-a<br />
The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your<br />
business plan, support profitability, and boost<br />
workforce engagement<br />
mark demich, brea gates, ken martin, kris maybach<br />
Create a “virtuous cycle” where the employee resource<br />
group and sponsoring business mutually and continually<br />
support each other. A Sara Lee Continuous Improvement<br />
(CI) professional leads an interactive workshop designed<br />
to raise the bar on ERG maturity levels, moving beyond<br />
planning and leading to full integration into any business.<br />
You’ll learn valuable industry-standard continuous<br />
improvement “lean” approaches and take away tools that<br />
can be applied to integrate ERGs into the core of any<br />
business plan, with a goal of achieving strong business<br />
results and nurturing a culture for the entire workforce,<br />
including blue-collar employees.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 512<br />
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Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is<br />
looking to overcome unconscious bias<br />
tracie brind, Pamela Johnson, Jackie moran,<br />
damian murphy, sheri Paulo<br />
When a public figure “comes out” the mainstream reaction<br />
is often—“I don’t care what they do, so why do they<br />
need to tell me?” The recent public acknowledgement<br />
of his sexual orientation by Ricky Martin drew a whole<br />
host of comments on global news websites that echoed<br />
the sentiment above. This session is a way of having a<br />
conversation about why being open about sexual orientation<br />
is important for out LGBT people and looking at<br />
what unconscious biases may make that uncomfortable<br />
for others. The workshop will be based upon a series of<br />
diversity-led initiatives, including training and senior management<br />
engagement, in open discussion and a workshop<br />
presented by Citi Pride London at the Citi’s EMEA<br />
diversity week in June.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 518
© 2010 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and the U.S. member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. 22460NSS<br />
Be yourself.<br />
In life and at work.<br />
At KPMG LLP, we value the contributions of our LGBT<br />
partners and professionals. And we’re proud they can<br />
bring their whole selves—along with their talent,<br />
innovation, and leadership—to work with them every day.<br />
KPMG is proud to sponsor the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Summit. We share <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s vision of workplace<br />
equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation,<br />
gender identity, expression, or characteristics.<br />
kpmgcareers.com<br />
KPMG.<br />
A great place to build a career.
oCtober 6<br />
WED Night <strong>Out</strong>!<br />
out & equal<br />
night out!<br />
networking<br />
Make meaningful connections<br />
this year at<br />
each networking event.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> is hosting<br />
movie screenings and<br />
an ice-cream social at<br />
each of the Summit cohost<br />
hotels, as well as<br />
bowling and networking<br />
at Lucky Strike LA Live<br />
to enrich everyone’s<br />
Summit experience.<br />
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wednesday night out! lucky strike bowling and lounge<br />
lucky strike la live 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm<br />
Strike up fun in your spare time. This social event will provide attendees<br />
with opportunities to meet, network, have a drink, and bowl a frame. Team<br />
up with fellow participants for some friendly competition. Shuttle buses<br />
will be available for participants to and from the Westin Bonaventure Los<br />
Angeles until 12 am. Open to all registered Summit participants.<br />
regional affiliate reception at lucky strike’s luxe lounge<br />
hosted by out & equal southern CaliFornia<br />
lucky strike la live 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s regional affiliates can enjoy Lucky Strike’s Luxe Lounge to<br />
celebrate a year of outstanding accomplishments. Go head-to-head with<br />
fellow regional affiliates to determine which affiliate really is Kingpin. This<br />
VIP social is hosted by <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Southern California and is open to all<br />
regional affiliate members.
wednesday<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> WEdnEsday night <strong>Out</strong>! FramElinE Films<br />
Jw marriott los angeles at la live: santa barbara room and<br />
westin bonaventure hotel and suites: Platinum ballroom, salon a-C<br />
“hope along the wind: the life of harry hay”<br />
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm<br />
This much-anticipated documentary takes us through the fascinating and extraordinary life of Harry Hay:<br />
labor organizer, Marxist teacher, and founding member of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights<br />
organizations in the country. Harry has been at the center stage of gay pride for more than half a century.<br />
His story provides a chronicle of the gay rights movement, as well as a history of California in the 20th century.<br />
Harry Hay joined the Communist Party in the early 1930s and participated in the San Francisco General<br />
Strike of 1934. In the mid-1950s he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and<br />
around this time Harry started the Mattachine Society. This momentous film features poignant interviews<br />
with Harry and many of the surviving original members of this historic and brave group of gay men. In the 40<br />
years preceding his death in 2002, Harry immersed himself in the counterculture youth movement, the Radical<br />
Faeries, and Native American culture.<br />
out & equal night out! ice cream social<br />
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm<br />
“screaming queens: the riot at Compton’s Cafeteria”<br />
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm<br />
The Emmy Award-winning documentary “Screaming Queens” tells the little-known story of the first known<br />
act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States—a 1966 riot<br />
in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New<br />
York’s Stonewall Inn. This film introduces viewers to street queens, cops, and activist civil rights ministers<br />
who recall the riot and paint a vivid portrait of the wild transgender scene in 1960s San Francisco. Integrating<br />
the riot’s story into the broader fabric of American life, the documentary connects the event to urban renewal,<br />
anti-war activism, civil rights, and sexual liberation. With enticing archival footage and period music, this<br />
unknown story is dramatically brought back to life.<br />
“Screaming Queens” is a production of Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker, produced in association with<br />
ITVS and KQED, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.<br />
Films generously provided by Frameline Distribution, frameline.org/distribution, the best in LGBT media<br />
since 1977.<br />
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Is diversity and inclusion<br />
about scoring points?<br />
Not at Pfizer. We believe in encouraging an environment where everyone<br />
is confident and comfortable to be themselves. It’s about working together<br />
and valuing our colleagues for who they are—lesbian, gay, bisexual,<br />
transgender or ally. Whatever your background, we believe in creating an<br />
inclusive workplace that embraces everyone’s unique perspective.<br />
Congratulations to our colleague Gordon<br />
Stewart for becoming a Trailblazer Award<br />
finalist at this year’s <strong>Out</strong>ie Awards in<br />
recognition for his outstanding LGBT<br />
advocacy. Way to go, Gordon!<br />
Pfizer is proud to be a<br />
Champion sponsor of<br />
the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit.<br />
At Pfizer, be yourself.<br />
To learn more about our people, our<br />
products and our plans for the future, visit<br />
www.pfizer.com.<br />
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer<br />
and welcome applications from people with different<br />
experiences, backgrounds and ethnic origins.
thursday<br />
OCTOBER 7
8:30 am – 10:30 am<br />
Breakfast and<br />
Plenary II<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Session 3<br />
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm<br />
Ticketed<br />
Luncheon<br />
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm<br />
Session 4<br />
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm<br />
Awards<br />
Reception<br />
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm<br />
Awards<br />
Dinner<br />
Plenary sPeakers<br />
SPOnSOReD By InTUIT<br />
Featured events<br />
thursday<br />
Selisse Berry, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Brad Smith<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United States<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Diversity and trust: Alliances and betrayals<br />
Regional Affiliate luncheon<br />
SPOnSOReD By nORTHROP GRUMMAn<br />
Featured events<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
SPOnSOReD By MIcROSOfT<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity nondiscrimination<br />
practices<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor & privacy<br />
issues when collecting data from a global LGBT network<br />
Dance of leadership<br />
registration oPen: 7:00 am – 8:00 pm exhibit hall oPen: 12:00 pm – 7:30 pm<br />
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THU Plenary speakers<br />
Selisse Berry<br />
Sheryl Lee<br />
Ralph<br />
Brad Smith<br />
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Selisse Berry is founding executive director of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates, the<br />
nation’s only national nonprofit organization specifically dedicated to creating safe and<br />
equitable workplaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Under her<br />
leadership, the organization has grown significantly, with 1200% expansion in the annual<br />
Summit since 1999, and regional affiliates across the United States.<br />
Her clear and unwavering vision has been instrumental in creating an internationally recognized<br />
organization whose philosophies reflect the importance of treating all colleagues in the<br />
workplace with respect and dignity. Since her first job as a guidance counselor, Selisse has<br />
continued her commitment to justice as a teacher and as executive director for several social<br />
service organizations prior to founding <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates. She has master’s<br />
degrees in education and theology from the University of Texas and San Francisco Theological<br />
Seminary respectively. Selisse and her partner, Cynthia Martin, were married in July 2007.<br />
Sheryl Lee Ralph’s exceptional abilities extend from TV and concert halls to feature films<br />
and the Broadway stage. Ms. Ralph was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk<br />
Award for creating the role of Deena Jones in the landmark Broadway musical, “Dreamgirls.”<br />
She has starred in feature films such as “The Distinguished Gentleman,” “The Mighty Quinn,”<br />
“Mistress,” and “Sister Act 2,” and won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting<br />
Actress for her role in “To Sleep with Anger.” Additionally, she has found immense popularity<br />
on TV, starring in hits such as It’s a Living, Designing Women, and Moesha, and breaking<br />
new ground through her role as Claire, a post-operative transsexual, in the SHOWTIME<br />
series BarberShop.<br />
Ms. Ralph is the creator/producer of DIVAS Simply Singing! After seventeen years of commitment,<br />
it has become one of the most important AIDS fundraisers in Hollywood, headlining<br />
such talent as Chaka Khan, Brenda Russell, Oleta Adams, Roberta Flack, Raven Symone,<br />
Melissa Manchester, Dianne Reeves, The PussyCat Dolls, and Stacey “Fergie” Ferguson.<br />
Ms. Ralph is also the founder and creator of the Jamerican Film Festival. Her award-winning<br />
film short, “Secrets,” screens to private audiences around the world.<br />
Ms. Ralph is an AIDS advocate and celebrity spokesperson for The National Minority AIDS Council<br />
(NMAC), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the challenges of HIV/AIDS.<br />
Brad Smith became Intuit’s president and chief executive officer in January 2008, capping<br />
a five-year rise through the company where he successfully led several of its major businesses.<br />
Intuit is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and<br />
mid-sized businesses, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals, and<br />
is consistently ranked as one of the most admired software companies and best places to<br />
work. As the company marked its 25th anniversary in 2008, Smith celebrated the past while<br />
creating a strategic vision that recognizes important market shifts that will serve as growth<br />
catalysts for Intuit’s future.<br />
Smith joined Intuit in February of 2003, having previously served as the senior vice president<br />
of marketing and business development at ADP, as well as holding various sales, marketing,<br />
and general management positions with Pepsi, Seven-Up, and Advo, Inc. Prior to being<br />
named CEO, he served as the president and general manager of Intuit’s Accountant Central<br />
and Developer Network in Plano, Texas, led the company’s Consumer Tax Group in San<br />
Diego from March 2004 through May 2005, and served as senior vice president and<br />
general manager of Intuit’s Small Business Division from May 2006 to January 2008.<br />
Smith earned his master’s degree in management from Aquinas College in Michigan and<br />
a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Marshall University in West Virginia.
We believe in hard work.<br />
We believe good companies make good neighbors.<br />
We believe in the value of diversity.<br />
It’s what makes life so interesting.<br />
Want more reasons to believe?<br />
Toyota is proud to sponsor the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
© 2010 Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
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THU Session 3 11:00–12:30<br />
Featured Panels<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the U.S.<br />
matt<br />
bosrock<br />
Sebastian Rocca, the recently appointed executive director of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and<br />
Intersex Association (ILGA) will lead an international panel of business and human resources professionals in a discussion<br />
about extending diversity strategies inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees outside the United States.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 515-a<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
anthony<br />
Carter<br />
brian<br />
mcnaught<br />
kathleen<br />
Colucci<br />
Progress toward workplace equality is dependent upon our ability to engage allies to help move policies and practices<br />
forward. Hear the stories of notable executives who have gone above and beyond in making a difference for LGBT<br />
workplace equality. Moderated by author and educator Dr. David Hall, the panel will include finalists for this year’s <strong>Out</strong><br />
& <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Champion Award.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 515-b<br />
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sebastian<br />
rocca<br />
david m. hall,<br />
ed.d.<br />
eileen<br />
taylor<br />
leonard harvey,<br />
m.d., m.b.a.<br />
sophie<br />
vandebroek, Ph.d.<br />
denise<br />
lynn<br />
silvy<br />
vluggen
Featured sPeaker<br />
Diversity and trust: Alliances and betrayals<br />
organized by uCla Williams institute<br />
and uCla exeCutive eduCation<br />
robin d. Johnson, Ph.d.<br />
When we think about competencies of the best leaders<br />
and organizations, the first word that comes to mind isn’t<br />
usually “trust.” But when you get down to it, it’s personal relationships—based<br />
on trust—that make organizations hum.<br />
During this session, we will delve into issues of trust and alliances<br />
within the LGBT community and between the LGBT<br />
community and other diverse groups. We will examine our<br />
own relationships with trust (our propensity to trust and be<br />
trusted) and how they impact our work life.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured speaker<br />
target audienCe: all room: 411-theatre<br />
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National Grid<br />
is proud to sponsor the<br />
2010<br />
<strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong> Summit<br />
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WorkshoPs<br />
Affiliates and ERGs: Get down to business<br />
lori Fox, Casey horton, Jim huberty<br />
In this thought-provoking workshop, participants will<br />
learn how basic business principles can be applied to<br />
create and grow a dynamic employee resource group or<br />
regional affiliate. The session will encourage participants<br />
to consider perspectives and approaches to companies<br />
and the community that align individual corporate goals,<br />
key relationships, internal and community engagement,<br />
marketing, communication, and programming to “sell” the<br />
business of workplace equality.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 506<br />
Being transgender in the workplace in a<br />
binary world<br />
Jennifer Chapin, thomas Fox, amy galiana, diane root<br />
This workshop is an experiential journey into the lives of<br />
transgender individuals and their challenges as they aspire<br />
and attempt to express their personal gender identity<br />
in a world which is traditionally binary, either male or female.<br />
During the course of the workshop, the facilitators<br />
will explore issues, perceptions, and misconceptions with<br />
regard to transgender people and how they deal with<br />
the daily workplace pressure to conform. The audience<br />
will be directly engaged in the discussion, and there will<br />
be some interactive but non-threatening group exercises<br />
that they may choose to go through to learn about the<br />
transgender journey and the varying degrees of gender<br />
identity even within the room of workshop attendees.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: erg members, hr & diversity<br />
professionals<br />
room: 511-b<br />
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Session 3 11:00–12:30<br />
Beyond engagement: How diversity and ERGs<br />
contribute to an inspired organization<br />
John mastrorilli, terilyn monroe<br />
Motivating employees to inspirational levels of engagement<br />
cannot be achieved simply by a great compensation<br />
package or setting the right goals and managing<br />
performance. Sustaining engagement, and if we’re lucky<br />
enough, getting to inspirational levels of engagement,<br />
requires a deep sense of commitment to what’s really<br />
important to employees. See how Intuit employees are<br />
inspiring one another through a viral employee engagement<br />
campaign that reminds us what’s most important to<br />
people and why business growth depends on it. Learn<br />
how employee resource groups, diversity and inclusion<br />
policies, and investment in communities all work together<br />
to create inspiration and a high-commitment, high-performance<br />
organization.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 507<br />
Changing the way we work and live: Inclusive<br />
policies, practices, and processes<br />
rob adkisson, marilyn nagel, david Posner, Ph.d.<br />
During this session we will examine ways to influence<br />
policies, practices, and processes for inclusion. What<br />
approaches and content can set the stage for positive<br />
change? We will focus on policies within corporations,<br />
best practices for establishing inclusive policies, and the<br />
processes surrounding human resources, governance,<br />
and employee resource groups.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 511-C<br />
Eliminating exceptionalism when<br />
implementing LGBT strategies<br />
yvette burton, george Carrancho, Wesley Combs<br />
All too often, decisions related to implementing LGBT policies<br />
and marketing strategies are evaluated by a different
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set of criteria than those for other niches such as African-<br />
Americans, women, and people with disabilities. Why is<br />
an ad with two men holding hands unacceptable when<br />
a similar ad featuring a heterosexual couple is approved<br />
without a second thought? When a decision to support an<br />
LGBT civil rights organization is rejected because it is considered<br />
too controversial, why do requests for support of<br />
other advocacy groups get approved? Companies that are<br />
the most authentic with respect to integrating LGBT diversity<br />
into the fabric of their culture are those that apply the<br />
same rules to LGBT-related decisions as they do for other<br />
niche segments. Come hear how two corporate diversity<br />
champions, American Airlines and IBM, have established<br />
the gold standard when it comes to treating LGBT issues<br />
on par with all other business decisions related to diversity.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management), erg members, hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 518<br />
Focusing on-site health clinics on diversity<br />
and inclusion<br />
thomas sondergeld<br />
With many mid-size to large employers offering on-site<br />
health clinics or wellness centers, a continual challenge<br />
is instilling the staff with a sensitivity to the diverse ethnic,<br />
social, and sexual orientations of the employees they<br />
see. This session will examine challenges and opportunities<br />
particular to the LGBT workforce when it comes to<br />
health care in the work setting. Privacy, confidentiality,<br />
acceptance, unique care needs, and partner involvement<br />
are some of the areas we will cover.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 504<br />
Gender virtualization: Biology and the<br />
bathroom for gender transitions<br />
riya suising<br />
This workshop continues the discussion from previous<br />
Summits. The transgender community includes the full<br />
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spectrum of gender identities, including crossdressers<br />
and gender-variant individuals. This workshop will<br />
discuss key concepts around transgender persons and<br />
gender transitions: gender identity, biological issues pertaining<br />
to gender, privacy, policies, example legal cases<br />
involving transgender identities, and the most controversial<br />
issue in gender transitions—access to gender-segregated<br />
facilities such as restrooms. This workshop will<br />
introduce frameworks and principles around values, customs,<br />
and policies (corporate and legal) which should be<br />
understood by human resources and diversity professionals<br />
and transgender individuals when creating policies for<br />
a diverse but inclusive workplace. It will also discuss two<br />
actual case studies involving gender transitions.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 501-a<br />
High-impact ERGs: Building a roadmap for<br />
business effectiveness<br />
Jennifer brown, brian sorge<br />
Employee resource groups continue to evolve from<br />
community-building organizations to those that can have<br />
real and sustained impact on their business, from new<br />
product development, to recruitment and retention, to<br />
emerging market penetration. Does your ERG have the<br />
right structure, talent, and strategy in place to win that<br />
coveted “seat at the table”? Will it be able to maximize<br />
that opportunity when it arises? Jennifer Brown Consulting<br />
(JBC) works with Fortune 500 companies to map<br />
this process and prepare ERG leadership, members,<br />
and executive sponsors to develop their capabilities to<br />
effectively interact with internal stakeholders and their<br />
external communities, thereby adding business value<br />
and providing development opportunities that cultivate<br />
next-generation leaders. This workshop will share the<br />
JBC ERG progression model and challenge participants<br />
to consider their ERG’s value-add in a whole new light.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 510<br />
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Let the spirit move us all<br />
liz Winfeld<br />
This popular session has been offered at three previous<br />
Summits with great success. It’s about how sexual orientation<br />
and spirituality (a paradigm shift from “religion”) can<br />
co-exist and do really good work, together, in the workplace.<br />
It is about finding the intersecting interests between<br />
people who organize on one of these two planes—because<br />
they have a great deal more common ground<br />
than people think. It’s about moving beyond the tired old<br />
clichés and rhetoric about LGBT people or devout people<br />
to a place where specific actions can be taken, for the betterment<br />
of the organization and all individuals who choose<br />
to participate in the positive, not the divisive.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 410<br />
Managing global talent<br />
Paul el-meouchy, alan taliaferro<br />
For many multinational organizations, non-discrimination<br />
clauses include protections for LGBT employees as well as<br />
for gender identity. However, how does one transfer this<br />
organizational culture to subsidiaries around the world,<br />
where the culture in some countries may be less open<br />
to the culture of headquarters? This workshop is aimed<br />
at helping senior executives make informed decisions<br />
about issues of diversity and global talent management.<br />
We will explore how local employee resource groups can<br />
participate in building one global ERG that is reflective of<br />
the organization’s internal diversity culture. Furthermore,<br />
we will dive into global mobility between countries where<br />
LGBT rights are protected and countries or states where<br />
they are not. How can companies prepare themselves and<br />
their employees for cross-national challenges?<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 503<br />
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Managing through difficult economic times<br />
Wesley W. abrameit, michelle brown, damian murphy,<br />
miguel a. sepulveda<br />
The economic downturn starting in 2008 resulted in a<br />
series of historic changes to the way financial institutions<br />
operate. In this workshop, we aim to share with you how<br />
Citi managed and thrived through these times. We will<br />
focus on the challenges Citi’s employee resource groups<br />
faced of keeping people engaged during this time, and<br />
how we leveraged the Citi Pride Networks’ experience<br />
and key learnings to come out of an extremely difficult<br />
period.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 408-a<br />
Maximizing business growth: Joining ERG<br />
efforts with advertising, marketing, and<br />
community efforts<br />
Joe husman, aaron Walton, midge Waters<br />
By having, utilizing, and expanding on your company’s<br />
employee resource groups, you can encourage employee<br />
development and improve business success. These<br />
groups can work with marketing, diversity and community<br />
relations departments, and/or partner with an advertising<br />
agency to help communities in need. Philanthropic,<br />
marketing, and advertising efforts complement each<br />
other from the funding and publicity standpoint, creating<br />
awareness and supporting sales success in diverse communities.<br />
Learn the many benefits your company can gain<br />
from a business perspective through leveraging engaged<br />
employees and through supporting your company’s community.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 408-b
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Minimizing tension between the letters LGBT<br />
F. Chase hawkins, James scott P. Pignatella,<br />
stacy J. speer<br />
While many have grown used to using the acronym LGBT<br />
(or a variation thereof) to inclusively describe “Rainbow<br />
People” (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folk),<br />
that term alone doesn’t always mean we are inclusive<br />
of each other. Prejudices have existed and continue to<br />
exist within and between the letters. Specific examples of<br />
issues will be explored along with ideas on where we can<br />
build commonality and minimize tension.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 511-a<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard<br />
for credibility and success<br />
becky huber, randy m. kammer, matt keys,<br />
Jeanine mcguire, sherri mikell, dawn milstead<br />
Employee resource groups are often viewed by company<br />
leadership as networking and social groups, with little<br />
value-add to bottom-line business results. This workshop<br />
will give participants an outline of what it takes to<br />
produce business-related and measurable goals, as well<br />
as walk participants through a process for developing a<br />
measurable annual scorecard for their ERGs. Members of<br />
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s Respect ERG will<br />
provide participants with best practices, lessons learned,<br />
and a scorecard template that can be used in any organization.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 501-C<br />
Novel methods for sharing LGBT employees<br />
with your workforce<br />
brian geiger, douglas harris<br />
It’s Pride month and you have been asked to come up<br />
with a way to communicate what it is to be LGBT. You’re<br />
stuck! This presentation will share the many ways Hewitt<br />
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has found to do this very thing. From poster boards to<br />
online videos, Hewitt has had success and learning along<br />
the way. The presenters will show the methods used and<br />
discuss how to put them in motion. We will also share<br />
what we learned, how we addressed critical comments,<br />
and where we are going in the future.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 505<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors<br />
together?<br />
Chris Crespo, diana greschtchuk, michael lammons,<br />
Jessica Plock, Christie smith, John tantillo,<br />
angie Wilson<br />
The Professional Services Alliance for LGBT Inclusion<br />
(PSAI) was chartered by Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP,<br />
KPMG LLP, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. We seek to<br />
leverage and harness our collective strength and influence<br />
to build on our individual organizations’ successes<br />
in an effort to collectively and dramatically change the<br />
landscape for LGBT employees and allies. During this<br />
workshop, we look to share best practices and lessons<br />
learned on how companies and organizations can collaborate<br />
to advance LGBT issues in the workplace that<br />
may be unique to their markets, industries, geographical<br />
regions, or workforce cultures.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members, organizational<br />
leadership (executives/management)<br />
room: 502-a<br />
Wake up to the new ally in town<br />
toni battle, terrance dean, durodgio Peterson<br />
This workshop will highlight how to build allies out of the<br />
people you would least expect and identify barriers that<br />
go beyond policy and procedure. Learn how to successfully<br />
approach those who are not traditionally considered<br />
straight allies. With the right dialogue and ally-building<br />
techniques, these individuals can often become straight<br />
allies. So what does it take? What strategies are effective?<br />
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WorkshoPs<br />
What is there to gain in this partnership that many are<br />
afraid to venture into?<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 409-a<br />
What they don’t teach you in diversity school:<br />
How to ignite a successful diversity initiative<br />
Joel a. brown, simma lieberman<br />
While there is a general consensus about the importance<br />
of “diversity” in today’s workplace, there is still a considerable<br />
gap in understanding how to build and sustain diversity<br />
initiatives. A lot of diversity initiatives get derailed<br />
or are dismissed because they rely too heavily on emotion,<br />
or only focus on the short-term. This issue can become<br />
even more problematic for LGBT diversity intiatives,<br />
which are often viewed as non-essential. This workshop<br />
is designed to help human resources professionals, LGBT<br />
employees and organizational leaders build successful<br />
initiatives that will create an organizational breakthrough.<br />
Diversity is not rocket science, but the institution of it<br />
must always be strategic.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
room: 409-b<br />
Who is the outsider? Understanding<br />
microinequities from all sides<br />
Jenny lee, nick rojeski, andrew Werner,<br />
marcus a. Wilson<br />
Gestures, glances, postures, and nuances: are these<br />
effective means of communication? Microinequities are<br />
subtle, sometimes subconscious, messages that devalue,<br />
discourage and, ultimately, impair performance. They<br />
are small events which are often momentary and hard to<br />
prove. Sometimes unrecognized by the perpetrator, they<br />
occur wherever people are perceived to be “different.”<br />
Microinequities can stifle your creativity or productivity,<br />
while microaffirmations can energize you so you love<br />
your job. Join us as we expand our understanding of<br />
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diversity and inclusion. This workshop offers an interactive<br />
and engaging exploration of negative and positive<br />
reinforcement in the non-verbal world of communication<br />
that speaks to both our heads and our hearts.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 502-b<br />
Why did you say that? Using perceptual<br />
identity to break through barriers in the<br />
workplace<br />
Jean-marie navetta, leslie traub<br />
Encountering resistance to LGBT inclusion at work?<br />
You may feel frustrated and hurt, wondering why some<br />
people seem so closed-minded and homophobic. How<br />
did people develop these opinions about LGBTs, and<br />
how does this impact behavior? How do we understand<br />
nature vs. nurture and discuss it? The answers to these<br />
questions can help circumvent labels, open discussions,<br />
reveal commonalities, and create progress. Learn what<br />
perceptual identity analysis is, how it reveals our biases<br />
and impulses, and how we can use it as an approach to<br />
creating change in the workplace compassionately and<br />
effectively.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 501-b
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oCtober 87<br />
THU<br />
regional affiliate luncheon<br />
sPonsored by northroP grumman<br />
Recommended for current and prospective Regional Affiliate participants, as well as those interested in starting a new<br />
affiliate in their home town, this lunch event is an opportunity to mingle and share ideas for Regional Affiliate programs,<br />
participation, and organizing around local issues. Lunch is included with tickets for this event.<br />
Room: Petree Hall-D<br />
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Luncheon<br />
Opportunities that expand your horizons.<br />
A culture committed to diversity and respect.<br />
Are you ready for what’s next in your career?<br />
At Booz Allen Hamilton, our ability to help clients solve their<br />
most challenging problems and achieve success in their most critical missions hinges on our people. We also believe diversity of<br />
backgrounds contributes to more innovative ideas, which in turn drive better results for clients.<br />
Booz Allen’s commitment to diversity includes facilitating understanding and awareness, and creating initiatives to improve quality<br />
of work life for our staff. From our long-standing relationships with organizations such as Reaching <strong>Out</strong> MBA and PFLAG to supporting<br />
events including national AIDS Walks and National Coming <strong>Out</strong> Day, we understand diversity is central to who we are and what we do.<br />
If you’re looking to do work that makes a difference at a firm that’s committed to helping you achieve your professional and personal<br />
goals, Booz Allen could be what’s next in your career.<br />
For more information, e-mail diversityrecruiting@bah.com.<br />
As a sponsor of the <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit, Booz Allen actively supports this and other important inclusive LGBT events and organizations.<br />
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Our greatest asset is what makes us different.<br />
Goldman Sachs is a proud sponsor of the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit.<br />
At Goldman Sachs, diversity is not an initiative. It’s how we do business and it’s reflected in our people. Our Office of Global Leadership<br />
and Diversity (GLD) was founded specifically to support diversity throughout the firm. One of the many ways the Office carries out this<br />
mission is to coordinate with the firm’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Network (LGBT). Some of their efforts and achievements<br />
include: educating co-workers on issues of sexual orientation and promoting mentoring and community. As one of our business<br />
principles states: “Being diverse is not optional; it is what we must be.” The success of our firm depends on it.
oCtober 7<br />
THU Session 4 3:00–5:30<br />
Featured Panels<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
sPonsored by miCrosoFt<br />
scottie<br />
ginn<br />
Representatives from each of this year’s finalists will share the achievements that won them recognition in this year’s<br />
competition for the 2010 Workplace Excellence <strong>Out</strong>ie Award. Learn about the work of these organizational leaders<br />
committed to LGBT workplace equality.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-b<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity non-discrimination practices<br />
organized by the out & equal transgender advisory Committee<br />
alan<br />
baer<br />
ed<br />
lehman<br />
stephanie<br />
battaglino<br />
Respected expert on transgender workplace issues Jamison Green will moderate a panel of executives from the retail,<br />
financial services, and hospitality industries to explore the challenges in implementing—and sustaining—effective gender<br />
identity and expression inclusion practices at workplaces that accommodate employees and the general public.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 502-a<br />
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marilyn<br />
nagel<br />
Jamison<br />
green<br />
mike<br />
syers<br />
albert<br />
hernandez<br />
megan<br />
Wallent
Featured Panels<br />
thursday<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor & privacy issues when collecting data from a<br />
global LGBT network<br />
bojana<br />
bellamy<br />
matthew<br />
Coates<br />
karianne<br />
kas<br />
Fauzia<br />
zaman-malik<br />
This session concerns the topic of collecting, compiling, and analyzing LGBT data from an organization’s global LGBT<br />
network, and its impact on overall human resources policies and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Specifically, the session<br />
will cover balancing the need for an organization to collect such data from its employees for the global diversity<br />
business case, and the need to ensure compliance with global and country-specific data privacy and human resources<br />
or employment laws and regulations.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured panel<br />
target audienCe: all room: 515-a<br />
Featured sPeaker<br />
Dance of leadership<br />
organized by uCla Williams institute and uCla exeCutive eduCation<br />
robin d. Johnson, Ph.d.<br />
Leadership is a dance of power, and it takes two to tango. During this session, we identify what makes a leader (hint:<br />
you don’t have to have the word “manager” in your title), take a unique look at five styles of leadership, and identify our<br />
own style. Then we will discuss relational leadership with an eye toward understanding how leaders and followers are<br />
intrinsically linked. You will be able to focus on your own leadership capabilities and take away strategies to be a more<br />
aware leader.<br />
level: intermediate traCk: featured speaker<br />
target audienCe: all room: 411-theatre<br />
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THU Session 4 3:00–5:30<br />
WorkshoPs<br />
Allies at work<br />
david m. hall, ed.d.<br />
This workshop helps people understand how to utilize the<br />
research in Dr. Hall’s “Allies at Work” book and Allies at<br />
Work mobile applications for the iPhone and Android platforms.<br />
Participants will examine the challenges of coming<br />
out at work as well as the tools that allies need. Whether<br />
you are an ally or trying to gain the support of additional<br />
allies, this workshop will provide concrete steps you can<br />
take to create a more inclusive work environment.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 507<br />
The balancing act: Preserving personal<br />
authenticity in the workplace<br />
Phyllis heintz, Ph.d.<br />
Disclosure of sexual identity in the workplace for leaders<br />
can be more challenging than for others, in that leaders<br />
may find themselves juggling numerous levels of relationships<br />
and experiences with the board, staff, and clients. The<br />
decision about whether to disclose is a significant career<br />
dilemma. It is not an inherently good or bad decision but<br />
rather a prudent choice based on evaluation of the context<br />
of the workplace. This session will explore the dilemma of<br />
whether to maintain a distance between one’s personal and<br />
professional lives. We will examine the various sexual identity<br />
management strategies and the implications of each.<br />
Workshop time will be dedicated to tackling challenging<br />
workplace situations identified by participants.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
room: 510<br />
Can you be gay and global?<br />
susan gore, Ph.d., rebecca Parilla, vivek saxena,<br />
randall stieghorst<br />
A successful international assignment is increasingly<br />
valuable for career advancement in many fields. How-<br />
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ever, cultural value systems outside the U.S. are often<br />
perceived as a barrier for LGBT employees who are<br />
otherwise qualified. Cultural Detective brought together<br />
a virtual team of content experts from India, Nova Scotia,<br />
Mexico, and the U.S. to examine this assumption. This<br />
workshop will provide insight into the Cultural Detective<br />
method for bridging real and imagined cultural divides,<br />
hands-on applications with case examples, and the opportunity<br />
to explore how organizations as well as individuals<br />
can address perceived barriers to LGBT employees’<br />
success in international settings. LGBT participants who<br />
have or aspire to international postings and their employer<br />
allies will find this workshop especially useful.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
room: 501-C<br />
Checking the box: The self-identification of<br />
LGBT employees at your business<br />
Pat baille, Chris Crespo, deena Fidas, terry hildebrandt<br />
We’ve all heard the saying, “if you can’t count it, you<br />
can’t manage it.” Businesses are increasingly looking to<br />
integrate optional questions into their human resources<br />
and engagement surveys of employees to get a sense of<br />
how many LGBT workers they have within their firms. In<br />
this workshop we’ll give an overview of the issues around<br />
self-identification from both employer and employee<br />
perspectives; discuss question wording with examples;<br />
provide samples of best practices; and discuss pitfalls to<br />
avoid in human resources surveys and systems integration.<br />
We will hear from LGBT advocates on how they<br />
overcame issues like wording the question to meet the<br />
business objectives of their employer, privacy issues, and<br />
getting the initiative approved within their firms. Lastly,<br />
we’ll explore how businesses are currently using the<br />
information collected and look ahead to “next” practices<br />
in LGBT self-identification and workplace inclusion.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 511-C
WorkshoPs<br />
Circling the wagons: Moving from networking<br />
and social groups to business resource groups<br />
Curtis edwards, tyronne stoudemire<br />
This presentation will focus on moving away from the traditional<br />
networking or social resource groups to employee<br />
groups that focus on driving their various diversity messages<br />
into and through business objectives. In so doing, these<br />
groups better align their messages, programs, and recruiting<br />
goals to the goals and strategies of the business. Participants<br />
will walk away with tools and resources to assist<br />
in making this change in their organization or employee<br />
resource group. The session will concentrate on defining<br />
business resource groups, aligning group vision to overall<br />
business objectives, and putting it all into practice.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: lgbt community leaders<br />
room: 518<br />
Collision course: Religious and LBGT interests<br />
in the workplace<br />
mark Fowler<br />
This workshop will help human resources and diversity<br />
and inclusion practitioners identify some of the competing<br />
interests that often emerge between religious and<br />
LGBT employees in the workplace. First, participants<br />
will explore how their own lens impacts their workplace<br />
relationships and interactions. Participants will also learn<br />
about the importance of understanding social identities—and<br />
in particular, how overlapping social identities<br />
can create tension in the workplace. The workshop will<br />
highlight the role of employee resource groups and how<br />
these groups (whether LGBT or religion-based or both)<br />
can both exacerbate and mitigate intergroup tensions.<br />
Through case studies and interactive role plays, participants<br />
will practice communicating respectfully, dismantling<br />
stereotypes, and identifying micro-aggressions.<br />
Tanenbaum’s tips and tools will help participants learn<br />
how to balance potentially competing interests while encouraging<br />
more inclusive behaviors in the workplace.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 409-a<br />
thursday<br />
Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for<br />
you in client relationships<br />
david hoak, neil toyota, Patricia Wiley, angie Wilson<br />
Ever wonder exactly what the right moment is to let your<br />
client or prospect know about your life when you’re not<br />
consulting? Do you worry about that in a way you don’t<br />
think your straight colleagues have to? Join a panel of human<br />
resource consultants from Ernst & Young and Towers<br />
Watson who will share their personal stories of success<br />
and failure, including: coming out to clients vs. family and<br />
friends; creating business trust and intimacy; leveraging<br />
LGBT networks directly and indirectly; and fostering comfort<br />
and growth all around.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: personal & professional development<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 505<br />
Creating an LGBT ERG mentoring program<br />
elycia lerman, isabel mychajlowycz, angela stevens<br />
This workshop will present the experience of GLOBAL<br />
(Johnson & Johnson’s Gay and Lesbian Organization<br />
for Business and Leadership) in setting up a mentoring<br />
program for its members. The workshop will provide the<br />
value proposition for mentoring and highlight industry<br />
trends in mentoring programs and enabling tools, such as<br />
open mentoring. Attendees will gain personally in terms<br />
of improving their own mentor-mentee experiences and<br />
from the employee resource group leadership perspective<br />
of setting up a program for their members.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals,<br />
erg members, organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
room: 504<br />
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THU Session 4 3:00–5:30<br />
WorkshoPs<br />
Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and<br />
geographically dispersed organization<br />
andy Coutts, eddie daniels, becky gruss, aaron Wright<br />
How can professionals in a diverse organization team<br />
across elements of the organization to form productive<br />
and high-impact employee resource groups? Large organizations<br />
with transitional and geographically dispersed<br />
workforces face many challenges to building a sense of<br />
community. This workshop will cover effective methods<br />
for the organization to communicate and build that sense<br />
of community among the professionals within the organization<br />
with their own sets of experiences, backgrounds,<br />
and job skills.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: erg members<br />
room: 501-a<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your<br />
career as a lesbian or gay employee<br />
laurie olson, nicholas Patrick, susan silbermann,<br />
stuart sowder, Jack Watters<br />
Four out gay senior leaders from Pfizer, the world’s largest<br />
biopharmaceutical company, provide a “view from<br />
the top” and share their perspectives on the nuances<br />
of being a lesbian or gay employee at different career<br />
stages. In this provocative mentoring session, the leaders—two<br />
women and two men—discuss how coming out<br />
or being out at work can shape career progression and<br />
affect management ability and decision-making, as well<br />
as other topics, such as gender disparities specific to<br />
lesbian and gay professionals and how to address them,<br />
and the challenges lesbian and gay professionals face in<br />
non-U.S. environments.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all, health care & pharmaceutical<br />
professionals<br />
room: 513<br />
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The federal workplace café: Conversations<br />
that will inform and inspire<br />
lori lewis, susanne Perkins<br />
Come join with other federal employees to talk about:<br />
being LBGT in the federal workplace; what works and<br />
what doesn’t in federal employee resource groups; our<br />
opportunities and challenges; and what our future could<br />
and will look like. The workshop will consist of a series of<br />
interactive conversations (using the World Café format)<br />
where everyone will have an opportunity to share ideas<br />
and opinions, to learn from each other, and to make connections.<br />
The session is open to all, but federal, tribal,<br />
state, and local government employees or spouses and<br />
partners of same will find it of particular interest.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: government<br />
room: 506<br />
First steps in creating an LGB-inclusive<br />
workplace<br />
daniel danso, madeline lasko, daniel Winterfeldt, esq.<br />
Are you struggling to create an inclusive environment<br />
in your workplace but just don’t know where to start?<br />
Stonewall is here to share learning from the Workplace<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>ity Index, a tool which has been used to advise U.K.<br />
workplaces on sexual orientation equality for the last<br />
seven years. This workshop will give you a step-by-step<br />
guide to workplace equality and share the trends and<br />
best practice that we have seen change the face of workplaces,<br />
and talk about how they could change yours.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 503
WorkshoPs<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an<br />
ERG relevant<br />
Jeff anthony, michael black, ken bester,<br />
ronnie Phillips, Ph.d., stephanie strzalka<br />
In a challenging corporate environment, the importance<br />
of an employee resource group can be difficult to justify.<br />
Even though proving a return on investment for your<br />
ERG can be challenging, there are other creative ways<br />
to make your group relevant. In this workshop, we will<br />
discuss ways to leverage business partners and company<br />
initiatives to increase ERG awareness both internally and<br />
externally.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: lgbt community leaders<br />
room: 511-b<br />
International Roundtable: Focus on India<br />
yvette burton, kevin Jones, brian mcnaught<br />
Since the July 2009 court decision decriminalizing<br />
same-sex behavior between consenting adults, the LGBT<br />
community has begun to become more visible in India,<br />
including in the workplace. Even prior to the decision,<br />
IBM was leading the formation of an employee group in<br />
the country as an extension of its strong global policies of<br />
diversity and inclusion in the workplace. In this session,<br />
IBM and <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> will lead a conversation on the opportunities<br />
for making progress on workplace equality in<br />
India. All companies with interests in India are invited to<br />
be a part of the exchange and planning session.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: international<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 408-b<br />
thursday<br />
Is the ERG obsolete? How to keep your ERG<br />
relevant in a rights-friendly environment<br />
Jane allen, rob bacinski<br />
Most LGBT employee resource groups around the world<br />
have seen their growth fueled by the galvanizing effect<br />
of legislated discrimination. This has long provided the<br />
foundation for ERG success by rallying our allies, gaining<br />
financial support from progressive organizations,<br />
and generating grassroots enthusiasm within the LGBT<br />
community. As the community wins the key rights battles,<br />
however, the question arises, “what next?” Through this<br />
workshop aimed at senior diversity professionals and<br />
other executives, we will explore the challenges and opportunities<br />
faced by ERGs setting up shop in jurisdictions<br />
where the LGBT community has already won the key<br />
legal battles of our generation. Deloitte’s approach to diversity<br />
in Canada, as well as the experiences of its LGBT<br />
ERG, will also be included in this discussion.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 409-b<br />
Merging of cultures in a global company:<br />
A case study of Genentech and Roche<br />
deborah Chang, bruce Cooper, todd Pierce, scuba smith<br />
In this workshop, a panel of Genentech and Roche executives<br />
and managers will discuss the blending of cultures<br />
in a global company post merger. The presentations will<br />
focus on special considerations for LGBT employees<br />
related to navigating multiple cultures within merged<br />
companies as well as global and foreign work assignments<br />
(including relocating with partners) in countries<br />
with differing attitudes and human rights records with<br />
respect to LGBT persons.<br />
level: intermediate<br />
traCk: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 514<br />
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THU Session 4 3:00–5:30<br />
WorkshoPs<br />
The role of ERGs in healthcare organizations<br />
in promoting LGBT health<br />
Jim beaudreau, gregg J. mcConnell<br />
There is growing acceptance within mainstream healthcare<br />
organizations of the need to better address the<br />
healthcare concerns of LGBT individuals. However, more<br />
work needs to be done to ensure that LGBT individuals<br />
are treated fairly and equitably by our nation’s healthcare<br />
system, and that their unique health concerns are being<br />
appropriately addressed. Employee resource groups<br />
often serve as agents of change within their organizations,<br />
serving to leverage their institutions to take steps to better<br />
serve the LGBT community and provide visibility of those<br />
concerns and information to all employees. This program<br />
will showcase a number of best practices that are currently<br />
being used in some of the nation’s largest healthcare<br />
services companies, as well as discuss the role of the<br />
employee resource group in developing the programs. We<br />
will explore a series of lessons learned from these experiences,<br />
educating participants about strategies they can<br />
take back to their own institutions, and discuss current<br />
concerns within their own healthcare segments.<br />
level: advanced<br />
traCk: erg engagement<br />
target audienCe: health care & pharmaceutical<br />
professionals<br />
room: 512<br />
Targeted and privileged: The importance<br />
of examining whiteness within the LGBTIQ<br />
community<br />
laurie b. lippin, Ph.d., stephanie Puentes<br />
How can an understanding of white social identity assist<br />
in addressing LGBTIQ issues in workplace settings? Using<br />
a theoretical construct and activities based on the book,<br />
“Unraveling Whiteness,” we will work experientially to address<br />
the intersection of race and ethnicity with LGBTIQ<br />
issues within our community, as well as their impact on<br />
workplace equity.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: diversity & community<br />
target audienCe: all<br />
room: 410<br />
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Working positively: Answers and action on<br />
HIV in the workplace<br />
zahara raine, beverly tillery<br />
In the third decade of the epidemic, HIV continues to<br />
have a devastating impact on our communities. Over<br />
one million people nationwide are living with HIV today,<br />
and there are approximately 40,000 new infections<br />
each year. Discrimination against people living with HIV<br />
remains a serious problem that marginalizes people living<br />
with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA). Using real-life examples<br />
as case studies, this workshop will provide an overview<br />
of legal developments protecting people living with HIV<br />
and the impact of these issues on your workplace. This<br />
workshop will also ask participants to strategize ways to<br />
combat workplace discrimination of PLWHA and develop<br />
outreach and advocacy strategies that identify and address<br />
the specific needs of employees with HIV or AIDS.<br />
level: introductory<br />
traCk: law & policy<br />
target audienCe: hr & diversity professionals<br />
room: 501-b
Aetna’s<br />
Community<br />
Commitment<br />
©2010 Aetna Inc.<br />
2010004<br />
Aetna is proud to sponsor<br />
the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit.<br />
Aetna has been at the forefront in supporting and leveraging<br />
diversity and celebrating employees’ differences and similarities.<br />
We have worked hard to make LGBT employees and members<br />
feel valued, accepted and included, and we’ve built a<br />
network of health care providers who understand their<br />
unique needs.<br />
“Diversity is integrated into everything we do – from<br />
fostering a workplace where our differences are celebrated, to<br />
developing customer strategies that meet unique needs. Our<br />
country is not one size fits all – our health care system shouldn’t<br />
be either.”<br />
— Mark Bertolini,<br />
Aetna President & Angle ERG Executive Sponsor<br />
Number 3 on the<br />
2010 DiversityInc<br />
Top 10 Companies<br />
for LGBT Employees<br />
Aetna is the brand name used for products and services provided by<br />
one or more of the Aetna group of subsidiary companies, including<br />
Aetna Life Insurance Company and its affiliates (Aetna).
