2012 Global LGBT Workplace Summit Workshops, Session 1
Thursday, 5 July, 11:30-13:00
Accommodating Transgender Employees in the Global Workplace
Denise A. Norris, Toni Charles, Cécile Rochet
Accommodating transgender employees in the workplace is becoming a critical part of Inclusion and Diversity best practices and is already a significant component of a major workplace equality indexes. This workshop will provide senior management and HR professionals a real world example of a global public company which is implementing fully inclusive environment for transgender employees. Accenture presenters will highlight the business case for transgender inclusion in the workplace with the invaluable involvement of transgender employees. In addition to the presentation, there will be an interactive discussion for organizations researching, implementing, or with existing transgender inclusion and diversity best practices.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Human Resource and Diversity Professionals
Room: Plaza 4/5
Being OUTstanding Employees
Jerry A. Johnson
India is reshaping its identity in more than just an economic or political sense. India's young professionals are highly aspirational and eager to assert their individualistic identities, and this is creating ripples in the national identity-fabric. There is a struggle to make sense of these influences; while the Indian government continues to debate the merits of decriminalizing homosexuality, India's LGBT persons are becoming increasingly visible and celebrating their lifestyle like never before. Private companies are caught in the middle. On the one hand, they are wary of upsetting the government by openly supporting what might be construed as licentious "ape-ing of the West;" on the other hand, they are keenly aware of the many benefits of having a happy, productive, and well-adjusted workforce.
Level: Advanced
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 6/7
Connecting our Networks for Success
Chris Crespo, Eleanor Mulligan, Sara Johnston
How do you connect and engage people in multiple locations, varying in size, culture and interests? Join us as we share our strategies and experiences in connecting our LGBTA networks at Ernst & Young and Google. It takes more than a village as we network with our other networks, other companies, and organizations in our communities. Starting with a discussion of leading practices, Ernst & Young will share their strategy and experience in leveraging the Out & Equal Workplace Summit to connect, and Google will share their success story in connecting their networks. We will discuss strategies and tools that you can implement to better connect the people in your network no matter where they sit for results that engage your members, your organization and our overall LGBT workplace inclusion efforts.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Employee Resource Group members
Room: Plaza 8/9
Interbank LGBT Forum: Beat the Competition! Working Together for the Good of the Group
Mike Horridge, Stefano Nappo
Formed in 2002, the Interbank LGBT Forum provides a cross-industry group which works together to develop collective responses to LGBT issues in the banking sector. This session takes you through the history of the forum and the ways in which the banks have worked together, taking in examples of sharing best practices and creating joint events for the benefit of all stakeholders. This interactive session includes tips for the functioning of similar industry specific forums, as well as geographically focused groups.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 3
Leverage Your ERG, Partner with Your Company, Influence Equality Legislation
Rob Anderson, Carlos Campoy, Joy William
Local laws which discriminate against or disadvantage LGBT employees hurt businesses. Showcasing personal stories is a practical way to leverage your ERG members' existing relationships and influence corporate and community leaders to ensure all employees benefit from equal treatment. This workshop will give you specific examples of how ERG members can lead the way through personal story-telling and company partnership. Talk to a team that has been there, and that continues to use personal stories in the midst of a legal battle for equality.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Employee Resource Group members
Room: Plaza 11
LGBT Impact Surveys & Indices for the Business Community
David Pollard (moderator), Daniel Danso, Tushar M, Kate Vernon, Deena Fidas, Ivan Scalfarotto, Becky Steckhahn-Strohmer
“What gets measured, gets fixed” is a business guideline we have all heard. How do we understand the impact of policies, benefits on the workplace for LGBT employees from a global perspective? This panel will explore the work being done around the world to establish metrics and evaluate the work for LGBT human rights, look at how data is being collected, and discuss how to address creating a way to consolidate these findings into global guidelines that companies can use. This panel provides an opportunity to add cultural competency to metrics and builds a base for creating a global index for LGBT workplace equality.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Human Resource and Diversity Professionals
Room: Plaza 12
LGBT Employees on Foreign Assignments: Theory & Chevron Case Study
Nick Thomas, Julie Dorf, Kathryn Friedman
In this workshop, we'll examine how to make a foreign assignment really work for GLBT employees. A brief review of policies and laws is followed by examination of the practicalities of making a foreign assignment work; from both a personal and a company perspective, maintaining the focus on GLBT employees. Leaders from Human Rights Campaign and the Council for Global Equality will walk through the state of LGBT equality in the global workplaces of corporations and dive more deeply into how a company's relocation policies should be formulated to be fully inclusive of LGBT employees, given the complexities of immigration issues and LGBT hardship postings. Reference examples are derived from Chevron's policies and practices, as well as from the experiences of a few Chevron employees (individuals highlighted will remain anonymous, of course.) The session will conclude with the distribution of a new resource: "LGBT Relocation Guidelines for Multinational Corporations."
