global business coalition
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Global Business Coalition
WELCOME
• Welcome to today’s installment of: “The Look Forward: What’s New
in LGBT Workplace Inclusion”
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Beck Bailey
Deputy Director,
Employee Engagement
The Workplace Equality Program
• Further global businesses’ engagement on
LGBT equality
• 4 areas of focus:
– within their own workplaces
– prominent global voices
– partners to LGBT civil society
– HRC to facilitate forums and resources to
exchange ideas and best practices
HRC GLOBAL BUSINESS ENGAGEMENT:
WHAT IS IT?
WORKPLACE EQUALITY PROGRAM:
GLOBAL PROGRESSION
First Global Launch of the
Corporate Equality Index –
2016 survey, Mexico City
407 100% Rated
Businesses (280 Global)
Overall: Moved 435 Global
Businesses to adopt Full
LGBT protections
throughout all operations.
LGBT ECONOMIC EQUALITY: A GLOBAL
CONVERSATION EMERGES WITH HRC
“Having the CEO of one of
the largest companies in the
world communicating to
employees that we value
you that not only makes
them a better worker, it can
actually also save their
lives.” HRC President,
Chad Griffin
CASE STUDY: WORKPLACE EQUALITY IN
MEXICO 5 years ago we
started a
conversation …
“La Inclusión
LGBT:
El Caso de
Negocio”
= “LGBT Inclusion:
The Business
Case”
MEXICO: EQUALITY PROGRESSES
FIRST PRIDE CONNECTION SUMMIT:
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
200+ Attendees from IBM,
Dow, Accenture, and others.
Bi-Lingual Keynotes, Panels
and Presentations on LGBT
Polling Data in Mexico, LGBT
Leadership.
MB Maxwell Moderated an
Executive Panel on Out
Leadership.
Deena Fidas Presented on
the Business Case for LGBT
Inclusion.
A WINNING FORMULA
Civil Society
Business
Network
U.S. State Dept.
Greater
Equality & Real
Change for
LGBTQ People
Around the
World
FIRST WORKPLACE EQUALITY SUMMIT:
HYDERABAD, INDIA
Openly Gay Consular General,
Michael Mullins
With prestigious Indian School of
Business (ISB)
200+ Attendees and Press
Catalyst for First LGBT Student
Network Group
Openly Gay Ambassador, Ted Osius
Global Innovative Advocacy Summit – Tam
Nguyen
Corporate, Civil Society & Diplomatic
Community
BUSINESS & CIVIL SOCIETY SUMMIT:
HANOI, VIETNAM
EQUIDAD MX: GLOBAL WORKPLACE
EQUALITY PROGRAM
Program launched in September
Increase awareness of D&I needs
in Mexico’s workplaces
Partnership with Fernando and
Francisco
HRC GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION
28 Global Businesses and Growing
MEMBERS AGREE TO THE STATEMENT:
The world’s strongest and most competitive businesses are committed to fundamental fairness and opportunity in the workplace for all employees, including basic protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, along with the rest of their workforce.
As global business leaders, we support workplace fairness for all employees throughout our operations, both domestically and abroad, because equality is simply essential to good business around the world.
• Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
• Accenture
• Airbnb Inc.
• Alcoa Inc.
• AT&T Inc.
• Biogen
• Boston Scientific Corp.
• CA Technologies Inc.
• The Coca-Cola Co.
• DestinationWeddings.com
• The Dow Chemical Co.
• Google Inc.
• GSK
• Hilton Worldwide Inc.
• IBM Corp.
• Lexmark International
• MasterCard Inc.
• Microsoft Corp.
• Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
• Monsanto Co.
• Procter & Gamble Co.
• Replacements Ltd.
• Salesforce
• Starbucks Corp.
• Symantec Corp.
• Tech Data Corp.
• UPS
• Winston & Strawn LLP •
HRC GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION
BENEFITS OF JOINING THE COALITION
• Direct consultation from HRC Foundation.
• Leveraging of brand best practices across
HRC platforms.
• Quarterly newsletter from HRC Foundation.
• Facilitated, confidential thought leader forums
• Toolkits and First Views/Input of New
Resources.
• Liaison with in-country LGBT networks.
• Implementation of a global non-discrimination statement/code of conduct – Includes sexual orientation and gender identity
• Best practice and experiential sharing on the businesses’ journey to global inclusion.
• Concentration areas of leadership include: – ERG development and collaboration;
– public policy advocacy; community (NGO/civil society) engagement, and other emerging themes.
• Where possible, public testimonials on their own experiences with LGBT inclusion to press, business audiences and WEP resources
WHAT IS ASKED OF COALITION MEMBERS
JOIN TODAY!
• Join the Global Business Coalition –
download from the “handouts section” or
online at:
http://www.hrc.org/resources/global-business-
coalition
• Email [email protected] for more
information
NEXT SESSION – NOVEMBER 14TH
Join us two weeks from now:
November 14, 2016
3:00 pm Eastern
Honoring Trans Day of Remembrance - and the Work Ahead
November 28th session CANCELLED for Holidays
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