oCtober 7<br />
THU The <strong>Out</strong>ies 7:30–10:00<br />
2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Awards Dinner<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Awards—“The <strong>Out</strong>ies”—are<br />
a celebration of the most noteworthy organizational<br />
achievements in LGBT workplace equality and an opportunity<br />
to appreciate those individuals who are dedicated<br />
to creating a fully inclusive workplace. The awards are<br />
traditionally given in five different categories with two<br />
recognizing individuals and three recognizing organizations.<br />
The 2010 Workplace Summit announces a new Workplace<br />
Award category: Regional Affiliate of the Year. The<br />
2010 Regional Affiliate of the Year will be announced on<br />
Oct. 7 at the Workplace Awards Dinner.<br />
the trailblazer award<br />
The Trailblazer Award recognizes an LGBT person who<br />
has made a significant contribution to advancing workplace<br />
equality by helping improve his or her own workplace<br />
or contributing to equality nationally.<br />
Finalists for the trailblazer award are:<br />
bill hendrix<br />
The Dow Chemical Company<br />
shane snowdon<br />
UCSF<br />
gordon stewart<br />
Pfizer<br />
bob Witeck<br />
Witeck-Combs Communications<br />
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the Champion award<br />
The Champion Award recognizes a non-LGBT person<br />
who has played a pivotal role in championing equal treatment<br />
of LGBT employees on the job. This individual will<br />
have demonstrated a significant commitment to LGBT<br />
workplace rights.<br />
Finalists for the Champion award are:<br />
mark bertolini<br />
Aetna Healthcare<br />
anthony Carter<br />
Johnson & Johnson<br />
Frank kern<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
denise lynn<br />
American Airlines.
the lgbt erg of the year award<br />
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Employee Resource<br />
Group of the Year Award recognizes a particular<br />
ERG—a business group or network with a proven track<br />
record of success in advocating for LGBT equal rights in<br />
its own workplace.<br />
Finalists for the lgbt erg of the year award are:<br />
Clorox Pride (The Clorox Company)<br />
PRIDE (Sodexo)<br />
TI Pride Network (Texas Instruments)<br />
Turn <strong>Out</strong> (Turner Broadcasting Systems)<br />
the significant achievement award<br />
The Significant Achievement Award recognizes an employer<br />
that has made significant strides in advancing a<br />
fair and equitable workplace for its LGBT employees.<br />
Finalists for the Significant Achievement Award are:<br />
Alcoa Inc.<br />
Brown-Forman<br />
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The Dow Chemical Company<br />
ITT Corporation<br />
the Workplace excellence award<br />
The Workplace Excellence Award recognizes an employer<br />
that has a historic and ongoing commitment to pursuing<br />
and executing workplace equality for LGBT employees,<br />
continually raising the bar of workplace equality.<br />
Finalists for the 2010 Workplace Excellence Award are:<br />
Aetna Healthcare<br />
Cisco Systems<br />
Ernst & Young<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
announcing: regional affiliate of the<br />
year award<br />
This new category recognizes a Regional Affiliate that<br />
has expanded considerably as a regional organization<br />
while substantially advancing the national objectives of<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates.<br />
out & equal university<br />
lgbt diversity and<br />
inclusion training programs<br />
Advancing equality through courses and certifications that<br />
enrich lives, empower millions and create workplaces<br />
where everyone can be out and equal.<br />
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selection committee<br />
An independent committee of<br />
business and community leaders<br />
selected the finalists from<br />
dozens of well-qualified nominations.<br />
A second panel of judges<br />
reviewed the qualifications of<br />
the finalists to determine the<br />
award winners. The <strong>Out</strong>ies will<br />
be presented at the Workplace<br />
Awards Dinner on Oct. 7 during<br />
the Summit.<br />
award judges<br />
Francia baez, senior business leader,<br />
head of Global Diversity and Inclusion,<br />
Visa Inc.<br />
eliza byard, PhD, executive director,<br />
GLSEN<br />
lorri Jean, CEO, Los Angeles Gay and<br />
Lesbian Center<br />
randy kammer, vice president of<br />
regulatory affairs and public policy,<br />
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida<br />
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selection committee members<br />
Cathy Campbell, director of diversity and inclusion strategy, Charles Schwab & Co.<br />
eric douglas, senior officer for donor resources, Gill Foundation<br />
bJ kamigaki, quality engineering section manager, Hewlett-Packard<br />
Cindy laughlin, senior diversity consultant, Genentech<br />
glynda mcginnis, vice president, sales development consultant, Wells Fargo<br />
ian myszenski, senior email marketing analyst, Hotwire<br />
alexander vaughan, director of human resources, YMCA of Silicon Valley<br />
isidro villarreal, manager, UMT Consulting Group<br />
mark leno,<br />
California state senator<br />
amanda r. simpson, senior technical<br />
advisor, Bureau of Industry and<br />
Security, Department of Commerce<br />
maxim thorne, senior vice president,<br />
development, NAACP<br />
kenji yoshino, Chief Justice Earl<br />
Warren Professor of Constitutional<br />
Law, New York University
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our overall success. This is why we reward ambitious, passionate people with a<br />
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At Fidelity, you’ll contribute to a strong future — ours and yours.<br />
Come share your perspective.<br />
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friday<br />
OCTOBER 8
9:00 am – 10:30 am<br />
Session 5<br />
& ticketed<br />
breakfast<br />
11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Session 6<br />
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm<br />
Lunch &<br />
closing<br />
plenary<br />
TICKETED BREAKFAST<br />
The business case for marriage equality<br />
FEATURED EVENT<br />
From corporate policy to Capitol Hill<br />
FEATURED EVENTS<br />
friday<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation and gender identity<br />
in the workplace<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public policy<br />
and business leadership<br />
Anti-discrimination: From policy to practice<br />
SPONSORED BY PAUL HASTINGS AND XEROX<br />
PLENARY SPEAKERS<br />
Chely Wright, Chai Feldblum<br />
REGISTRATION OPEN: 8:00 am – 10:00 am<br />
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FRI Session 5 9:00–10:30<br />
mARRIAGE EqUALITY BREAKFAST<br />
The Business Case for Marriage <strong>Equal</strong>ity<br />
SUPPORTED BY THE EVELYN AND WALTER HAAS, JR. FUND<br />
Bob Witeck David Codell Carrie Farrell Brian mcNaught Janson Wu<br />
In 2007, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>—in partnership with Levi Strauss—filed an amici curiae brief with the State Supreme Court of California<br />
in favor of eliminating discrimination in California’s marriage laws. Beyond concerns of social justice, support for laws that<br />
provide an organization’s employees with equal access to benefits is a compelling business issue. Disparities among states<br />
in the right for LGBT couples to be legally wed create corresponding disparities in a company’s ability to recruit, retain, and<br />
relocate employees; offer comparable compensation across jurisdictions. They also complicate recordkeeping. Nevertheless,<br />
only a few companies include the ability of their employees to access civil marriage in their diversity and corporate social<br />
responsibility efforts. Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., will lead a panel of legal and corporate<br />
experts in a discussion of how corporations can approach marriage equality. Breakfast is included with tickets for this event.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate TRACK: featured panel<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all ROOm: Petree Hall-C<br />
FEATURED SPEAKER<br />
From corporate policy to Capitol Hill<br />
ORGANIzED BY UCLA WILLIAmS INSTITUTE AND UCLA EXECUTIVE EDUCATION<br />
Naomi Goldberg<br />
In the current legal landscape, there is a great deal corporations can do for their LGBT employees and clients. But even with<br />
the best policies and intentions, full equality can’t always be achieved from the board room. When should your company<br />
move beyond corporate policies and work for broader legal and policy changes impacting LGBT people? This session will<br />
look at these issues by examining a joint project of Merrill Lynch and the Williams Institute. In 2008 and 2009 Merrill Lynch<br />
sponsored a series of research projects by the Williams Institute examining the unequal treatment that same-sex couples<br />
receive in terms of federal income taxes, estate taxes, and retirement benefits.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate TRACK: featured speaker<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all ROOm: 411-Theatre<br />
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From Our Family to Yours<br />
FEATURED PANELS<br />
“Johnson & Johnson is<br />
proud of the achievements<br />
of our GLBT ERG and<br />
supports their efforts to<br />
ensure that our company<br />
continues to be an<br />
‘employer of choice’<br />
for all.”<br />
Anthony P. Carter<br />
Chief Diversity Officer<br />
Johnson & Johnson<br />
At the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, our vision of diversity includes<br />
everyone—from our employees, to our suppliers, to our customers. Diversity is<br />
what makes us strong—and it’s what keeps us uniquely qualified and energized as<br />
a resourceful and creative leader. At the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies,<br />
our people are who we are.<br />
Johnson & Johnson is:<br />
n Ranked #1 overall for diversity in 2009 and<br />
#2 in 2010. (DiversityInc.)<br />
n Ranked one of the “Top 10” best places to work for<br />
GLBT employees (DiversityInc.) in 2008 and 2009<br />
© Johnson & Johnson 2010<br />
Diversity is the<br />
Family of Companies
OCTOBER 8<br />
FRI<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Accommodating religion and sexual<br />
orientation in the workplace: Promoting<br />
tolerance and diverse views<br />
Ian Hlawati, Esq., michele E. Phillips, Esq.<br />
Analyzing diverse perspectives and utilizing presenter<br />
role play to demonstrate important legal themes, this<br />
workshop will explore the delicate balance between an<br />
employer’s duty to reasonably accommodate sincerely<br />
held religious beliefs and practices, and the obligation to<br />
create a welcoming environment for employees who do<br />
not follow those same beliefs and practices. In particular,<br />
the workshop will discuss the conflict between religious<br />
belief and sexual orientation in the workplace.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: law & policy<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 518<br />
The Bridge: Working across ERGs<br />
Blake DuBois, Eric Thalasinos<br />
Do you want to gain new membership for your employee<br />
resource group and be able to work on larger, more<br />
exciting programs? Do you want to promote diversity and<br />
cultural learning while maximizing budget resources? By<br />
partnering with other ERGs in your company you can accomplish<br />
all of this and more. In this informative presentation,<br />
we will explore how the Merck Rainbow Alliance<br />
successfully partnered with the other Merck ERGs under<br />
an umbrella organization called The Bridge. We will<br />
examine best practices in working across ERGs, and the<br />
challenges therein. At the end of the session, attendees<br />
will be able to describe why an LBGT ERG should partner<br />
with other ERGs and how to effect that partnership.<br />
Please join us for a fun and interactive session.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 510<br />
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Session 5 9:00–10:30<br />
Building LGBT leadership: Cummins’ strategic<br />
vision for LGBT inclusion<br />
Bruce C. Carver, Sameer D. Samudra<br />
Come learn about one company’s journey from acknowledgement<br />
of LGBT diversity to advocacy efforts for the<br />
LGBT community. Cummins, a Fortune 500 company<br />
headquartered in Columbus, Ind., added sexual orientation<br />
to its non-discrimination policy in 1998, and in 2007,<br />
company executives publicly testified against SJR 7, an<br />
amendment that would have banned gay marriage. What<br />
were the steps taken, issues faced, and lessons learned<br />
by the top leadership, employee resource group leaders,<br />
LGBT employees, and human resources professionals in<br />
this journey? Take away tips and information on how to<br />
get leadership support, create a strategic roadmap, and<br />
add business value while creating LGBT inclusion.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: HR & diversity professionals<br />
ROOm: 511-A<br />
The business case for transgender-inclusive<br />
health benefits<br />
Rebecca J. Solomon<br />
There is an increasing consensus in the established<br />
medical community and beyond that transgender-related<br />
health care is “medically necessary” care. However, in<br />
employer-provided health benefit plans, the specific<br />
exclusion of any medical benefit for transgender-related<br />
care is still widely prevalent, even among companies that<br />
have a transgender-inclusive non-discrimination policy.<br />
This workshop will focus on making the case to employers<br />
for the need to remove such exclusions from their<br />
health-benefit plans. Topics covered include: the gap<br />
between non-discrimination policy and practice; a cost<br />
analysis; employee recuitment, retention and productivity<br />
impacts; evolving diversity recognition standards; case<br />
studies; and best practices.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: law & policy<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: HR & diversity professionals<br />
ROOm: 511-B
WORKSHOPS<br />
The care and feeding of straight allies<br />
at work: What LGBTs must know for<br />
successful inclusion<br />
Jody m. Huckaby, Jean-marie Navetta<br />
Everyone wants straight allies in their ERGs, but not<br />
everyone is successful in attracting, engaging, and retaining<br />
allies after the initial ask. PFLAG—the original ally<br />
organization—launched a program in 2007 specifically<br />
designed to try a new approach to providing LGBTs and<br />
existing allies tools to attract new supporters. Find out<br />
about the research used to launch the effort, the strategies<br />
employed, and how LGBT professionals can deploy<br />
these strategies to attract, educate, and keep allies<br />
engaged at work.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 507<br />
The disability community and the LGBT<br />
community: Similarities, differences,<br />
and alliances<br />
Nadine O. Vogel<br />
On issues like recruiting, etiquette, and awareness; employee<br />
resource groups; coming out; and other workforce<br />
or workplace challenges, the LGBT community has<br />
allies in the disability community. This sister community<br />
includes employees with disabilities or those who have a<br />
child or other dependent with special needs. Yes, there<br />
are a myriad of differences, but there are many more<br />
similarities that can be extremely powerful for everyone<br />
when addressed properly.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: HR & diversity professionals<br />
ROOm: 511-C<br />
friday<br />
Diversity sells: How to leverage LGBT support<br />
into sales internationally<br />
Ian Johnson<br />
There is an ongoing need to ensure enhanced diversity<br />
and inclusion work at almost all corporations. Often,<br />
though, this work exists in a relative vacuum with little<br />
interface outside the organization itself. New research<br />
from the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> Now Global LGBT Study reveals quite<br />
dramatic potential for D&I work—as well as other LGBT<br />
development activities such as sponsorships and marketing<br />
outreach—to leverage brand selection decisions.<br />
Discover how your good work in workplace diversity can<br />
actually become a practical tactic to enhance your company’s<br />
marketing and sales function. With research from<br />
North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle<br />
East, and Australia this session delivers valuable practical<br />
takeouts—and then some. Apply this new research data<br />
to discover additional management buy-in—and budgets—within<br />
your organization.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: international<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 513<br />
Energy sector LGBT employee resource group<br />
best practices<br />
Neddy Perez<br />
This interactive learning and discussion session is designed<br />
to uncover the challenges and issues still being<br />
faced by LGBT professionals in the energy sector and<br />
talk about how employee resource groups can help address<br />
those challenges.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members, energy & utilities sector<br />
ROOm: 504<br />
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FRI<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Going deeper: Engaging your members and<br />
allies with social software<br />
Christopher Wyble, michael J. Young<br />
IBM uses many of the same products it offers to clients<br />
as productivity tools for its own employees. Additionally,<br />
much of this technology and software is available for use<br />
by its employee resource groups to actively engage with<br />
constituents. This workshop will show concrete examples<br />
of how social software has allowed for stronger and more<br />
effective engagement among LGBT IBMers and their<br />
allies, and will offer hands-on tips for participants to get<br />
started with their own social software strategy.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 505<br />
Identifying, building and developing an LGBT<br />
pipeline of rising stars<br />
Chris Crespo, Rosanna Delia, Patricia Wiley<br />
Looking around and wondering who will be the next out<br />
visible executive within your organization, or the next<br />
leader of your LGBT affinity group, or the next face of<br />
your LGBT initiatives? From identifying to coaching and<br />
retention, this workshop aims to help organizations start<br />
at the beginning of the process in engaging LGBT candidates<br />
for leadership opportunities, providing support<br />
and professional development, and ultimately assisting<br />
them in achieving their full potential. Building a pipeline<br />
of leaders is good for their careers and your organization.<br />
Join Ernst & Young, along with a panel of other industry<br />
leaders, for a discussion on leading strategies to build<br />
and take advantage of your group’s full potential.<br />
LEVEL: advanced<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
ROOm: 512<br />
LGBT health disparities: Another case for<br />
partner benefits<br />
Bryan P. Baugh, mD, James Witek, mD, FACP<br />
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Session 5 9:00–10:30<br />
This interactive workshop is designed to highlight the<br />
health disparities faced by the LGBT community. Through<br />
discussion and dialogue health disparities will be elaborated<br />
and proposed as another reason to advocate for<br />
partner benefits.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: law & policy<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all, health care & pharmaceutical<br />
professionals<br />
ROOm: 408-A<br />
Reaching out to engage employees<br />
everywhere<br />
Greg Ligotti, Lynda Pires, Carol Rodriguez, Scott<br />
Willoughby<br />
This workshop will present a discussion of best practices<br />
for resource groups and diversity leaders to engage<br />
employees everywhere, including field and international<br />
locations. This will include establishing your organization’s<br />
objectives for outreach and how doing so can<br />
have an impact and “change the feel of the place.” We<br />
will explore tools such as social networking and the use<br />
of virtual employee resource groups, as well as discuss<br />
culture challenges.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 408-B<br />
The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong><br />
Stewart Anderson, mark F. Carden, Ryk Koscielski<br />
The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong> was created to provide a company<br />
tool that reinforces the message of inclusion to all<br />
employees that the work environment is supportive of<br />
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered associates and<br />
that hostility and negative behavior in the workplace will<br />
not be tolerated. This workshop offers a brief overview<br />
of the history and creation of the Safe Space <strong>Program</strong>,<br />
and how it was implemented at AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, and<br />
Hewlett Packard. The major focus of the workshop will<br />
be to offer attendees a methodology for implementing<br />
a Safe Space in your workplace by sharing what worked<br />
and didn’t work well at the panel companies. The Safe<br />
Space <strong>Program</strong> and Symbol (pink triangle surrounded by
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a green circle) are registered trademarks of EQUAL! For<br />
more information, visit http://www.equal.org/.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 506<br />
Twitter for human resources staff: Minimize<br />
your time, maximize your return<br />
Julie Beach, m.A.<br />
Recruiters and other human resources staff will leave this<br />
brief workshop knowing how to efficiently use Twitter to<br />
market their company’s brand, access breaking human<br />
resources news, gain intelligence on targeted occupations,<br />
and find outstanding candidates.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: personal & professional development<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: HR & diversity professionals<br />
ROOm: 501-C<br />
When health care isn’t caring: Combating<br />
health care discrimination of LGBT people<br />
and PLWHA<br />
zahara Raine, Beverly Tillery<br />
Using key findings from Lambda Legal’s Health Care Fairness<br />
Survey, this workshop will review results of unprecedented<br />
research on health care disparities and discrimination<br />
faced by LGBT people and people living with HIV<br />
or AIDS (PLWHA). By providing a powerful snapshot of<br />
the experiences of a diverse cross-section of members of<br />
the LGBT and HIV communities nationwide, this workshop<br />
will also identify key issues for employee resource<br />
groups to advocate for, such as comprehensive cultural<br />
competency and inclusive policies and coverage. In<br />
reviewing the connections between the LGBT and healthcare<br />
reform movements, this workshop will explore how<br />
polices and programs can more sufficiently address particular<br />
needs of LGBT and HIV-affected employees.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 501-A<br />
heartofcommerce.com<br />
©2010 MasterCard<br />
friday<br />
It’s just a piece of plastic that lives in your wallet<br />
that understands diverse perspectives lead to<br />
unique innovations and limitless possibilities.<br />
One look at our DNA, and you’ll see it’s made up<br />
of s, s, and s. Not to mention a few s.<br />
As a global network that connects people of all<br />
backgrounds, MasterCard Worldwide understands that<br />
when s, s, s, and s work together, it creates the<br />
fresh thinking that leads to groundbreaking ideas.<br />
That’s why supporting diversity lies at the foundation<br />
of our company. Because diversity is at the heart of<br />
innovation, and innovation puts MasterCard squarely at<br />
The Heart of Commerce. <br />
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OCTOBER 8<br />
FRI Session 6 11:00–12:30<br />
FEATURED PANELS<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in the workplace<br />
ORGANIzED BY TANENBAUm CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING<br />
Deb<br />
Dagit<br />
Joyce<br />
Dubensky<br />
Joyce Dubensky, executive vice president and CEO of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, will<br />
moderate this panel featuring Tanenbaum’s Religious Diversity in the Workplace Advisory Council members Ana Duarte<br />
McCarthy, chief diversity officer, Citi; Deb Dagit, chief diversity officer, Merck; and Mark Fowler, Tanenbaum’s director of<br />
programs. Religious and LGBT policies and programs in the workplace can sometimes result in workplace conflicts and<br />
misunderstandings. We will explore what happens when strongly held identities and values collide with one another,<br />
potentially derailing diversity and inclusion efforts. Panelists will discuss how their companies have dealt with challenges<br />
that arise when social identities such as religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and gender expression cause tension,<br />
misunderstandings, and counter-productive behavior. Tanenbaum will share proven practices for addressing these<br />
types of issues from its ongoing benchmarking of companies. Merck and Citi CDOs will delve into the practical application<br />
of these practices, including Pride month celebrations, whether to sponsor an interfaith employee resource group,<br />
domestic partner benefits, and inclusion of partners in company-sponsored social activities. This will be an interactive<br />
session where attendees can bring their ideas and concerns in a candid and practical atmosphere of problem-solving<br />
and exchange of proven practices.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate TRACK: featured panel<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all ROOm: 515-A<br />
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Fowler<br />
Ana Duarte<br />
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FEATURED PANELS<br />
FEATURED SPEAKER<br />
friday<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public policy and business leadership<br />
ORGANIzED BY WITECK-COmBS COmmUNICATIONS AND THE GAY & LESBIAN VICTORY FUND<br />
Toni Atkins Brandon<br />
Hernandez<br />
David Parks Chuck Wolfe<br />
This featured panel, moderated by Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, will foster a<br />
dynamic conversation among some of the nation’s most respected LGBT elected officials and leaders. As American<br />
society itself advances, the focus of their dialogue will be how political and business engagement together are creating<br />
conditions for lasting change on many top LGBT priorities such as employment nondiscrimination, transgender acceptance<br />
and nondiscrimination, LGBT employment benefits, marriage and partnership equality, and HIV/AIDS, health and<br />
wellness disparities.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate TRACK: featured panel<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all ROOm: 515-B<br />
Anti-discrimination: From policy to practice<br />
ORGANIzED BY UCLA WILLIAmS INSTITUTE AND UCLA EXECUTIVE EDUCATION<br />
m. V. Lee Badgett<br />
It’s one thing to pass federal and state legislation to protect LGBT people in the workplace,<br />
it’s another to put such laws into practice. Even when companies adopt policies that follow or<br />
improve on legal requirements, do they actually change workplace climate and help to attract<br />
and retain talented workers? How can companies measure the impact of their policies? What<br />
new challenges are created when such policies are adopted? In this session, Williams Institute<br />
Research Director Lee Badgett will discuss the challenges of putting new corporate policies in<br />
practice, with a focus on anti-discrimination and domestic partnership policies.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate TRACK: featured speaker<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all ROOm: 411-Theatre<br />
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After the dust settles: Rebuilding your ERG<br />
Ann Dunkin, Stephanie Puentes<br />
In today’s corporate environment, change is the only constant.<br />
Significant organizational changes like mergers, acquisitions,<br />
and divestitures can adversely affect even the most robust<br />
employee resource group. When the dust settles, you may<br />
find that you’ve lost key people and resources, and that your<br />
membership is no longer engaged. So how do you go about<br />
rebuilding your ERG? In this workshop you will learn how to<br />
assess your situation, rebuild your alliances, develop realistic<br />
objectives, and re-energize your membership.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 409-B<br />
Bringing the T to the ERG: Advocating for a<br />
transgender-inclusive workplace<br />
masen Davis, Kristina Wertz<br />
Are you ready to prioritize transgender issues in your<br />
employee resource group? Is your ERG in a position to<br />
improve the experience of your transgender coworkers?<br />
Come learn about challenges and opportunities facing<br />
transgender people in the workplace, strategies to<br />
support transgender employment, and ways to advocate<br />
for good policies and practices in your company. From<br />
health benefits to restroom access, we’ll tackle some of<br />
the most pressing issues your ERG can take on.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 503<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for<br />
your ERG<br />
michael Bolin, marjorie Hill, Ph.D., milton Irvin,<br />
Patrick Sheahan, Ph.D., Andrew Wallace<br />
In just 90 minutes, learn how to boost your employee resource<br />
group with valuable injections of creativity, visibility,<br />
and productivity by creating and leveraging deep and<br />
lasting partnerships across your organization, and with<br />
the LGBT community at large. Learn how UBS has built<br />
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and sustained internal relationships with our CEO’s office,<br />
community and public affairs, diversity, and communications<br />
and marketing. In addition, we’ll hear from the CEO<br />
of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Dr. Marjorie Hill, how to get<br />
the best out of your nonprofit relationships. There will be<br />
the opportunity to hear expert advice from our esteemed<br />
panel, as well as the chance to share your successes and<br />
war stories in an interactive group discussion.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 507<br />
Count me in: Including LGBT in workplace<br />
demographic data collection<br />
michael Bach, Elaine Newman<br />
Traditionally, when employers collect demographic data<br />
about their staff, the LGBT community has not had the opportunity<br />
to be included. We’ve heard numerous excuses,<br />
but none of them get to the point—we want to be counted.<br />
This workshop will follow the journey of how KPMG in<br />
Canada, with assistance from Global Learning, successfully<br />
introduced LGBT as an identifier in their data collection<br />
process—first on their employee satisfaction survey,<br />
and then on their state-of-the-art diversity profile tool.<br />
LEVEL: advanced<br />
TRACK: workplace climate—policies to practice<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 501-C<br />
Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart<br />
and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders<br />
(SAGE)<br />
michael Adams, Crosby Cromwell, Bruce Gillispie,<br />
Sharon Orlopp<br />
Recent trends in corporate philanthropy in the LGBT<br />
space reflect companies’ growing interest in community<br />
partnerships that move beyond event sponsorships<br />
and connect philanthropic goals with business needs.<br />
Walmart and SAGE, a nonprofit organization whose<br />
mission is to lead in addressing issues related to LGBT<br />
aging, recently launched SAGEWorks, a comprehensive<br />
employment-readiness training program and on-line
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resource center for LGBT older adults. This workshop<br />
discusses SAGEWorks and shares best practices and<br />
strategies from the creation of this mutually beneficial<br />
partnership. Walmart’s senior management, office of<br />
diversity, and LGBT associate resource group, as well as<br />
SAGE’s executive director, discuss how communication<br />
between the two organizations began, how shared goals<br />
were identified, and how the partnership found the support<br />
necessary to reach fruition.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 511-C<br />
ERGs and employees in the beverage<br />
alcohol business: Driving for change in a<br />
conservative industry<br />
marilyn Beardsley, Esq., mark St. Cyr,<br />
Anthony Gajewski, Lou Willsea<br />
The wine and spirits industry is conservative by consumer<br />
product group standards, with structural and<br />
philosophical roots going back to Prohibition. A handful<br />
of suppliers, distributors and retailers are embracing full<br />
LGBT equality in their workplaces, and interacting with<br />
each other to socialize LGBT equality throughout the<br />
three-tier beverage alcohol distribution system.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 410<br />
Giving (and getting) back: Nonprofit boards<br />
for beginners<br />
Sara Johnston, Lester Thompson<br />
Joining a nonprofit board or committee can be a wonderful<br />
way for professionals to develop their skills while<br />
making a difference for the organization. Yet many of<br />
us are uncertain about how to do this or what it entails.<br />
In particular, younger professionals who are new to the<br />
workforce may be unsure if they have what it takes to<br />
support their community in this way. Come hear a panel<br />
of nonprofit professionals and corporate volunteers<br />
friday<br />
discuss the challenges and opportunities of joining a<br />
nonprofit board.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: personal & professional development<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 506<br />
GLAAD media training for leaders<br />
Rashad Robinson, Dannie Tillman<br />
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s<br />
(GLAAD) media field strategy team will lead a media<br />
training session to assist a diverse array of organizations<br />
and employee resource groups in generating additional<br />
media coverage for LGBT issues within their organizations,<br />
as well as in their local communities. The training<br />
will focus on three core areas for increasing the media<br />
competency of participants: sharing your story, developing<br />
media relations and communicating your message.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 511-B<br />
Health benefits for transgender and<br />
transsexual employees, the WPATH<br />
Standards of Care, and the CEI<br />
Jamison Green, Samir Luther, André Wilson, m.S.<br />
This workshop is designed to help employers achieve<br />
fully-inclusive health insurance with respect to the Corporate<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>ity Index 3.0 criteria and the World Professional<br />
Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of<br />
Care. Based on our experience with CEI-rated employers’<br />
plans, we’ll walk through and take questions about<br />
tips and best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and educational<br />
resources to address misconceptions.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: law & policy<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: HR & diversity professionals, benefits<br />
professionals<br />
ROOm: 409-A<br />
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I love you, may it please the court<br />
David m. Hall, Ed.D.<br />
This workshop will examine the legal issues surrounding<br />
same-sex marriage, specifically focusing on Perry v.<br />
Schwarzenegger, the case seeking to overturn California’s<br />
Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.<br />
Often the debate about same-sex marriage involves<br />
people sharing their opinions. However, there are clear<br />
legal and constitutional arguments that will and are being<br />
made in court. This workshop helps participants frame<br />
the marriage equality debate from a cognitive perspective<br />
rather than an emotional one. It will deconstruct the<br />
legal arguments on both sides and make them accessible<br />
for everyone to understand.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 511-A<br />
Leveraging change management concepts to<br />
maximize impact of LGBT programs<br />
Bryan Schneidmuller<br />
In this interactive workshop, you will gain knowledge<br />
about change management, including understanding the<br />
nature and elements of change as it relates to the design,<br />
planning, and execution of an LGBT program in your<br />
organization. You will also be introduced to the complexities<br />
associated with introducing LGBT programs and how<br />
the steps of change management will support smooth<br />
program execution.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: ERG engagement<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 505<br />
LGBT issues in an international setting<br />
Eleanor mulligan, Scott Safier, Sarah Stuart<br />
Supporting diversity and inclusion in an international organization<br />
presents many challenges, including cultural,<br />
legal, and social barriers. Supporting LGBT employees<br />
is incredibly important, but can also be very challenging<br />
for multi-national corporations. In many countries, LGBT<br />
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people face open discrimination, violence, and criminal<br />
prosecution. Utilizing employee resource groups to help<br />
navigate these challenges and develop inclusive workplace<br />
practices globally has proven to be successful<br />
for Google. Google’s LGBT ERG has been both reactive<br />
and proactive in our international offices to support our<br />
colleagues, including being the first corporate sponsor<br />
of Pride in Israel, sponsoring Europride in Poland this<br />
year, and creating LGBT affinity groups in Latin American<br />
countries. In this workshop, we will use Google’s experience<br />
as a case study for how ERG involvement can<br />
enable companies to scale their inclusion efforts globally<br />
and customize these efforts for the individual offices and<br />
cultures in which they operate. Participants will gain an<br />
understanding of some of the issues faced by LGBT employees<br />
in a global company, hear about ideas that have<br />
worked and some that have not, and exchange ideas,<br />
experiences, and strategies from other companies.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: international<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 518<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make<br />
an impact at work and in the community<br />
Dawn Ackerman, Carol Attak, Victoria Fulkerson,<br />
Thompson Harner, Frantz Tiffeau Jr.<br />
The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s<br />
(NGLCC) rapidly expanding LGBT supplier diversity initiative<br />
offers a host of opportunities for members of corporate<br />
employee resource groups to get involved nationally and in<br />
their local LGBT business community. Certification for LGBTowned<br />
businesses is helping to empower the LGBT community<br />
and increase access to contracts as well as business<br />
development opportunities with corporations across the<br />
country and around the globe. In 2011, the Human Rights<br />
Campaign’s Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index will score corporate<br />
America on its commitment to LGBT supplier diversity. Learn<br />
how corporate ERGs and their members play a vital role in<br />
this process and find out how you can help expand opportunities<br />
for LGBT businesses and entrepreneurs. Attendees<br />
can expect to hear an overview of the NGLCC’s certification<br />
process as well as ways to engage your company in LGBT<br />
supplier diversity. NGLCC Corporate Partners Ernst & Young<br />
and Office Depot, along with NGLCC-certified company
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<strong>Out</strong>Smart Office Solutions, will share their experiences of<br />
becoming active on the local and national levels with LGBT<br />
supplier diversity and the NGLCC.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: law & policy<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 501-A<br />
London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal<br />
profession in the United Kingdom<br />
Petra Braybrook, madeline Lasko, Stephen Ward,<br />
Daniel K. Winterfeldt, Esq.<br />
A presentation of two ground-breaking studies of the<br />
career experiences of LGBT people in the legal sector in<br />
the United Kingdom, carried out jointly by The InterLaw<br />
Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks and The Law Society<br />
of England and Wales. The Survey of LGB Solicitors<br />
2009/10 asked LGB solicitors about their experiences<br />
within the legal profession. The LGBT Judicial Diversity<br />
Survey 2009/10’s aim was to address perceptions of the<br />
judiciary from the angle of sexual orientation. The session<br />
will cover how the two studies were developed and<br />
implemented, what we learned, and the next steps to take.<br />
We will also compare the studies with similar studies on<br />
women and people of color in the U.K. legal profession.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: international<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all, legal professionals<br />
ROOm: 502-B<br />
friday<br />
Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs<br />
Blake Gaither, F. Chase Hawkins, Frankie O’Connor,<br />
Kristy Thomsen, Louise Young, Ph.D.<br />
Four distinct generations are now occupying the same<br />
workplace. The different characteristics of these generations<br />
have enormous potential impacts on employee<br />
resource groups, especially regarding their focus and<br />
cohesion. Raytheon ERG leaders from all four generations<br />
will discuss the characteristics of their generation<br />
and will share results of a Raytheon ERG leaders’ lunch,<br />
held during <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s Summit, where generational<br />
differences and their effect on the future of ERGs were<br />
addressed. Come to our workshop to learn how to start<br />
the conversation in your own company.<br />
LEVEL: introductory<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: all<br />
ROOm: 408-A<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of<br />
working with Gen Y<br />
Paul El-meouchy, Tim Garippa, Nate Parker,<br />
Karina Radulescu, Leah Reynolds<br />
RT @workplacesummit: Join us 2 learn benefits Gen Y<br />
brings 2 companies & how 2 work w/ or manage them.<br />
#Boomers #Millennials #LGBT #<strong>Equal</strong>ity. Gen Y members<br />
are very connected to technology, information, and each<br />
other and this means they are going to be productive and<br />
dynamic leaders of the future workplace. We will share<br />
insight on effective communication and management<br />
strategies across generations.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: personal & professional development<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: organizational leadership (executives/<br />
management)<br />
ROOm: 510<br />
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Two moms, two dads, Dora, Bratz,<br />
and GI Joe: Navigating the gender divide<br />
with your kids<br />
Elizabeth Birch, Gina Reiss, mike Syers<br />
As an LGBT parent, things are complicated when it comes<br />
to gender. Raise your daughter as a good feminist or fight<br />
the good fight against Barbie, Hannah Montana and the<br />
pink Princess? Give your son the Hulk, Transformers, and<br />
GI Joe, or fight the macho toys and encourage him to be<br />
a little metrosexual? Your father-in-law goes red when he<br />
sees your son’s one doll, while your mom worries you’re<br />
raising your daughter to be gay. Gender is fraught for all<br />
parents, especially gay ones.<br />
LEVEL: intermediate<br />
TRACK: diversity & community<br />
TARGET AUDIENCE: ERG members<br />
ROOm: 512
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Chely Wright—who launched her music career nearly two decades ago—made headlines<br />
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presenters
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Aaron Aanenson<br />
Harnessing social media for ERG outreach, awareness,<br />
and engagement<br />
Aaron Aanenson works at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean,<br />
VA, where he supports the EPA in testing, designing, and<br />
analyzing information systems. One of his passions is<br />
traveling, which has led him to visit 14 countries, as well as<br />
live abroad in Bogotá, Colombia. He recently graduated<br />
from Pace University, and is a long-time supporter of the<br />
gay rights movement, working with various organizations<br />
and the religious community.<br />
Michael Abata<br />
Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can engage leaders<br />
and drive business results<br />
Michael Abata has played a pivotal role in executing new<br />
strategies put forth by leadership in his role as business<br />
initiatives chair on Target’s GLBT Business Council. His position<br />
within Target’s guest insights team has provided the<br />
council with a wealth of robust research, which has been<br />
used to better align Target’s core values to the needs and<br />
desires of guests and team members.<br />
Wesley W. Abrameit<br />
Managing through difficult economic times<br />
Wes Abrameit is vice president for commercial operations<br />
data management at Citi, where he oversees an area<br />
that is responsible for producing critical management<br />
information systems, while administering all bank control<br />
record modifications and rate updates for the business<br />
side of the bank at the Citibank Client Services site in San<br />
Antonio. Wes, with a group of colleagues, organized and<br />
founded the Citi Pride Network in San Antonio in 2005,<br />
where he currently serves as co-chair. He has a bachelor’s<br />
degree in business administration from the University of<br />
the Incarnate Word and will complete his M.B.A. next year.<br />
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Dawn Ackerman<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact at<br />
work and in the community<br />
Dawn Ackerman is founder and CEO of EcoToner, a green<br />
office supply company in Los Angeles, and also the president<br />
and chief financial officer of <strong>Out</strong>Smart Office Solutions,<br />
a Seattle-based LGBT green office supply company<br />
certified by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of<br />
Commerce (NGLCC). She has served on the board of the<br />
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce for<br />
the last six years, including two terms as president, and<br />
is currently on the NGLCC’s national procurement council.<br />
She was honored to be named the 2006 Planet <strong>Out</strong><br />
“LGBT Entrepreneur of the Year.”<br />
Michael Adams<br />
Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart and<br />
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)<br />
Michael Adams is the executive director of SAGE (Services<br />
& Advocacy for GLBT Elders). Located in New York City,<br />
SAGE is the oldest and largest such organization in the<br />
country. Previously, Michael was the director of education<br />
and public affairs for Lambda Legal, and prior to that<br />
he spent a decade as an attorney leading cutting-edge<br />
litigation that established new rights for LGBT people.<br />
Rob Adkisson<br />
Changing the way we work and live: Inclusive policies,<br />
practices, and processes<br />
Rob Adkisson is the commercial services marketing manager<br />
at Cisco Systems. He is the president of the Cisco<br />
GLBT & Advocates employee resource group. Under his<br />
leadership, the GLBT & Advocates ERG has increased its<br />
influence and presence domestically and internationally.<br />
He worked with other Cisco ERGs to creates a companywide<br />
“tell-your-story” project to promote diversity.<br />
Jane Allen<br />
Is the ERG obsolete? How to keep your ERG relevant in<br />
a rights-friendly environment<br />
Jane Allen is a partner and chief diversity officer at<br />
Deloitte, and national leader for power and utilities. As<br />
chief diversity officer, she is responsible for implementing<br />
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across Canada, and is the company’s spokesperson<br />
on diversity matters. Jane also retains her client service<br />
responsibilities, specializing in strategy and business<br />
performance improvement, and consults to energy clients<br />
in Canada and internationally. Prior to joining Deloitte,<br />
she was assistant dean at the University of Toronto, and a<br />
policy advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Energy and the<br />
Ontario Women’s Directorate.<br />
Stewart T. Anderson<br />
The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong><br />
Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our<br />
phobias and “isms”<br />
Stewart Anderson is a business operations manager in<br />
Hewlett-Packard’s personal systems group. He is currently<br />
the chair of HP’s global PRIDE leadership council and<br />
is an active trainer in HP’s Safe Space <strong>Program</strong>. Stewart<br />
is a diversity champion in his community as well, serving<br />
as vice president of PFLAG’s Northern Colorado chapter,<br />
on the Martin Luther King Celebration planning committee,<br />
and participating in the local initiative for Freedom to<br />
Marry Day. He is an alumnus of the UCLA Leadership Institute,<br />
and <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s Executive Forum. Stewart lives<br />
in Fort Collins, CO, with his husband, Jim. They have two<br />
grown children, and when not hiking in the woods around<br />
their cabin, they are exploring the strange new territory of<br />
being empty-nesters.<br />
Amy Andre<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
on bisexual lives<br />
Featured from CNN to Cosmo for her work as a bisexual/<br />
LGBT activist, Amy Andre is the co-author of Bisexual<br />
Health and the executive director of San Francisco Pride.<br />
With a master’s degree in sexuality studies (focused on<br />
bisexual identity), Amy has taught thousands of people at<br />
over 100 conferences, businesses, and schools. Recently,<br />
she earned an M.B.A. in nonprofit management from UC<br />
Berkeley’s acclaimed Haas School of Business. Visit amyandre.com<br />
for details.<br />
Jeff Anthony<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG<br />
relevant<br />
Jeff Anthony is a creative manager at Kimberly-Clark<br />
Professional, a division of Kimberly-Clark, where he is a<br />
steward for key brands such as Scott, Kleenex, Wypall,<br />
and Kimtech. He is the creative manager for all print and<br />
interactive marketing campaigns for customers such as<br />
Home Depot, Lowes, Wal-Mart, and Sam’s Club. He is an<br />
active member of the Pride employee resource group.
