WORK WITH PRIDE
sponsored by
Diversity and Inclusion Virtual Conference July 30th 9am to 2pm
With the conference being fully virtual this year, the website will allow for:
and how we can better champion inclusion in and out of the workplace, how parental leave, adoption leave and other supports for families are inclusive of LGBT+ families. Our Work With Pride D&I Conference also aims to further drive positive change by exploring what behaviours, attitudes and actions make both allies to LGBT+ colleagues and allies within the diverse LGBT+ community successful. Our speakers will explore and highlight innovative approaches and policy that can be replicated and amplified throughout the workplace and beyond, and hope to equip and inspire attendees to become agents of change in their own organisations. This year we are also thrilled to announce the launch of our dedicated Work With Pride Website, www.workwithpride.ie Based on the success of last year’s conference and the feedback received, there was an appetite from conference delegates for further speaker engagement and an opportunity for further event interaction and business networking. The investment made in bringing the dedicated website to light will cater for and further enhance the capabilities, accessibility and offerings of the conference this year.
Session Sponsors
• Dedicated viewing conference portal
• Live conference delegate
interaction and audience polling
• Live Q&A capabilities
Work With Pride - Proudly Sponsored by Ibec, Ireland’s largest lobby and business representative group. The Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival is delighted to present its annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference, Work With Pride which will run as a key event during the week-long series of Pride events. We are delighted to welcome attendees from over 35 companies and organisations who are all invested in creating and maintaining a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) inclusive workplace. These include Tesco, PepsiCo, Ibec, Gilead, An Post, Apple, Accenture, Laya Healthcare, Johnson Controls, Pfizer, Amazon, EY, AIB, VMware, Energia, MTU, Boston Scientific, Blizzard Entertainment, Salesforce, Teamwork, Facebook, Qualcomm, Solarwinds, Bank of Ireland, Bus Eireann, Cork Chamber, Abtran, Telus International, Cloudera, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, HSE, Irish Examiner, and Red FM amoungst others. We are so grateful and indebted to all of this year’s sponsors, without whom we could not have made this event possible. Thank you! In the last 15 years, organisations right across all sectors have made huge strides in supporting LGBT+ employees and creating an inclusive workplace. Cork Pride began facilitating site specific D&I training events at our key partners’ locations some years ago as part of our corporate partners bespoke suite of benefits, and these events have been hugely successful in creating social and business
networking interactions, and has also suggested that there is an appetite to augment and amplify these talks into a conference, and to establish a network of Cork Pride Partners; the Work With Pride D&I Conference is our response to this demonstrable need. The research also shows this, according to Erin Uritus, CEO of LGBT+ workplace advocacy non-profit Out and Equal, “Companies are urgently interested in making sure that they understand and support our community”. Similar to last year and aligning with public health measures for Covid, this year’s event will be delivered via a live streamed interactive webinar. The Work With Pride Conference will feature a stellar and diverse line-up of speakers and panellists who will provoke and stimulate discussion to heighten the profile of professional role models, in addition to identifying how we can augment and amplify the voices of people from diverse backgrounds, whose unique experiences and challenges may not usually have a prominent role in shaping the dialogue around sexual orientation and gender identityexpression in the workplace. During the Work with Pride D&I Conference, we will be exploring the multitude of identities that make up the LGBT+ community and our speakers will delve into identities that aren’t as widely recognised when referring to the LGBT+ community, and will cover a broad range of topics; there is capacity to shape the discussion around issues that may have been encountered previously, or which may be encountered in the future. We will also be exploring the role of families,
• Virtual Sponsor exhibition hall
• Always up to date Scheduling and Agenda
• Advanced registration with integrated calendar options
According to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation
of LGBT+ individuals are closeted at work 46%
more likely to have asked for and have received a promotion 62% Those with sponsors are
are totally closeted and not open to anyone in their lives 28% times more likely to feel that their innovative potential is unlocked 1.3 In a 2017 study by the HBR, they found that employees with inclusive managers are
Employees who are able to bring their whole selves to work are
less likely to say they intend to leave their job within a year 42%
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