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 10
Telling it Straight: Talking about Straight Allies
Sponsored by Microsoft
Sarah Odell, Nicholas Barnett, Anthony Gaugler
For employee networks to really flourish they need a critical mass of LGBT members and straight allies from across the organisation. In this workshop we explore how to set up a straight allies programme and the powerful change that it can bring to organisations. The session will explore what the metrics are for success, and some of the challenges in launching this kind of programme to disparate staff groups. The session will include leading allies from Accenture and support from Stonewall.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: LGBT Community Leaders
Room: Plaza 13
Thursday, 5 July, 11:30-13:00
Accommodating Transgender Employees in the Global Workplace
Denise A. Norris, Toni Charles, Cécile Rochet
Accommodating transgender employees in the workplace is becoming a critical part of Inclusion and Diversity best practices and is already a significant component of a major workplace equality indexes. This workshop will provide senior management and HR professionals a real world example of a global public company which is implementing fully inclusive environment for transgender employees. Accenture presenters will highlight the business case for transgender inclusion in the workplace with the invaluable involvement of transgender employees. In addition to the presentation, there will be an interactive discussion for organizations researching, implementing, or with existing transgender inclusion and diversity best practices.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Human Resource and Diversity Professionals
Room: Plaza 4/5
Being OUTstanding Employees
Jerry A. Johnson
India is reshaping its identity in more than just an economic or political sense. India's young professionals are highly aspirational and eager to assert their individualistic identities, and this is creating ripples in the national identity-fabric. There is a struggle to make sense of these influences; while the Indian government continues to debate the merits of decriminalizing homosexuality, India's LGBT persons are becoming increasingly visible and celebrating their lifestyle like never before. Private companies are caught in the middle. On the one hand, they are wary of upsetting the government by openly supporting what might be construed as licentious "ape-ing of the West;" on the other hand, they are keenly aware of the many benefits of having a happy, productive, and well-adjusted workforce.
Level: Advanced
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 6/7
Connecting our Networks for Success
Chris Crespo, Eleanor Mulligan, Sara Johnston
How do you connect and engage people in multiple locations, varying in size, culture and interests? Join us as we share our strategies and experiences in connecting our LGBTA networks at Ernst & Young and Google. It takes more than a village as we network with our other networks, other companies, and organizations in our communities. Starting with a discussion of leading practices, Ernst & Young will share their strategy and experience in leveraging the Out & Equal Workplace Summit to connect, and Google will share their success story in connecting their networks. We will discuss strategies and tools that you can implement to better connect the people in your network no matter where they sit for results that engage your members, your organization and our overall LGBT workplace inclusion efforts.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Employee Resource Group members
Room: Plaza 8/9
Interbank LGBT Forum: Beat the Competition! Working Together for the Good of the Group
Mike Horridge, Stefano Nappo
Formed in 2002, the Interbank LGBT Forum provides a cross-industry group which works together to develop collective responses to LGBT issues in the banking sector. This session takes you through the history of the forum and the ways in which the banks have worked together, taking in examples of sharing best practices and creating joint events for the benefit of all stakeholders. This interactive session includes tips for the functioning of similar industry specific forums, as well as geographically focused groups.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 3
Leverage Your ERG, Partner with Your Company, Influence Equality Legislation
Rob Anderson, Carlos Campoy, Joy William
Local laws which discriminate against or disadvantage LGBT employees hurt businesses. Showcasing personal stories is a practical way to leverage your ERG members' existing relationships and influence corporate and community leaders to ensure all employees benefit from equal treatment. This workshop will give you specific examples of how ERG members can lead the way through personal story-telling and company partnership. Talk to a team that has been there, and that continues to use personal stories in the midst of a legal battle for equality.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Employee Resource Group members
Room: Plaza 11
LGBT Impact Surveys & Indices for the Business Community
David Pollard (moderator), Daniel Danso, Tushar M, Kate Vernon, Deena Fidas, Ivan Scalfarotto, Becky Steckhahn-Strohmer
“What gets measured, gets fixed” is a business guideline we have all heard. How do we understand the impact of policies, benefits on the workplace for LGBT employees from a global perspective? This panel will explore the work being done around the world to establish metrics and evaluate the work for LGBT human rights, look at how data is being collected, and discuss how to address creating a way to consolidate these findings into global guidelines that companies can use. This panel provides an opportunity to add cultural competency to metrics and builds a base for creating a global index for LGBT workplace equality.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Human Resource and Diversity Professionals
Room: Plaza 12
LGBT Employees on Foreign Assignments: Theory & Chevron Case Study
Nick Thomas, Julie Dorf, Kathryn Friedman
In this workshop, we'll examine how to make a foreign assignment really work for GLBT employees. A brief review of policies and laws is followed by examination of the practicalities of making a foreign assignment work; from both a personal and a company perspective, maintaining the focus on GLBT employees. Leaders from Human Rights Campaign and the Council for Global Equality will walk through the state of LGBT equality in the global workplaces of corporations and dive more deeply into how a company's relocation policies should be formulated to be fully inclusive of LGBT employees, given the complexities of immigration issues and LGBT hardship postings. Reference examples are derived from Chevron's policies and practices, as well as from the experiences of a few Chevron employees (individuals highlighted will remain anonymous, of course.) The session will conclude with the distribution of a new resource: "LGBT Relocation Guidelines for Multinational Corporations."
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: General Audience
Room: Plaza 10
Telling it Straight: Talking about Straight Allies
Sponsored by Microsoft
Sarah Odell, Nicholas Barnett, Anthony Gaugler
For employee networks to really flourish they need a critical mass of LGBT members and straight allies from across the organisation. In this workshop we explore how to set up a straight allies programme and the powerful change that it can bring to organisations. The session will explore what the metrics are for success, and some of the challenges in launching this kind of programme to disparate staff groups. The session will include leading allies from Accenture and support from Stonewall.
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: LGBT Community Leaders
Room: Plaza 13