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Toni Atkins<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public<br />
policy and business leadership<br />
Toni Atkins served two terms on the San Diego city<br />
council, from 2000 to 2008. She was chosen to serve as<br />
deputy mayor in 2005 during a vacancy in the mayor’s<br />
office. During her tenure Toni chaired the city council’s<br />
Committee on Budget and Finance, the Public Safety &<br />
Neighborhood Services Committee, and sat on the Audit,<br />
Land Use and Housing, Natural Resources and Culture,<br />
and Rules committees. Toni represented the City of San<br />
Diego on various boards and executive committees and<br />
was considered a leader in areas of affordable housing,<br />
workers’ rights, and neighborhood services and revitalization.<br />
A key accomplishment on behalf of the LGBT<br />
community was when she persuaded the city council and<br />
the mayor to add the City of San Diego to a friend-of-thecourt<br />
brief in support of marriage equality in 2007. Toni<br />
has received dozens of awards for her work both in and<br />
out of office, including the Gay and Lesbian Leadership<br />
Award from the Lesbian and Gay Victory Fund in honor of<br />
her leadership as the deputy mayor. Since leaving office,<br />
Toni has joined LeSar Development as a senior policy analyst,<br />
where her focus is affordable housing projects.Toni,<br />
originally from southwestern Virginia, graduated from<br />
Emory & Henry College with a degree in political science<br />
with a focus on community organizing. In July 2004, she<br />
completed the Senior Executive <strong>Program</strong> at the prestigious<br />
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard<br />
University. Toni currently resides with her spouse, Jennifer<br />
LeSar, and their standard poodle, Haley.<br />
Carol Attak<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact<br />
at work and in the community<br />
Carol Attak is U.S. supplier diversity program coordinator<br />
for Accenture, where she is responsible for the day-today<br />
initiatives, deliverables, and processes of the program.<br />
She manages the online supplier diversity management<br />
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Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Jonathon Aubry oversees all West Coast entertainment<br />
advertising partnerships for Here Media. Previously, he<br />
was vice president, marketing and distribution, for Regent<br />
Releasing, and directed the marketing and publicity campaigns<br />
for all of Regent’s theatrical and DVD releases. In<br />
addition to his professional work, Jonathon is very active<br />
in the arts community and serves on the board of Los<br />
Angeles’ <strong>Out</strong>fest Film Festival, where he co-chairs the<br />
development committee.<br />
Tim Avant<br />
Real and relevant issues of LGBTQ members:<br />
Expanding how we define diversity training<br />
Tim Avant suffered through rape and abuse during his<br />
teen years, but finished high school thanks to an intervention<br />
from his family. Following graduation he got a<br />
leading role in a nationally touring play and enrolled in<br />
college. He was sure that his life was finally on the right<br />
track when he got the news that would turn his life upside<br />
down. On his twenty-first birthday, after months of ignoring<br />
pain, he was rushed to the emergency room. Doctors<br />
informed Tim and his mother that he had second-stage<br />
syphilis, hepatitis A and B, a swollen spleen, kidney damage,<br />
and HIV. His life came to a halt, but the love and<br />
support of his mother helped him get through the difficult<br />
times. His past, present, and future have inspired him to<br />
educate as many people as he possibly can about HIV<br />
and AIDS.<br />
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Michael Bach<br />
Count me in: Including LGBT in workplace demographic<br />
data collection<br />
Michael Bach works at KPMG as the Canadian national<br />
leader for diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has worked<br />
tirelessly for the past five years envisioning, implementing,<br />
and refining solutions that have helped make KPMG<br />
a recognized leader and employer of choice with regards<br />
to diversity and inclusion. Michael has served as founding<br />
chair of both pride@kpmg, KPMG’s LGBT people network,<br />
and Pride at Work Canada, an LGBT workplace organization,<br />
and has been a member of the board for numerous<br />
organizations, including the University of Toronto’s sexual<br />
diversity studies program, the LGBT Youth Line, the Canadian<br />
Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and the<br />
Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. KPMG<br />
was recently named one of Canada’s Best Employers
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for New Canadians and one of Canada’s Best Diversity<br />
Employers for 2010. This is the third consecutive year that<br />
KPMG has received both these honors. Michael was also<br />
the 2010 recipient of the Canadian HR Reporter Individual<br />
Achievement Award and received KPMG’s CEO Community<br />
Excellence Award for his contributions to the larger<br />
LGBT community.<br />
Rob Bacinski<br />
Is the ERG obsolete? How to keep your ERG relevant in<br />
a rights-friendly environment<br />
Rob Bacinski is a manager in Deloitte’s technology strategy<br />
practice, as well as a co-founder of the LGBT Employees<br />
at Deloitte (LEAD) people network in Canada. In this<br />
role, he has helped to develop this employee resource<br />
group from the ground up, building membership among<br />
LGBT practitioners and allies within the firm and forging<br />
alliances with other LGBT business organizations across<br />
the country. Rob has recently embarked on a broad-ranging<br />
initiative, in partnership with ERGs in other Deloitte<br />
member firms, to promote LGBT inclusiveness across the<br />
firm globally.<br />
M.V. Lee Badgett<br />
Anti-discrimination: From policy to practice<br />
Lee Badgett is the research director at the Williams<br />
Institute. She is also the director of the Center for Public<br />
Policy and Administration and associate professor of economics<br />
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She<br />
has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University<br />
of Chicago and a doctorate in economics from the University<br />
of California, Berkeley. Her book, Money, Myths,<br />
and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay<br />
Men (University of Chicago Press), presents her groundbreaking<br />
work on sexual orientation discrimination and<br />
family policy.<br />
Alan Baer<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity nondiscrimination<br />
practices<br />
As of September 2007 Alan Baer has assumed the role of<br />
senior vice president of People and Information, responsible<br />
for all employee and labor relations, training and<br />
development, compensation and benefits, maintaining<br />
the integrity of Kimpton’s unique culture and the strategic<br />
direction of future technology. Alan, who joined KHRG<br />
in February 2002, has significant experience directing<br />
diverse teams of employees, spearheading innovative<br />
employee programs, as well as developing a systematic<br />
approach to succession planning. Alan is a graduate of<br />
California State University Northridge, with a degree in<br />
finance and administration.<br />
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Pat Baille<br />
Checking the box: The self-identification of LGBT<br />
employees at your business<br />
Building bridges toward LGBT diversity<br />
Pat Baille has been with <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> since January 2008.<br />
She retired as a government contractor in 2007 and from<br />
the U.S. Air Force in 1993 as a major. Her entire career<br />
has been involved with training, adult education, and<br />
LGBT activism. Pat has a master’s degree in physical<br />
education and traditional Chinese medicine with minors<br />
in psychology and biology. Developing classroom and<br />
online training programs, Pat works daily for LGBT workplace<br />
equality.<br />
Scott Ballina<br />
A tale of two mommies (and daddies too): Unique<br />
challenges faced by LGBT parents in the workplace<br />
Scott Ballina is a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting<br />
LLP’s intelligence community practice. He has been<br />
with Deloitte for more than eight years, and has served a<br />
variety of clients, including the U.S. Navy Supply Systems<br />
Command, the special inspector general for Iraq<br />
reconstruction, and several U.S. intelligence agencies. He<br />
focuses on business process design and re-engineering,<br />
and implementation of SAP, PeopleSoft, Momentum, and<br />
custom development business solutions.<br />
Stephanie C. Battaglino<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity nondiscrimination<br />
practices<br />
So what do we do now? A guide to transgender<br />
workplace transition for LGBT and allies<br />
Transgender 101: Transgender information for the nontrans<br />
community<br />
Stephanie Battaglino is an assistant vice president and<br />
communications director at New York Life, responsible for<br />
coordinating internal communications activities targeted<br />
to the agent sales force. Stephanie serves on the board<br />
of directors of the LGBT Community Center of New York,<br />
on the leadership council of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Metro New<br />
York affiliate, and as a member of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s transgender<br />
advisory committee. She resides in Cliffside Park, N.J.<br />
with her partner Mari and her son Andrew.<br />
Toni Battle<br />
Homophobia in the black community: What’s up with<br />
DADT?<br />
Wake up to the new ally in town<br />
Toni Battle has more than 15 years experience as a diversity<br />
and communications consultant, and as an equal<br />
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employment opportunity manager. She specializes in<br />
diversity training, cultural dynamics, race relations, and<br />
intra-racial prejudice. She is currently working on a book<br />
about her experiences as an African-American Gen-X<br />
female manager in the American workplace. Toni holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s in communication<br />
studies and is a certified diversity practitioner.<br />
Bryan P. Baugh, M.D.<br />
LGBT health disparities: Another case for partner<br />
benefits<br />
Dr. Bryan Baugh is the associate medical director at Tibotec<br />
Therapeutics, a Johnson & Johnson company. His<br />
responsibilities include supporting the implementation of<br />
clinical affairs strategies for Prezista and Intelence, and<br />
he also serves as the company safety officer. Previously,<br />
Bryan worked for Roche Pharmaceuticals. Prior to joining<br />
Roche, Bryan was a medical director at the Whitman<br />
Walker Clinic in Washington, DC, an LGBT healthcare<br />
organization that also provided HIV primary care.<br />
Julie Beach<br />
Twitter for human resources staff: Minimize your time,<br />
maximize your return<br />
Julie Beach joined <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates in<br />
the spring of 2008 as career development manager. Responsible<br />
for launching <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s Web-based LGBT<br />
career development program, she is a seasoned technology<br />
expert and trainer. Julie also received a master’s degree<br />
in industrial psychology with an emphasis on LGBT<br />
career development after a 15-year management career<br />
with Pacific Gas and Electric. While obtaining her degree,<br />
she worked in the human resources department at Autodesk.<br />
Enabling LGBT individuals to develop successful<br />
careers with supportive companies and organizations has<br />
been a long-time passion for Julie.<br />
Marilyn Beardsley, Esq.<br />
ERGs and employees in the beverage alcohol business:<br />
Driving for change in a conservative industry<br />
Marilyn Beardsley is corporate senior counsel in the real<br />
estate law department of Safeway, as well as a founding<br />
member and chair of Safeway’s Gay & Lesbian Alliance<br />
Network group. She received her bachelor’s degree from<br />
the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her J.D. from<br />
the University of California, Berkeley. Marilyn is an out<br />
lesbian and has been with Safeway since February 1997.<br />
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Rachel Beitz<br />
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Rachel Beitz is a principal software engineer at Raytheon<br />
and has worked at the company for 17 years in Tewksbury,<br />
MA, Richmond, BC, and Aurora CO. Currently, she<br />
is a member of the software engineering process group<br />
in Tewksbury. Additionally, she is vice president of the<br />
Raytheon global LGBT employee resource group. Prior to<br />
Raytheon, Rachel spent six years in the Army, stationed<br />
in West Germany and Saudi Arabia. In her spare time, she<br />
volunteers as a speaker for the Greater Boston PFLAG<br />
Safe Schools program. Rachel lives in Lowell, MA.<br />
Bojana Bellamy<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor &<br />
privacy issues when collecting data from a global LGBT<br />
network<br />
Bojana Bellamy has more than 16 years of experience in<br />
international data privacy law and practice. She works for<br />
Accenture in London as director of data privacy, and is<br />
responsible for the company’s data privacy compliance<br />
program worldwide. Bojana is a member of the board of<br />
directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals<br />
and participates in a number of other data privacy<br />
industry groups. Her master’s thesis on the European Community<br />
Draft Directive on Data Protection earned her a<br />
degree from the European University Institute in Florence,<br />
Italy. She also has a law degree from Belgrade University<br />
and a diploma of advanced European legal studies from<br />
the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. Bojana is fluent in<br />
English, French, Italian, Serbian, and Croatian.<br />
Ken Bester<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG<br />
relevant<br />
Ken Bester is a product developer in Kimberly-Clark’s<br />
personal care business, where he has worked for ten<br />
years. He has been an active member of the Pride employee<br />
resource group for eight years and the group’s<br />
co-chair for five years. Ken has a bachelor’s degree in<br />
chemical engineering from the University of Alabama and<br />
currently resides in Appleton, Wis.<br />
Elizabeth Birch<br />
Two moms, two dads, Dora, Bratz, and GI Joe:<br />
Navigating the gender divide with your kids<br />
Elizabeth Birch is the founder and principal of TrueBlue<br />
Inclusion, a consultant firm focused exclusively on best<br />
practices and resources for CEOs as well as chief diver-
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sity, ethics, and social responsibility officers. She is a former<br />
worldwide director of litigation at Apple, and as the<br />
former executive director of the Human Rights Campaign,<br />
she built it into one of the country’s largest nonprofits for<br />
the LGBT movement. Elizabeth is the mother of 11-yearold<br />
twins.<br />
Michael Black<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG<br />
relevant<br />
Michael Black has been with Kimberly-Clark for five years<br />
and is currently the demand analyst and production planner<br />
supporting Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for<br />
Kimberly-Clark Healthcare. He holds a bachelor of arts<br />
degree from the Royal Military College of Canada and<br />
a bachelor of science from Southeastern University. He<br />
is single and lives in Atlanta, where he is an avid walker<br />
and a member of the Atlanta Front Runners Club. He has<br />
been working with PRIDE @ K-C for two years.<br />
Michael Bolin<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG<br />
Michael Bolin is the chief of staff to the CEO and chairman,<br />
UBS Group Americas and president of UBS Investment<br />
Bank. Most recently, he was the global head of<br />
strategic cost management for UBS Investment Bank.<br />
Michael has extensive experience in a variety of business<br />
and logistics roles since joining the firm in 1980, including<br />
chief operating officer of fixed income, chief administrative<br />
officer, global head of human resources, and chief of<br />
staff to the CEO of UBS Investment Bank.<br />
Matt Bosrock<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United<br />
States<br />
Matthew Bosrock is the deputy chief executive officer of<br />
HSBC Bank Canada, where he is accountable for leading<br />
major change initiatives, improving work processes, and<br />
re-positioning the company’s business model for future<br />
success. He joined the HSBC Group in San Francisco in<br />
1991, and has served in high-profile positions in Dallas,<br />
Hong Kong, Bangladesh, South Africa, and Greece.<br />
Additionally, he is a global advisor to Education Africa,<br />
a South Africa-based non-governmental organization,<br />
and established an orphanage in Bangladesh. Matthew<br />
holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and<br />
an M.B.A. from Duke University. He is married and has<br />
three children.<br />
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Petra Braybrook<br />
London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal<br />
profession in the United Kingdom<br />
Petra Braybrook is a personal assistant in the international<br />
corporate practice of the London office of Simmons<br />
& Simmons, and has more than twenty years experience<br />
in the legal sector. Petra co-chairs the InterLaw Diversity<br />
Forum for LGBT Networks, and initiated and heads the<br />
women’s initiative within the Forum. Her hobbies and<br />
pastimes include music and drama. She has experience<br />
in amateur theater and band work, including directing<br />
plays and running acting workshops.<br />
Tracie Brind<br />
Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to<br />
overcome unconscious bias<br />
Tracie Brind is a vice president at Citi in the Europe,<br />
Middle East, and Africa information services group, based<br />
in London. She joined Citi in August 2005 and is currently<br />
chief of staff, providing management information and<br />
co-ordinating projects and financial budgets and forecasts<br />
for the senior management team. Tracie has been<br />
a co-chair of the Citi Pride London network since 2008<br />
and represents the bank on the committee for the Gay<br />
Women’s Network.<br />
Jennifer Brown<br />
High-impact ERGs: Building a roadmap for business<br />
effectiveness<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent:<br />
Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and<br />
customers<br />
Jennifer Brown, CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, has<br />
been driving innovation and business results through a<br />
lens of diversity and inclusion since 2004, aligning the<br />
untapped value proposition of the emerging workforce to<br />
the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profits. Jennifer<br />
is a recognized leader in employee resource group development.<br />
She is a two-time finalist for the Wells Fargo<br />
LGBT Business Owner of the Year Award and was named<br />
Social Entrepreneur of 2010 by the New York City chapter<br />
of the National Association of Women Business Owners.<br />
Joel A. Brown<br />
What they don’t teach you in diversity school: How to<br />
ignite a successful diversity initiative<br />
Joel Brown is the chief visionary officer of Pneumos, a<br />
management consulting firm. Pneumos provides service<br />
to its clients in five areas: cultural competency, leadership<br />
training, organizational development, conflict resolution,<br />
and life and executive coaching. The firm specializes in
Making the world a better place<br />
At TI, we value diversity and are committed to ensuring that our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender<br />
employees can be open about who they are, advance in their careers and fully contribute to the<br />
company’s growth by being part of an inclusive environment.<br />
TI is proud to sponsor the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> 2010 Workplace Summit. We share <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s vision of<br />
workplace equality and inclusion for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression<br />
or characteristics.<br />
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creating synergistic cultures where employees can become<br />
leaders and organizations can become enterprises<br />
of success. Clients include the City and County of San<br />
Francisco, the Bar Association of San Francisco, Kansas<br />
City Power & Light, and Applebee’s International on matters<br />
involving diversity, inclusion, and equity. Joel has<br />
also served as an advisor to the Human Rights Campaign.<br />
In 2009, his article, “A Black Person Is a Gay Person’s<br />
Best Friend: Bridging the Cultural Divide,” was published<br />
by Legal Services of Northern California. Joel has been<br />
a member of the San Francisco Bay Area <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
regional affiliate since 2008.<br />
Michelle Brown<br />
Managing through difficult economic times<br />
Michelle Brown is an officer in the financial services operations<br />
unit of the consumer banking division at Citi. She<br />
is responsible for managing critical settlement processes<br />
and financial wire transfers for Citibank. She is a founding<br />
council member of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> St. Louis and has cochaired<br />
the Citi Pride Network, St. Louis, for the last four<br />
years. She holds a bachelor of science from Truman State<br />
University and enjoys volunteering for LGBT community<br />
service and causes.<br />
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Our souls. Our dreams. Our humanity. These are the ties<br />
that bind. That’s why Boeing proudly sponsors the <strong>Out</strong> &<br />
<strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit and salutes those who strive to<br />
give everyone equal footing in this place we all call home.<br />
Renee Brown<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being<br />
an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
Renee Brown is a senior vice president and the director<br />
of wealth, brokerage and retirement marketing at Wells<br />
Fargo. She has been with the company since 1997 when<br />
she joined Wachovia. Since then she has held numerous<br />
marketing leadership roles, including serving as Wachovia’s<br />
director of brand management. Today, Renee’s responsibilities<br />
include the development and integration of<br />
marketing strategies and programs across three investment-<br />
and financial planning-focused businesses. She<br />
manages a team of more than 100 located in San Francisco,<br />
Charlotte, St. Louis, and Minneapolis. Renee has a<br />
master’s degree in communication theory from LSU and<br />
is a Phi Beta Kappa honor society member. Prior to Wells<br />
Fargo, she worked for two community banks in Louisiana<br />
in various marketing roles. She worked for nine years in<br />
radio broadcasting as an announcer and traffic reporter<br />
in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, before entering<br />
financial services. She and her partner have a 7-year-old<br />
daughter, Sydney, as well as four cats, two birds and a<br />
new puppy. They live in Cornelius, NC.<br />
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Heidi Bruins Green<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
on bisexual lives<br />
Bisexuals at work: New global survey data<br />
Heidi Green has enjoyed “data mining” for most of her<br />
professional career, with twenty-plus years in accounting<br />
and eight years performing surveys and needs assessments<br />
for conferences, workshops, and training materials. She has<br />
delivered workshops on bisexuality in the workplace for ten<br />
years, and is the driving force behind the newly formed <strong>Out</strong><br />
& <strong>Equal</strong> Bisexual Advisory Committee. A finance and human<br />
resources person by education and experience, Heidi now<br />
designs e-learning courses using brain science technology<br />
to promote engagement and knowledge retention. She is<br />
ecstatically happy living in the San Francisco Bay Area with<br />
her husband Jamison Green, whom she met at the 2001<br />
Summit. With Jamison’s daughter Morgan having worked for<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s national office for three years before leaving for<br />
graduate school, their story is a real <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> fairy tale!<br />
Sheri Burnham<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT employees<br />
Sheri Burnham is passionate about living life to the fullest<br />
and is on a mission to create inclusive work environ-<br />
bios<br />
ments and communities. An entrepreneur at heart, she<br />
has helped start 11 companies and is currently a social<br />
media marketing consultant in Boulder, CO. Sheri has<br />
more than ten years of experience conducting interactive<br />
workshops with nonprofits, sales organizations, and small<br />
businesses. She spends her free time exploring the Rockies<br />
with her two oversized dogs.<br />
Yvette Burton, Ph.D.<br />
Eliminating exceptionalism when implementing<br />
LGBT strategies<br />
International Roundtable: Focus on India<br />
Yvette Burton, global business development executive for<br />
IBM, advises senior level clients on innovative approaches<br />
to large-scale human capital management strategies.<br />
She also leads go-to-market channel partnerships and<br />
business research initiatives that drive sales and business<br />
relationships with LGBT markets in the U.S., Asia-Pacific,<br />
Latin America, and Europe. As a management consultant,<br />
published author, executive coach and noted business<br />
researcher, Yvette has served as a subject matter expert<br />
to the U.S. government on workplace strategies, and is<br />
an expert in the field of knowledge management and<br />
organizational intelligence.<br />
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Patrick Callahan<br />
Global mobility for LGBT professionals<br />
Patrick Callahan is a manager in Deloitte’s global employer<br />
services practice in San Diego with ten years of global<br />
mobility for LGBT professionals and international human<br />
resources experience. He has worked internationally with<br />
positions in Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the<br />
United Kingdom. He has also completed five work rotations<br />
with Deloitte in Hyderabad, India. He has conducted<br />
extensive research on trends in global mobility for LGBT<br />
professionals and has been published in areas such as<br />
cultural awareness, international compensation, and<br />
international assignment fundamentals.<br />
Mark F. Carden<br />
The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong><br />
Mark Carden has been involved with the LGBT community<br />
in corporate America since 1993, when he joined the<br />
LEAGUE at AT&T employee resource group. Mark has<br />
served the group in various capacities and spent more<br />
than five years as national co-president. He is currently<br />
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on the board overseeing communication and the Safe<br />
Space <strong>Program</strong>. He lives in the Atlanta, GA, area and has<br />
been with AT&T for 22 years.<br />
George Carrancho<br />
Eliminating exceptionalism when implementing LGBT<br />
strategies<br />
George Carrancho is the national sales and marketing<br />
manager-LGBT community for American Airlines, working<br />
in AA’s unique Rainbow TeAAm, which focuses on<br />
marketing and outreach for the LGBT community. The<br />
Rainbow TeAAm is considered the nation’s first dedicated<br />
LGBT sales team at a Fortune 500 corporation. George<br />
works closely with national and local LGBT organizations<br />
and businesses, ensuring that American Airlines<br />
remains the premier airline of choice for LGBT travelers<br />
worldwide. Carrancho helped spearhead and launch<br />
American’s dedicated LGBT microsite, aa.com/rainbow—<br />
another first in the airline industry.<br />
Anthony Carter<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Anthony Carter, vice president, global diversity and inclusion,<br />
and chief diversity officer, Johnson & Johnson, has<br />
nearly 35 years of diversity and communications experi-<br />
As a proud media sponsor,<br />
Echelon Magazine congratulates<br />
the ongoing success of<br />
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Advocates and their commitment<br />
to workplace equality.<br />
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ence in the public and private sectors, including work with<br />
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Avon Products and the administration<br />
of New York City Mayor David Dinkins. Anthony’s longstanding<br />
commitment to the community is focused on eliminating<br />
healthcare disparities and developing the leadership qualities<br />
of young people. A graduate of Fordham University, he<br />
has served as an adjunct instructor at several colleges.<br />
Bruce C. Carver<br />
Building LGBT leadership: Cummins’ strategic vision for<br />
LGBT inclusion<br />
Bruce Carver is vice president, global services, and chief<br />
information officer for Cummins. In this role, he is responsible<br />
for global delivery of all information technology,<br />
finance and accounting, customer support, and human<br />
resource services. He serves as the senior executive<br />
sponsor for Cummins’ LGBT network. He also serves on<br />
several professional and community boards. In his spare<br />
time, Bruce enjoys writing, painting, and creating wearable<br />
art. He resides in Indianapolis.<br />
Ilene Chaiken<br />
Women’s leadership luncheon<br />
Ilene Chaiken has exhibited extraordinary range and<br />
versatility throughout her career as a writer and pro-<br />
many diverse branches...<br />
bios<br />
ducer working in film and television. With a penchant for<br />
storytelling and a passion for her community, Chaiken has<br />
been a pioneer in the portrayal of lesbians on television.<br />
She has worked openly as a lesbian in Hollywood for<br />
over 25 years and is internationally known for her creation<br />
of the groundbreaking series “The L Word.” In January<br />
2007, Chaiken and small group of prominent women<br />
from the entertainment and technology worlds launched<br />
OurChart.com, a full-featured social network on the Web<br />
for lesbians and their friends. The site continues to grow,<br />
with traffic being over half-million strong and new initiatives<br />
underway.<br />
Brent Chamberlain<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
on bisexual lives<br />
Global values for a global workforce<br />
Brent Chamberlain is the executive director of Pride at<br />
Work Canada, the leading organisation supporting the<br />
LGBT community in Canadian workplaces. Founded in<br />
2008, Pride at Work aims to educate and provide networking<br />
opportunities for diversity professionals, LGBT<br />
ERGs, and allies across Canada. Brent was previously a<br />
manager with Stonewall UK, where he was the author of<br />
several workplace publications including the Workplace<br />
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<strong>Equal</strong>ity Index and Bisexual People in the Workplace. He<br />
lives in Toronto.<br />
Deborah Chang<br />
Merging of cultures in a global company: A case study<br />
of Genentech and Roche<br />
Deborah Chang is the manager of documentation and<br />
training for the Genentech/Roche Pharma Technical Development<br />
(PTD) organization. In this role she manages<br />
a team of project managers to provide learning solutions<br />
and document management for Genentech’s 900<br />
employees in South San Francisco and Oceanside PTD<br />
operations. Deborah served for three years on the board<br />
of directors of the Capital Tennis Association, an LGBT<br />
nonprofit organization in Washington, DC, and is currently<br />
co-chair of the Genentech <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> diversity network<br />
association. Deborah resides in South San Francisco with<br />
Carla, her partner of 20 years, and their two service dogs.<br />
Jennifer Chapin<br />
Being transgendered in the workplace in a binary world<br />
Jennifer Chapin is an active member of GALAXe Pride<br />
at Work, Xerox’s employee resource group for LGBT<br />
employees and allies, and is chapter president for Greater<br />
Washington, D.C. She has held many different assignments<br />
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in her 12-year Xerox career, working with customers across<br />
the U.S. and around the world. She is currently working<br />
with customers providing account improvements, workflow<br />
process charts, and account associate training, and<br />
recently gave two presentations on gender identity at<br />
Stevenson University in Maryland. She volunteers with<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>ity Maryland.<br />
Jim Ciccone<br />
Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can engage leaders<br />
and drive business results<br />
Jim Ciccone has been with Target for three years and is<br />
currently a manager in distribution with a team of analysts<br />
that support Target’s 26 regional distribution centers<br />
and four import warehouses. He has been involved with<br />
Target’s GLBT Business Council from his first month in<br />
the Twin Cities and began as co-lead in January. Jim is<br />
excited to work with a very talented group focused on<br />
creating an inclusive culture for Target’s LGBT team members<br />
while helping the company engage LBGT guests,<br />
allies, and communities.<br />
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our company and to look to the future with constantly<br />
renewed commitment and ambition.<br />
At Boehringer Ingelheim, we believe our innovation<br />
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Please visit our website at:<br />
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Matthew Coates<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor &<br />
privacy issues when collecting data from a global LGBT<br />
network<br />
Matthew Coates is a senior executive in Accenture’s<br />
health and public services consulting business, based<br />
in London. He is also the senior executive sponsor of<br />
Accenture’s LBGT program at a global level. Matt leads a<br />
team of Accenture professionals across three major U.K.<br />
government clients, with a focus on management consulting<br />
and systems integration work. Prior to joining Accenture<br />
in 2000, he worked at Arthur Anderson and IBM.<br />
Kathleen Colucci<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Kathleen Colucci is vice president, Sales Enterprise Processes<br />
at IBM, and her responsibilities include simplifying<br />
and streamlining sales processes to enable over $100M<br />
of seller productivity in 2010. Kathleen has served as the<br />
CFO of several of IBM’s business units during her 29-year<br />
tenure with IBM, and she is currently a member of the<br />
Senior Innovation & Values team at IBM. She also serves<br />
as a senior executive sponsor and “straight ally” to IBM’s<br />
GLBT diversity group. Kathleen, who resides in South-<br />
bios<br />
bury, Connecticut, has an M.B.A. from the University of<br />
Pittsburgh and is married, with two sons.<br />
Wesley Combs<br />
Eliminating exceptionalism when implementing LGBT<br />
strategies<br />
LGBT legislative issues and brand reputation<br />
Wesley Combs is president and co-founder of Witeck-<br />
Combs Communications, the nation’s premier public<br />
relations and marketing firm specializing in developing<br />
strategies for companies looking to reach the LGBT consumer<br />
market. He has more than 24 years’ experience in<br />
marketing, strategic planning, market research, training,<br />
and communications in the private and nonprofit sectors.<br />
He currently serves as a member of the Human Rights<br />
Campaign’s business council. Along with business partner<br />
Bob Witeck, he is the author of Business Inside <strong>Out</strong>:<br />
Tapping Millions of Brand-Loyal Gay Consumers (Kaplan<br />
Publishing, 2006). Wesley is a 1985 graduate of Georgetown<br />
University with a degree in business administration.<br />
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Bruce Cooper, M.D.<br />
Merging of cultures in a global company: A case study<br />
of Genentech and Roche<br />
Dr. Bruce Cooper is head of global medical affairs for Genentech/Roche.<br />
In this role he manages a global team responsible<br />
for clinical trials and medical services for approved<br />
medicines. Originally from New Zealand, he has 21 years of<br />
experience in the pharmaceutical industry. His career has<br />
taken him to five different countries, and he currently commutes<br />
between San Francisco and Basel, Switzerland.<br />
Angela Courtin<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Angela Courtin oversees MTV’s west coast integrated<br />
marketing efforts and leads all marketing integrations<br />
across MTV’s suite of brands. Previously, she served as<br />
a senior vice president at MySpace. A recognized expert<br />
on the role of social media in branding, she has developed<br />
key relationships with Fortune 500 companies and<br />
production executives. Angela has served as associate<br />
producer on HBO’s “Big Love” and as MTV’s vice<br />
president of Rock the Vote. She was a guest lecturer at<br />
Harvard Business School and the USC School of Media<br />
Studies, and has served as president of the board of<br />
<strong>Out</strong>fest, Los Angeles’ Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Her<br />
work was recognized in 2004 in <strong>Out</strong> Magazine’s “OUT<br />
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100” and in 2009 as one of Power Up’s “10 Amazing Gay<br />
Women in Showbiz.”<br />
Andy Coutts<br />
Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and<br />
geographically dispersed organization<br />
Andy Coutts joined the audit and enterprise risk services<br />
practice at Deloitte in 2007, where he focuses on external<br />
audits within the consumer and industrial products<br />
industry. He serves on Deloitte’s North Central regional<br />
board of its LGBT and ally business resource group. He<br />
also champions the BRG’s efforts at Deloitte’s Cleveland<br />
office. He is a CPA and resides in Lakewood, Ohio.<br />
Chris Crespo<br />
Checking the box: The self-identification of LGBT<br />
employees at your business<br />
Connecting our networks for greater success—locally<br />
and beyond<br />
Identifying, building, and developing an LGBT pipeline<br />
of rising stars<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Chris Crespo is an inclusiveness director at Ernst &<br />
Young; she started 22 years ago in tax and later trans-
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ferred to human resources. She is part of the E&Y Americas<br />
inclusiveness center of expertise, integrating diversity<br />
and inclusiveness into everyday business processes in<br />
the U.S. and Canada. She also leads E&Y’s LGBT inclusiveness<br />
strategy with the Beyond Network. Chris and<br />
her family reside in Western Pennsylvania. She can be<br />
contacted at chris.crespo@ey.com or 412-644-5361.<br />
Crosby Cromwell<br />
Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart and<br />
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)<br />
Crosby Cromwell is the senior manager for corporate<br />
affairs, diversity relations, for Wal-Mart Stores. In this role,<br />
she is responsible for programming and outreach within<br />
diverse communities. She has produced successful outreach<br />
focused on small business development, financial<br />
literacy, and workforce development. Crosby has been<br />
involved with task forces and community outreach organizations<br />
for a myriad of issues facing diverse communities,<br />
and received a Community Distinction Award for her<br />
work within the disability community.<br />
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Deb Dagit<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender<br />
identity in the workplace<br />
Deborah Dagit joined Merck & Co., Inc., as the chief diversity<br />
officer in June 2001. She is responsible for global<br />
equal opportunity employment compliance, diversity,<br />
inclusion, work environment, and Merck’s university relations<br />
strategy. Under Deb’s leadership, Merck has been<br />
recognized by DiversityInc, Working Mother, and the Human<br />
Rights Campaign for its exemplary work in diversity<br />
and inclusion. Deb leads the company’s signature Global<br />
Constituency Group (GCG) strategy of ten global teams<br />
representing 32 countries. The teams’ work guides the<br />
company’s diversity and inclusion strategy globally.<br />
Merck also has seven Employee Resource Groups. Deb<br />
earned a bachelor’s degree with honors from Oregon<br />
State University, and completed her master’s coursework<br />
in clinical psychology at San Jose State University.<br />
Imagine what it would be like if we could find a cure for cancer. Or an effective vaccination for HIV and AIDS. Or a medicine that could protect against heart<br />
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The unique and diverse talent of our workforce has already allowed us to make breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives, and helped improve countless<br />
others. Our commitment to diversity has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as having consistently achieved a perfect score (100%) in the HRC<br />
Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index from 2006 through 2010 and a listing as one of the Best Places to Work for GLBT equality.<br />
So when we say our goal as a company is to help people “do more, feel better, live longer,” it means a lot more than just another advertising slogan or corporate mission<br />
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She serves as co-chair of the board of the Gay Lesbian<br />
Straight Education Network. She also serves on the<br />
board of the U.S. Business Leadership Network, and the<br />
Families and Work Institute, and as an advisor to Catalyst<br />
and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.<br />
Deb is married and has three children ages 15-17.<br />
Eddie Daniels<br />
Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and<br />
geographically dispersed organization<br />
Eddie Daniels joined Deloitte Consulting in 2005 in the<br />
SAP service line and focuses on mid- to large-size SAP<br />
ERP business transformation projects. He helped found<br />
and served as the first chairperson of the North Central<br />
LGBT and ally business resource group.<br />
Daniel Danso<br />
First steps in creating an LGB-inclusive workplace<br />
Global values for a global workforce<br />
Daniel Danso has been the national lead for media, tourism,<br />
and transportation at Stonewall for more than two<br />
years and has developed an in-depth understanding of<br />
the unique issues surrounding LGB workplace issues<br />
in the media. He produced “Starting <strong>Out</strong>,” Stonewall’s<br />
annual LBG recruitment guide and website, and has led<br />
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facilitation groups for Stonewall’s leadership program as<br />
well as sessions in Stonewall’s Youth Event. He is currently<br />
co-producing the 2011 Workplace <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index,<br />
the United Kingdom’s only national benchmarking tool for<br />
sexual orientation equality in the workplace.<br />
Masen Davis<br />
Bringing the T to the ERG: Advocating for a<br />
transgender-inclusive workplace<br />
Masen Davis is the executive director of the Transgender<br />
Law Center (TLC), a multidisciplinary civil rights organization<br />
advocating for transgender communities. Since 1998,<br />
he has served in leadership roles for many organizations,<br />
including United Way of Greater Los Angeles, FTM Alliance<br />
of Los Angeles, City of West Hollywood’s Transgender<br />
Task Force, National Center for Transgender <strong>Equal</strong>ity, and<br />
Funders for LGBTQ Issues. Masen received his master’s in<br />
social welfare from the University of California, Los Angeles,<br />
and a bachelor of arts from Northwestern University.<br />
Trippe Davis<br />
A tale of two mommies (and daddies too): Unique<br />
challenges faced by LGBT parents in the workplace<br />
Trippe Davis is co-leader of one of Deloitte’s national<br />
tax consulting practices and has been with Deloitte for
17 years. While he has spent most of his career in the<br />
Atlanta office, he also spent two years working in London<br />
and now has clients all over the country. Trippe is a supporter<br />
of Atlanta’s Chris Rainbow Homes, which provide<br />
housing and education for LGBT teenagers who have no<br />
other place to live, as well as AID Atlanta and the Human<br />
Rights Campaign. Trippe and his partner Bob have three<br />
children, Laura (4) and twin boys, Hudson and Robert (3).<br />
Terrance Dean<br />
Homophobia in the black community: What’s up<br />
with DADT?<br />
Wake up to the new ally in town<br />
Terrance Dean is a speaker, educator, author, and hip-hop<br />
head who has worked in the entertainment industry for<br />
more than 15 years. For six years, he worked with MTV<br />
Networks producing awards shows and events. Terrance<br />
is also the founder of Men’s Empowerment, an organization<br />
dedicated to serving men of color. He has a bachelor’s<br />
degree in communications, and is the best-selling<br />
author of Hiding in Hip Hop, a book about the gay subculture<br />
within the hip-hop industry.<br />
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Foundation. HRC is the nation’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and<br />
transgender advocacy organization. Chubb is one of an elite, forwardthinking<br />
group of companies to receive a perfect score on the Index<br />
which measures how companies are treating their GLBT employees,<br />
customers and investors. We are proud of our commitment to fostering<br />
a more inclusive and welcoming workplace where each individual’s<br />
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Rosanna Delia<br />
Identifying, building, and developing an LGBT pipeline<br />
of rising stars<br />
Rosanna Delia is a manager in the financial services<br />
office at Ernst & Young, LLP, specializing in providing<br />
assurance and advisory services for banking and capital<br />
markets clients. Rosanna is a champion for inclusiveness<br />
in the workplace, formerly serving as the co-leader of<br />
the EY Tri State area Beyond (LGBTA employee resource<br />
network) group, as well as the Northeast representative<br />
to the LGBTA Americas Inclusiveness Steering Committee.<br />
She currently serves as a committee co-leader for<br />
the Beyond group as well as an active member in Ernst<br />
& Young’s Professional Women’s Network. Rosanna<br />
received her bachelor of science in accountancy and<br />
bachelor of administration in international business from<br />
Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania.<br />
Mark Demich<br />
The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your business<br />
plan, support profitability, and boost workforce<br />
engagement<br />
Mark Demich is vice president of organization development<br />
and diversity and inclusion at Sara Lee, responsible<br />
for the company’s approach to organization effective-<br />
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ness, employee engagement, and global diversity and<br />
inclusion. Mark and his team design and implement strategies<br />
in order to build a high-performance culture. Additionally,<br />
he ensures that Sara Lee’s business practices,<br />
human resources, and corporate programs are inclusive<br />
and reflect the diversity of its consumer base and employee<br />
population. Mark is also the past chair of a local<br />
political party and serves on the board of the People’s<br />
Resource Center. Mark’s education and corporate experience<br />
have spanned the globe, from Australia and Asia to<br />
Europe and the Americas. Mark earned a bachelor’s degree<br />
in education from Wheaton College, and a master’s<br />
degree from Harvard University.<br />
Elena Deutsch<br />
Authenticity: Bring the best “you” to work and life<br />
Elena Deutsch consults with WildFire Strategies on<br />
LGBT leadership development and executive coaching.<br />
She facilitates interactive learning sessions that foster<br />
awareness and intentional action that benefit both individuals<br />
and organizations. She completed her master’s in<br />
public health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel<br />
Hill, and holds a certificate in coaching from New York<br />
University. She lives in New York City with her partner<br />
and their children.<br />
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Daniel Docherty<br />
Beat the competition: Working together for the good<br />
of the group<br />
Daniel Docherty has ten years of service with Bank of<br />
America, and is currently working on integration projects.<br />
He also co-chairs Bank of America’s LGBT pride resource<br />
group in the United Kingdom. As co-chair he has been<br />
instrumental in the network’s success, organizing events<br />
to showcase the financial services industry to LGBT graduates,<br />
interviewing the bank’s most senior out gay leader,<br />
leading on innovative new approaches and awarenessraising,<br />
and demonstrating his leadership and passion<br />
by speaking at a number of internal and external events.<br />
Daniel enjoys theatre, socializing, and films.<br />
Vikram Doctor<br />
Expanding equality in the global workplace<br />
Vikram Doctor is a journalist and the editor of special<br />
features for The Economic Times, the Times of India’s<br />
sister business publication. He is also an advocate for<br />
LGBT rights in India, working extensively on the repeal<br />
of Article 377 of the Indian penal code, the criminal<br />
sodomy statute.
Julie Dorf<br />
Expanding equality in the global workplace<br />
Julie Dorf is a senior advisor to the Council for Global<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>ity, working to ensure an American foreign policy<br />
that is inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity<br />
issues. She has been a leader in the LGBT rights movement<br />
for more than 20 years, founding and directing the<br />
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission<br />
from 1990 to 2000, and working in philanthropy and as<br />
a consultant for many LGBT and progressive foundations.<br />
She lives in San Francisco with her wife. Jenni Olson, and<br />
their two girls Hazel and Sylvie.<br />
A.J. Dronkers<br />
Harnessing social media for ERG outreach, awareness,<br />
and engagement<br />
A.J. Dronkers is senior consultant on Booz Allen Hamilton’s<br />
strategy and organization team, providing strategic<br />
communications support to various government agencies<br />
including the EPA and FAA. His specialties are social<br />
media strategy and implementation. A.J. serves on the<br />
board of Booz Allen’s LGBT employee resource group.<br />
He graduated from the College of William and Mary, grew<br />
up in Laguna Beach, CA, and currently calls Washington,<br />
DC, home.<br />
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Ana Duarte McCarthy<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender<br />
identity in the workplace<br />
Ana Duarte McCarthy is chief diversity officer, Citi. Appointed<br />
to the role in 2002, Ana is responsible for the<br />
development and integration of Citi’s workforce diversity<br />
strategy for attracting diverse talent, workforce development,<br />
fostering an inclusive work environment, and<br />
ensuring management accountability. Ana joined Citi in<br />
1995. Her roles at Citi have been within Global Diversity,<br />
including five years as vice dresident; Diversity Management,<br />
Citibank; director of diversity, Global Consumer<br />
Group; and her current role as head of diversity for the<br />
corporation. Ana began her career in 1983 within higher<br />
education, serving as a bilingual counselor at Passaic<br />
Community College. In 1986 she assumed the role of<br />
director, Higher Education Opportunity <strong>Program</strong>, New<br />
School for Social Research, where she was appointed<br />
assistant dean in 1992. Ana left the New School in 1994<br />
when she joined Kidder, Peabody, Inc., as assistant vice<br />
president of compliance and diversity programs, where<br />
she focused on developing the firm’s diversity strategy.<br />
Ana received her bachelor of arts degree from Lafayette<br />
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College and a master of education degree from Columbia<br />
University. Ana serves on the board of directors of the<br />
Families and Work Institute and the PhD Project, and<br />
the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Council<br />
for Research on Women. She is a member of the National<br />
Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) and was chair of<br />
the Corporate Advisory Board from 1998-2000. Among<br />
other recognitions, Ana was chosen as one of Hispanic<br />
Business Magazine’s 25 Elite Women for 2009. In 2007,<br />
Ana was recognized as the Ultimate Hispanic Executive<br />
by NSHMBA and received <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates’ Champion Award for her support and<br />
advocacy of workplace equality for the gay, lesbian,<br />
bisexual, and transgender community. In 2005, she<br />
was named to the YWCA-NYC Academy of Women<br />
Leaders. Ana currently resides in Basking Ridge, NJ,<br />
with her husband and daughter.<br />
Joyce Dubensky<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender<br />
identity in the workplace<br />
Tanenbaum’s executive vice president and CEO,<br />
Joyce has directed its dramatic expansion, adding<br />
new initiatives to each of Tanenbaum’s core programs.<br />
Her dynamic leadership transformed Tanenbaum from<br />
a well-regarded U.S. institution to an internationally<br />
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recognized thought leader. Joyce has overseen many<br />
firsts, each a new contribution to the burgeoning field of<br />
interreligious understanding: the first toolkit on religious<br />
diversity for workplace managers, the first comprehensive<br />
guide on the intersections of religion and health care,<br />
and the first book collecting the compelling life stories of<br />
Tanenbaum’s Peacemakers in Action. She also conducts<br />
trainings, leads workshops, and speaks internationally on<br />
all Tanenbaum programs.<br />
Blake DuBois<br />
The Bridge: Working across ERGs<br />
Blake DuBois joined Merck & Co. in 2008 and currently<br />
holds the role of business architect within the research<br />
labs organization. He has been involved with Merck<br />
Rainbow Alliance in various capacities ever since joining<br />
the company. Currently, he’s heading up the Alliance’s<br />
community outreach activities at the global level.<br />
Angela M. Duerden<br />
A tale of two mommies (and daddies too): Unique<br />
challenges faced by LGBT parents in the workplace<br />
Angela Duerden is an attorney in the Los Angeles office<br />
of Jackson Lewis, LLP. She received her law degree from<br />
Western New England College School of Law in 2000.<br />
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for Our Success<br />
From prevention and diagnosis, to treatment and cure, Abbott is a broad-based health care company that discovers,<br />
develops, manufactures and markets innovative products. Abbott is committed to bringing together individuals with<br />
diverse backgrounds and ideas and investing in their success. Combining different perspectives, management styles and<br />
ideas makes us stronger. Abbott is continually building a culture that not only recognizes, but values, people’s differences<br />
and makes the most of them. Having an inclusive environment helps drive our innovation and makes Abbott a stronger,<br />
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To learn more about our current career opportunities, please go to our web site and apply online. Abbott welcomes and<br />
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“Our diversity — of people and products — makes<br />
our company strong. We count on having a variety<br />
of perspectives to foster the innovation we need to<br />
bring our science, and our company, to a higher level.”<br />
Miles White, CEO
Angela graduated from the University of Florida with<br />
a B.A. in German language and literature, and obtained<br />
her master’s degree from Vanderbilt University in<br />
German literature after studying at the University of<br />
Innsbruck in Austria.<br />
Ann Dunkin<br />
After the dust settles: Rebuilding your ERG<br />
Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our<br />
phobias and “isms”<br />
Ann Dunkin is a principal of AED Consulting, LLC, which<br />
specializes in management and engineering consulting.<br />
She is also the director of technology for the Palo Alto<br />
Unified School District. Prior to founding AED Consulting,<br />
she worked for Hewlett-Packard in a variety of technical<br />
and management positions in research and development,<br />
manufacturing, engineering, and operations. She was<br />
active in HP’s PRIDE networks for nearly twenty years<br />
and held a number of leadership roles, including chair of<br />
the HP global PRIDE council. She was also co-chair of the<br />
Oregon-Southwest Washington affiliate of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
from 2007 to 2009.<br />
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Daniel Duty<br />
Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can engage leaders<br />
and drive business results<br />
Daniel Duty is Target’s director of business partnerships<br />
and negotiation and the sponsor of the company’s GLBT<br />
Business Council. He has responsibility for facilitating Target’s<br />
strategic alliances and driving the company’s multibillion-dollar<br />
negotiation strategy. As sponsor of Target’s<br />
LGBT group, he is focused on developing workplace<br />
strategies that drive an inclusive culture, as well as ideas<br />
to help Target reach the LGBT market.<br />
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Curtis Edwards<br />
Circling the wagons: Moving from networking and<br />
social groups to business resource groups<br />
Curtis Edwards supports all initiatives in Hewitt’s diversity<br />
and inclusion center. This includes working with all of<br />
Hewitt’s business resource groups and leadership forums<br />
regarding diversity and inclusion measurement initiatives,<br />
and directly supporting Hewitt’s chief diversity officer and<br />
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global director for diversity and inclusion. Curtis holds<br />
a master’s degree in human resources and industrial<br />
relations, and a bachelor’s degree in economics and<br />
business, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-<br />
Champaign.<br />
Paul El-Meouchy<br />
Managing global talent<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working<br />
with Gen Y<br />
Paul recently joined the World Bank–International Finance<br />
Corporation as a human resource analyst. Prior to<br />
this, Paul spent over 6 years as a consultant within Deloitte’s<br />
Human Capital practice. His areas of specialty include<br />
Total Rewards, Retirement Providers, Change Management,<br />
and Talent Strategies, as well as Global Mobility<br />
Strategies. He worked with GLOBE (Deloitte USA) for 5<br />
years and now works with LEAD (Deloitte Canada) as he<br />
is currently on a Global Mobility assignment. Paul has<br />
volunteered with the Empire State Pride Agenda and the<br />
Gay Men’s Health Crisis Center. Paul has spent most of<br />
his life studying in international schools and is a graduate<br />
of Cornell University. Paul is also an active climber and<br />
mountaineer and has traveled to 5 of the 7 continents.<br />
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Tim Garnett, M.D.<br />
Chief Medical Officer,<br />
Eli Lilly and Company<br />
Started at Lilly in 1998 in Erl Wood, England<br />
Holds medical degree from The University of<br />
London and the Royal College of Obstetrics<br />
& Gynaecology<br />
Performed clinical research in post-<br />
menopause and osteoporosis<br />
Anne Evans<br />
Bling bling: How to bedazzle your LBGT recruiting<br />
event and use technology to attract diverse audiences<br />
Anne Evans is part of the experienced hire recruiting<br />
team for Ernst & Young. She is highly involved in the<br />
firm’s LGBT people resource network, Beyond. Anne<br />
resides in San Francisco.<br />
F<br />
Kevin Fannin<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
Kevin Fannin is a project portfolio manager for global<br />
regulatory operations at Merck in New Jersey. He is also<br />
an officer in the Air Force Reserves. His involvement with<br />
diversity and inclusion began several years ago when<br />
Merck launched its employee resource group initiative.<br />
He has been a co-chair of the LGBT group as well as a<br />
founder and steering committee member for Merck’s veterans’<br />
leadership network. He actively supports various<br />
HIV and AIDS projects.<br />
Expect the unexpected.<br />
My life has been an amazing journey. Despite my somewhat<br />
controlling nature, I’ve found that being open to change has<br />
yielded the greatest rewards both personally and professionally.<br />
I never expected to become a physician. I never expected to work<br />
for a pharmaceutical company. I never expected to move to the<br />
U.S., let alone convince my partner Peter to move. And if you had<br />
told me five years ago that I would be CMO at Lilly, I never would<br />
have believed it . . . but here I am.<br />
This is what makes life so interesting — keeping ourselves open to<br />
whatever opportunities come our way. If you look at the people at<br />
Lilly, we’ve all arrived here on very different paths. Here, diversity<br />
is not so much about skin color or religion or sexual orientation;<br />
it’s really about the way you think. For me, being out is important<br />
because it allows me to completely focus on my work.<br />
No matter where we’re going or where we’ve been, we each have<br />
the unique opportunity to share our perspectives to address a<br />
common goal. That’s what ultimately helps patients. I’m proud<br />
to get the chance to impact so many lives.<br />
For more information about Lilly’s partnerships and resources for better patient outcomes, visit lillyforbetterhealth.com.
Deena Fidas<br />
Checking the box: The self-identification of LGBT<br />
employees at your business<br />
Raising the bar: The new corporate equality index<br />
criteria and data from the 2011 report<br />
Deena Fidas manages the Human Rights Campaign’s<br />
Workplace Project. In this capacity, she oversees the Corporate<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>ity Index and authors the annual report. She<br />
consults directly with employers on the implementation<br />
of inclusive policies and benefits related to LGBT employees.<br />
Fidas also led the Degrees of <strong>Equal</strong>ity research,<br />
a multi-year project on assessing and improving businesses’<br />
workplace climate with respect to LGBT inclusion.<br />
She holds a master’s degree in sociology from American<br />
University in Washington, DC. She can be contacted at<br />
deena.fidas@hrc.org.<br />
Riley B. Folds<br />
Move over CEI, the CCCP is here<br />
Riley Folds is founder and executive director of <strong>Out</strong> for<br />
Work (outforwork.org), the only national nonprofit dedicated<br />
to connecting companies to tomorrow’s LGBTQ<br />
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workforce, today. In this role, he is responsible for leading<br />
initiatives that educate, prepare, and empower LGBTQ<br />
college students for the transition from academia to the<br />
workplace. Riley is a certified diversity practitioner by Cornell<br />
University and currently resides in Washington, DC.<br />
Mark E. Fowler<br />
Collision course: Religious and LBGT interests in the<br />
workplace<br />
Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender<br />
identity in the workplace<br />
Mark Fowler is director of programs at the Tanenbaum<br />
Center for Interreligious Understanding. He is responsible<br />
for the development, implementation, and expansion<br />
of Tanenbaum’s programs. Mark is a sought-after<br />
keynote speaker and facilitator, contributing to the field<br />
of education for more than 20 years. He has presented<br />
Tanenbaum’s programs nationally and internationally. He<br />
earned a bachelor’s degree in English and education at<br />
Duke University and was trained as a mediation and conflict<br />
resolution specialist with the New York City Department<br />
of Education.<br />
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Lori Fox<br />
Affiliates and ERGs: Get down to business<br />
Building bridges toward LGBT diversity<br />
Lori Fox is a passionate advocate and member of the<br />
incredibly diverse LGBT community. As president and<br />
founder of Lori Fox Consulting in Chicago, she works as<br />
a diversity consultant and personal coach, consulting<br />
with individuals and corporations on workplace issues,<br />
specializing in the LGBT community. She formerly served<br />
as director of human resources with McDonald’s Corp. As<br />
a transgender woman, she lives her life with a passion for<br />
authenticity and excellence.<br />
Thomas Fox<br />
Being transgendered in the workplace in a binary world<br />
Tom Fox is an active member of the Lambda network at<br />
Kodak, in which he serves as co-president. In his 24-year<br />
Kodak career, he has held a number of assignments and<br />
worked in several different divisions across the company.<br />
He is currently working in the health and safety<br />
field for entertainment imaging in Rochester, NY. Tom has<br />
also been a workshop presenter in the Kodak advocate<br />
diversity program since 2004. As an advocate and active<br />
Lambda member he has been able to present myriad<br />
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points of view as Kodak drives towards a winning and<br />
inclusive culture.<br />
Jordan Freitas<br />
Bling bling: How to bedazzle your LBGT recruiting<br />
event and use technology to attract diverse audiences<br />
Jordan Freitas is part of the campus recruiting team for<br />
Ernst & Young. He is highly involved in the firm’s LGBT<br />
people resource network, Beyond. Jordan resides in Los<br />
Angeles.<br />
Victoria Fulkerson<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact<br />
at work and in the community<br />
Victoria Fulkerson is the director of supplier diversity<br />
and corporate relations for the National Gay & Lesbian<br />
Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). She works with current<br />
and future NGLCC corporate partners to ensure<br />
they are maximizing their relationships with the NGLCC<br />
through participation in a wide variety of partnership<br />
opportunities, corporate membership benefit programs,<br />
and signature event sponsorship. Victoria is a point of<br />
contact for corporations interested in initiating, renewing,<br />
and expanding their partnerships with the NGLCC. She<br />
also leads the LGBT supplier diversity initiative, which<br />
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offers certification for LGBT business enterprises. Victoria<br />
joined the NGLCC staff in November 2007.<br />
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Blake Gaither<br />
Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs<br />
Blake Gaither is a systems engineer for Raytheon Missile<br />
Systems in Tucson, AZ, developing flight control systems<br />
for ballistic missile defense. He has been president of<br />
the local chapter of Raytheon’s Young Employee Success<br />
Network and is now on its national council. Aside<br />
from young employee recruitment and retention, one of<br />
his primary interests is promoting interaction between<br />
employee resource groups so that diversity and inclusion<br />
remain key Raytheon values. Contact Blake at (520) 794-<br />
3616 or blake_gaither@raytheon.com.<br />
Anthony Gajewski<br />
ERGs and employees in the beverage alcohol business:<br />
Driving for change in a conservative industry<br />
Tony Gajewski is head of finance for Diageo Chateau &<br />
Estate Wines. Since 2000, Tony has held various finance<br />
TEAR.<br />
7.5 in<br />
bios<br />
leadership positions with Diageo and enjoys a wealth of<br />
experience in brand strategy, planning and investment<br />
management, and innovation in the alcohol beverage<br />
industry. Tony is co-chair for Diageo’s Rainbow Network,<br />
an ERG with a mission to ensure Diageo embraces the<br />
talents and contributions of all LGBT employees and<br />
builds inclusivity of LGBT interests and issues.<br />
Amy Galiana<br />
Being transgendered in the workplace in a binary world<br />
Amy Galiana is currently the human resources director for<br />
global functions and corporate research and engineering<br />
at Kodak. Prior to joining Kodak in 2000, she was a center<br />
director for the YMCA of Greater Rochester. Early in<br />
her Kodak tenure, she became a member of the Lambda<br />
Network at Kodak, participated on the Lambda-human resources<br />
partnership team, and joined the Lambda board<br />
in 2008. She has facilitated workshops and training sessions<br />
on a variety of topics throughout her career.<br />
Tim Garippa<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working<br />
with Gen Y<br />
Tim Garippa is an executive in talent and organization<br />
performance at Accenture. He helps organizations in-<br />
UNEQUAL<br />
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crease productivity, market share, and shareholder value<br />
by helping ensure clients have the right people with the<br />
right skills in the right roles. Tim ensures that all levels<br />
of organizations work together to create an innovative,<br />
talent-powered organization, whose end product is a<br />
high-performance machine. Tim attended the University<br />
of Texas at Austin and holds degrees in government and<br />
finance.<br />
Brea Gates<br />
The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your business<br />
plan, support profitability, and boost workforce<br />
engagement<br />
Brea Gates is a project engineer for Sara Lee within its<br />
supply chain division. She works collaboratively with<br />
cross-functional teams to manage and support projects<br />
and strategic initiatives. She holds a bachelor’s degree in<br />
electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master’s<br />
in engineering management from Eastern Michigan<br />
University. She is an active member in the Sara Lee Pride<br />
network and the Project Management Institute’s Dallas<br />
chapter. She also participates in the Cathedral of Hope<br />
community outreach initiative, providing weekly breakfast<br />
to the homeless.<br />
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Gary J. Gates, Ph.D.<br />
Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT families count<br />
LGBT demographics<br />
Gary Gates is the Williams Distinguished Scholar at the<br />
Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, and co-author of<br />
The Gay and Lesbian Atlas. He is widely acknowledged<br />
as the nation’s leading expert on the demographic,<br />
geographic, and economic characteristics of the gay<br />
and lesbian population. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy<br />
from the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management<br />
at Carnegie Mellon University, where his doctoral dissertation<br />
included the first significant research exploring<br />
characteristics of same-sex couples using U.S. Census<br />
data. His bachelor’s degree in computer science is from<br />
the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.<br />
John Gatto<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
John Gatto is the senior vice president of the AIDS Action<br />
Committee of Massachusetts. He is responsible for the<br />
vision and implementation of programs that address the<br />
impact of the AIDS epidemic locally. John has an extensive<br />
history of nonprofit management, having recently<br />
Deutsche Bank is a proud<br />
sponsor of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
2010 Workplace Summit.<br />
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co-led a merger of two Boston nonprofits. A licensed<br />
clinical social worker, John is an experienced trainer on<br />
a number of topics, including nonprofit management,<br />
supervisory issues, and program development.<br />
Michael Gavin<br />
How to “engay” your community<br />
Michael Gavin is a human capital consultant with Accenture.<br />
He currently shares leadership responsibilities for<br />
Accenture’s Washington, DC, LGBT networking group<br />
and participates in several company-wide forums to advance<br />
LGBT and other diversity-group related causes. In<br />
his day job, Michael has worked with large public service<br />
and pharmaceutical industry clients in the area of marketing,<br />
communications, outreach, organization design,<br />
and training development. Prior to leading the D.C. LGBT<br />
networking group, Michael led all community service and<br />
external outreach events for the group. <strong>Out</strong>side work,<br />
Michael enjoys living in D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood,<br />
running, eating out, and spending time with friends.<br />
Never judge a search engine<br />
by its interface.<br />
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in Pride parades from New York to Sydney, foster the development of internal unity groups<br />
like the Gayglers, and promote an inclusive environment globally. We are proud to participate<br />
in the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> 2010 Workplace Summit.<br />
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Julie Gedro<br />
Building bridges toward LGBT diversity<br />
Julie Gedro is associate professor of business, management,<br />
and economics at SUNY Empire State College in<br />
Syracuse, New York. Julie holds a B.A. in economics and<br />
English from the College of WIlliam & Mary, an M.B.A. in<br />
information systems from Kennesaw State University, and<br />
an Ed.D. in adult education and human resource development<br />
from the University of Georgia. Julie’s teaching and<br />
research interests include LGBT issues in organizations,<br />
leadership, ethics, organizational behavior, and human<br />
resource management and development.<br />
Brian Geiger<br />
Novel methods for sharing LGBT employees with your<br />
workforce<br />
Brian Geiger is a senior client services and technology<br />
manager for Hewitt Associates. He is responsible for<br />
overall client relationships and service delivery within<br />
Hewitt’s flexible spending account platform. He’s a PRIDE<br />
Alliance business resource group location lead and<br />
heavily involved in supporting the organization’s diversity<br />
initiatives as well as the local community. Brian lives in<br />
Orlando and is on the board of directors for the Orlando<br />
GLBT Community Center and the Miss Gay Days pageant.<br />
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Bruce Gillispie<br />
Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart and<br />
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)<br />
Bruce Gillispie is the senior director for product development<br />
initiatives for the merchandise assortment of the<br />
better homes and gardens program in Wal-Mart, USA<br />
stores. He is a charter member for pride@walmart, the<br />
company’s home office-based LGBT associate resource<br />
group formed in 2004, and is currently serving in<br />
his second term as chairperson. Bruce and his partner<br />
reside in Rogers, AR, and recently celebrated their<br />
16th anniversary.<br />
Scottie Ginn<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
Scottie Ginn is vice president of packaging and alliances<br />
for the technology development organization of IBM. She<br />
has had a variety of engineering executive roles at IBM in<br />
her 29 years there, mostly in the semiconductor division.<br />
Scottie received her bachelor of science degree from the<br />
University of Virginia and her master of science degree<br />
from MIT, both in electrical engineering. She also holds<br />
an M.B.A. from the University of Vermont. She lives with<br />
her partner Pat in the mid-Hudson valley of New York<br />
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with two dogs and two cats. They enjoy tennis, boating,<br />
and spending time in their home on Lake Champlain in<br />
the summer.<br />
Naomi Goldberg<br />
From corporate policy to Capitol Hill<br />
Naomi Goldberg was the Williams Institute Public Policy<br />
Fellow from 2008 to 2010 and received a master of public<br />
policy degree from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public<br />
Policy at the University of Michigan. She received her<br />
bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, where<br />
she graduated magna cum laude and majored in critical<br />
social thought. Naomi has recently accepted a position<br />
with the Movement Advancement Process (MAP), a think<br />
tank focused on LGBT issues.<br />
Stephen Golden<br />
Expanding equality in the global workplace<br />
LGBT and Asia from IBM and Goldman Sachs<br />
Stephen Golden is the head of diversity for Goldman<br />
Sachs in Asia. He began his career in 1993 as a technology<br />
analyst in New York, and moved to London in 1995 to<br />
became a project manager focusing on technology and<br />
compliance. Stephen moved into a diversity role in 2005,
and in 2007-2008 he spent five months as the head of<br />
diversity in Japan. In July 2008, he relocated to Hong<br />
Kong to fill his current role. Stephen earned a bachelor of<br />
science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.<br />
He and his civil partner, Richard, live in Hong Kong.<br />
Susan Gore, Ph.D.<br />
Can you be gay and global?<br />
Susan Gore is principal of The Mentor Group, which specializes<br />
in LGBT issues, intercultural diversity and inclusion,<br />
and strategic communications. Clients include AT&T,<br />
Deloitte, Fossil, GlaxoSmithKline, Kendall Jackson Enterprises,<br />
Microsoft, PepsiCo, SAGE, Shell Oil, SHRM, the<br />
U.S. Coast Guard, Texas Instruments, and the Unitarian<br />
Universalist Association. Susan has lived in Germany and<br />
Italy and spent time on every continent except Antarctica.<br />
She is the primary bisexual content resource for “Cultural<br />
Detective: LGBT.”<br />
Stephen Gould<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership Council orientation<br />
Stephen Gould is the associate director of NETWORKS!<br />
at <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates. Based in San<br />
Francisco, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> is the largest national nonprofit organization<br />
dedicated to LGBT equality in the workplace.<br />
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Stephen has been working with employee resource<br />
groups since 2004, and directs <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s regional<br />
affiliate program. He joined the staff of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> after<br />
receiving his master’s degree from Yale University Divinity<br />
School, where he got his first taste of LGBT activism<br />
and organizing. Stephen enjoys bringing this experience<br />
to building and activating an international community<br />
of LGBT workplace equality advocates. He also holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree in political science from Duke University.<br />
With interests as diverse as medieval visual communication<br />
and the 21st century information technology<br />
revolution, he enjoys living in the eclectic and wonderful<br />
city of San Francisco with his partner Ryan.<br />
Belinda Grant-Anderson<br />
How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the<br />
year finalists<br />
Belinda Grant-Anderson is vice president, workforce<br />
development and diversity, AT&T Operations, Inc. In this<br />
role she has responsibility for developing and implementing<br />
workforce planning tools, forecasting models, and<br />
processes to understand and address the needed supply<br />
of talent across the company. She also works with the HR<br />
corporate and field organizations to support achievement<br />
of the company’s diversity and inclusion goals.<br />
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Jamison Green<br />
Bisexuals at work: New global survey data<br />
Health benefits for transgender and transsexual<br />
employees, the WPATH Standards of Care, and the CEI<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity nondiscrimination<br />
practices<br />
Jamison Green is an author, educator, and policy advisor<br />
specializing in transgender and transsexual issues.<br />
He is experienced in all aspects of LGBT identity, and his<br />
award-winning book, Becoming a Visible Man, is used<br />
as a text in many universities. He is president of Jamison<br />
Green & Associates, a training and policy consulting firm,<br />
and also works as primary care protocols manager for<br />
the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health at the<br />
University of California, San Francisco. He serves on the<br />
boards of several nonprofits, including the Transgender<br />
Law & Policy Institute, the World Professional Association<br />
for Transgender Health, and TransYouth Family Allies.<br />
He’s also a member of the Transgender Advisory Committee<br />
for <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>, and the proud partner of Heidi<br />
Bruins Green. Learn more at jamisongreen.com.<br />
Al and Tim have<br />
taken control of their<br />
fi nancial future.<br />
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Paul Greenall<br />
Connecting our networks for greater success—locally<br />
and beyond<br />
Paul Greenall is the director of IT internal audit at McKesson<br />
Corp. He also serves as the chair of OPEN, the<br />
company’s LGBT and allies employee resource group<br />
launched company-wide earlier this year. Currently<br />
ranked 14th on the Fortune 500, McKesson is a healthcare<br />
services and information technology company<br />
dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality<br />
healthcare by reducing costs and improving the quality<br />
and safety of patient care.<br />
Diana Greshtchuk<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Diana Greschtchuk holds a bachelor of science degree in<br />
finance and accounting from California State University,<br />
Chico. She was worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for<br />
the past five years in the firm’s financial services assurance<br />
practice.<br />
Rebecca “Becky” Gruss<br />
Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and<br />
geographically dispersed organization<br />
Becky Gruss is an audit partner in Deloitte & Touche<br />
LLP’s Cleveland office, with more than 16 years of audit<br />
If you could do the same, would you?<br />
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and accounting experience, serving clients in the real<br />
estate, consumer products, and manufacturing industries<br />
in both the private and public sectors. She is a strong ally<br />
of the LGBT community and is the partner sponsor for<br />
North Central GLOBE, Deloitte’s LGBT and allies business<br />
resource group. Becky resides in Cleveland with her<br />
husband and two children.<br />
Michael Guest<br />
Expanding equality in the global workplace<br />
Michael Guest was America’s first openly gay, Senateconfirmed<br />
Ambassador (to Romania from 2001 to 2004).<br />
He ended his 26-year diplomatic career in December<br />
2007 after having sought, without success, to end the<br />
State Department’s discriminatory treatment of the<br />
partners of gay and lesbian foreign service officers in<br />
overseas postings. He currently works as a senior advisor<br />
to the Council for Global <strong>Equal</strong>ity and speaks extensively<br />
on workplace equality issues. He is also on the board of<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> and on the advisory committee of Galeforce<br />
Capital. He and his partner, Alexander Nevarez, reside in<br />
Washington, DC.<br />
We are the faces of<br />
Brilliant.<br />
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Ariadna “Ari” Gutiérrez<br />
Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT families count<br />
Ari Gutiérrez serves as director of government advertising<br />
for the Daily Journal Corp., where she oversees the<br />
business development, customer services, media buying,<br />
and creative functions of the government advertising<br />
division. She is a co-founder and in 2010 completed a<br />
six-year term as executive vice president of the HONOR<br />
political action committee, which advocates for Latina/o<br />
LGBT empowerment through endorsement of candidates<br />
for elective office and proposition issues. Ari earned<br />
a bachelor of business administration degree from St.<br />
Mary’s University, as well as an M.B.A. from the University<br />
of Phoenix.<br />
Sandi Guy<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
© 2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.<br />
Sandi Guy is the executive director of Human Capital,<br />
overseeing strategy and operations for more than 2,700<br />
professionals. This includes training and development, recruiting,<br />
employee relations, total rewards, and retention.<br />
In addition, she oversees the U.S. international sourcing<br />
and integration strategy and chairs the BDO International<br />
human resources committee as the U.S. representative.<br />
Behind every Intel innovation is a face. We are more than 80,000 people innovating and collaborating across the<br />
globe. People at Intel are constantly challenging the status quo, whether it’s the perceived limits of technology or<br />
of humanity. At Intel, there is an undeniable, direct link between our success and a diverse workforce. The passion<br />
and creativity and yes, brilliance, of these amazing individuals around the world is what makes our technology superior<br />
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See what makes us shine. Learn more about life and work at Intel, our brilliant people and their stories, and our<br />
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She is a member of the women’s initiative steering committee<br />
and co-chairs its networking sub-committee. Sandi<br />
was also recognized as a “Woman Worth Watching” by<br />
Profiles in Diversity Journal and “Influential Woman of the<br />
Year” by the American Society of Women Accountants.<br />
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Melinda Haag<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
Melinda Haag is the inclusion leader for Crowe Horwath<br />
LLP’s firm-wide diversity and inclusion strategies. She is<br />
responsible for the creative and strategic direction for<br />
all of Crowe’s inclusion programming, as well as growth<br />
and integration into all aspects of the firm. Melinda also<br />
serves external Crowe clients, leading Crowe’s justice<br />
and public safety consulting practice. She co-leads<br />
Crowe’s LGBT people resource network, called GALA.<br />
When she is not working, Melinda’s focus is on her<br />
spouse of 20 years and their teenage daughter.<br />
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IN<br />
US<br />
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WHO<br />
YOU<br />
ARE<br />
David M. Hall, Ed.D.<br />
Allies at work<br />
I love you, may it please the court<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Dr. David M. Hall is a distinguished corporate diversity<br />
trainer and college instructor, having taught graduate<br />
courses in the history and ethics of human sexuality,<br />
sexuality and law, addressing LGBTQ issues in school,<br />
and other related topics. His long list of clients includes<br />
JP Morgan Chase, Merck, the U.S. Department of Energy,<br />
The Hershey Company and The University of Pennsylvania.<br />
He is a founding co-chair of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Greater<br />
Philadelphia and a recipient of teaching and humanitarian<br />
awards at the national, state, and local levels.<br />
Thompson Harner<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact<br />
at work and in the community<br />
Thompson Harner has been with Ernst & Young for more<br />
than six years. In addition to his client-serving responsibilities,<br />
he plays an active role in the firm’s Beyond LGBT<br />
inclusiveness programs. From 2004 to 2009 he served<br />
as the area coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Beyond<br />
group, and built the local membership from six to approxi-<br />
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mately 100. He holds accounting, international business,<br />
and French bachelor’s degrees from Pennsylvania State<br />
University. Thompson has also played an active role with<br />
the local activities of the LGBT chambers of commerce in<br />
Philadelphia and Washington, DC.<br />
Larry Harrington<br />
Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em<br />
The care and feeding of allies during the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Summit<br />
Larry Harrington has been vice president of internal audit<br />
for Raytheon since 2004. He has also been vice president<br />
of human resources and vice president of health operations<br />
at Aetna. He is a CPA and has been chief audit executive<br />
for several global Fortune 500 companies, including<br />
Staples, Aetna, and LTV. He is a member of the Institute<br />
of Internal Auditors. Larry earned a bachelor’s degree in<br />
accounting from Bentley College in Waltham, MA, and attended<br />
Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management<br />
<strong>Program</strong>. He is a frequent speaker on auditing, change<br />
management, negotiation, and people development. He<br />
is the executive sponsor of the global LGBT employee resource<br />
group at Raytheon and has recently been selected<br />
to be the diversity champion for the company.<br />
Pride is everyone’s<br />
business<br />
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Douglas Harris<br />
Novel methods for sharing LGBT employees with your<br />
workforce<br />
Douglas Harris is a customer experience representative<br />
at Hewitt Associates, where he supports clients as a retirement<br />
specialist and on-floor supervisor. He is a leader<br />
of Hewitt’s Pride Alliance business resource group, in<br />
which capacity he is committed to supporting the company’s<br />
diversity efforts throughout the year. Douglas works<br />
with his co-leaders to create fun and educational activities<br />
for Pride month, such as video lunch-and-learns and<br />
trivia games. He also supports community involvement<br />
by regularly volunteering and coordinating volunteers<br />
for Hewitt’s partnership with The Cynthia Woods Mitchell<br />
Pavilion.<br />
Marie Hartung<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
on bisexual lives<br />
Marie Hartung is a senior diversity manager for the server<br />
and tools business at Microsoft, and is currently in her<br />
third year on the board of directors for Microsoft’s LGBT<br />
employee resource group, GLEAM. She currently holds<br />
the position of bisexual coordinator. Marie also serves on<br />
the Seattle regional <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> board and has coordi-<br />
Diversity isn’t just about embracing different points of view. For us, it’s about<br />
the best way of doing business. That’s why JPMorgan Chase is proud to support<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> in the important work they do.<br />
www.jpmorganchase.com<br />
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nated Microsoft’s presence at <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> for the past<br />
three years. Passionate about diversity and especially<br />
populations underserved by typical diversity efforts, she<br />
has championed efforts to raise awareness of groups<br />
with a lesser voice. She holds a master’s degree in organizational<br />
development from Central Washington University<br />
and is a published poet, mother of two great boys,<br />
and an out bisexual.<br />
Leonard Harvey, M.D., M.B.A.<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Dr. Leonard Harvey is an AOA graduate of USC School<br />
of Medicine, and completed his residency in internal<br />
medicine at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles,<br />
CA. Leonard practiced internal medicine as a Southern<br />
California Permanente partner physician for 11 years<br />
before beginning private practice in Palm Springs, CA. In<br />
his current role, Leonard serves as the senior medical director<br />
for Southern California. He is licensed in the states<br />
of California, Arizona, and Nevada. Leonard received his<br />
M.B.A, summa cum laude, in 2002 from the University of<br />
Phoenix. Prior to joining Aetna, Leonard was the senior<br />
medical executive for Intracorp, a subsidiary of CIGNA<br />
in Pennsylvania, and was the senior medical director for<br />
CIGNA Health Care of Arizona for 5 years.<br />
WORKING<br />
TOGETHER<br />
FOR A COMMON GOAL<br />
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F. Chase Hawkins<br />
Minimizing tension between the letters LGBT<br />
Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs<br />
Chase Hawkins is director of employee inclusion and cultural<br />
solutions at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems<br />
(IDS) in Tewskbury, MA. He is responsible for all aspects<br />
of IDS’ diversity efforts, including engagement, education,<br />
communication, and partnerships with employee<br />
resource groups. Prior to coming to Raytheon, he spent<br />
ten years at JPMorgan Chase in roles including global<br />
diversity and leadership communications manager. Chase<br />
has been a frequent speaker at diversity conferences and<br />
seminars, including previous <strong>Out</strong> and <strong>Equal</strong> conferences.<br />
He lives in Boston, MA, with his husband Charles.<br />
Jaclyn Hedegard<br />
You’ve got the policy … what now? Using nonprofit<br />
partnerships to change corporate culture<br />
Jaclyn Hedegard is an account manager consultant at<br />
MetLife, administering benefit plans for corporations.<br />
She is an active member of a number of MetLife’s affinity<br />
groups, for which she has led the 30-year celebration of<br />
MetLife’s Aurora building, the Hispanic Heritage Month<br />
celebration, Take Your Child to Work Day, and MetLife’s
annual Kick Ball Classic with the Special Olympics. For<br />
the GLAM LBGT group she is leading the Pride Month<br />
celebrations, and has organized the PFLAG “Straight<br />
for <strong>Equal</strong>ity” lunch-and-learns for more than 23 MetLife<br />
locations. Jaclyn has an associate’s degree from Holy<br />
Cross College in Notre Dame, IN, a bachelor’s in communications<br />
from Illinois State University in Normal, and a<br />
master’s in communication studies from Governor’s State<br />
University in University Park, IL.<br />
Phyllis Heintz, Ph.D.<br />
The balancing act: Preserving personal authenticity in<br />
the workplace<br />
Phyllis Heintz has served as an executive for national<br />
nonprofit organizations, and currently provides personal<br />
coaching and organizational consulting through Heintz<br />
Strategic Consulting Services. She is active in grassroots<br />
community organizing for the gay and lesbian community.<br />
Her passion for gay rights inspired her doctoral studies<br />
at Fielding Graduate University, where she obtained a<br />
specialization in transformative learning for social justice.<br />
Phyllis currently resides in Bakersfield with her partner of<br />
17 years, Cheryl.<br />
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Albert Hernandez<br />
Implementing and sustaining gender identity nondiscrimination<br />
practices<br />
Albert Hernandez is the director of employee relations<br />
at Disney/ABC Television Group. In this position, Albert<br />
oversees all employee relations efforts on behalf of<br />
the Disney-ABC Television Group, which comprises the<br />
ABC Television Network, Disney Channels Worldwide,<br />
cable networks ABC Family and SOAPnet, Radio Disney,<br />
Walt Disney Television Animation, Disney-ABC Domestic<br />
Television and ABC Studios, Disney-ABC International<br />
Television, the publishing unit Hyperion, and ABC Corporate<br />
Initiatives. He also oversees employee relations for<br />
ABC’s ten owned television stations. Previously, Albert<br />
led the West Coast Employee Relations team for Walt<br />
Disney Parks and Resorts. In this position, Albert had<br />
responsibility for all employee relations related services<br />
for nearly 20,000 Cast Members and Imagineers at the<br />
Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, including the Disneyland<br />
park, Disney’s California Adventure Park, Downtown<br />
Disney, and three hotels.<br />
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Brandon Hernandez<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public<br />
policy and business leadership<br />
Brandon J. Hernandez currently oversees public affairs<br />
for Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s San Francisco Bay<br />
Area Region, where he manages relationships with civic<br />
and community leaders and acts as the company’s liaison<br />
to various local, statewide, and national environmental,<br />
LGBT, and Latino organizations. He has over ten years<br />
combined experience in the public and private sector,<br />
including serving as a key consultant to then Speaker of<br />
the Assembly Antonio Villaraigosa. Additionally, he sits<br />
on the board of directors of Voto Latino and the Gay &<br />
Lesbian Leadership Institute. Brandon holds a B.A. from<br />
the University of California, Berkeley.<br />
Daryl Herrschaft<br />
Raising the bar: The new corporate equality index<br />
criteria and data from the 2011 report<br />
Daryl Herrschaft has overseen the Workplace Project of<br />
the Human Rights Campaign since 1998. In this capacity,<br />
he monitors and evaluates corporate policies surrounding<br />
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees,<br />
consumers, and investors. Herrschaft has consulted with<br />
dozens of major corporations on the full range of LGBT-<br />
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related workplace policies. He is frequently called upon<br />
by national and local media, such as Time and The Wall<br />
Street Journal, as well as CNN, National Public Radio, and<br />
Voice of America.<br />
Terry Hildebrandt<br />
Checking the box: The self-identification of LGBT<br />
employees at your business<br />
Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our<br />
phobias and “isms”<br />
Terry Hildebrandt is an executive coach and organization<br />
development consultant. He helps senior and mid-level<br />
executives build high-performance teams and is a professional<br />
certified coach. He is also the co-founder of the<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Rocky Mountain affiliate and an <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Building Bridges trainer. Terry received his bachelor’s<br />
degree in materials science and engineering from Rice<br />
University and a master’s degree in organizational design<br />
and effectiveness from the Fielding Graduate University.<br />
He is currently a doctoral student at Fielding, studying human<br />
and organizational systems. His dissertation is in the<br />
area of LGBT workplace equality. Terry lives in Denver,<br />
CO, with his partner, Michael, and can be contacted at<br />
720-318-6625 or terry@terryhildebrandt.com.<br />
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commitment to diversity and<br />
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At Moody’s, we provide an environment that challenges<br />
and encourages curiosity and innovation, and gives you<br />
the opportunity to achieve your goals. We take pride in<br />
maintaining a balanced and diverse workforce and<br />
actively seek out people who enrich our talent pool.<br />
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Moody’s, please visit moodys.com/careers
Marjorie Hill, Ph.D.<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG<br />
Dr. Marjorie Hill is the CEO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis<br />
(GMHC), the oldest AIDS service and advocacy organization<br />
in the world. GMHC provides a continuum of<br />
services to 15,000 persons annually, paired with robust<br />
public policy advocacy. She currently serves on the New<br />
York State AIDS Advisory Council, is a senior advisor to<br />
the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Research at<br />
Columbia University, and is a member of POZ Magazine’s<br />
editorial board.<br />
Ian Hlawati, Esq.<br />
Accommodating religion and sexual orientation in the<br />
workplace: Promoting tolerance and diverse views<br />
Ian Hlawati is an attorney in the White Plains office of<br />
Jackson Lewis LLP. He has practiced labor and employment<br />
law on behalf of management for his entire career.<br />
In addition to his practice, Ian is an adjunct professor at<br />
Manhattanville College, where he teaches graduate level<br />
coursework on legal issues in human resource management.<br />
He is twice published and has contributed to a<br />
legal casebook on labor law.<br />
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David Hoak<br />
Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for you in<br />
client relationships<br />
David Hoak is a consulting actuary with Towers Watson<br />
with more than 30 years of experience in providing<br />
retirement benefit solutions for large U.S. clients. He is a<br />
retired founding member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los<br />
Angeles. David lives in Los Angeles with his partner Kevin<br />
Duncliffe.<br />
Joe Hoffman<br />
How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the<br />
year finalists<br />
Joe Hoffman is the director of information systems for<br />
Sodexo and responsible for enterprise applications.<br />
Through several mergers and acquisitions, Joe has<br />
worked for Sodexo his entire professional career, holding<br />
various management positions during his tenure.<br />
He is the chairperson and a founding member of Pride,<br />
Sodexo’s LGBT and ally employee resource group. Under<br />
his leadership, Pride has been an Employee Resource<br />
Group of the Year and Ally of the Year Finalist for <strong>Out</strong> and<br />
<strong>Equal</strong>. He has a bachelor of science degree from Arizona<br />
State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix,<br />
and will begin his doctoral program this fall.<br />
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Casey Horton<br />
Affiliates and ERGs: Get down to business<br />
Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em<br />
Casey Horton is a manager in Ernst & Young’s fraud<br />
investigation and dispute services practice. He assists life<br />
sciences companies with compliance and litigation support<br />
services. He has been actively involved in Ernst &<br />
Young’s LGBT employee resource group, Beyond, for the<br />
past five years. Casey currently leads Beyond in the Midwest<br />
area, which includes Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit,<br />
and seven other Midwest locations. Casey is a member of<br />
the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Chicagoland regional affiliate Leadership<br />
Council.<br />
Philip J. Hoskins, Esq.<br />
The unique legal and financial challenges facing the<br />
LGBT community<br />
Philip Hoskins is an attorney in private practice in Los<br />
Angeles. He has served the community in the practice of<br />
law for more than 30 years. In that time, he has worked<br />
for the U.S. Department of Justice, managed the largest<br />
multiple-office law firm in California, and handled delicate<br />
and difficult legal matters for thousands of clients.<br />
Philip has taught law school and other attorneys, written<br />
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several books, and often leads educational workshops on<br />
many timely and important topics for the community. His<br />
philosophy is that an attorney should serve both his client<br />
and the community.<br />
Terry Howard<br />
Uneasy alliances: The elusive search for common<br />
ground between diverse employee communities<br />
Terry Howard is the director of diversity and inclusion<br />
director for Texas Instruments. His work includes training,<br />
consulting, and coaching employees globally at all levels.<br />
In 2006, Terry founded the “Diversity Connection Consortium,”<br />
with members across the globe; in 2007, he was<br />
selected by The National Society of Black Engineers as<br />
the recipient of the Black Engineer of the Year Diversity in<br />
Industry Award. A native of Staunton, VA, he is a graduate<br />
of Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina.<br />
Becky Huber<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Becky Huber is the director of business solutions testing at<br />
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF). She is also<br />
the chair of RESPECT, BCBSF’s LGBT employee resource<br />
group, where she was instrumental in organizing and gain-
ing corporate support. Becky is also a member of the IT<br />
diversity business council at BCBSF. She lives in Jacksonville<br />
with her partner, Nancy, and their three young boys.<br />
Jim Huberty<br />
Affiliates and ERGs: Get down to business<br />
Jim Huberty is a sales trainer for JPMorgan Chase. He<br />
previously held positions in sales, operations management,<br />
client relations, product management, human<br />
resources, and consulting. He chaired JPMorgan Chase’s<br />
Pride global employee resource group, is co-chair of the<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Chicagoland regional affiliate and attended<br />
the UCLA LGBT Leadership Institute. He holds a bachelor’s<br />
degree in psychology and sociology from Aurora<br />
University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. He<br />
frequently speaks on LGBT workplace equality and leadership,<br />
and lives in Chicago.<br />
Jody M. Huckaby<br />
The care and feeding of straight allies at work: What<br />
LGBTs must know for successful inclusion<br />
Jody Huckaby is the executive director of Parents, Families,<br />
and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) National.<br />
He has been a nonprofit executive for 18 years, serving<br />
as executive director of the Washington D.C. Humane<br />
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Society, New Mexico AIDS Services, and Houston’s Bering/Omega<br />
Community Foundation. His voice on equality<br />
issues has been heard in hundreds of media outlets,<br />
including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times,<br />
and the Oprah Winfrey Show.<br />
Joe Husman<br />
Maximizing business growth: Joining ERG efforts with<br />
advertising, marketing, and community efforts<br />
Joe Husman is the chief diversity and inclusion officer for<br />
Toyota Financial Services (TFS), headquartered in Torrance,<br />
CA. Prior to joining TFS, Joe worked for more than<br />
ten years at Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) where he held a<br />
variety of positions in the corporate planning area. Joe<br />
served as a diversity champion for TMS and participated<br />
in many business partnering groups.<br />
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Milton Irvin<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG<br />
Milton Irvin is a managing director and head of diversity<br />
and inclusion for UBS Group Americas. His primary focus<br />
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is to ensure that UBS is an employer of choice, in which<br />
diversity is respected across all spectrums. Before joining<br />
UBS, he spent time as president and chief operating<br />
officer of Blaylock & Partners, L.P. (a minority investment<br />
banking firm) and Imbot.com (an Internet start-up). He<br />
earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business,<br />
University of Pennsylvania.<br />
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Kevin Janes<br />
Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em<br />
Kevin Janes is a partner in Ernst & Young’s advisory<br />
practice, with a focus on providing IT risk and assurance<br />
services to Fortune 500 clients. He began his career 18<br />
years ago in the firm’s assurance practice and has held<br />
a number of leadership positions within the Chicago office.<br />
He joined Beyond, Ernst & Young’s LGBT employee<br />
resource group, last year and has recently become<br />
the executive sponsor for the Midwest sub-area, which<br />
includes Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, and seven other<br />
Midwest areas.<br />
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Ian Johnson<br />
Diversity sells: How to leverage LGBT support into sales<br />
internationally<br />
Ian Johnson is the founder of <strong>Out</strong> Now, and for two decades<br />
been recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities<br />
on marketing to gay and lesbian customers. <strong>Out</strong><br />
Now Global has been relied upon by many of the world’s<br />
leading brands, including Lloyds-TSB Banking Group,<br />
Barclays, Hilton Hotels, IBM, Toyota, the German National<br />
Tourist Office, KLM, Lufthansa, Merck, TUI, Cable & Wireless,<br />
and Citibank; and delivers a comprehensive range of<br />
gay marketing solutions, including advertising, research,<br />
strategy development, training, and public relations.<br />
Kent Johnson<br />
Uneasy alliances: The elusive search for common<br />
ground between diverse employee communities<br />
Kent Johnson is a senior legal counsel at Texas Instruments,<br />
specializing in antitrust, medical, product liability,<br />
government transactions, intellectual property, mergers,<br />
and strategic alliances. He helped found and currently<br />
leads TI’s Christian values initiative and is a past chair of<br />
TI’s diversity network. Kent is a frequent speaker on the<br />
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topic of faith in the workplace and is a graduate of Dartmouth<br />
College and the Villanova School of Law.<br />
Pamela Johnson<br />
Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to<br />
overcome unconscious bias<br />
Pamela Johnson is the managing director and Citi’s<br />
global head for anti-money laundering and sanctions<br />
compliance. She joined Citi in 2004 as the director of<br />
anti-money laundering compliance monitoring and training<br />
and is a member of Citi’s Pride Network New York<br />
leadership and the Corporate Center Women’s Organization.<br />
She also represents Citi on the Human Rights<br />
Campaign’s business council and is a lifetime member of<br />
WIFLE (Women in Federal Law Enforcement).<br />
Robin D. Johnson, Ph.D.<br />
Dance of leadership<br />
Diversity and trust: Alliances and betrayals<br />
Dr. Robin Johnson is a Harvard Business School-trained<br />
Ph.D. who has been an executive educator, coach, and<br />
author in leadership development for decades, teaching<br />
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multicultural awareness, multicultural team effectiveness,<br />
leadership, and career-performance management. She<br />
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Approach” (with Carlos Gonzales, Ph.D.). She has also<br />
produced audio programs including “Leading Your Multicultural<br />
Team to High Performance” and “Ask! Negotiation<br />
Strategies,” as well as “The Gamma Team Project,” a<br />
multicultural team video case.<br />
Sara Johnston<br />
Giving (and getting) back: Nonprofit boards for beginners<br />
Sara Johnston is an auditor in the Seattle assurance<br />
practice of Ernst & Young. Sara spent seven years in the<br />
nonprofit sector doing fundraising and financial management<br />
before her transition to the corporate world. She<br />
has served on boards and led fundraising efforts for local<br />
nonprofits for more than ten years, with a focus on supporting<br />
anti-violence and justice work in the LGBT and<br />
people of color communities. Sara holds a bachelor’s<br />
degree in women’s studies and a certificate in accounting<br />
from the University of Washington.<br />
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B.J. Kamigaki<br />
Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our<br />
phobias and “isms”<br />
B.J. Kamigaki is a quality engineering section manager<br />
and 33-year veteran of Hewlett-Packard. She is the<br />
programs manager for HP’s PRIDE employee resource<br />
group, and lives in Longmont, CO, with her partner Vickie.<br />
She can be reached at bj.kamigaki@hp.com.<br />
Randy M. Kammer<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Randy Kammer is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s<br />
(BCBSF) vice president for regulatory affairs and public<br />
policy. He represents the company before state and<br />
federal regulatory agencies. He also serves as president<br />
of BCBSF’s The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida,<br />
and is on the boards of several community organizations.<br />
Randy also serves as the executive sponsor of the<br />
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RESPECT LGBT employee resource group, and was the<br />
recipient of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s 2009 Champion Award.<br />
Alexis Kantor<br />
Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can engage leaders<br />
and drive business results<br />
Alexis Kantor has been with Target for eight years and<br />
is currently a group manager of product development in<br />
apparel and accessories product design and development.<br />
She has been an outspoken advocate in support of<br />
all diversity and LGBT issues at Target and in her community,<br />
and currently serves as the co-lead of Target’s GLBT<br />
Business Council. Prior to Target, Alexis worked on the<br />
product development team at Victoria’s Secret.<br />
Karianne Kas<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor &<br />
privacy issues when collecting data from a global LGBT<br />
network<br />
Karianne Kas is a senior executive in Accenture’s legal<br />
group, responsible for employment law in Europe, Africa,<br />
and Latin America. She leads an international team of<br />
senior employment lawyers who support Accenture in<br />
relation to a wide range of human resource and compli-<br />
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ance matters, as well as in relation to the human resource<br />
aspects of outsourcing deals, acquisitions, and other<br />
transactions. Karianne started her career in 1997 at the<br />
international law firm of Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam.<br />
Matt Keys<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Matt Keys is a cultural competence and diversity consultant<br />
at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF),<br />
specializing in organizational consulting, strategy and<br />
scorecard development, employee resource group management,<br />
communications, event planning, and education<br />
and learning. Matt helped to identify and develop<br />
several of BCBSF’s nine employee resource groups. Matt<br />
has presented on the topics of employee resource group<br />
development and diversity scorecard design nationally.<br />
He received his diversity management certification from<br />
Cornell University.<br />
Kristofer Knopp<br />
Global mobility for LGBT professionals<br />
Kristofer Kopp is a senior consultant in Deloitte’s Global<br />
Employer Services Practice in San Francisco, serving<br />
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clients on the West Coast. He has over 5 years of global<br />
mobility for LGBT professionals experience, ranging from<br />
international assignment management, global mobility for<br />
LGBT professionals policy consulting, and global compensation<br />
management. He holds a bachelor’s degree<br />
from the University of Texas, Austin. He is a member of<br />
Deloitte’s Northern Pacific Regional GLOBE chapter.<br />
Ryk Koscielski<br />
The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong><br />
Ryk Koscielski began his career with AT&T Network Systems<br />
in 1985, after graduating with a bachelor’s degree<br />
in computer science from Purdue University, Calumet.<br />
He also received a master’s degree in computer science<br />
from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1989. His career<br />
has included assignments in software development, quality<br />
systems engineering, project management, technical<br />
writing, and product management. His current position is<br />
in software release project management. Ryk is now on<br />
the Global EQUAL! employee resource group board, and<br />
was co-president from 2002 to 2010. A native Chicagoan,<br />
Ryk lives in Naperville, IL, with his partner of 19 years,<br />
Todd. They spend a lot of time remodeling and landscaping<br />
their home. He enjoys bicycling, in-line skating,<br />
gardening, skiing, and scuba diving.<br />
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Sheila James Kuehl<br />
Women’s leadership luncheon<br />
Sheila James Kuehl served eight years in the California<br />
state senate and six years in the state assembly, and, in<br />
2008, left the legislature under California’s term limits<br />
statute. In her fourteen years in the state legislature,<br />
Sheila authored 171 bills that were signed into law, including<br />
legislation to establish paid family leave and establish<br />
the rights contained in Roe v. Wade in California statute.<br />
Prior to her election to the legislature, Sheila drafted and<br />
fought to get into California law more than 40 pieces<br />
of legislation relating to children, families, women, and<br />
domestic violence. She was a law professor at Loyola,<br />
UCLA, and USC Law Schools and co-founded and served<br />
as managing attorney of the California Women’s Law<br />
Center. Sheila graduated from Harvard Law School in<br />
1978, where she was the second woman in the school’s<br />
history to win the Moot Court competition. In her youth,<br />
she was known for her portrayal of the irrepressible<br />
Zelda Gilroy in the television series “The Many Loves of<br />
Dobie Gillis.”<br />
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Michael Lammons<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Michael Lammons is the assurance partner at Price-<br />
WaterhouseCoopers. He is responsible for audit clients<br />
in the financial services and academic medical center<br />
industries. He has served as community relations partner<br />
sponsor for PwC Atlanta since March 2007, and on the<br />
PwC National GLBT Advisory Board since 2005, where<br />
he currently serves as chair. Michael also serves on the<br />
GLAAD national board of directors; other memberships<br />
and affiliations include the Georgia Society of CPAs, the<br />
Georgia Center for Nonprofits, and CHRIS Kids.<br />
Madeline Lasko<br />
First steps in creating an LGB-inclusive workplace<br />
Global values for a global workforce<br />
London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal<br />
profession in the United Kingdom<br />
Madeline Lasko has been an associate of the workplace<br />
programs at Stonewall, the United Kingdom’s lead-<br />
Southern California Edison<br />
is proud to support the<br />
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ing organization for LGB equality, for more than three<br />
years. She works with U.K. employers to support them in<br />
improving sexual orientation equality in the workplace,<br />
as well as overseeing Stonewall’s annual Workplace<br />
Conference, Leadership <strong>Program</strong>me, Recruitment Guide,<br />
and Workplace <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index. Prior to joining Stonewall,<br />
Madeline worked in Brussels as personal assistant to a<br />
British member of the European Parliament.<br />
Jenny Lee<br />
Who is the outsider? Understanding microinequities<br />
from all sides<br />
Jenny Lee is an associate brand manager at McNeil<br />
Consumer Healthcare. She currently works on the adult<br />
Tylenol franchise on innovation and digital strategy.<br />
Jenny holds an M.B.A. from the Georgetown University<br />
McDonough School of Business, and a bachelor’s in business<br />
administration from the University of Miami. Jenny<br />
lives in Philadelphia with her wife, Cristi.<br />
Ed Lehman<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
Ed Lehman is vice president, head of sales, national<br />
accounts, Aetna. He leads the field sales organization<br />
to ensure that they are focused on solving customer<br />
bios<br />
healthcare problems and demonstrating Aetna’s value<br />
to prospective customers. Ed is a key member of the<br />
National Accounts Senior Leadership. He holds a bachelor<br />
of science degree in public affairs from Indiana<br />
University, Bloomington, and an M.B.A. in marketing from<br />
Pepperdine University, Malibu. Ed and his partner, David,<br />
live in Los Angeles.<br />
Elycia Lerman<br />
Creating an LGBT ERG mentoring program<br />
Elycia Lerman is the co-chair of Johnson & Johnson’s<br />
LGBT affinity group and an active member of the women’s<br />
leadership initiative, on the multicultural women subcommittee.<br />
With Johnson & Johnson for 22 years, she is<br />
currently director, PMO knowledge management. She sits<br />
on the board of the Hunterdon Drug Awareness <strong>Program</strong>,<br />
a local nonprofit supporting substance abuse prevention<br />
and treatment. Elycia lives with her wife Anita and their<br />
two children, Sadie and Dustin, in Lambertville, NJ.<br />
Lori Lewis<br />
The federal workplace café: Conversations that will<br />
inform and inspire<br />
Lori Lewis has been a facilitator, mediator, and trainer for<br />
25 years. She currently works as a facilitator for the U.S.<br />
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academic institutions, and individuals) and uses<br />
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and acceptance of LGBT employees in the federal<br />
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Simma Lieberman<br />
What they don’t teach you in diversity school: How to<br />
ignite a successful diversity initiative<br />
Simma Lieberman is a noted management consultant in<br />
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industry, community organizations, and professional associations.<br />
Her clients have included Diageo, Renaissance<br />
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Greg Ligotti is a finance director at The Clorox Company.<br />
He serves on the Clorox Pride leadership team for corporate<br />
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companies including Deloitte, ITT Industries, and Philips<br />
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San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Center.<br />
Lisa A. Linsky, Esq.<br />
Promoting diversity and making waves: Implementing<br />
ERGs that drive organizational change<br />
Lisa Linsky is a partner in the New York trial department<br />
of McDermott Will & Emery, LLP, with a practice focused<br />
on complex litigation, product liability, mass and toxic tort,<br />
business investigations, trials, and civil rights. She is also<br />
McDermott’s first partner-in-charge of firm-wide diversity<br />
and the founder and chair of McDermott’s LGBT diversity<br />
committee. In 2007, she was appointed to the board of<br />
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work on behalf of LGBT asylum-seekers. Lisa is a member<br />
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from the board of the National Association of Women<br />
Lawyers. She is a former career prosecutor who specialized<br />
in the investigation and trials of crimes involving child<br />
abuse, domestic violence, sex crimes, and homicides.<br />
Laurie B. Lippin, Ph.D.<br />
Targeted and privileged: The importance of examining<br />
whiteness within the LGBTIQ community<br />
Dr. Laurie Lippin is a partner in Equity Action, LLC, specializing<br />
in training, consulting, coaching, and teambuilding<br />
in the areas of diversity and cultural competence. She<br />
holds a Ph.D. in adult education and is a regular part-time<br />
faculty member at the University of California, Davis. She<br />
co-authored (with Helfand) the 2001 publication Understanding<br />
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Samir Luther<br />
Health benefits for transgender and transsexual<br />
employees, the WPATH Standards of Care, and the CEI<br />
Samir Luther is an expert on employment non-discrimination<br />
policies and benefits for LBGT workers in the United<br />
States. In his capacity with the Workplace Project, he<br />
helps employers develop and implement model practices,<br />
sets standards and benchmarks for the project’s<br />
annual Corporate <strong>Equal</strong>ity Index report, and generates<br />
cutting-edge resources on LGBT workplace issues. Follow<br />
him on Twitter @samirluther.<br />
Steve Lyle<br />
Uneasy alliances: The elusive search for common<br />
ground between diverse employee communities<br />
Steve Lyle is the general manager of diversity, inclusion,<br />
and workforce development for Texas Instruments. He is<br />
a distinguished honor graduate of the U.S. Military Intelligence<br />
Center and School and a former U.S. Army officer.<br />
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information technology, and is a graduate of the human<br />
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Denise Lynn<br />
Our allies: Our champions<br />
Denise Lynn oversees all aspects of diversity and<br />
talent management for American Airlines. She joined<br />
American in 1989 and moved to human resources in<br />
1992, where she led a variety of functions before moving<br />
to American Eagle to run that airline’s human resources<br />
function from 2004 through 2006. Lynn was born and<br />
raised in London and holds a degree in economics from<br />
the University of Bath in England. She married a Texan<br />
and now lives in Dallas with her husband and two teenage<br />
sons. Lynn is a member of the board of the American<br />
Airlines Federal Credit Union, and the board of trustees<br />
of Paul Quinn College.<br />
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Robert Maitner, Jr.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> in the federal workplace: Strategies for LGBT<br />
consultants in the federal environment<br />
Robert Maitner is a senior managing consultant with IBM’s<br />
federal financial management practice. He has been<br />
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projects for clients including NASA and the Departments<br />
of Defense, Energy, and Health and Human Services.<br />
Robert is an industry-recognized expert in federal financial<br />
management, and has written several articles on<br />
internal controls and financial systems implementation.<br />
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of New<br />
Hampshire and holds a master’s degree in government<br />
administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He<br />
currently serves as the lead for IBM’s Washington DCarea<br />
LGBT group, Eagle.<br />
Jeff Marootian<br />
Move over CEI, the CCCP is here<br />
Jeff Marootian is the director of community relations at<br />
the District Department of Transportation in Washington,<br />
DC. In this capacity he is responsible for the agency’s<br />
broad portfolio of public outreach and stakeholder<br />
engagement. He is a founding board member of <strong>Out</strong> for<br />
Work and has trained corporations and nonprofits in the<br />
areas of strategic workforce development and recruiting,<br />
and retaining top “Gen-Y” talent. Jeff holds a bachelor of<br />
arts degree in human services and a masters of public<br />
administration from George Washington University.
Ken Martin<br />
The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your business<br />
plan, support profitability, and boost workforce<br />
engagement<br />
Ken Martin is senior manager for innovation in Sara Lee’s<br />
foodservice beverage division, and chair of the Sara Lee<br />
Pride network supporting LGBT and straight allies. After<br />
ten years in advertising, Ken changed careers to work for<br />
Nabisco, Kraft, and Disney Consumer Products. He splits<br />
his time between Chicago and Ogden Dunes, IN, with his<br />
husband and partner of 24 years, Professor Curt Winkle.<br />
Kris Maybach<br />
The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your business<br />
plan, support profitability, and boost workforce<br />
engagement<br />
Kris Maybach is director, continuous improvement (CI)<br />
North America for Sara Lee Corporation, where she specializes<br />
in increasing shareholder value through integration<br />
and application of Lean/Six Sigma principles, methodologies<br />
and tools across the value chain. In this role, she<br />
leads strategic deployment of Lean management elements<br />
including hoshin/business planning, performance management,<br />
problem solving, and CI capability building across<br />
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multiple industries and ERGs to help identify, align, and execute<br />
strategic initiatives to achieve financial and cultural<br />
objectives. She has been with Sara Lee since 2005 and is<br />
a contributing member of Sara Lee’s PRIDE Network.<br />
Gregg J. McConnell<br />
The role of ERGs in healthcare organizations in<br />
promoting LGBT health<br />
Gregg McConnell is manager of corporate contract<br />
management at Cardinal Health. Prior to joining Cardinal<br />
in 2007, he was senior IT procurement analyst at Ohio<br />
Savings Bank, and vice president of vendor solutions for<br />
Chase Home Finance. Previously, he worked at Ethan Interactive,<br />
where he was manager of sales and operations,<br />
and at Applied Performance Technologies, where he was<br />
a vice president.<br />
Jeanine McGuire<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Jeanine McGuire is a Six Sigma black belt and project<br />
management professional at Blue Cross and Blue Shield<br />
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of Florida (BCBSF). She serves as an internal consultant,<br />
leading deployments of business process quality<br />
management throughout the company. Jeanine is also a<br />
board member of Respect, BCBSF’s LGBT employee resource<br />
group, and has been involved in many of the company’s<br />
diversity initiatives. She has presented nationally<br />
on the topics of diversity scorecard and strategy design.<br />
Brian McNaught<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United<br />
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Named “the godfather of gay sensitivity training” by<br />
The New York Times, Brian McNaught is considered the<br />
world’s leading corporate diversity consultant dealing<br />
with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in the<br />
workplace. He is a best-selling author of four watershed<br />
books on gay issues, all of which are used as college<br />
texts, and is featured in six popular educational DVDs<br />
that are used extensively by corporations and schools<br />
in their diversity initiatives. Since 1974, McNaught has<br />
addressed hundreds of corporate and university audiences<br />
throughout North America, Europe, Australia, India,<br />
Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, including those at<br />
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DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, S.C. Johnson & Sons,<br />
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Lucent, Avaya, Agilent Tech., NCR, Brookhaven National<br />
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universities, including Harvard, Vanderbilt, Indiana<br />
University, Holy Cross, Penn State, MIT, and UCLA. Brian<br />
recently created the highly praised new corporate Web<br />
resource, “A Manager’s Guide to Gay and Transgender Issues.”<br />
He wrote a syndicated column in the gay press for<br />
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community from 1982 to 1984. Brian also served as an advisor<br />
to former Surgeon General David Satcher at Morehouse<br />
School of Medicine on his national sexual health<br />
initiative. He is certified by the American Association of<br />
Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) as a<br />
sexuality educator. He and his spouse, Ray Struble, live in<br />
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and Provincetown, MA.<br />
Darren Meader<br />
Beat the competition: Working together for the good of<br />
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desks. He now works in the collateral management team<br />
at Citi, margining cross products. Previously, he spent six<br />
years with Merrill Lynch Private Client. As well as his dayto-day<br />
responsibilities, Darren is co-chair of the Citi Pride<br />
network in London and is a member of the Interbank<br />
LGBT Forum committee.<br />
Sherri Mikell<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Sherri Mikell is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s<br />
(BCBSF) vice president of claims process. In this role, she<br />
provides leadership for nearly 1,000 employees in the<br />
service organization. Sherri is a member of the United Way<br />
Leadership Circle and the Pace Center for Girls, and is a<br />
board member of RESPECT, BCBSF’s LGBT employee resource<br />
group. She is a proud alumna of Florida State University<br />
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Susan Miller<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Susan Miller is the executive producer and writer of<br />
“Anyone But Me,” the Telly, Webby and Streamy awardwinning<br />
Web series about a new generation struggling<br />
with modern relationships. Susan, an Obie award-winning<br />
playwright and Guggenheim fellow, is also the author of<br />
the critically acclaimed “My Left Breast” and “A Map of<br />
Doubt And Rescue,” among others. A consulting producer<br />
and writer on “The L Word” and “Thirtysomething,” she<br />
was honored as one of Power Up’s 2009 “10 Amazing<br />
Gay Women In Showbiz.”<br />
Dawn Milstead<br />
The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for<br />
credibility and success<br />
Dawn Milstead is the director of continuous quality<br />
improvement at Blue and Cross Blue Shield of Florida<br />
(BCBSF). She provides leadership and consultation for<br />
process improvements. Dawn is a certified Six Sigma<br />
black belt, and a board member of RESPECT, BCBSF’s<br />
LGBT employee resource group. She holds a bachelor of<br />
science in nursing from the University of Central Florida<br />
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Casey Monnerjahn<br />
Connecting our networks for greater success—locally<br />
and beyond<br />
Casey Monnerjahn is a people team project manager<br />
in Ernst & Young’s Southwestern region. He is a founding<br />
member of Beyond, Ernst & Young’s LGBT resource<br />
network, and an avid supporter of all inclusiveness<br />
initiatives. Originally from New Orleans, Casey now lives<br />
in Dallas with his partner Bradley and their two goldfish,<br />
Oscar and Felix.<br />
Terilyn Monroe<br />
Beyond engagement: How diversity and ERGs<br />
contribute to an inspired organization<br />
Terilyn Monroe is director of global employee engagement<br />
at Intuit. Her areas of responsibility include inclusion<br />
and diversity, employee giving and volunteerism,<br />
the Intuit Foundation, new hire onboarding, regional site<br />
events and activities, the Intuit alumni community, and<br />
human resources communications. She has also worked<br />
for Nortel Networks, Bay Networks, Amdahl, and Amdocs.<br />
Terilyn has held several nonprofit board positions and<br />
continues to be active in her community.<br />
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Jackie Moran<br />
Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to<br />
overcome unconscious bias<br />
Jackie Moran is managing director in the electronic execution<br />
services group of Citi Markets & Banking. She is<br />
responsible for developing Citi’s electronic trading business<br />
within the institutional and hedge-fund communities.<br />
She is currently co-chair of Citi’s diversity committee for<br />
equities, as well as a member of the North American markets<br />
and institutional clients group diversity committees.<br />
She has also been active in mentoring and recruitment<br />
programs for both Citi and the New York Stock Exchange.<br />
Eleanor Mulligan<br />
LGBT issues in an international setting<br />
Eleanor Mulligan is a program manager for Google’s<br />
diversity and inclusion initiatives across Europe, the<br />
Middle East, and Africa. She is based in London, where<br />
she designs, creates, and delivers tailored and locally-<br />
relevant diversity initiatives for a wide range of countries,<br />
languages, cultures, and laws. Her current projects include<br />
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outreach programs. Prior to Google, she worked at a<br />
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organisations with a strong equality agenda. Eleanor has<br />
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nottingham,<br />
England.<br />
Damian Murphy<br />
Managing through difficult economic times<br />
Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to<br />
overcome unconscious bias<br />
Damian Murphy is responsible for the management of<br />
all Citi leadership and executive development programs<br />
across the EMEA region. His broad experience in the<br />
training, leadership, and executive development spaces<br />
has stretched over seven years in various roles. He is one<br />
of the co-chairs of the Citi Pride UK network, having been<br />
a member of the network since 2005. Primarily focused<br />
on training and education responsibilities, Damian was<br />
responsible for launching the LGBT mentoring program,<br />
now in its second year. In his spare time, he likes to experience<br />
life through social activities, travel, and volunteering.<br />
He lives in London with his partner of ten years.<br />
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Scott Murphy is senior vice president of human resources<br />
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based in Atlanta, oversees human resources needs for<br />
ad sales, distribution sales and sports, consulting with<br />
division leaders on organizational development, compensation,<br />
employee relations, performance management,<br />
and succession planning. Previously, Scott served as vice<br />
president for TBS, Inc., and provided human resource<br />
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Todd Murray<br />
Real and relevant issues of LGBTQ members:<br />
Expanding how we define diversity training<br />
Todd Murray was adopted into a strong and loving family,<br />
but he always felt “different.” In high school, taunts turned<br />
into daily abuse, and by his junior year he signed out of<br />
public school. He moved to New York City and worked in<br />
a dental office by day and educated himself by night. Todd<br />
found himself, a sense of freedom, and what he was sure<br />
was the man of his dreams. But he stopped using protection<br />
for fear his partner would think he didn’t trust him.<br />
After the relationship ended, he moved across the country.<br />
On World AIDS Day 2001 his best friend asked him to go<br />
with him to get an HIV test, and Todd heard the news that<br />
would change his life. Devastation, confusion, anger, regret,<br />
and isolation quickly filled Todd’s mind. But when he<br />
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great impact. Today, Todd is the president and founder of<br />
Hope’s Voice, an international platform for young people<br />
to share their stories and make social change.<br />
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Isabel Mychajlowycz<br />
Creating an LGBT ERG mentoring program<br />
Isabel Mychajlowycz is a senior diversity specialist for<br />
Johnson & Johnson. She supports the development and<br />
execution of diversity and inclusion strategies across<br />
the organization. Isabel oversees the design of a global<br />
diversity and inclusion e-learning curriculum that delivers<br />
self-guided tools for building organizational competencies<br />
and a culture of inclusion. With more than 12 years of<br />
experience in IT project management and equal opportunity,<br />
she helps Johnson & Johnson teams implement<br />
mentoring programs that leverage diversity, enhance<br />
talent, and facilitate business outcomes.
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Marilyn Nagel<br />
Changing the way we work and live: Inclusive policies,<br />
practices, and processes<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent:<br />
Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and<br />
customers<br />
As Cisco’s chief diversity officer, Marilyn Nagel is responsible<br />
for facilitating the global Inclusion & Diversity<br />
(I&D) council, which sets the I&D agenda and strategy<br />
for Cisco. Marilyn also develops the strategic plan for<br />
I&D cross-functional teams and is continually looking<br />
for ways to help Cisco stay innovative, by driving policy<br />
changes to create a more inclusive environment. Marilyn<br />
has worked in academia, leadership, and organizational<br />
development for nearly 30 years. She holds bachelor’s<br />
and master’s degrees in public administration, and has an<br />
additional master’s degree in social and systemic studies.<br />
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Stefano Nappo, Ph.D.<br />
Beat the competition: Working together for the good of<br />
the group<br />
Stefano Nappo is a Ph.D. ex-astrophysicist, and an intellectual<br />
property counsel for UBS. Based in London, he<br />
chairs UBS’ Pride committee for Europe, the Middle East,<br />
and Africa, and the Interbank LGBT Forum committee, a<br />
London-focused group of investment bank LGBT networks.<br />
A Stonewall ambassador, Youth Event volunteer,<br />
and executive role model, Stefano is committed to furthering<br />
the LGBT cause in many ways, including through<br />
UBS’ community outreach programs, and through charitable,<br />
musical, and artistic activities.<br />
Jean-Marie Navetta<br />
You’ve got the policy … what now? Using nonprofit<br />
partnerships to change corporate culture<br />
The care and feeding of straight allies at work: What<br />
LGBTs must know for successful inclusion<br />
Why did you say that? Using perceptual identity to<br />
break through barriers in the workplace<br />
Jean-Marie Navetta is the director of equality partnerships<br />
for PFLAG, leading its Straight for <strong>Equal</strong>ity project.<br />
Under her leadership, more than 4,000 people have been<br />
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for PFLAG and also worked to make the world a better<br />
(and more attractive) place through her creative services<br />
consulting group. Jean-Marie came to PFLAG in 2005 from<br />
the American Association of University Women, where she<br />
served as media relations manager for the group’s three<br />
corporations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy<br />
from Montclair State University in New Jersey.<br />
Elaine Newman<br />
Count me in: Including LGBT in workplace demographic<br />
data collection<br />
Elaine Newman is the CEO of the international Global<br />
Learning Group of companies, where her experience in<br />
strategic consulting and corporate learning is unparalleled.<br />
Her passion, however, is workplace diversity and<br />
inclusion; and, to this purpose, she has led her companies<br />
to build a unique team of training and consulting<br />
specialists in that area. In 2009, under Elaine’s direction,<br />
Global Learning launched a new series of critically<br />
acclaimed “Diversity Moments” trainings focused on<br />
sexual orientation and gender identity. Having traveled<br />
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the globe and lived in Washington, DC, Houston, Boston,<br />
and Philadelphia, Elaine and her family finally settled in<br />
Toronto, where she has become very involved in local<br />
nonprofit organizations and civic endeavours.<br />
Chip Newton<br />
Does your ERG measure up? Components of a<br />
successful employee resource group<br />
Chip Newton is a manager with Deloitte Consulting’s<br />
healthcare technology practice. He is considered a senior<br />
workforce management productivity expert, with more<br />
than 15 years of professional consulting experience, and<br />
is a consulting thought leader with experience in the<br />
healthcare, retail, and education industries. Chip serves<br />
as the co-chair of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Atlanta affiliate, chair<br />
of Deloitte’s Atlanta LGBT business resource group, and<br />
is the executive secretary of the board of directors for<br />
AID Atlanta. He received his M.B.A. in human resources<br />
management from Georgia State University.<br />
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Alex Nicholson was raised in South Carolina as the only<br />
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reservist. At 19, he enlisted in the Army and trained as a<br />
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he had just been chosen to cross-train in counterintelligence<br />
when a colleague revealed confidential<br />
knowledge of his sexual orientation. Despite his extensive<br />
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but involuntarily discharged. After several years of shame<br />
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and founded Service Members United in 2005,<br />
which supports those suffering under the cloud of the<br />
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, and fights for its repeal. Alex<br />
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Laurie Olson<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a<br />
lesbian or gay employee<br />
Laurie Olson is Pfizer’s senior vice president of portfolio<br />
management and analytics, responsible for decision<br />
support, portfolio management, and metrics and business<br />
development valuations. She joined Pfizer in 1987 and<br />
has served in a variety of marketing leadership positions,<br />
such as U.S. launch team leader for Lipitor, Pfizer’s highestselling<br />
product. Laurie earned a bachelor of science in<br />
economics from the State University of New York at Stony<br />
Brook and an M.B.A. in marketing from Hofstra University.<br />
Sharon Orlopp<br />
Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart and<br />
Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)<br />
Sharon Orlopp is the senior vice president responsible<br />
for the entire people division of Sam’s Club for Wal-Mart<br />
Stores. With approximately 105,000 associates nationwide,<br />
her responsibilities include training and development,<br />
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Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
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Ron Owen has been involved in the LGBT Community for<br />
over 30 years. Ron is founder of BiNetAZ (1998) and one<br />
of the original leaders of BiNetUSA (1984), and formedctor.<br />
Also former Director of BiNetLA. In the last ten years<br />
he has worked with LGBT groups in the AZ Democratic<br />
Party, and also helped create Rainbow Spirits, an LGBT<br />
Spiritual Community group. Ron has over 25 years in<br />
human resources and currently works as the business<br />
manager for Land of Ahhs Consignment, Scottsdale.<br />
Previous employers include MCI, Universal Technical<br />
Institute, and US Microchip. He received an M.B.A. from<br />
Atkinson Graduate School in Salem, OR, and a B.A. in<br />
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Vincent Pan<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
Vincent Pan is the executive director of Chinese for Affirmative<br />
Action (CAA), a community-based social justice organization<br />
in San Francisco.Prior to joining CAA, Vincent<br />
was a consultant with the William Clinton Foundation,<br />
where he helped start treatment programs for children<br />
living with HIV/AIDS in China. Before that he was the cofounder<br />
and executive director of Heads Up, a nonprofit<br />
organization that runs after-school and summer programs<br />
for low-income children by enlisting college students to<br />
tutor and teach as AmeriCorps members. Vincent has a<br />
bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University,<br />
and has been a Fellow with the Center for Social Innovation<br />
at Stanford University, the Echoing Green Foundation,<br />
and the Stride Rite Foundation.Vincent serves on the<br />
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Rebecca Parilla<br />
Can you be gay and global?<br />
Rebecca Parrilla leads the design and implementation of<br />
intercultural development programs at Language & Culture<br />
Worldwide, supporting organizations in their goals<br />
to incorporate cross-cultural competencies into their<br />
worldviews and inclusive behaviors into their workflows.<br />
A native Spanish- and English-speaker, she has lived for<br />
extended periods in Asian (China), Latin American (Puerto<br />
Rico), and North American (U.S.) cultures. Rebecca received<br />
her M.B.A .from DePaul University and currently<br />
resides in Chicago with her partner, Sue. She brings a<br />
lesbian perspective to “Cultural Detective: LGBT.”<br />
Nate Parker<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working<br />
with Gen Y<br />
Nate Parker is an operations supervisor in the treasury<br />
and securities services business at JP Morgan Chase,<br />
where he has worked for the last four years. An active<br />
member of PRIDE, the company’s LGBT employee<br />
resource group, in February he was elected the global<br />
co-chair, the first employee outside of the U.S. to hold<br />
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You’ve Got the<br />
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impact that ERGs can have on employee development<br />
and retention.<br />
David Parks<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public<br />
policy and business leadership<br />
David Parks is the first openly gay member of the Nevada<br />
legislature, and remains the only publicly elected gay<br />
official in the state. He was elected to the state senate<br />
in November 2008 and had served in the Nevada assembly<br />
since 1996. He serves on the boards of numerous<br />
organizations and was appointed to the Governor’s<br />
Statewide AIDS Advisory Task Force from 1987 to 1994<br />
and from 2002 to the present. David got his B.S. from the<br />
University of New Hampshire, and then served in the U.S.<br />
Air Force stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas,<br />
NV. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Nevada,<br />
Las Vegas, and worked for the City of Las Vegas and had<br />
local government experience over the years.<br />
Bryan Parsons<br />
Raising the bar: The new corporate equality index<br />
criteria and data from the 2011 report<br />
Bryan Parsons is a manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s audit<br />
and business advisory practice, with a specific focus on<br />
strategy and operations of the financial services group.<br />
He is responsible for quality and risk management initiatives<br />
relating to over 40 partners who service financial<br />
market clients in the New York and Boston areas. In this<br />
unique role at Ernst & Young, Bryan concentrates on best<br />
practices development and implementation.<br />
Nicholas Patrick<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a<br />
lesbian or gay employee<br />
Nicholas Patrick is a manager in Pfizer’s worldwide communications<br />
division, responsible for producing print and<br />
video content for PfizerWorld, the company’s flagship corporate<br />
intranet site, which reaches a global audience of<br />
more than 100,000 Pfizer employees. He also co-chairs<br />
Pfizer’s Global LGBT Council, the governing body of the<br />
company’s site-based LGBT employee resource groups.<br />
He joined Pfizer in 2004 and earned his B.A. in liberal<br />
arts from the City College of New York.<br />
Sheri Paulo<br />
Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to<br />
overcome unconscious bias<br />
Sheri Paulo is the managing director of employee relations<br />
and policy in the U.S, responsible for the development<br />
of employment policy and practice, as well as the<br />
appropriate resolution of formal employee relations<br />
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matters. Her team provides education and development<br />
to HR professionals increasing their employee relations<br />
skills and capability. She was instrumental in the establishment<br />
of Citi’s employee Pride Network of the San<br />
Francisco/Bay Area. Sheri is also an executive coach for<br />
Citi’s Executive Business Leadership <strong>Program</strong>.<br />
Nicholas Payne, Ph.D<br />
Bisexuals at work: New global survey data<br />
Nicholas Payne is an adjunct professor at the University<br />
of Cincinnati, teaching quantitative analysis. He started<br />
teaching after retiring from Procter & Gamble following a<br />
40-year career, the last twenty as a statistician analyzing<br />
employee satisfaction surveys. He was the first straight<br />
ally on the leadership team of GABLE, Procter & Gamble’s<br />
employee resource group. He worked with company<br />
leadership to add questions relevant to LGBT employees<br />
to the employee survey. In his 40 years at Procter<br />
& Gamble, it was working with GABLE that helped him<br />
feel fuller. Nick is a trained opera singer and a volunteer<br />
with several nonprofits. Nick has a wonderful family with<br />
a wife, two children, six grandchildren, one great-grandchild,<br />
and a great mother-in-law!<br />
Denise Penn<br />
Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media<br />
on bisexual lives<br />
Denise Penn is an advocacy journalist and editor who has<br />
been covering political and social issues for alternative<br />
and LGBT press since the early ’90s. She is the associate<br />
producer and host of The Gay & Lesbian News Magazine,<br />
a weekly live cable television show in Long Beach; news<br />
editor for The Lesbian News; and a frequent contributor<br />
to the Orange County and Long Beach BLADE, IN Los Angeles<br />
Magazine, and others. She also works behind the<br />
scenes as a communications consultant, and has presented<br />
workshops on bisexuality at many conferences. She<br />
grew up in Orange County, earning degrees in English<br />
and social science from CSUF and UCI, and completed<br />
an M.S.W. at San Diego State University.<br />
Neddy Perez<br />
Energy sector LGBT employee resource group best<br />
practices<br />
Neddy Perez is the vice president of inclusion and diversity<br />
at National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned energy<br />
companies in the world. Previously, she served as KPMG<br />
LLP’s chief diversity officer, and has implemented human<br />
resources and diversity initiatives for corporations such<br />
as Sodexo, Royal Dutch/Shell, and United Parcel Service.<br />
Neddy is the founder of the Association of Employee Resource<br />
Groups, and one of the founders of the Inclusion &<br />
Diversity Officers Roundtable and of Latinos in Diversity &<br />
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Human Resources. In 2009, she was named to the “Woman<br />
Worth Watching List for 2010” by Profiles in Diversity<br />
Journal, and in 2006 she was inducted into Houston’s<br />
Hispanic Women’s Hall of Fame. She holds a bachelor’s<br />
degree in public relations from the University of Florida<br />
and a master’s in human resources management and international<br />
business from Nova Southeastern University.<br />
Mike Perillo<br />
Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT<br />
employees<br />
Mike Perillo is the human resource leader for Merck’s<br />
global finance division. In this role, he is responsible for<br />
creating and executing the human capital plans and programs<br />
supporting the global finance strategy, including<br />
all aspects of engaging, developing, and retaining over<br />
3,200 employees. Mike serves as the human resources<br />
liaison of Merck’s LGBT Global Constituency Group, and<br />
the HR liaison for Merck’s Employee Resource Group<br />
Bridge. Mike enjoys boxing, spin class, and kayaking.<br />
Susanne Perkins<br />
The federal workplace cafe: Conversations that will<br />
inform and inspire<br />
Susanne Perkins is a project manager for the U.S. EPA<br />
Region 9 in San Francisco, where she focuses on hazardous<br />
waste permits and sustainability. Along with Lori<br />
Lewis, she proudly manages the LGBT diversity program<br />
for Region 9. Susanne is a native Mainer and keeps in<br />
touch with her rural roots by keeping a few chickens and<br />
a worm bin in the backyard of her decidedly urban Bay<br />
Area habitat.<br />
Joan Pertak<br />
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Joan Pertak is vice president and chief information<br />
officer for PepsiCo Beverages North America and Quaker<br />
Foods and Snacks. She joined PepsiCo in 1983 as a<br />
computer programmer, and transferred to the IT department<br />
in 1989. Since then, she has broadened her experience<br />
through many technology and leadership positions.<br />
Most of Joan’s tenure has been spent in leading bottling<br />
selling systems initiatives and PepsiCo transformation<br />
projects. Since 2007, Joan has been the executive sponsor<br />
of two Chicago-based employee resource groups at<br />
PepsiCo: the <strong>Equal</strong> group, which increases awareness of<br />
LGBT diversity, and the Women’s Initiative Network (WIN),<br />
which identifies and drives solutions to key issues related<br />
to professional and personal development of women.<br />
Joan earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the<br />
State University of New York in Albany. She resides in<br />
West Harrison, NY, with her husband and three children.<br />
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Durodgio Peterson<br />
Wake up to the new ally in town<br />
Durodgio Peterson is a native of Detroit and holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University<br />
of Michigan. In the Navy, he was a part of “Operation<br />
Enduring Freedom,” and is a recent combat veteran<br />
of Afghanistan. Upon his return to the U.S., he joined the<br />
Veteran Affairs Department in Washington, DC, working<br />
in diversity and inclusion, where he founded the National<br />
Diversity LGBT <strong>Program</strong> in 2008. Durodgio also works on<br />
White House policies regarding diversity in the workplace<br />
initiatives and on executive orders.<br />
Michelle E. Phillips, Esq.<br />
Accommodating religion and sexual orientation in the<br />
workplace: Promoting tolerance and diverse views<br />
Michelle Phillips is a partner in the White Plains office of<br />
Jackson Lewis LLP. She is the founder and chairperson<br />
of Jackson Lewis’ GLPG (Gay & Lesbian Practice Group)<br />
as well as a member of the firm’s diversity committee.<br />
She regularly conducts diversity training regarding LGBT<br />
issues in the workplace. Michelle also regularly handles<br />
employment litigation and advises employers on best<br />
practices and legal compliance.<br />
Ronnie Phillips, Ph.D.<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG<br />
relevant<br />
Ronnie Phillips is a research scientist in Kimberly-Clark’s<br />
corporate research and engineering team, where he has<br />
worked for almost two years. He is currently co-chair<br />
of the Atlanta Pride employee resource group. Ronnie<br />
resides in Atlanta and holds a bachelor’s degree in<br />
biochemistry and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the<br />
Georgia Institute of Technology.<br />
Todd Pierce<br />
Merging of cultures in a global company: A case study<br />
of Genentech and Roche<br />
Todd Pierce is senior vice president and chief information<br />
officer of Genentech Informatics. In this role, he leads<br />
Genentech’s IT group, including information technology<br />
strategy, planning, application development, operations<br />
and networking. In addition, he is a member of the Roche<br />
Group’s global IT leadership team. Prior to joining Genentech,<br />
Todd was chief information officer and director<br />
of information systems for the Santa Clara County Social<br />
Services Agency. He has more than 25 years of IT leadership<br />
experience from a broad range of industries, including<br />
commercial software products, health insurance,<br />
clinical care, and government. He lives in Marin with his<br />
spouse Scott.<br />
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Minimizing tension between the letters LGBT<br />
Scott Pignatella is a senior systems engineer working in<br />
integration, test, and data analysis at Raytheon Missile<br />
Systems in Tucson. Scott is the current president of the<br />
RMS Tucson LGBT employee resource group and a member<br />
of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Transgender Advisory Committee.<br />
Scott is vice president of the board of directors for, and a<br />
tenor in, Desert Voices, Southern Arizona’s LGBTS chorus.<br />
Scott shares his Arizona home with four cats.<br />
Lynda Pires<br />
Reaching out to engage employees everywhere<br />
Lynda Pires received her M.B.A. from the Thunderbird<br />
School of Global Management. She now serves as an<br />
associate market intelligence manager at The Clorox<br />
Company and was previously a writer at ING Investment<br />
Management and a brand coordinator with Colgate-<br />
Palmolive.<br />
Jessica Plock<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Jessica Plock is a manager in Deloitte’s technology practice,<br />
with a focus on management and technology strategies<br />
within the federal financial services sector.<br />
Kaitlin Porter, MPH<br />
Does your ERG measure up? Components of a<br />
successful employee resource group<br />
Kaitlin Porter is a consultant with Deloitte Consulting’s<br />
federal practice. In this role, her focus has been on performance<br />
measurement, stakeholder analysis, and strategic<br />
planning for a large federal healthcare client. Kaitlin<br />
serves on the board of Deloitte’s Atlanta LGBT business<br />
resource group, and is the production chair of the annual<br />
Atlanta Human Rights Campaign Silent Auction and Gala.<br />
She received her master’s degree in public health from<br />
Emory University.<br />
David Posner, Ph.D.<br />
Changing the way we work and live: Inclusive policies,<br />
practices, and processes<br />
David Posner is a manager in global inclusion & diversity<br />
at Cisco. He has been with Cisco for ten years and<br />
currently specializes in developing broad approaches to<br />
measuring diversity and inclusion. He also focuses on<br />
business architecture for inclusion and diversity. He has<br />
a background in IT enterprise metrics, portfolio management,<br />
and business architecture, and has chaired Cisco’s<br />
GLBT & Advocates Employee Resource Group.<br />
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Lori J. Posner<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Lori Posner is the visionary founder of YesDesignGroup,<br />
a leading creative communications agency renowned for<br />
strategic and original advertising, branding, and design.<br />
Clients include: IHG, Wells Fargo, Hilton Worldwide, Sony<br />
Pictures Home Entertainment, NBC Universal, here! TV,<br />
The Dream Foundation, J Brand, DirecTV, and InStyle<br />
Magazine. An innovator in entertainment industry creative,<br />
YDG’s work has been featured on Entertainment<br />
Tonight and the Golden Globes’ Red Carpet Pre-show,<br />
appears in numerous graphic design publications, and<br />
has won multiple industry and creative awards.<br />
Jim Price<br />
Oppression and inequality: A look within<br />
Jim Price is a vice president in human resources at Citi,<br />
a consultant, a college instructor, and an artist. Active in<br />
numerous professional and community organizations, his<br />
favorite roles focus on workplace equality and justice,<br />
talent development of marginalized groups, and strategic<br />
diversity management. He is a certified professional in<br />
human resources and a certified project management<br />
professional. Currently working on his doctorate in human<br />
and organizational systems with a focus on transformative<br />
learning for social justice, he resides in Dallas.<br />
Stephanie Puentes<br />
After the dust settles: Rebuilding your ERG<br />
Targeted and privileged: The importance of examining<br />
whiteness within the LGBTIQ community<br />
Stephanie Puentes is a partner in Equity Action, LLC, specializing<br />
in training, consulting, coaching, and teambuilding<br />
in the areas of diversity and cultural competence.<br />
She is a 28-year veteran of the high-tech industry and<br />
was a founding member of Hewlett-Packard’s first global<br />
employee resource group. Stephanie is a certified LGBT<br />
diversity leadership trainer with <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>.<br />
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Karina Radulescu<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working<br />
with Gen Y<br />
Karina Radulescu graduated from Rice University and currently<br />
works in the strategy consulting practice at Accenture.<br />
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Reza Rahaman<br />
How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the<br />
year finalists<br />
Reza Rahaman leads research and development and innovation<br />
for Clorox’s Glad, Kingsford, Fresh Step, Scoop<br />
Away, Hidden Valley, and KC Masterpiece brands. He is<br />
the leader of the Clorox Pride employee resource group.<br />
Reza has a bachelor of science degree from Imperial<br />
College, University of London, and master of science<br />
and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of<br />
Technology, all in chemical engineering. Prior to joining<br />
Clorox, he worked for American Cyanamid/Wyeth Pharmaceuticals<br />
and for Astra Zeneca.<br />
Zahara Raine<br />
When health care isn’t caring: Combating health care<br />
discrimination of LGBT people and PLWHA<br />
Working positively: Answers and action on HIV in the<br />
workplace<br />
Zahara Raine is the national community educator for<br />
Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal<br />
organization committed to achieving full recognition<br />
of the civil rights of LGBT people and people with HIV.<br />
She has also coordinated programs for art and cultural<br />
organizations, including the African Film Festival and the<br />
MIX Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Raine has served<br />
as an AIDS outreach organizer and education program<br />
coordinator at Community Impact in New York, volunteered<br />
as a counselor for the Gay Health Advocacy<br />
Project, and participated in HIV awareness campaigns<br />
with ACT UP. She completed her bachelor’s degree at<br />
Columbia University and earned a master’s degree in<br />
intercultural management from the School of International<br />
Training Graduate Institute.<br />
Kimberly Reed<br />
“Prodigal Sons” screening<br />
Kimberly Reed is a filmmaker living in New York City.<br />
She was named one of “25 New Faces of Independent<br />
Film” by Filmmaker Magazine, and one of “Five to Watch”<br />
by The Advocate. Reed has been awarded fellowships<br />
at the Yaddo Artists’ Community and the Squaw Valley<br />
Community of Writers. She directed/produced “Prodigal<br />
Sons,” which SF Weekly calls a “whiplash doc that heralds<br />
an exciting talent.” “Prodigal Sons,” a co-production with<br />
BBC Storyville and Sundance Channel, premiered at the<br />
prestigious Telluride Film Festival with a record seven<br />
screenings. The film has gone on to be shown around the<br />
world in theaters, festivals, and on television, garnering<br />
more than a dozen Jury and Audience awards, including<br />
the FIPRESCI prize. She has been featured on the Oprah<br />
Winfrey Show and CNN, among other media outlets.<br />
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Reed is a summa cum laude graduate of UC Berkeley<br />
and a Montana native.<br />
Gina Reiss<br />
Leading by example—How ERG leaders create<br />
sustainable relationships with nonprofits<br />
Two moms, two dads, Dora, Bratz, and GI Joe:<br />
Navigating the gender divide with your kids<br />
Gina Reiss is the executive director of TrueChild, a research<br />
and action center devoted to transforming gender<br />
norms and their impact on young people. For a decade,<br />
she was managing director of the Gender Public Advocacy<br />
Coalition. She has also served as the action vice-president<br />
of NOW-NJ and executive director of the New Jersey Lesbian<br />
and Gay Coalition. She is a graduate of the University<br />
of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in<br />
English literature and a minor in women’s studies.<br />
Leah Reynolds<br />
Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working<br />
with Gen Y<br />
Leah Reynolds is a consultant with a passion for maximizing<br />
young talent in the workplace to achieve greater bottom-line<br />
results. She is a former national practice leader<br />
at Deloitte, where she specialized in emerging workplace<br />
trends. Through her consulting work, Leah helps leaders<br />
realize the benefits of engaging young talent, including<br />
an enhanced ability to sell to Gen-Y customers, increased<br />
application of technological efficiencies, and improved<br />
collaborative and inclusive work practices.<br />
Rashad Robinson<br />
GLAAD media training for leaders<br />
Rashad Robinson serves as senior director of media<br />
programs for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation<br />
(GLAAD), and is based in New York. GLAAD is one<br />
of the largest national LGBT organizations and the only<br />
one dedicated to ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive<br />
representation of LGBT people and events in the media<br />
as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination<br />
based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Rashad<br />
joined GLAAD in May, 2005.<br />
Sebastian Rocca<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United<br />
States<br />
Sebastian Rocca started his directorship of the International<br />
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association<br />
(ILGA) in May 2010. Over the last six years his<br />
work has focused on the issues of integration of black<br />
minorities and ethnic communities, sexual orientation and
gender identity, asylum, sexual health and HIV. Previous<br />
appointments include executive director of the UK Lesbian<br />
and Gay Immigration Group and head of operations<br />
of the Medical Foundation for Aids and Sexual Health.<br />
Christina Rock<br />
Real and relevant issues of LGBTQ members:<br />
Expanding how we define diversity training<br />
Christina Rock is a nationally known speaker and has<br />
appeared at hundreds of colleges, universities, and businesses<br />
sharing her story and presenting the “Does HIV<br />
Look Like Me?” lecture.<br />
Carol Rodriguez<br />
Reaching out to engage employees everywhere<br />
Carol Rodriguez is a member of the Clorox Pride leadership<br />
team. As a lead for advocacy, she has been pivotal<br />
in engaging large numbers of advocates in a variety of<br />
activities and in dialogue that has significantly furthered<br />
the outreach and impact of Clorox Pride.<br />
Nick Rojeski<br />
Who is the outsider? Understanding microinequities<br />
from all sides<br />
Nick Rojeski began his career in the nonprofit sector in<br />
fundraising and development and currently works in HIV<br />
pharmaceutical sales with Tibotec Therapeutics. He has a<br />
bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and an M.B.A.<br />
from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Birmingham,<br />
AL, with his partner, Mike.<br />
Diane Root<br />
Being transgendered in the workplace in a binary world<br />
Diane Root is currently a field engineer in Xerox’s customer<br />
and technical support center, located in Rochester,<br />
NY. She joined GALAXe in 2003 and is now an at-large<br />
member of the GALAXe board, looking forward to making<br />
positive contributions to the organization and to Xerox’s<br />
LGBT-inclusive work environment. Diane is currently pursuing<br />
her bachelor of science degree in telecommunications<br />
engineering technology at the Rochester Institute of<br />
Technology. In what time is left she spends time with her<br />
partner, Paula Amico, and her son Andrew, and sails on<br />
Lake Ontario.<br />
Hope Royaltey<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Hope Royaltey is the founder of FlagshipTV, an interactive<br />
entertainment network that develops, produces, and<br />
delivers original Web series to targeted markets with a<br />
focus on content for the global LGBT audience. She has<br />
bios<br />
written, developed, and sold TV and feature film projects<br />
to Comedy Central, Focus Features, and Regent Entertainment.<br />
With a background in entertainment advertising,<br />
Hope is executive producer, writer, and co-director<br />
of the short film series “Cashino,” and was executive<br />
producer and director of the Web sensation, “Venice The<br />
Series.”<br />
Che Ruddell-Tabisola<br />
Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT families count<br />
Che Ruddell-Tabisola is an advisor to the U.S. Census Bureau’s<br />
national LGBT partnership outreach programs, and<br />
serves as a liaison between Our Families Count, a new<br />
campaign to get LGBT families counted, and U.S. Census<br />
partnership specialists. He formerly served as special<br />
projects coordinator for the Human Rights Campaign.<br />
Dana Rudolph<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being<br />
an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian,<br />
a leading blog of news and information for lesbian<br />
moms and other LGBT parents. She writes a syndicated<br />
Mombian column for several LGBT newspapers around<br />
the country. In addition, she covers LGBT political and<br />
legal news for Keen News Service and is a contributor<br />
to Change.org and Bilerico.com. She also develops<br />
Web sites, blogs, podcasts, and other online content.<br />
Dana began her career in online business and marketing<br />
strategies during the first dotcom boom, and has worked<br />
at both the startup and corporate levels. Most recently,<br />
she was a vice president at Merrill Lynch, involved in the<br />
launch of several key online initiatives. She was also the<br />
first leader of the firm’s global LGBT employee network.<br />
Dana has a B.A. summa cum laude from Wellesley College<br />
and an M.Phil. from Oxford University. She lives with<br />
her spouse of 17 years and their seven-year-old son.<br />
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Scott Safier<br />
LGBT issues in an international setting<br />
Scott Safier is a software engineer and team lead at<br />
Google. Prior to joining Google New York, he lived in<br />
Pittsburgh, where he served on the boards of the ACLU<br />
of Pennsylvania, National Stonewall Democrats, and the<br />
14th Ward Independent Democratic Club. He founded<br />
Steel City Stonewall Democrats and the Pennsylvania<br />
Freedom to Marry Coalition. He is a past chair of the<br />
staff council of Carnegie Mellon University, where he<br />
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was active in working for equal benefits for same-sex<br />
couples. In 2004, he was on the platform committee for<br />
the Democratic National Committee, where he delivered<br />
an impassioned speech for transgender inclusion in the<br />
party. Currently, Scott is training for AIDS LifeCycle and<br />
coordinates Team Google for BrakingTheCycle.<br />
Mark St. Cyr<br />
ERGs and employees in the beverage alcohol business:<br />
Driving for change in a conservative industry<br />
Mark St. Cyr has worked in the beverage alcohol industry<br />
for 17 years in various sales, marketing, training, and<br />
recruiting roles. Mark oversees CSG’s management<br />
development program throughout all markets, and leads<br />
all on-campus recruiting initiatives. CSG is among the<br />
largest beverage alcohol distributors in the U.S., employing<br />
7,000 associates in 15 states. Employed by CSG<br />
since 2000, Mark works closely with suppliers, including<br />
Brown-Forman and Diageo, on social responsibility, moderation,<br />
and diversity initiatives.<br />
Steve Salee<br />
Authenticity: Bring the best “you” to work and life<br />
Steve Salee is the founder of WildFire Strategies, an organizational<br />
development firm that helps leaders and teams<br />
perform at their best. His clients include leading organizations<br />
in financial services, the arts, human rights, publishing,<br />
law, and insurance. Steve holds master’s degrees in<br />
social work and public administration from Columbia University,<br />
and a bachelor’s degree from Brown. He serves on<br />
the leadership councils of GLSEN and <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates, and lives with his family in Manhattan.<br />
Greg Sampedro<br />
Connecting our networks for greater success—locally<br />
and beyond<br />
Greg Sampedro joined Merck in 2000. Currently he<br />
works in West Point, PA, as a senior manufacturing<br />
engineer supporting the manufacture of sterile vaccine<br />
products. Greg is co-president of Merck Rainbow Alliance,<br />
Merck’s LGBT employee resource group (one of<br />
eight affinity groups at Merck). He also is a member of the<br />
LGBT global constituency group, which is one of ten such<br />
groups that were launched in 2008.<br />
Sameer D. Samudra<br />
Building the LGBT leadership: Cummins’ strategic<br />
vision for LGBT inclusion<br />
Sameer Samudra is currently a Six Sigma master black<br />
belt with Cummins. He has been a diversity trainer and<br />
facilitator for the last seven years. Originally from India,<br />
Sameer has worked on key diversity initiatives with<br />
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global focus for Cummins. He has a strong passion for<br />
LGBT issues within people of color communities and is a<br />
moderator of an online Gay Indian mailing list. He is also<br />
a steering committee member of the LGBT and Friends<br />
affinity group at Cummins. Sameer has a master’s degree<br />
in engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an<br />
M.B.A. from Indiana University. In his spare time, he can<br />
be found in his kitchen cooking Indian food or dancing to<br />
the tunes of Bollywood. He lives with his partner, Amit, in<br />
Columbus, IN.<br />
Vivek Saxena<br />
Can you be gay and global?<br />
Vivek Saxena is an intercultural consultant and a coach.<br />
He works with individuals and teams to enable them<br />
to discover meaningful approaches to living and working<br />
across different cultures. Vivek has an M.B.A. and is<br />
currently getting certified as an integral coach. He is a<br />
co-author of “Cultural Detective: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,<br />
and Transgender.” Vivek is currently living in Bangalore<br />
and has a family of friends.<br />
Judy Scheer<br />
Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience<br />
Judy Scheer oversees strategic marketing and provides<br />
creative expertise for YesDesignGroup, a leading creative<br />
communications agency. With careers intersecting advertising,<br />
broadcasting, and entertainment, she has created<br />
award-winning campaigns and memorable taglines, and<br />
developed meaningful brand experiences for a range<br />
of clients, among them NBC Universal (“Friday Night<br />
Lights”), Fox Television (“Family Guy,” “How I Met Your<br />
Mother”), CBS Paramount Television, The Waldorf-Astoria<br />
Collection, Wells Fargo, The Platinum Guild International,<br />
Cone Denim, The Beverly Hilton Hotel, and Odyssey<br />
HealthCare.<br />
Steven W. Schmitt<br />
The unique legal and financial challenges facing the<br />
LGBT community<br />
Steven Schmitt is a vice president and investment officer<br />
with Wells Fargo Advisors. In addition to being a certified<br />
financial planner, he holds the accredited domestic partnership<br />
advisor (ADPA) designation. Steven has a bachelor’s<br />
degree in finance from Pennsylvania State University<br />
and an M.B.A. from Farleigh Dickinson University. With<br />
more than 95 percent of his current clients identifying as<br />
LGBT, his practice caters exclusively to providing investment<br />
planning and asset management services to the<br />
community. Steven focuses primarily on money management<br />
services and portfolio decision-making within his<br />
team. Steven currently resides in New York City with his<br />
partner, Paul.
Bryan Schneidmuller<br />
Leveraging change management concepts to maximize<br />
impact of LGBT programs<br />
Bryan Schneidmuller is a human resources manager for<br />
Raytheon in Waltham, MA, and leads human resourcesrelated<br />
matters for mergers and acquisitions activities.<br />
He has 21 years of experience in human resources and<br />
change management. While with Raytheon, Bryan has<br />
performed in human resources leadership roles in El Segundo,<br />
CA, and Forest, MO, where he launched an LGBT<br />
employee resource group and a diversity council, and<br />
served as the human resources liaison for the Raytheon<br />
American Indian Network.<br />
Brad Sears<br />
LGBT diversity in the global context<br />
Brad Sears is the executive director of the Williams Institute<br />
and an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law. He<br />
has published a number of research studies, primarily on<br />
discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace and<br />
HIV discrimination. Brad has testified before Congress<br />
and state legislatures, authored amicus briefs in key court<br />
cases, helped to draft state and federal legislation, and<br />
been cited frequently in the media. He graduated summa<br />
cum laude from Yale University and magna cum laude<br />
from Harvard Law School.<br />
Miguel A. Sepulveda<br />
Managing through difficult economic times<br />
Miguel Sepulveda became a part of the Citi family in 1997<br />
and currently manages client interfacing and reengineering<br />
projects within the program office at the Citibank<br />
client services site in San Antonio. In this project role, he<br />
leads business initiatives and coordinates logistical efforts,<br />
training, hiring, space allocation, and so on, all while<br />
ensuring each project maintains adequate risk from its<br />
original scope. Miguel currently serves as vice president<br />
for the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, and as co-chair of<br />
the San Antonio Citi Pride network.<br />
Patrick Sheahan, Ph.D.<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG<br />
Patrick Sheahan is head of community affairs and corporate<br />
social responsibility for UBS in the Midwest<br />
region. His work focuses on corporate social responsibility,<br />
community affairs, and government relations. He<br />
led the efforts to build Center on Halsted, Chicago’s<br />
65,000-square-foot LGBT community center. An avid<br />
nonprofit fundraiser, he has raised more than $65 million<br />
for numerous organizations. Patrick earned his Ph.D. from<br />
the University of Illinois at Chicago, and teaches nonprofit<br />
management courses at Northwestern University.<br />
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Susan Silbermann<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a<br />
lesbian or gay employee<br />
Susan Silbermann is Pfizer’s regional president for Latin<br />
America within the company’s emerging markets business<br />
unit, responsible for managing more than 4,000<br />
colleagues and pharmaceutical operations in 30-plus<br />
markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. She joined<br />
Pfizer in 1988 and earned positions of increasing responsibility<br />
in national and international marketing. Susan<br />
earned a bachelor of science degree in biology and<br />
French from Tufts University, and a joint M.B.A./M.A.<br />
in international business and French studies from New<br />
York University.<br />
Andy Smith<br />
How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the<br />
year finalists<br />
Andy Smith is the director of corporate philanthropy<br />
for Texas Instruments, which he joined in 1997. He has<br />
worked for several nonprofits as public relations or development<br />
director and run for public office. He has been<br />
active in LGBT civil rights issues for more than 20 years.<br />
Currently, he serves as the chair of the TI Pride Network<br />
employee resource group, is past board chair of AIDS<br />
Interfaith Network, is a board member of the Center for<br />
Nonprofit Management and The Senior Source, is a member<br />
of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ volunteer<br />
engagement cabinet and United Way Worldwide’s global<br />
corporate leadership advisory council, as well as the<br />
Museum of Nature and Science’s corporate council. He<br />
is also a graduate of the Leadership Dallas Class of 2010.<br />
A native Texan, Andy attended Tyler Junior College and<br />
Southern Methodist University. He and his husband, Paul<br />
von Wupperfeld, reside in the Uptown area of Dallas.<br />
Christie Smith<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Christie Smith has more than 20 years of consulting experience<br />
in the areas of organizational effectiveness, human<br />
capital transformation, and mergers and acquisitions,<br />
focusing on human resource and business strategy, talent<br />
management, employee development, global workforce<br />
planning, leadership development, and change management.<br />
Christie currently leads Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative<br />
Network (WIN) with a focus on practitioners in the<br />
Pacific Northwest area, and is also a member of the <strong>Out</strong> &<br />
<strong>Equal</strong> executive board.<br />
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Debbie Smith<br />
Everyone transitions along with an employee: Boeing’s<br />
approach to the intersection of work and situation<br />
Debbie Smith is a personal ally to the LGBT community.<br />
Her spouse, Michelle, transitioned in 2007, and her son<br />
Matthew recently came out as gay. She has embraced<br />
this role by devoting countless hours to Pride St. Louis<br />
and the St. Louis Gender Foundation, and by supporting<br />
her son’s exploration of sexual orientation. Debbie is very<br />
open about her LGBT connections in her workplace, where<br />
she convinced the vice president of human resources to<br />
attend an <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> St. Louis training session.<br />
Michelle Smith<br />
Everyone transitions along with an employee: Boeing’s<br />
approach to the intersection of work and situation<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being<br />
an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
Michelle Smith is the manager of Boeing Energy’s systems<br />
integration, experimentation, and customer collaboration<br />
lab. She’s passionately dedicated to her support<br />
of the LGBT community through her roles as president of<br />
the Missouri chapter of Boeing’s BEAGLES affinity group,<br />
president of the board of the St. Louis Gender Foundation,<br />
a member of <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s transgender advisory<br />
committee, and co-chair of the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> St. Louis<br />
regional affiliate. She volunteers regularly in St. Louis by<br />
speaking at schools and public events.<br />
Scuba Smith<br />
Merging of cultures in a global company: A case study<br />
of Genentech and Roche<br />
Scuba Smith has been a training manager for Genentech/<br />
Roche’s contract manufacturing organization for the<br />
past 14 years. In this role he is responsible for creating<br />
and executing a training strategy with oversight of 200<br />
employees supporting contract manufacturing operations<br />
of commercial and clinical biologics, small molecules, and<br />
medical devices for the rest of the world. Scuba was a<br />
Peace Corps volunteer in Gabon from 1993 to 1995, and<br />
the training manager for Genentech’s Singapore start-up<br />
from 2008 to 2009. He resides with his partner in San<br />
Francisco.<br />
Stacy Smithers<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being<br />
an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
Stacy Smithers is the senior vice president and regional<br />
sales & marketing director for the state of Florida for<br />
Wells Fargo and Wachovia. She is responsible for developing<br />
and executing sales and marketing programs<br />
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for three lines of business, and leads a staff responsible<br />
for managing statewide events, volunteerism, recognition,<br />
diverse-segment marketing, sales management and<br />
regional sales, and marketing support. Before assuming<br />
her current role in 2009, she served a variety of leadership<br />
roles in the California region, served as the publisher<br />
for McClatchy Newspapers and as a business operations<br />
manager for Research Unlimited prior to joining Wells<br />
Fargo in 1995. Additionally, she recently served on the<br />
boards of <strong>Equal</strong>ity California Institute and Gay and Lesbian<br />
Elder Housing. Smithers graduated from the Retail<br />
Bank School of Management at the University of Virginia.<br />
She resides in North Miami Beach, FL, with her wife,<br />
Denise, and three of their four children.<br />
Rebecca J. Solomon<br />
The business case for transgender-inclusive health<br />
benefits<br />
Rebecca Solomon is a vice president and senior estate<br />
tax officer at Bank of America’s U.S. Trust wealth management<br />
division. Prior to her career in banking and wealth<br />
management, Rebecca practiced law for 12 years. She is<br />
a steering committee member of Bank of America’s LGBT<br />
Pride resource group, and co-chair of its gender identity<br />
subcommittee. Rebecca is also a member of the Human<br />
Rights Campaign’s Dallas-Ft. Worth steering committee<br />
and co-chair of its workplace equality subcommittee.<br />
Todd Solomon<br />
Promoting diversity and making waves: Implementing<br />
ERGs that drive organizational change<br />
Todd Solomon is a partner in the employee benefits<br />
department of McDermott Will & Emery LLP in its Chicago<br />
office. He counsels all types of employers with respect<br />
to their pension plans, welfare benefit plans, and executive<br />
compensation arrangements. Todd is the author of<br />
Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide, which<br />
is the leading publication in the area of domestic partner<br />
benefits. He is a member of McDermott’s LGBT diversity<br />
committee and the co-chair of the Chicago Pro Bono<br />
Committee.<br />
Thomas Sondergeld<br />
Focusing on-site health clinics on diversity and<br />
inclusion<br />
Tom Sondergeld is currently the director of health and<br />
clinics, human resources, at Hewitt Associates. He has directed<br />
employee benefits for more than 15 years, and led<br />
a successful implementation of the Northwestern Memorial<br />
Hospital’s wellness program, which included condition<br />
or disease management. He has a rich history in<br />
healthcare, having moved from bedside care as a respiratory<br />
therapist into operations, specializing in employee
enefits and wellness. In his current role Tom is responsible<br />
for the implementation and operations of Hewitt’s<br />
new onsite employee clinic and wellness programs. He<br />
also serves as the PrideAlliance business resource group<br />
leader. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and<br />
a master’s in healthcare administration.<br />
Brian Sorge<br />
High-impact ERGs: Building a roadmap for business<br />
effectiveness<br />
Brian Sorge is managing director for Jennifer Brown<br />
Consulting, and drives business relationships and subject<br />
matter leadership related to diversity and inclusion,<br />
leadership and human resources strategies, educational<br />
program design, and cultural transformation. His consulting<br />
and coaching work has spanned most industries,<br />
including engagements with leading corporations, governmental<br />
agencies, and universities. Brian is committed<br />
to preparing next-generation leaders and developing<br />
business strategies that align with individual, team, and<br />
societal values to create positive outcomes.<br />
Nichole Soterwood<br />
The care and feeding of allies during the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Summit<br />
Nichole Soterwood has been working on LGBT advocacy<br />
in the defense industry since she landed there out<br />
of grad school. She has led multiple employee resource<br />
groups, served on diversity councils, created links between<br />
companies and the communities they reside in,<br />
and provided LGBT awareness training, including Building<br />
Bridges. Nichole lives in the San Francisco Bay Area,<br />
and works as a systems engineer for Raytheon. When not<br />
playing with her kids, she’s playing with the Silicon Valley<br />
Roller Girls.<br />
Stuart Sowder<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a<br />
lesbian or gay employee<br />
Stuart Sowder is Pfizer’s vice president of external medical<br />
communications. In this role he leads several functions,<br />
including global medical information, publications,<br />
investigator-initiated research, and medical education. He<br />
also leads Pfizer’s transparency efforts in its clinical trial,<br />
health care provider payment, financial, and grant disclosure<br />
processes. Stuart joined Pfizer in 1997 and holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Rutgers University,<br />
a J.D. from the New York Law School, and an M.B.A. from<br />
Duke University.<br />
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Stacy J. Speer<br />
Minimizing tension between the letters LGBT<br />
Stacy Speer is a senior engineering manager for configuration<br />
management and data management at Raytheon<br />
Missile Systems (RMS) in Tucson. She is a past president<br />
of the RMS LBGTA employee resource group and has<br />
served on the missile system diversity council. Stacy is<br />
a long-time attendee at <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> and frequent workshop<br />
presenter. Stacy lives in the Arizona desert with<br />
her partner Kathy and their ten German Shepherd dogs,<br />
which they enjoy showing and participating with in the<br />
sport of Schutzhund.<br />
Chuck Stephens<br />
Harnessing social media for ERG outreach, awareness<br />
and engagement<br />
Chuck Stephens is a senior associate on Booz Allen<br />
Hamilton’s diversity and inclusion team. He leads the<br />
firm’s multicultural and multigenerational agenda and<br />
has oversight over the employee forums. He has extensive<br />
experience managing diversity programs and<br />
affinity groups, and has developed e-learning programs<br />
designed to promote an inclusive environment. He is an<br />
active volunteer with the Human Rights Campaign, holding<br />
national and regional roles, and is a frequent advisor<br />
for Diversity Best Practices, Working Mother, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>,<br />
and Reaching <strong>Out</strong> M.B.A.<br />
Angela Stevens<br />
Creating an LGBT ERG mentoring program<br />
Angela Stevens is a senior client strategist for Triple<br />
Creek, the creators of Open Mentoring, and consultants<br />
of enterprise mentoring solutions. Angela holds a master’s<br />
degree in management and organization behavior,<br />
with a focus in organization development, and her<br />
master’s thesis on job satisfaction and creativity was<br />
published in the OD Practitioner. Angie leverages her<br />
ten-plus years of experience to help clients design, implement,<br />
and support strategic mentoring programs.<br />
Randall Stieghorst<br />
Can you be gay and global?<br />
Randall Stieghorst is a senior partner with Language &<br />
Culture Worldwide, where for the past ten years he has<br />
provided instructional design and facilitation of cross-cultural<br />
learning for global organizations, as well as translation<br />
and localization project management. A returned<br />
Peace Corps volunteer, he received his M.B.A. from<br />
the University of Chicago. Currently based in Chicago,<br />
Randall has also lived and worked extensively in the<br />
Dominican Republic, Spain, Latvia, Brazil, and Argentina.<br />
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He brings a gay male perspective to “Cultural Detective:<br />
LGBT.”<br />
Tyronne Stoudemire<br />
Circling the wagons: Moving from networking and<br />
social groups to business resource groups<br />
Tyronne Stoudemire is the global director for diversity<br />
and inclusion at Hewitt Associates. He partners with<br />
internal and external constituents to consult, advise, and<br />
advance the work of Hewitt’s diversity strategy. He provides<br />
the firmwide diversity strategy to effectively recruit<br />
diverse talent across Hewitt’s global landscape, and is responsible<br />
for overall strategic planning of all diversity and<br />
inclusion events. He has been awarded many accolades<br />
and honors. Tyronne is an outstanding LGBT ally.<br />
Stephanie Strzalka<br />
From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG<br />
relevant<br />
Stephanie Strzalka is the manager of the physical and<br />
compliance testing team at Kimberly-Clark, where she<br />
has worked for 21 years. She has been an active member<br />
of the PRIDE employee resource group for 12 years and<br />
the group’s co-chair for eight years. She received a bachelor’s<br />
degree in information technology and an M.B.A.<br />
with a marketing focus from the University of Wisconsin.<br />
She lives in Menasha, WI, with her partner, Kathy, and<br />
their five kids (3 dogs and 2 cats).<br />
Sarah Stuart<br />
Connecting our networks for greater success—locally<br />
and beyond<br />
LGBT issues in an international setting<br />
Sarah Stuart is a program manager on the global diversity<br />
and talent inclusion team at Google. She provides leadership<br />
for the design and development of key workforce<br />
diversity and inclusion initiatives globally, including<br />
programs related to strengthening workforce diversity,<br />
talent management, and creating an inclusive culture. In<br />
addition, Sarah is focused on efforts to support Google’s<br />
employee resource groups, including the Gayglers network<br />
and the Asian American Google Network, and the<br />
company’s diversity and inclusion presence in Asia Pacific.<br />
She has also worked in multiple roles within talent and<br />
outreach programs at Google. Prior to joining Google,<br />
Sarah worked in admissions at the Harvard Business<br />
School. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown<br />
University and an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of<br />
Management.<br />
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Riya Suising<br />
Gender virtualization: Biology and the bathroom for<br />
gender transitions<br />
Riya Suising is an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. She has<br />
worked at Intel for 17 years in marketing and business development,<br />
and served as the LGBT employee resource<br />
group leader at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara. She<br />
has helped Intel establish revised corporate policies on<br />
gender identity and non-discrimination, and is active with<br />
other LGBT ERG leaders from other companies in the San<br />
Francisco Bay Area, and with <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> and the Human<br />
Rights Campaign.<br />
Connie Summers<br />
Everyone transitions along with an employee: Boeing’s<br />
approach to the intersection of work and situation<br />
Connie Summers is a cultural diversity and inclusion manager<br />
in the global diversity and employee rights organization<br />
at The Boeing Company. In this role, she provides<br />
leadership, advice, and counsel to diversity councils,<br />
affinity groups, leadership teams, and other employee<br />
groups on diversity and inclusion. Connie is the corporate<br />
representative for the BEAGLES, Boeing’s LGBT employee<br />
resource group, and is also the gender transition<br />
leader for the enterprise.<br />
Mike Syers<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being<br />
an LGBT parent in the workplace<br />
Two moms, two dads, Dora, Bratz, and GI Joe:<br />
Navigating the gender divide with your kids<br />
Mike Syers is a partner at Ernst & Young, responsible<br />
for the Northeast transaction advisory services practice.<br />
Focusing on the real estate and hospitality industries, he<br />
provides mergers and acquisition advisory services globally<br />
to commercial real estate investors and lenders. He<br />
is a founding member of E&Y’s LGBT employee resource<br />
group and is featured in Kirk Snyder’s book The G quotient:<br />
Why Gay Executives Are Excelling as Leaders. Mike<br />
resides in New York with his partner, Darryl Hudak, and<br />
their daughter, Holly.
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Alan Taliaferro<br />
Managing global talent<br />
Alan Taliaferro is a senior manager in supply chain management<br />
at Deloitte Consulting. He speaks English, Spanish,<br />
French, and Portuguese, and has lived and worked<br />
in Mexico and Venezuela for several years with his gay<br />
partner. American-born, he has lived in Montreal for<br />
more than 20 years, and is experienced in cross-cultural<br />
communications and sensitivity. He also heads the LEAD<br />
employee resource group in Deloitte’s Montreal office.<br />
Alan is an active member of local LGBT organizations in<br />
Montreal, including the Quebec Gay Chamber of Commerce<br />
and L’Ensemble vocal Ganymède (a gay chorus),<br />
and has held various positions for Montreal’s Gay Line,<br />
including the active listening head trainer and presidency.<br />
John Tantillo<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
John Tantillo is a partner within KPMG’s internal audit,<br />
risk, and compliance services practice. For the past 20<br />
years, he has focused on providing external audit, internal<br />
audit, Sarbanes-Oxley, and risk and control services<br />
to financial services clients with an emphasis in the<br />
investment management sector. John is the lead partner<br />
and founder of KPMG’s internal audit director investment<br />
management network and a member of KPMG’s national<br />
and Northeast diversity advisory boards.<br />
Eileen Taylor<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United<br />
States<br />
Eileen Taylor is the global head of diversity for Deutsche<br />
Bank and is based in London. Previously, she was a<br />
managing director in global markets for more than ten<br />
years. Eileen joined the firm with the acquisition of<br />
Bankers Trust, where for more than 11 years she had<br />
held numerous positions in the front office, operations,<br />
and credit departments, with assignments in New York,<br />
Tokyo, Singapore, and London. She holds a bachelor’s<br />
degree in economics and political science from Manhattanville<br />
College, and an M.B.A. in finance from Fordham<br />
University. Eileen is a trustee of the East London Business<br />
Alliance Charity, and chairs the ELBA Hackney Forum and<br />
the London Legacy 2020 Youth and Sports Board, both<br />
organizations targeted at the economic regeneration of<br />
East London. She serves on the events subcommittee for<br />
Opera Holland Park Friends and is the treasurer of Democrats<br />
Abroad UK.<br />
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Tony Tenicela<br />
LGBT and Asia from IBM and Goldman Sachs<br />
Tony Tenicela currently serves as a global business development<br />
executive in IBM’s Global Business Services,<br />
providing strategic advisement to multinational corporations<br />
on how to leverage diversity, and corporate social<br />
responsibility as strategic business drivers to stimulate<br />
business growth. Tony has led IBM’s market entry of<br />
commercial GLBT and workforce diversity solutions into<br />
the U.S., Europe, and Asia and has been recognized<br />
as a thought leader in adopting innovation to improve<br />
workforce effectiveness. Tony holds an M.B.A. from the<br />
Anderson School at UCLA, an M.A. in psychology from<br />
UC Berkeley, and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.<br />
Tony current resides with his partner in San Francisco<br />
and New York City.<br />
Eric Thalasinos<br />
The Bridge: Working across ERGs<br />
Eric Thalasinos joined Merck (formerly Schering-Plough)<br />
in 2002 after graduating from Amherst College. Currently,<br />
he is a senior training specialist in the global services<br />
learning institute in charge of developing and managing<br />
global training programs. Eric has been involved in LGBT<br />
rights and community activities since high school and is<br />
the co-president of the Merck Rainbow Alliance. He recently<br />
received a master of science degree in technology<br />
management from the Stevens Institute of Technology.<br />
Lester Thompson<br />
Giving (and getting) back: Nonprofit boards for<br />
beginners<br />
Lester Thompson is senior manager in the Detroit tax<br />
practice of Ernst & Young. He has extensive experience<br />
in working with clients as a consultant for nearly 20 years<br />
and has broad experience working with nonprofit organizations<br />
and their boards. In addition to nonprofit tax<br />
matters, Lester is an expert in the compliance and regulatory<br />
requirements of nonprofit boards of directors and<br />
employer-sponsored benefit plans. He holds a bachelor<br />
of science degree in accounting, and a master’s in tax<br />
accounting from Louisiana State University.<br />
Kristy Thomsen<br />
Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs<br />
Kristy Thomsen is a senior systems engineer at Raytheon<br />
Vision Systems in Goleta, CA. She is an active member<br />
of the Diversity & Inclusion council and is dedicated to<br />
representing and promoting GLBT in the workplace.<br />
Kristy has attended previous <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Summits and is<br />
excited to be a presenter for the first time. She and her<br />
partner of 11 years, Karen Prechtel, live in Goleta.<br />
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Maxim Thorne<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
Maxim Thorne is the senior vice president of development<br />
at the NAACP. He has served as executive director<br />
of Brooklyn Child and Family Services, as chief operating<br />
officer of the Human Rights Campaign and HRC Foundation,<br />
executive director of New Jersey Head Start,<br />
and deputy executive director of Passaic County Legal<br />
Aid Society. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law<br />
School, Thorne practiced corporate and poverty law. He<br />
was the executive producer of two cable shows, and his<br />
intellectual writing has focused on the complex interplay<br />
of factors affecting equality, including nonprofits and<br />
private enterprise, educational opportunity, health and<br />
childcare, the digital divide, and supportive legal and<br />
political infrastructure.<br />
Trung Tieu<br />
Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em<br />
Leading by example—How ERG leaders create<br />
sustainable relationships with nonprofits<br />
Trung Tieu is a project coordinator at PepsiCo, and has<br />
served as the co-chair for the Chicago chapter of EQUAL,<br />
PepsiCo’s LGBT employee resource group, since 2004.<br />
He is the 2008 recipient of PepsiCo’s prestigious Harvey<br />
C. Russell Inclusion Award for his collaborative and innovative<br />
work with other companies’ LGBT groups. Trung<br />
currently serves as co-chair for the National Gay and Lesbian<br />
Chamber of Commerce corporate advisory council.<br />
He previously served on the board of the LGBT Community<br />
Center of Milwaukee and as the chair of the board of<br />
directors of Windy City Performing Arts. Trung holds both<br />
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication from<br />
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where his research<br />
focused on coming out and identity construction.<br />
Frantz Tiffeau, Jr.<br />
LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact<br />
at work and in the community<br />
Frantz Tiffeau’s career began as a national sales manager<br />
for Ritz-Carlton Hotels, from which he moved to a<br />
14-year career with Office Depot, starting as an account<br />
manager in Sunrise, FL. Frantz has held various position<br />
since, including as a project manager working on warehousing<br />
and logistics components, as a project manager<br />
in sales, and as a project management team manager for<br />
the Western U.S. He is currently senior manager of supply<br />
chain diversity. Frantz serves on the board of directors of<br />
Diversity Information Resources, as well as on the Southwest<br />
Minority Supplier Development Council. He also sits<br />
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on the Procurement Council and Advisory Council of the<br />
National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Beverly Tillery<br />
When health care isn’t caring: Combating health care<br />
discrimination of LGBT people and PLWHA<br />
Working positively: Answers and action on HIV in the<br />
workplace<br />
Beverly Tillery is the director of community education<br />
and advocacy for Lambda Legal. She coordinates Lambda<br />
Legal’s education and outreach work that actively engages<br />
the LGBT community and its allies in our ongoing fight for<br />
equality and justice. Beverly has dedicated the past 15 years<br />
of her career to fighting all forms of oppression and working<br />
for social and economic justice through communitybased<br />
direct-action organizing, labor organizing, human<br />
rights and political advocacy, and popular education.<br />
Dannie Tillman<br />
GLAAD media training for leaders<br />
Dannie Tillman is director of field and community media<br />
at GLAAD. Dannie has 20 years of experience as<br />
a senior-level executive, trainer, and media strategist.<br />
She has led international, national, and statewide communication<br />
departments and designed public education<br />
and media campaigns reaching millions of people in 180<br />
countries. More than 25 venues have welcomed Dannie<br />
as an expert lecturer and she has served on 20 boards<br />
of directors and committees focused on social change<br />
issues.<br />
Neil Toyota<br />
Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for you in<br />
client relationships<br />
Neil is a corporate group benefits consultant with Towers<br />
Watson. He has over 25 years of experience in helping<br />
Fortune 1000 employers and large public sector organizations<br />
design and manage their employee health and<br />
welfare programs. Neil is based in Los Angeles.<br />
Leslie Traub<br />
Why did you say that? Using perceptual identity to<br />
break through barriers in the workplace<br />
Leslie Traub is a respected national leader in the field<br />
of diversity, inclusion, and change management. She<br />
specializes in customizing and facilitating training programs,<br />
executive-level coaching, and organization-wide<br />
change and team development. Leslie enjoys an international<br />
reputation for supporting women and their professional<br />
development, enabling choices that are consistent<br />
with core values. Leslie is recognized as the architect of
valuable strategies for creating inclusive organizational<br />
cultures where all employees contribute fully to their<br />
workplace and gain professional and personal fulfillment.<br />
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Sophie Vandebroek, Ph.D.<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United<br />
States<br />
Dr. Sophie Vandebroek is Xerox’s chief technology officer<br />
and the president of the Xerox Innovation Group,<br />
where she oversees Xerox’s worldwide research centers<br />
and maximizes the company’s returns on investment in<br />
research and technology. Previously, she was chief engineer<br />
of Xerox Corporation and vice president of the Xerox<br />
Engineering Center. Sophie is a Fulbright fellow, holds<br />
12 U.S. patents, and serves on several university and<br />
professional advisory boards. Born in Leuven, Belgium,<br />
she earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell<br />
University. She lives in Lincoln, MA, with her husband and<br />
their six teenage children.<br />
Victor Viramontes<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
Victor Viramontes serves as MALDEF’s national senior<br />
counsel, where he supervises litigation in each of<br />
MALDEF’s regional offices. He has returned after serving<br />
as a MALDEF staff attorney for four years earlier in his<br />
career. Before returning to MALDEF, he worked as a<br />
senior trial attorney at the United States <strong>Equal</strong> Employment<br />
Opportunity Commission, where he litigated<br />
complex employment class action suits for five years.<br />
Victor is currently MALDEF’s co-lead counsel in its suit<br />
against Arizona’s anti-immigrant statute, SB 1070, and its<br />
lead counsel in its class action suit against the 24 Hour<br />
Fitness gym chain. Previously, at MALDEF, Victor sued<br />
in support of a plan to build a school on the site of the<br />
Ambassador Hotel, challenged the California Polytechnic<br />
State University, San Luis Obispo, admissions system,<br />
challenged California’s Proposition 54 ballot measure<br />
and ballot description, and drafted the amicus brief on<br />
behalf of Latino organizations supporting affirmative<br />
action in the Supreme Court case, Grutter v. Bollinger.<br />
Victor graduated from Stanford University, and received<br />
his law degree from Yale Law School. Victor served as a<br />
law clerk to the Honorable Carlos R. Moreno of the U.S.<br />
District Court for the Central District of California.<br />
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Silvy Vluggen<br />
Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the<br />
United States<br />
Silvy Vluggen is the global LGBT program manager at<br />
IBM, where she has worldwide responsibility for the<br />
development and implementation of IBM’s LBGT policies<br />
and programs. She works with senior leaders around the<br />
globe to focus on the strategy and challenges connected<br />
with the LGBT constituency. Silvy also has global responsibility<br />
as a program manager for cultural intelligence. In<br />
this capacity she is responsible for enhancing the cultural<br />
awareness level of all IBMers and ensuring that every<br />
IBMer is capable of working and achieving results in a<br />
multicultural environment. Silvy studied computer science<br />
and engineering in Heerlen, the Netherlands. She lives<br />
just outside Paris with her partner, Sylvie, and their<br />
daughter, Kay.<br />
Nadine O. Vogel<br />
The disability community and the LGBT community:<br />
Similarities, differences, and alliances<br />
Nadine Vogel is founder and president of Springboard<br />
Consulting LLC. Springboard works with global corporations,<br />
the federal government, national organizations, and<br />
educational institutions on how to appropriately support<br />
employees who either have a disability or who have a<br />
child or other dependent with special needs, through<br />
diversity, work life, and human resources initiatives (workplace/workforce)<br />
as well as how to market their products<br />
and services to the largest minority market in the world<br />
(marketplace).<br />
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Andrew Wallace<br />
Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG<br />
Andrew Wallace is an executive director at UBS, the<br />
global financial services firm. He works in human resources<br />
in New York, where he is responsible for strategic<br />
workforce planning within the recruitment function. He<br />
is also Americas steering committee chair for Pride, the<br />
firm’s employee resource group. Originally from London,<br />
Andrew now resides in New York with his husband Alex.<br />
Megan Wallent<br />
How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists<br />
Megan lives in Seattle, Washington and is the partner of<br />
Anh, the parent of Peri, John, and Samwich, a general<br />
manager at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, and, until<br />
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November of 2007, was known to all as Michael. During<br />
her 11+ years at Microsoft, Megan has been responsible<br />
for delivering multiple versions of Internet Explorer, has<br />
led a large team that built major portions of Windows<br />
Vista, and currently leads a team in the Windows Server<br />
and Tools Division. In her role at Microsoft, Megan is a<br />
frequent conference speaker and represented Microsoft<br />
in congressional testimony on internet privacy issues in<br />
the summer of 2001. Megan transitioned on the job in the<br />
late fall of 2007, and has documented her experiences<br />
on meganwallent.com, which has attracted a wide and<br />
varied readership. Fundamentally, Megan’s transition is a<br />
story of reaching the “New Normal” with humor, self-discovery,<br />
and surprising normalcy. Megan is a private pilot,<br />
a fervent Red Sox fan, and is a frequent traveler, and very<br />
much enjoys exploring all that this world has to offer with<br />
Anh and her family.<br />
Aaron Walton<br />
Maximizing business growth: Joining ERG efforts with<br />
advertising, marketing, and community efforts<br />
Aaron Walton is co-founder of Walton | Isaacson, a full<br />
service brand-building firm, with offices in Los Angeles,<br />
Chicago, New York, and Tokyo. With over 20 years<br />
experience, he has created some of the most successful,<br />
high-profile partnerships in the industry, including<br />
Pepsi/Michael Jackson, Pepsi/Britney Spears, and AT&T/<br />
Whitney Houston, to name a few. In 2005 Aaron started<br />
Walton | Isaacson with a mission to become the planet’s<br />
most interesting agency.<br />
Stephen Ward<br />
London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal<br />
profession in the United Kingdom<br />
Stephen Ward was appointed communications director of<br />
the Law Society in June 2007 and has been the Society’s<br />
diversity champion since mid-2008. He is responsible<br />
for all communications work, including public affairs,<br />
branding, marketing, and public relations, with the aim of<br />
developing a closer relationship between the Society and<br />
its members. He also drives the Society’s work on equality<br />
and diversity as an employer and as a representative<br />
body. He has transformed the Society’s approach to<br />
diversity, launching the diversity and inclusion charter in<br />
2009 and its associated toolkit in 2010. He was recently<br />
described by Stonewall as a role model for diversity in<br />
the legal sector. Stephen has a background in policy and<br />
communications in the civil service (cabinet office, European<br />
Commission) and political campaigning.<br />
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Elisabeth Warren<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent:<br />
Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and<br />
customers<br />
Elisabeth Warren has over 14 years of healthcare/biotech<br />
experience and is currently an associate director in the<br />
Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) group<br />
at Genentech. In this role, she is responsible for supporting<br />
the project teams that maximize the value of gRED’s product<br />
portfolio, and providing leadership and management<br />
for cross-functional teams. Lis joined Genentech in 2001,<br />
and has held positions of increasing responsibility across<br />
the development and portfolio groups. She is co-chair of<br />
Genentech Women Professionals, a collaborative and supportive<br />
forum aimed at educating, supporting, and mentoring<br />
on issues unique to women in biotech. Prior to joining<br />
Genentech, she held multiple roles across companies in the<br />
pharma/biotech industry, including Quintiles and ePocrates.<br />
Lis received her B.A. with honors in human biology from<br />
Stanford University, and her M.B.A. from the University of<br />
California at Berkeley. Lis lives in the San Francisco Bay<br />
Area with her partner and their 75-pound lapdog.<br />
Michael Wascom<br />
LGBT legislative issues and brand reputation<br />
Michael Wascom serves as the managing director, international<br />
and government affairs, for American Airlines.<br />
He works with members of Congress and federal government<br />
agencies, including the Department of Transportation,<br />
the Department of Homeland Security, the<br />
Department of State, the Federal Aviation Administration,<br />
and the Transportation Security Administration on issues<br />
related to domestic and international aviation. He reports<br />
to Will Ris, senior vice president for government affairs.<br />
Michael is a 1988 graduate of Louisiana State University<br />
with a degree in business administration.<br />
Adam D. Wasserman<br />
Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent:<br />
Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and<br />
customers<br />
Adam Wasserman has been in the advertising industry for<br />
five years. At Digitas, he leads the North American Employee<br />
Network Organization for all of Digitas and Digitas<br />
Health. As founder of the Publicis Groupe LGBT Network<br />
in New York City, Adam brings together over 130 people<br />
across 16 agencies for networking, shared learning, and<br />
business-building engagements. Adam is a strong advocate<br />
and spokesperson in the LGBT community for the<br />
advertising industry.
Midge Waters<br />
Maximizing business growth: Joining ERG efforts with<br />
advertising, marketing, and community efforts<br />
Midge Waters, national manager of diversity and inclusion<br />
at Toyota, is responsible for aligning strategies among<br />
Toyota’s North American affiliates and executing the<br />
strategy for Toyota Motor Sales USA. Prior to joining the<br />
diversity and inclusion group, she was one of the founding<br />
members of the University of Toyota, responsible for<br />
leadership, diversity, and cross-cultural education. Midge<br />
joined Toyota as the leader of education and development<br />
for Toyota Financial Services.<br />
Jack Watters, M.D.<br />
Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a<br />
lesbian or gay employee<br />
Dr. Jack Watters is Pfizer’s vice president for external<br />
medical affairs. In this role, he is responsible for relations<br />
with medical societies, academic institutions, and government<br />
health bodies worldwide, and also represents Pfizer<br />
on corporate responsibility and human rights issues. He<br />
joined Pfizer in 1994 and was an architect of the landmark<br />
Diflucan Partnership <strong>Program</strong>, which is now active in 60<br />
countries. Jack trained in medicine at the University of<br />
Edinburgh, Scotland.<br />
Andrew Werner<br />
Who is the outsider? Understanding microinequities<br />
from all sides<br />
Andrew Werner began his professional career teaching<br />
leadership and communication skills to university<br />
students and working on state-level policy and resource<br />
development. For ten years, he has been in HIV pharmaceuticals,<br />
with the last three as an executive virology<br />
sales specialist with Tibotec Therapeutics. Drew holds a<br />
bachelor of arts degree in English and Portuguese, and<br />
master of science and specialist in education degrees in<br />
higher education. He lives in Miami Beach with his husband,<br />
Fernando.<br />
Kristina Wertz<br />
Bringing the T to the ERG: Advocating for a<br />
transgender-inclusive workplace<br />
Kristina Wertz, legal director at the Transgender Law Center<br />
(TLC), provides legal counsel to transgender people<br />
and their families as well as technical assistance to lawyers<br />
for transgender clients. She oversees many of TLC’s<br />
public policy advocacy programs, including economic<br />
justice, health care access, leadership development,<br />
and student safety. She conducts training for community<br />
members, employers, attorneys, service providers, health<br />
bios<br />
care providers, and others. Kristina is a graduate of New<br />
York University and Brooklyn Law School.<br />
Lisa J. Wicker<br />
Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of<br />
workplace inclusion<br />
Appointed to her current position in June 2009, Lisa Wicker<br />
is responsible for the overall design, development and<br />
deployment of Chrysler’s corporate diversity strategies, talent<br />
management, and leadership development programs.<br />
This includes facilitating strategies for implementing cultural<br />
change in all aspects of how the company leverages talent<br />
for competitive advantage. In addition, she is responsible<br />
for EEO compliance and governance and work/life effectiveness<br />
policies and programs. Prior to this, Wicker was<br />
director, global diversity office, Chrysler LLC, where she<br />
was responsible for the overall design, development, and<br />
deployment of Chrysler’s corporate diversity strategies.<br />
Patricia Wiley<br />
Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for you in<br />
client relationships<br />
Identifying, building, and developing an LGBT pipeline<br />
of rising stars<br />
Patricia Wiley is recently retired as a principal in Ernst &<br />
Young’s employee financial education and counseling<br />
group, which provides financial counseling and education<br />
to employees of her corporate clients. She was an executive<br />
sponsor to Beyond, Ernst & Young’s LGBT employee<br />
resource group, and continues as an adviser while preparing<br />
for her next career. She resides in New York with<br />
her partner, Wendy.<br />
Scott Willoughby<br />
Reaching out to engage employees everywhere<br />
Scott Willoughby is senior corporate counsel at The<br />
Clorox Company, where he represents the company on<br />
M&A transactions and advises its international subsidiaries<br />
on all legal matters. He also directs the company’s<br />
compliance and ethics program and serves as chief of<br />
staff of the Clorox Pride ERG. Prior to Clorox, Scott was<br />
a corporate/securities associate in the San Francisco office<br />
of Latham & Watkins LLP. Scott received his law and<br />
undergraduate degrees from the University of California-<br />
Berkeley.<br />
Lou Willsea<br />
ERGs and employees in the beverage alcohol business:<br />
Driving for change in a conservative industry<br />
Lou Willsea generates consumer insights for Brown-Forman<br />
brands, including Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey,<br />
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Southern Comfort and Chambord liqueurs, El Jimador<br />
Tequila, and Korbel champagne. He is a founder and colead<br />
of BYOD (Bring Your Own Diversity), Brown-Forman’s<br />
LGBT employee resource group. Lou’s background includes<br />
20 years of marketing, research, product development,<br />
and organizational optimization experience in the<br />
wine and spirits industry. A California native, he holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree in communications from San Francisco<br />
State University, and resides in Long Beach.<br />
André Wilson<br />
Health benefits for transgender and transsexual<br />
employees, the WPATH Standards of Care, and the CEI<br />
André Wilson consults with employers, advocates, and<br />
health professionals seeking to provide trans-inclusive<br />
health services and workplace benefits. He serves on<br />
the Michigan Department of Community Health Family<br />
Planning Advisory Council, the Michigan Department of<br />
Education Sexual Minority Youth Working Group, and the<br />
Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission. Currently completing<br />
a master’s in social work in social policy, Wilson is<br />
past chair of the NASW-Michigan TBLG special interest<br />
group and received the 2008 Michigan Pride Banquet<br />
Unity Award.<br />
Angie Wilson<br />
Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for you in<br />
client relationships<br />
PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together?<br />
Angie Wilson is an assurance partner with Ernst & Young<br />
with more than 16 years of experience. She leads the<br />
firm’s health sciences practice in Los Angeles and the<br />
firm’s LGBTA inclusiveness and diversity efforts for the<br />
West sub-area. Angie is a member of the American Institute<br />
of CPAs and recently joined the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> board of<br />
directors. Angie and her partner, Sofie, reside in Pasadena,<br />
CA, and have two children.<br />
Marcus A. Wilson<br />
Who is the outsider? Understanding microinequities<br />
from all sides<br />
Marcus Wilson is the Midwest community liaison manager<br />
for professional affairs at Tibotec Therapeutics. He<br />
collaborates with community members, infected and<br />
affected by HIV and AIDS, by collaborating with allied<br />
healthcare professionals. Marcus completed the Harvard<br />
Business School management training program<br />
and holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications<br />
and music performance from Michigan State University.<br />
Marcus resides in Chicago with his partner, Jih-Chiun, and<br />
their daughter.<br />
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Liz Winfeld<br />
Let the spirit move us all<br />
Liz Winfeld is an expert in diversity education. Her<br />
areas of expertise are sexual orientation, gender<br />
identity and expression, and domestic partner benefits.<br />
She consults on recruitment and retention, builds and<br />
delivers customized education programs, and helps organizations<br />
formulate transition strategies. Liz also does<br />
extensive work with employee business networks as<br />
well as one-to-one coaching for people at all levels of an<br />
organization. She is author of the award-winning Straight<br />
Talk About Gays in the Workplace, and can be reached at<br />
common-grnd.com.<br />
Daniel K. Winterfeldt, Esq.<br />
First steps in creating an LGB-inclusive workplace<br />
London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal<br />
profession in the United Kingdom<br />
Daniel Winterfeldt is a U.S. securities partner and the corporate<br />
responsibility and diversity partner in the London<br />
office of Simmons & Simmons, an international law firm.<br />
With more than 12 years experience in the London and<br />
New York markets, Daniel is the founder of the Forum<br />
for US Securities Lawyers in London, a trade association<br />
representing more than 1,000 U.S.-qualified lawyers and<br />
capital markets participants. Daniel is also the founder of<br />
the InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks, an interorganizational<br />
network for the LGBT community in the<br />
London legal sector, with more than 800 members and<br />
supporters from 70-plus law firms and 45 corporations<br />
and financial institutions.<br />
Bob Witeck<br />
Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT families count<br />
Bob Witeck is CEO of Washington, DC-based Witeck-<br />
Combs Communications, since 1993 the nation’s premier<br />
marketing firm consulting for companies reaching the<br />
LGBT consumer market. In April 2003, in their 25th<br />
anniversary issue, the editors of American Demographics<br />
magazine selected Bob Witeck and Wes Combs as two<br />
of 25 leaders who have made significant contributions<br />
to demographics, market research, media, and trend<br />
spotting for their pioneering work on America’s LGBT<br />
population.<br />
James Witek, M.D., FACP<br />
LGBT health disparities: Another case for partner<br />
benefits<br />
Dr. James Witek is a senior director at Tibotec Therapeutics,<br />
a Johnson & Johnson company. He is responsible<br />
for the development and execution of the U.S.
clinical affairs strategy. Previously, Jim spent 13 years in<br />
academia at Drexel University College of Medicine as<br />
an associate professor and acting chief in the Division of<br />
HIV/AIDS Medicine. He has researched, published and<br />
lectured in the area of HIV practice, quality of life and<br />
healthcare delivery.<br />
Adam Wolf<br />
Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our<br />
phobias and “isms”<br />
Adam Wolf is the manager for customer advocates at<br />
Hewlett-Packard’s customer loyalty center in Conway, AZ.<br />
In this role he manages an organization of eight teams focused<br />
on customer satisfaction and technical escalations.<br />
He has been with HP for 14 years, and most recently was<br />
the district manager for Washington, DC, and northern<br />
Virginia. Adam lives in Little Rock and enjoys spending<br />
time with his partner and friends hiking, camping, and<br />
snowboarding.<br />
Chuck Wolfe<br />
The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public<br />
policy and business leadership<br />
Chuck Wolfe is the president and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian<br />
Victory Fund and Leadership Institute. He served on<br />
the Victory Fund’s board of directors for four years prior<br />
to joining the staff. Chuck has an extensive background<br />
in politics, issue advocacy, and organizational development.<br />
He entered the public sector as an appointee to<br />
the late Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. In addition to<br />
serving on the governor’s 1994 reelection campaign as<br />
operations manager, he served the governor for seven<br />
years in such capacities as director of external affairs,<br />
director of tobacco control, and executive director of the<br />
Miami Financial Oversight Board. Chuck is a 1985 graduate<br />
of Stetson University in Florida and completed the<br />
Negotiating Skills Seminar at the J.F.K. School of Government<br />
at Harvard University in 1997. A native of Florida,<br />
he has resided in Washington, DC, since 1999.<br />
Aaron Wright<br />
Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and<br />
geographically dispersed organization<br />
Aaron Wright, CPA, is an audit manager with Deloitte in<br />
Indianapolis. Within GLOBE, Deloitte’s LGBT and ally business<br />
resource group, he has served as the North Central<br />
regional chairperson as well as currently representing<br />
Deloitte within the accounting group of the Professional<br />
Services Alliance for LGBT Inclusion. He is also a founding<br />
member and currently serving as chairperson of<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Indiana. Aaron lives in Indianapolis with his<br />
husband, Russ.<br />
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Christopher Wyble<br />
Going deeper: Engaging your members and allies with<br />
social software<br />
Christopher Wyble is the program manager for IBM’s<br />
technology adoption program (TAP), and the technology<br />
manager for both TAP and IBM’s Ideas <strong>Program</strong>. In that<br />
role, he is responsible for motivating and enabling a<br />
culture of innovation, and provides resources to IBM’s<br />
innovator community. Since joining TAP in 2006, he has<br />
helped the program grow to 121,000 members and over<br />
1,200 innovations. Chris holds a master’s degree in management<br />
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a bachelor’s<br />
in computer science from Lehigh University, and<br />
a certification in project management from the Project<br />
Management Institute. He is also the co-chair of the Mid-<br />
Hudson Valley <strong>Out</strong>@IBM employee resource group.<br />
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Helga Ying<br />
LGBT legislative issues and brand reputation<br />
Helga Ying is director of worldwide government affairs<br />
and public policy at Levi Strauss & Co. Her responsibilities<br />
include international trade and corporate citizenship<br />
(environmental sustainability, HIV/AIDS, labor and worker<br />
rights), brand protection, and other issues that promote<br />
Levi Strauss’ business success and social responsibility.<br />
Helga holds a master’s degree in international relations<br />
and economics from the Johns Hopkins University Paul<br />
H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and a<br />
bachelor of arts from Macalester College.<br />
Dwain Young<br />
How to “engay” your community<br />
Dwain Young is a human capital consultant with Accenture<br />
in Washington, DC, where he focuses on change<br />
management practices. He has been the corporate citizenship<br />
lead for the Accenture’s D.C. LGBT group for two<br />
years, and has built positive relationships through various<br />
community initiatives such as quarterly events to serve<br />
food to the homeless, office-wide coat drives, skill-based<br />
volunteer efforts with LGBT nonprofits, and fundraising<br />
efforts for LGBT nonprofits in the Washington, DC, area.<br />
Previously, Dwain served on the board of directors for<br />
Big Brothers/Big Sisters and was a Big Brother for three<br />
years. <strong>Out</strong>side work, Dwain enjoys living in the D.C. area,<br />
cooking, piano, traveling, and spending time with friends.<br />
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The unique legal and financial challenges facing the<br />
LGBT community<br />
Kyle Young is an associate vice president and investment<br />
officer with Wells Fargo Advisors. In addition to being<br />
a certified financial planner, he holds the accredited<br />
domestic partnership advisor (ADPA) designation. Kyle<br />
earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers<br />
University. With more than 95 percent of his current<br />
clients identifying as LGBT, his practice caters exclusively<br />
to providing investment planning and asset management<br />
services to the LGBT community. Kyle primarily focuses<br />
on fixed-income portfolio decisions and the construction<br />
of individualized financial plans for his clients. He is<br />
currently the co-chair for <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s NY-Metro regional<br />
council and resides in Somerset County, NJ, with his<br />
partner, Michael.<br />
Michael J. Young<br />
Going deeper: Engaging your members and allies with<br />
social software<br />
Michael Young is a software engineer with IBM’s System<br />
z (mainframe) support division. His focus there is application<br />
enablement and mainframe modernization. He is a<br />
published resource for enterprise-level Java development,<br />
and for legacy application migration. Mike earned<br />
a bachelor of science degree in computer science from<br />
Pennsylvania State University, and joined IBM in 2005<br />
after backpacking around the world through Morocco,<br />
Siberia, China, and other countries. He is also the cochair<br />
of the Mid-Hudson Valley <strong>Out</strong>@IBM chapter of IBM’s<br />
LGBT employee resource group.<br />
Louise Young, Ph.D.<br />
Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs<br />
Louise Young is a senior software engineer at Raytheon<br />
in Plano, TX. A lesbian activist since 1971, she is the<br />
founder of Raytheon’s LGBT employee resource group<br />
and has received numerous awards and honors, including<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s 2002 Trailblazer Award. A former cochair<br />
of the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Council,<br />
she has presented to major corporations, universities,<br />
and general audiences. She and her partner of 39 years,<br />
Vivienne Armstrong, live in Dallas. Contact Louise at (972)<br />
344-0506 or louise_young@raytheon.com.
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Fauzia Zaman-Malik<br />
Strength in numbers & going global: Local labor &<br />
privacy issues when collecting data from a global LGBT<br />
network<br />
Fauzia Zaman-Malik is the legal lead of the Accenture<br />
healthcare client services group in North America. She is<br />
based in New York, where she leads a team of lawyers<br />
supporting Accenture in a the wide range of healthcare<br />
transactions and compliance matters, including acquisitions.<br />
Fauzia began her career in 1997 at ReliaStar Financial<br />
Group and, prior to joining Accenture, was an associate<br />
at DLA Piper. She is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, and English.<br />
Sandra Zurawicz<br />
Transgender 101: Transgender information for the nontrans<br />
community<br />
Sandra Zurawicz is vice president for operations and<br />
technology at Northern Trust Bank. She works in the<br />
technology group that monitors the activity and health of<br />
Northern Trust’s global network. She is also the employee<br />
relations chairperson for Northern Trust’s LGBT business<br />
resource council, which acts as a liaison for the company’s<br />
LGBT partners and allies. Sandra resides in the<br />
Chicago suburbs with her partner Patricia, son Robert,<br />
and daughter Jennifer.<br />
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Elena Baca<br />
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Brenda Barr<br />
Selisse Berry<br />
& Cynthia Martin<br />
Les Borzy<br />
Daniel Brennan<br />
& Rodney Frazier<br />
Elaine Brown<br />
Tara Bunch<br />
& Susan Pfeuffer<br />
Carlos E. Campoy<br />
Tom Christofferson<br />
Mike Craig<br />
Jerome Dumaine<br />
Mike Feldman<br />
Michael Guest<br />
Melinda Haag<br />
Dean Hall<br />
Eldon R. Hills<br />
Julie Hogan<br />
Tom Johnson<br />
Kevin Jones<br />
& Tony De Sousa<br />
Paula S. Jones<br />
Randy M. Kammer<br />
Ronald Kennedy<br />
Scott Kenney<br />
Rita Lane<br />
Dale A. Lietzke<br />
& Dave Bueche<br />
Kirsten E. MacPherson<br />
Peter May<br />
Kenneth McNeely<br />
Eleanor Mercado<br />
Tom Mielke<br />
Edward Offshack<br />
Tony Pruitt<br />
Tina Reynolds<br />
Marcelo Roman<br />
Kathy Ruess<br />
Deborah J. Schmall<br />
Steve Sears<br />
Rayona Sharpnack<br />
Kayla Shell<br />
Lisa Sherman<br />
Amanda R. Simpson<br />
Christie Smith<br />
Wayne Sobon<br />
& Robert McDonald<br />
Cindy Solomon<br />
Kyle Spainhour<br />
Tamara Srader<br />
Leal Thomas<br />
Toby Thomas<br />
Atticus Tysen<br />
Sophie Vandebroek<br />
Megan Wallent<br />
Michael Welch<br />
Angela Wilson<br />
& Sofie Eriksson<br />
Mathew Wood<br />
William Yates<br />
Acknowledgements reflect support received from July 15, 2009 through July 15, 2010<br />
Regional affiliate event SponSoRS<br />
7sur.com<br />
AAA of Northern California,<br />
Nevada and Utah<br />
ARAMARK<br />
Bank of America<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield<br />
of Florida<br />
Campbell Soup<br />
Chevron<br />
Comcast<br />
Ernst & Young<br />
Genentech<br />
Hershey’s<br />
HRC<br />
IBA<br />
ING<br />
InterContinental Hotel<br />
Group Americas<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
Kimpton Hotels<br />
& Restaurants<br />
LEAGUE at AT&T (Georgia)<br />
Macy’s<br />
Merck<br />
Omni American Bank<br />
Options Foundation<br />
Paul, Hastings,<br />
Janofsky & Walker<br />
Pfizer<br />
Pacific Gas & Electric<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers<br />
Raymond James<br />
& Associates<br />
Sodexo<br />
Texas Instruments<br />
The Nielsen Company<br />
Times Ten Cellars<br />
Turner Broadcasting System<br />
UCLA Anderson School<br />
of Management<br />
Verizon<br />
Walt Disney World<br />
out & equal national Development leaDeRShip Committee<br />
Tara Bunch, Chair<br />
Hewlett-Packard<br />
Daniel Brennan<br />
Dell<br />
Michael Guest<br />
Council for Global <strong>Equal</strong>ity<br />
Julie Hogan<br />
Xerox<br />
Lisa Mazzola<br />
Wells Fargo<br />
Cindy Solomon<br />
Solomon & Associates<br />
Kyle Spainhour<br />
Motorola
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
job postings from more than a<br />
dozen leading corporations every<br />
month. Unlike other job boards,<br />
LGBTCareerLink allows users to<br />
upload jobs, ads, articles and tips<br />
from professional communities.<br />
This free site is also designed to<br />
expand members’ careerbuilding<br />
networks by directly connecting<br />
them with job seekers and<br />
employment recruiters in search<br />
of the best talent.<br />
In addition to matching LGBT<br />
employees with employment<br />
opportunities, LGBTCareerLink<br />
offers a series of careerrelated<br />
professional development webinars<br />
for the LGBT workforce, as<br />
well as a monthly enewsletter,<br />
CareerTalk, which provides timely<br />
206 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
updates and opportunities to<br />
participants around the country.<br />
LGBTCareerLink is always<br />
welcoming new corporate sponsors;<br />
information about becoming<br />
a corporate sponsor can be<br />
found at LGBTCareerLink.com/<br />
marketplace<br />
Find your next great opportunity,<br />
visit LGBTCareerLink.com<br />
For more information, contact<br />
Associate Director of Career<br />
Development Resources Julie<br />
Beach at jbeach@outandequal.org<br />
or 4156946538.<br />
advocate and hero: 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Advocacy Award honoree Julian Bond<br />
addresses the audience in New York City at the 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership<br />
Celebration. [photo: Anton Frid]<br />
The <strong>Out</strong>ies<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Awards—“The <strong>Out</strong>ies”—are a<br />
celebration of the most noteworthy<br />
organizational achievements<br />
in LGBT workplace equality and<br />
an opportunity to appreciate<br />
those individuals who are dedicated<br />
to creating a fully inclusive<br />
workplace. The awards are<br />
traditionally given in five different<br />
categories with two recognizing<br />
individuals and three recognizing<br />
organizations. The 2010 Workplace<br />
Summit includes a new<br />
Workplace Award category:<br />
Regional Affiliate of the Year.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership<br />
Celebration<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership<br />
Celebration honors workplace<br />
courage and support of LGBT<br />
equality, specifically those<br />
organizations and individuals<br />
who take the lead on fundamental<br />
issues of equal rights outside<br />
the workplace.<br />
The winners and honorees<br />
are true role models and advocates,<br />
encouraging businesses<br />
and others to get involved<br />
through their leadership.<br />
Plans are underway for the<br />
next Leadership Celebration,<br />
which will be held in San<br />
Francisco in March 2011.<br />
Employee Resource<br />
Group Registry<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> ERG Registry is<br />
the largest online community of<br />
LGBT employee resource group<br />
leaders in the world. With more<br />
than 350 members, the secure
Registry features ERG directory<br />
information and a network of<br />
ERG leaders worldwide, providing<br />
an electronic forum for them<br />
to share ideas as well as best<br />
practices.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s ERG Registry<br />
offers:<br />
• Connections to an international<br />
network of more than 350 LGBT<br />
ERGs that work to create out<br />
and equal workplaces, searchable<br />
by industry, location and<br />
size, among many other demographics<br />
• Sectorbased subgroups for<br />
industry connections and<br />
specialized practices<br />
• Information about events,<br />
activities, program suggestions<br />
and important news<br />
• Access to a virtual ERG Web<br />
space where ERG leaders can<br />
exchange best practices and<br />
pose questions to experienced<br />
and professional ERG leaders<br />
• The ability to return at any time<br />
to update your profile, change<br />
subscription options or check<br />
out new features<br />
To learn more, or to join the<br />
Registry, go to outandequal.org/<br />
resources/groups.<br />
For additional information,<br />
please contact Associate Director<br />
of NETWORKS! Stephen Gould at<br />
<strong>Program</strong>s<br />
sgould@outandequal.org or<br />
4156946506.<br />
Regional affiliates<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates’ regional affiliates<br />
bring the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> mission<br />
and vision to their local community<br />
by producing educational<br />
and networking events, sharing<br />
best practices, coordinating LGBT<br />
workplace equality efforts and<br />
engaging in discussions about<br />
important LGBT workplace issues.<br />
Their work is invaluable in<br />
providing effective programming<br />
for <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>, helping<br />
to serve the needs of individual<br />
employees, leaders of employee<br />
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<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
resource groups and human<br />
resources professionals beyond<br />
the annual Workplace Summit.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> affiliates are<br />
organized and led by their local<br />
Leadership Council, ensuring that<br />
they have the flexibility to meet<br />
the needs of the local community,<br />
while still being connected to the<br />
national organization.<br />
To find a regional affiliate<br />
near you, or learn how to start<br />
one, go to outandequal.org/<br />
regional-affiliates. For more<br />
information, contact Associate<br />
Director of NETWORKS! Stephen<br />
Gould at sgould@outandequal.<br />
org or 4156946506.<br />
Town Call Webinar Series<br />
The <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Town Call<br />
webinar series features guest<br />
speakers presenting on current<br />
LGBT topics in a onehour<br />
webinar or teleconferencetype<br />
format. A Q&A session follows<br />
each presentation, creating an<br />
interactive learning experience.<br />
This free program is designed to<br />
meet the needs of busy working<br />
professionals, human resources<br />
departments and employee<br />
resource groups in any location.<br />
You can also review past Town<br />
Calls at outandequal.org/<br />
town-call-archives.<br />
Training programs<br />
Overview<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates offers diversity<br />
training, educational resources<br />
and consulting services to senior<br />
management, human resources<br />
professionals, employee<br />
208 2010 <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Summit<br />
resource groups and individual<br />
employees to promote lesbian,<br />
gay, bisexual, and transgender<br />
(LGBT) workplace equality. <strong>Program</strong>s<br />
are designed and tailored<br />
for a wide variety of audiences<br />
including corporations, mid/small<br />
businesses, educational institutions,<br />
faith communities, governmental<br />
agencies, community<br />
groups and nonprofit organizations.<br />
Training is available in<br />
traditional classroom interactive<br />
lectures or online live webinar<br />
formats. Courses are offered<br />
through <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> University<br />
and include beginning and<br />
advanced tracks to meet your<br />
training needs. More information<br />
about all of these programs<br />
and a schedule of the current<br />
class schedule can be found<br />
at outandequal.org/trainingprograms.<br />
Training programs offered<br />
include:<br />
Building Bridges toward<br />
LGBT Diversity in the<br />
Workplace<br />
Building Bridges toward LGBT<br />
Diversity in the Workplace training<br />
is the cornerstone to any LGBT<br />
diversity program. The course can<br />
be used as an indepth fourhour<br />
workshop that trains Employee<br />
Resource Groups and HR Professionals<br />
on LGBT Cultural Competency,<br />
creating a solid business<br />
case for LGBT inclusion in the<br />
workplace and action planning.<br />
There is also a 90 minute overview<br />
session targeted for senior<br />
executives, managers, human<br />
resources, diversity professionals,<br />
customer service representatives<br />
and the general employee population.<br />
This shorter course covers<br />
the LGBT Cultural Competency<br />
and business case and discusses<br />
the need for additional action<br />
planning.<br />
The course is designed to<br />
help employers get the most<br />
from all employees, LGBT and<br />
nonLGBT. This training fosters<br />
increased awareness to develop<br />
a healthier and safer workplace,<br />
where all employees are<br />
engaged in the mission of the<br />
organization, increasing the level<br />
of comfort for all, and improving<br />
communication between LGBT<br />
and nonLGBT employees and<br />
the customers they serve.<br />
Train the Trainer<br />
This course is the next step in<br />
developing an LGBT diversity<br />
workplace program. It is designed<br />
to certify trainers from<br />
within your company to teach<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s LGBT Diversity<br />
Leadership business case<br />
materials. The target audiences<br />
are Employee Resource Groups<br />
and HR professionals responsible<br />
for creating training programs<br />
to break down barriers and<br />
foster communication between<br />
LGBT employees and their<br />
coworkers by providing the<br />
resources to discuss LGBT<br />
workplace experiences.<br />
After completing the eighthour<br />
course, trainers are certified<br />
to present the 6090 minute<br />
LGBT Diversity Leadership course<br />
materials in their workplace.<br />
Many corporations use this
anagers,<br />
GBT leaders<br />
Group<br />
on how straight<br />
ce that works for<br />
to the quest for a more<br />
ork should be required<br />
America.”<br />
eral Manager<br />
Berry, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
profit organization dedicated<br />
the lesbian, gay, bisexual and<br />
al works to empower professionals<br />
sity is valued by advancing policies<br />
rdless of sexual orientation, gender<br />
tics.<br />
portion of revenue from book<br />
sales supports <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
course to roll out LGBT inclusion<br />
to all levels of the organization.<br />
Trainers have access to an online<br />
Trainer’s Network and monthly<br />
Trainer’s Forum webinars.<br />
Many trainers become<br />
more involved and can assist<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> certified staff to<br />
present other courses. Certification<br />
to teach the LGBT Diversity<br />
Leadership class lasts for two<br />
years from course completion.<br />
LGBT Diversity Training<br />
LGBT Diversity Training is the<br />
business case course which<br />
is the foundation for overcoming<br />
obstacles and fostering<br />
communication between LGBT<br />
employees, their allies and their<br />
coworkers.<br />
Allies at Work<br />
Allies at Work<br />
Dr. David M. Hall<br />
Creating a Lesbian,<br />
Gay, Bisexual and<br />
Transgender Inclusive<br />
Work Environment<br />
Dr. David M. Hall<br />
we create workplaces that are truly out and equal.”<br />
Founding Executive Director, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
www.<strong>Out</strong>and<strong>Equal</strong>.org “ Only with the courage and solidarity of our allies can<br />
seLisse beRRY<br />
Order your copy now! www.<strong>Out</strong>and<strong>Equal</strong>.org<br />
Certified <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Trainers who have completed<br />
Train the Trainer, address expanding<br />
diversity in the workplace<br />
as well as reviewing the<br />
LGBTrelated policies, benefits<br />
and workplace climate of their<br />
business or organization.<br />
Course materials are provided<br />
on the Trainer’s Network and<br />
the training can be customized<br />
for each workplace.<br />
Transgender intensive<br />
Gender identity and expression<br />
are new concepts to many corporations,<br />
and this course provides<br />
the tools to understand how to ensure<br />
full LGBT workplace inclusion.<br />
The Transgender Intensive is a<br />
fourhour workshop conducted by<br />
Dr. David M. Hall began his lesbian, gay, bisexual and<br />
transgender advocacy work while he was just a teenager.<br />
Learning in his high school human sexuality class about<br />
the historical treatment of the LGBT community, he decided<br />
to become a straight ally, even though he did not<br />
then know anyone who would benefit from his work.<br />
His devotion to the fight for LGBT rights prompted him<br />
to write Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual<br />
and Transgender Inclusive Work Environment to encourage<br />
others to become straight allies.<br />
Extensively researched, the book offers a guide to<br />
creating cultural change in the workplace and developing<br />
work environments that fully include everyone regardless<br />
of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates has partnered with<br />
Hall on the book, which explains the importance of LGBT<br />
allies in shaping workplace climate and the business case<br />
for developing a strong ally program at work.<br />
In Allies at Work, Hall provides the framework for<br />
teaching what he calls “cultural competency,” which is<br />
the removal of the assumption and enforcement of heterosexuality<br />
in the workplace, creating an environment in<br />
which everyone is equal.<br />
Hall, a workplace productivity consultant, illustrates<br />
the personal struggles and daily challenges of numerous<br />
LGBT people, underscoring the need for straight allies to<br />
actively pursue and work toward equality in the workplace.<br />
This book is a valuable resource not only for allies, but<br />
for the LGBT workforce, detailing the challenges faced by<br />
members of their own community, while also encouraging<br />
them to become actively involved in their companies’<br />
employee resource groups and by joining or starting <strong>Out</strong><br />
& <strong>Equal</strong> affiliates.<br />
Allies at Work inspires straight allies to take action, and<br />
helps shape a future in which everyone can be out and equal.<br />
<strong>Program</strong>s<br />
two certified <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> trainers<br />
with a focus on the “T” of LGBT.<br />
Depending on the needs of<br />
the organization, the target group<br />
can include senior executives,<br />
managers, human resources,<br />
diversity professionals and customer<br />
service representatives and<br />
the general employee population.<br />
This course provides basic understanding<br />
of the culture, terminology<br />
and business case aspects for<br />
transgender employees.<br />
The course breaks down<br />
barriers between transgender and<br />
nontransgender people, provides<br />
essential information for human<br />
resources professionals who work<br />
with employees in transition,<br />
and encourages participants<br />
to reflect on how their gender<br />
allies at Work<br />
Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and<br />
Transgender inclusive Work Environment<br />
A powerful resource by author David M. Hall and<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates for anyone<br />
who wants to create cultural change to include<br />
everyone in their workplaces<br />
“ Allies, employee resource group sponsors, senior managers, human<br />
resource and diversity professionals and LGBT leaders should consider<br />
Allies At Work a mustread.”<br />
— Founder, Raytheon Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and<br />
Allies Employee Resource Group, Louise Young, Ph.D.<br />
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<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
“ Allies, employee resource group sponsors, senior managers,<br />
human resource and diversity professionals and LGBT leaders<br />
should consider Allies at Work a must-read.”<br />
roles in society impact their own<br />
experiences in the workplace.<br />
The training helps participants<br />
gain a better understanding of<br />
the unique concerns of transgender<br />
employees, best practices<br />
on transitioning in the workplace,<br />
how to address benefit and<br />
health care issues, and how to<br />
support inclusion of gender identity/gender<br />
expression in federal<br />
nondiscrimination legislation and<br />
in the workplace.<br />
This course can also be<br />
tailored to a 90minute presentation<br />
for executives, conferences<br />
and companies looking to learn<br />
how to advance their transgender<br />
policy, benefits and planning.<br />
Louise Young, Ph.D.<br />
Founder, Raytheon Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,<br />
Transgender and Allies Employee Resource Group<br />
“ In Allies at Work, Dr. Hall offers practical tips on how straight<br />
allies can create a workplace and a worldplace that works for<br />
everyone.”<br />
RichaRD FRienD, Ph.D.<br />
Founder of Friend & Associates, Inc.<br />
and co-host of Diversity Matters ®<br />
“ A more diverse workplace remains vital to the quest for a more<br />
equal America and Dr. Hall’s Allies at Work should be required<br />
reading for every corporate leader in America.”<br />
Lisa sheRman<br />
Executive Vice President and General Manager<br />
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About <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Founded by Executive Director Selisse Berry, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
Advocates is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated<br />
exclusively to workplace equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and<br />
transgender community. <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> works to empower professionals<br />
and build organizations where diversity is valued by advancing policies<br />
and promoting equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender<br />
identity, expression or characteristics.<br />
A portion of revenue from book<br />
sales supports <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> university (online<br />
training)<br />
All of the above classes are<br />
provided online both through<br />
live webinars and recorded trainings.<br />
It allows for LGBT Diversity<br />
training on your schedule to meet<br />
your training needs. In addition<br />
to the basic core courses taught<br />
by <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>, advanced track<br />
course are offered that cover a<br />
wide range of topics from allies<br />
to cultural competency. Courses<br />
are set up for individual or group<br />
registrations and provide a cost<br />
effective way to begin working<br />
toward an LGBT workplace equality<br />
program. A complete list of<br />
recorded programs is available<br />
at outandequal.org/universityarchive.<br />
For more information about<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> training programs,<br />
contact Associate Director<br />
of Training & Professional<br />
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Allies at Work<br />
Dr. David M. Hall<br />
Allies at Work<br />
Creating a Lesbian,<br />
Gay, Bisexual and<br />
Transgender Inclusive<br />
Work Environment<br />
Dr. David M. Hall<br />
Development Pat Baillie at<br />
pbaillie@outandequal.org or<br />
4156946521.<br />
<strong>Book</strong>: “allies at Work”<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
and distinguished corporate<br />
diversity trainer Dr. David M.<br />
Hall produced an essential<br />
guide to lesbian, gay, bisexual<br />
and transgender inclusion in the<br />
workplace—and the important<br />
roles that allies play in creating<br />
a more equitable environment.<br />
The book, “Allies at Work:<br />
Creating a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual<br />
and Transgender Inclusive Work<br />
Environment” details crucial steps<br />
in shaping workplace climates,<br />
guidelines for developing strong<br />
ally programs in the workplace and<br />
insight to understand the impact of<br />
living in the closet.<br />
we create workplaces that are truly out and equal.”<br />
Founding Executive Director, <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates<br />
www.<strong>Out</strong>and<strong>Equal</strong>.org “ Only with the courage and solidarity of our allies can<br />
seLisse beRRY<br />
Dr. David M. Hall began his lesbian, gay, b<br />
In “Allies at Work,” Hall provides<br />
the framework for teaching<br />
what he calls “cultural competency”<br />
– the creation of environments<br />
in which everyone is equal.<br />
Throughout the book, Hall<br />
references the personal struggles<br />
and daily challenges of lesbian,<br />
gay, bisexual, and transgender<br />
people in order to underscore the<br />
need for straight allies to actively<br />
work toward creating equality in<br />
the workplace.<br />
Dr. David M. Hall’s book is<br />
a key tool in developing workplace<br />
solidarity and support.<br />
“Allies at Work: Creating a<br />
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and<br />
Transgender Inclusive Work Environment”<br />
is available for purchase<br />
at the <strong>Out</strong>ie Store in the Exhibit Hall,<br />
and online at outandequal.org or<br />
amazon.com.<br />
transgender advocacy work while he was just<br />
Learning in his high school human sexuality<br />
the historical treatment of the LGBT commun<br />
cided to become a straight ally, even though<br />
then know anyone who would benefit from<br />
His devotion to the fight for LGBT rights p<br />
to write Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian,<br />
and Transgender Inclusive Work Environme<br />
age others to become straight allies.<br />
Extensively researched, the book offers a<br />
creating cultural change in the workplace<br />
work environments that fully include eve<br />
of sexual orientation or gender identity/e<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace Advocates has<br />
Hall on the book, which explains the im<br />
allies in shaping workplace climate and<br />
for developing a strong ally program a<br />
In Allies at Work, Hall provides the fr<br />
teaching what he calls “cultural comp<br />
the removal of the assumption and e<br />
erosexuality in the workplace, creatin<br />
which everyone is equal.<br />
Hall, a workplace productivity con<br />
the personal struggles and daily cha<br />
LGBT people, underscoring the nee<br />
actively pursue and work toward eq<br />
This book is a valuable resource<br />
for the LGBT workforce, detailing<br />
members of their own communit<br />
ing them to become actively invo<br />
employee resource groups and b<br />
& <strong>Equal</strong> affiliates.<br />
Allies at Work inspires straigh<br />
helps shape a future in which eve
Twenty Steps to an <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace<br />
The Twenty Steps to an <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Workplace describe the work required to achieve an environment<br />
where all employees can be respected, productive, out and equal.<br />
policies and benefits<br />
• Include sexual orientation in global nondiscrimination<br />
and antiharassment policies<br />
• Include gender identity and expression in global<br />
nondiscrimination and antiharassment policies<br />
• Recognize samegender couples and their families<br />
with equal access to all company benefits<br />
• Ensure that global health coverage includes complete<br />
health benefits for transgender employees<br />
Talent management and professional<br />
development<br />
• Establish and support LGBT employee resource<br />
groups<br />
• Recruit, hire, and offer mentoring to LGBT<br />
employees through tools such as <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s<br />
LGBTCareerLink.com<br />
• Provide leadership development experiences<br />
specifically for LGBT employees<br />
• Track recruitment and career development metrics<br />
for LGBT employees who choose to self identify<br />
Workplace climate<br />
• Provide diversity training with specific reference<br />
to LGBT issues – such as <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong>’s Building<br />
Bridges Training – for all employees<br />
• Use anonymous climate surveys to measure effectiveness<br />
of LGBT diversity policies and programs<br />
• Include LGBT diversity objectives in management<br />
performance goals<br />
• Communicate routinely to all employees about<br />
how the organization supports its LGBT workforce<br />
<strong>Program</strong>s<br />
Commitment to the community<br />
• Support nonprofit groups working for LGBT equality<br />
• Sponsor and encourage visible participation in<br />
LGBT cultural events<br />
• Include LGBT images in marketing and advertising<br />
strategies<br />
• Include LGBT owned businesses in supplier diversity<br />
program objectives<br />
Corporate responsibility & advocacy<br />
• Be a visible role model for LGBT workplace equality<br />
in the community<br />
• Support public policy efforts that protect LGBT<br />
workplace equality<br />
• Oppose actively any attempts that would limit or<br />
restrict the rights of LGBT employees<br />
• Share best practices that advance LGBT workplace<br />
equality by participating in the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong><br />
Workplace Summit<br />
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Leadership Council<br />
(as of July 30, 2010)<br />
The Leadership Council is<br />
comprised of dedicated<br />
individuals who have<br />
committed themselves to<br />
forwarding our mission as<br />
volunteer leaders of their<br />
<strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> regional affiliate.<br />
The members of the<br />
Leadership Council bring<br />
programming and networking<br />
opportunities to<br />
their regions, and support<br />
the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> mission<br />
of workplace equality.<br />
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atlanta<br />
D. Chip Newton, Cochair<br />
Sylvia Tansill, Cochair<br />
Dawn T. Buannic<br />
Cat Chartier<br />
Clay Fisher<br />
Louis A. Gary<br />
Chris Gorman<br />
Brandon Hornibrook<br />
Troy E. Murray<br />
Elizabeth Noe<br />
Tonie B. Tobias<br />
Chicagoland<br />
James R. Huberty, Cochair<br />
L. Patrick Le’Flore, Cochair<br />
Lori M. Fox<br />
Casey J. Horton<br />
Greg Rohner<br />
Nydia J. Sahagun<br />
Kyle Spainhour<br />
Greg P. Woulf<br />
Dallas-Ft. Worth<br />
Jeff Snook, Chair<br />
Adib Abraham<br />
Ron Ausemus<br />
Evelyn Caldwell<br />
John F. Connell<br />
Debra J. Davis<br />
Michael J. DeGroot<br />
Jeffrey Gorczynski<br />
Sherry G. Hooten<br />
Heather Lueth<br />
Rafael McDonnell<br />
Mark Quigley<br />
Ted van Trabert<br />
Paul von Wupperfeld<br />
Russell Wallace<br />
Greater philadelphia<br />
Brent Reinhard, Chair<br />
Sherri L. Bassner<br />
Chris Eagan<br />
Stasha N. Goliaszewski<br />
Brian Green<br />
David M. Hall<br />
Corbett Klein<br />
Amy Niedzalkoski<br />
Sharon Paige<br />
Drusilla A. Quilley<br />
Matthew Woodcock<br />
Greater portland/Southwest<br />
Washington<br />
Brian Craig, Interim cochair<br />
Jeff Parker, Interim cochair<br />
Douglas Wendt<br />
houston<br />
Gemma M. Burns, Cochair<br />
Mike Craig, Cochair<br />
Fiona J. Dawson<br />
Christine Derham<br />
Regina Dotson<br />
Kimberly Frederick<br />
Timothy L. Garippa<br />
Robert Lee<br />
Chad Libertus<br />
Matthew R. Sontag<br />
Elisa J. VegaBurns<br />
indiana<br />
Aaron Wright, Chair<br />
Brenda F. Corbello<br />
Lisa J. Gutierrez<br />
William H. Hendrix<br />
Ted Letherer<br />
Carole A. Terry
Kansas City<br />
Don Maish, Interim chair<br />
Ellen Karp<br />
Karlene WagnerJackson<br />
metro new York<br />
Tom Kulaga, Cochair<br />
Kyle Young, Cochair<br />
Stephanie Battaglino<br />
Jennifer E. Brown<br />
Jeremy Gaylord<br />
Carol Heller<br />
Sally Nadler<br />
Gerald Roop<br />
Steve Salee<br />
Naomi Starr<br />
Juan F. Vasquez<br />
Janet Wigfield<br />
nY Finger Lakes<br />
Catherine Lewis, Chair<br />
Ralph Carter<br />
Janet T. Donner<br />
L.T. Fox<br />
Sandra F. Heerkens<br />
Emily Jones<br />
Marcus W. Kroll<br />
Laurie M. Mancuso<br />
Stephanie M. Samuel<br />
Susan L. Schiefelbein<br />
Vitamarie Trincali<br />
Kelly L. Williams<br />
Jorge Yacila<br />
Rocky mountain<br />
Patrick Geiger<br />
Terry Hildebrandt<br />
Michelle Simons<br />
Kari Tekle<br />
San Francisco Bay area<br />
Christy Gaughan, Cochair<br />
Alexis McKeown, Interim cochair<br />
Toni R. Battle<br />
Michael Coyle<br />
Lynn Hall<br />
Aysha Handley<br />
Joseph E. Higgins<br />
Lynda Pires<br />
Randy Reyes<br />
Eric Truong<br />
Seattle<br />
Marie Hartung, Cochair<br />
Elayne Wylie, Cochair<br />
Kevin G. Carothers<br />
Richard J. Cross<br />
Bud Cudmore<br />
Keith Dussell<br />
Daniel Fife<br />
Corrinalyn Guyette<br />
Brian Murphy<br />
Tracy Schultz<br />
Geoff Tucker<br />
Southern California<br />
Judy Jbara, Cochair<br />
Garth Steever, Cochair<br />
Reta Anderson<br />
Lyn Diaz<br />
Justin Hesketh<br />
Jason Mannino<br />
Lisa Mazzola<br />
Samuel Morales<br />
Ronora Sayaman<br />
Steve D. Simon<br />
Matthew Steiger<br />
Peter Theodore<br />
<strong>Program</strong>s<br />
St. Louis<br />
Laura Morrison, Cochair<br />
Michelle J. Smith, Cochair<br />
Ashley K. Alvarado<br />
Michelle Brown<br />
Michael Dunning<br />
Robert Woolsey<br />
Glen Zahn<br />
Tampa Bay<br />
Cheryl Madelle, Cochair<br />
Anthony Virostko, Cochair<br />
Curtis Brown<br />
James W. Casey<br />
Anthony Chuchman<br />
Seless Emanuels<br />
Jason M. Fromi<br />
Michele Koehler<br />
Nick S. Kouris<br />
Anthony Rivera<br />
Jeffrey Sterrett<br />
Washington, DC<br />
Adrian Colborn, Cochair<br />
Ed Glasscock, Cochair<br />
Amy L. Anderson<br />
Scott A. Ballina<br />
Anita Broccolino<br />
Wesley Combs<br />
Brian Fruchey<br />
Leonard P. Hirsch<br />
Jessica McKinnon<br />
JohnAnthony D. Meza<br />
Todd Peterson<br />
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WEDnESDaY, OCTOBER 6<br />
SESSiOn 1, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Featured panel Bisexuality: The impact of the workplace and the media on bisexual lives 502-B<br />
Featured panel How we did it: LGBT employee resource group of the year finalists 515-A<br />
Featured panel Next-generation organizations, next-generation talent: Leveraging the changing face of LGBTA leaders and customers 502-A<br />
Room<br />
Assignment<br />
Featured speaker LGBT demographics 411-Theatre<br />
Diversity & community Homophobia in the black community: What’s up with DADT? 518<br />
Diversity & community Oppression and inequality: A look within 501-C<br />
Diversity & community Real and relevant issues of LGBTQ members: Expanding how we define diversity training 512<br />
ERG engagement Beat the competition: Working together for the good of the group 505<br />
ERG engagement Connecting our networks for greater success—locally and beyond 504<br />
ERG engagement Does your ERG measure up? Components of a successful employee resource group 408-A<br />
ERG engagement Executive sponsors: Use ‘em or lose ‘em 513<br />
ERG engagement <strong>Out</strong> in the federal workplace: Strategies for LGBT consultants in the federal environment 410<br />
ERG engagement Promoting diversity and making waves: Implementing ERGs that drive organizational change 409-B<br />
International Expanding equality in the global workplace 503<br />
International Global mobility for LGBT professionals 501-B<br />
Law & policy Everyone transitions along with an employee: Boeing’s approach to the intersection of work and situation 408-B<br />
Law & policy Sexual harassment through the eyes of LGBT employees 501-A<br />
Law & policy So what do we do now? A guide to transgender workplace transition for LGBT and allies 511-B<br />
Personal & professional development Entertaining brands: Reaching an LGBT audience 511-C<br />
Personal & professional development Move over CEI, the CCCP is here 506<br />
Personal & professional development A tale of two mommies (and daddies too): Unique challenges faced by LGBT parents in the workplace 507<br />
Personal & professional development Using drama to overcome drama: Confronting our phobias and “isms” 409-A<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Bling bling: How to bedazzle your LBGT recruiting event and use technology to attract diverse audiences 511-A<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice You’ve got the policy ... what now? Using nonprofit partnerships to change corporate culture 510<br />
SESSiOn 2, 3:00 – 5:30 pm<br />
Featured event “Prodigal Sons” screening 515-B<br />
Featured panel Common goals: Looking across identities on issues of workplace inclusion 502-A<br />
Featured panel Our communities, our careers, and our families: Being an LGBT parent in the workplace 502-B<br />
Featured speaker LGBT diversity in the global context 411-Theater<br />
Diversity & community Bisexuals at work: New global survey data 510<br />
Diversity & community LGBT legislative issues and brand reputation 409-B<br />
ERG engagement The care and feeding of allies during the <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Summit 410<br />
ERG engagement Harnessing social media for ERG outreach, awareness, and engagement 408-B<br />
ERG engagement Hitting the bullseye: How your ERG can engage leaders and drive business results 408-A<br />
ERG engagement How to “engay” your community 506<br />
ERG engagement Leading by example: How ERG leaders create sustainable relationships with nonprofits 501-A
Workshop Tracks<br />
Workshop Track Workshop Title<br />
ERG engagement Uneasy alliances: The elusive search for common ground between diverse employee communities 505<br />
ERG engagement The virtuous cycle: Integrate ERGs into your business plan, support profitability, and boost workforce engagement 512<br />
International Global values for a global workforce 503<br />
International LGBT and Asia from IBM and Goldman Sachs 511-B<br />
Law & policy Census 2010: Making America’s LGBT families count 511-C<br />
Law & policy The unique legal and financial challenges facing the LGBT community 511-A<br />
Personal & professional development Authenticity: Bring the best “you” to work and life 409-A<br />
Personal & professional development <strong>Out</strong> & <strong>Equal</strong> Leadership Council orientation 507<br />
Personal & professional development Transgender 101: Transgender information for the non-trans community 504<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Building bridges toward LGBT diversity 501-C<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Raising the bar: The new corporate equality index criteria and data from the 2011 report 501-B<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Why do they need to tell me? How Citi is looking to overcome unconscious bias 518<br />
ThuRSDaY, OCTOBER 7<br />
SESSiOn 3, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Featured panel Diversity and inclusion strategies beyond the United States 515-A<br />
Featured panel Our allies: Our champions 515-B<br />
Room<br />
Assignment<br />
Featured speaker Diversity and trust: Alliances and betrayals 411-Theatre<br />
Diversity & community Novel methods for sharing LGBT employees with your workforce 505<br />
Diversity & community Wake up to the new ally in town 409-A<br />
Diversity & community What they don’t teach you in diversity school: How to ignite a successful diversity initiative 409-B<br />
Diversity & community Who is the outsider? Understanding microinequities from all sides 502-B<br />
ERG engagement Affiliates and ERGs: Get down to business 506<br />
ERG engagement Beyond engagement: How diversity and ERGs contribute to an inspired organization 507<br />
ERG engagement High-impact ERGs: Building a roadmap for business effectiveness 510<br />
ERG engagement Managing through difficult economic times 408-A<br />
ERG engagement Maximizing business growth: Joining ERG efforts with advertising, marketing, and community efforts 408-B<br />
ERG engagement The missing link: Building an ERG scorecard for credibility and success 501-C<br />
ERG engagement PSAI: What brings four fierce competitors together? 502-A<br />
International Managing global talent 503<br />
Law & policy Eliminating exceptionalism when implementing LGBT strategies 518<br />
Law & policy Focusing on-site health clinics on diversity and inclusion 504<br />
Law & policy Gender virtualization: Biology and the bathroom for gender transitions 501-A<br />
Personal & professional development Let the spirit move us all 410<br />
Personal & professional development Why did you say that? Using perceptual identity to break through barriers in the workplace 501-B<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Being transgender in the workplace in a binary world 511-B<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Changing the way we work and live: Inclusive policies, practices, and processes 511-C<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Minimizing tension between the letters LGBT 511-A<br />
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SESSiOn 4, 3:00 – 5:30 pm<br />
Featured panel How we did it: Workplace excellence finalists 502-B<br />
Featured panel Implementing and sustaining gender identity non-discrimination practices 502-A<br />
Featured panel Strength in numbers and going global: Local labor and privacy issues when collecting data from a global LGBT network 515-A<br />
Featured speaker Dance of leadership 411-Theatre<br />
Diversity & Community Targeted and privileged: The importance of examining whiteness within the LGBTIQ community 410<br />
ERG engagement Circling the wagons: Moving from networking and social groups to business resource groups 518<br />
ERG engagement Collision course: Religious and LBGT interests in the workplace 409-A<br />
ERG engagement Creating an LGBT ERG mentoring program 504<br />
ERG engagement Cross-team effectiveness in a diverse and geographically dispersed organization 501-A<br />
ERG engagement Is the ERG obsolete? How to keep your ERG relevant in a rights-friendly environment 409-B<br />
ERG engagement The federal workplace cafe: Conversations that will inform and inspire 506<br />
ERG engagement From marketing to outreach: How to make an ERG relevant 511-B<br />
ERG engagement The role of ERGs in healthcare organizations in promoting LGBT health 512<br />
International Can you be gay and global? 501-C<br />
International First steps in creating an LGB-inclusive workplace 503<br />
International International Roundtable: Focus on India 408-B<br />
Law & policy Checking the box: The self-identification of LGBT employees at your business 511-C<br />
Law & policy Working positively: Answers and action on HIV in the workplace 501-B<br />
Personal & professional development The balancing act: Preserving personal authenticity in the workplace 510<br />
Personal & professional development Coming out to clients: Making LGBT work for you in client relationships 505<br />
Workplace climate -policies to practice Allies at work 507<br />
Workplace climate -policies to practice Executive mentoring: How to navigate your career as a lesbian or gay employee 513<br />
Workplace climate -policies to practice Merging of cultures in a global company: A case study of Genentech and Roche 514<br />
FRiDaY, OCTOBER 8<br />
SESSiOn 5, 9:00 – 10:30 am<br />
Featured speaker From corporate policy to Capitol Hill 411-Theatre<br />
Diversity & community The disability community and the LGBT community: Similarities, differences, and alliances 511-C<br />
Diversity & community When health care isn’t caring: Combating health care discrimination of LGBT people and PLWHA 501-A<br />
ERG engagement The bridge: Working across ERGs 510<br />
ERG engagement The care and feeding of straight allies at work: What LGBTs must know for successful inclusion 507<br />
ERG engagement Energy sector LGBT employee resource group best practices 504<br />
ERG engagement Going deeper: Engaging your members and allies with social software 505<br />
ERG engagement Identifying, building, and developing an LGBT pipeline of rising stars 512<br />
ERG engagement Reaching out to engage employees everywhere 408-B<br />
International Diversity sells: How to leverage LGBT support into sales internationally 513<br />
Law & policy Accommodating religion and sexual orientation in the workplace: Promoting tolerance and diverse views 518<br />
Law & policy The business case for transgender-inclusive health benefits 511-B<br />
Law & policy LGBT health disparities: Another case for partner benefits 408-A<br />
Room<br />
Assignment
Workshop Tracks<br />
Workshop Track Workshop Title<br />
Personal & professional development Twitter for human resources staff: Minimize your time, maximize your return 501-C<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Building LGBT leadership: Cummins’ strategic vision for LGBT inclusion 511-A<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice The Safe Space <strong>Program</strong> 506<br />
SESSiOn 6, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm<br />
Featured panel Intersections: Religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity in the workplace 515-A<br />
Featured panel The future of LGBT equality: The intersection of public policy and business leadership 515-B<br />
Featured speaker Anti-discrimination: From policy to practice 411-Theatre<br />
Diversity & community Creating the strategic partnership: Walmart and Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) 511-C<br />
Diversity & community I love you, may it please the court 511-A<br />
Diversity & community Rock the ages: Generational differences and ERGs 408-A<br />
Diversity & community Two moms, two dads, Dora, Bratz, and GI Joe: Navigating the gender divide with your kids 512<br />
ERG engagement After the dust settles: Rebuilding your ERG 409-B<br />
ERG engagement Bringing the T to the ERG: Advocating for a transgender-inclusive workplace 503<br />
ERG engagement Can we talk? Partnership counseling for your ERG 507<br />
ERG engagement ERGs and employees in the beverage alcohol business: Driving for change in a conservative industry 410<br />
ERG engagement GLAAD media training for leaders 511-B<br />
ERG engagement Leveraging change management concepts to maximize impact of LGBT programs 505<br />
International LGBT issues in an international setting 518<br />
International London calling: An overview of the LGBT legal profession in the United Kingdom 502-B<br />
Law & policy Health benefits for transgender and transsexual employees, the WPATH Standards of Care, and the CEI 409-A<br />
Law & policy LGBT supplier diversity: How you can make an impact at work and in the community 501-A<br />
Personal & professional development Giving (and getting) back: Nonprofit boards for beginners 506<br />
Personal & professional development Tweet me L8R: Discovering the benefits of working with Gen Y 510<br />
Workplace climate—policies to practice Count me in: Including LGBT in workplace demographic data collection 501-C<br />
Room<br />
Assignment<br />
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