Out Leadership (11 Articles with 12,670 total views)
Out Leadership is the world's first and only LGBTQ+ corporation whose sole product is Equality. Out Leadership harnesses the power of business to drive equality by connecting LGBTQ+ and leaders across the globe, advocating for inclusion at every level, from employee to executive to CEO. With 94 member companies (including Amazon, American Express, Bloomberg, Citi, CocaCola, Comcast, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, IBM, Microsoft, Nike and Walmart), Out Leadership partners with 56 non-profits (GLAAD, Freedom for All Americans, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, to name a few) and donates over 20% of its net-profit every year to global LGBTQ+ non profits.
March, 2024
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Joins Out Leadership's Call to Protect and Promote LGBTQ+ Equality
NEW YORK, NY - With the LGBTQ+ community continuing to come under increasing attacks heading into the 2024 presidential election season, the first openly LGBTQ+ U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined Out Leadership, the premier global LGBTQ+ organization that focuses on harnessing the power of business to drive equality, a call to action for LGBTQ+ and allied individuals to "preserve our progress, defend our rights, and ensure our society moves forward, not backward.
February, 2024
Harvard Business Review Cites Out Leadership CEO's Creation of First-Ever LGBTQ+ Portfolio in Wall Street History
NEW YORK CITY, NY - The January/February 2024 edition of the Harvard Business Review Magazine shines a spotlight on the instrumental leadership of Todd Sears, Founder & CEO of Out Leadership, whose work establishing the LGBTQ+ market made Wall Street history and continues to reshape corporate culture on issues of inclusion and diversity.
December, 2023
BREAKING: As SCOTUS Says Florida Can't Enforce Anti-Drag Law, Out Leadership Releases Recent Data on Florida Anti-Equality Business Climate
NEW YORK CITY, NY - This year for the first time since Out Leadership began publishing the State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index five years ago, the nation's overall average score on LGBTQ+ equality dropped -1.14 points. The net negative rating for the country is largely due to over 500 anti-equality bills introduced at the state level this legislative cycle.
November, 2023
New Research from Out Leadership Shows 8 in 10 LGBTQ+ Employees Cite Feeling Comfortable Being Out at Work
NEW YORK CITY, NY - As our nation prepares to commemorate National Coming Out Day, Out Leadership's "Out to Succeed 2.0," a global workplace survey of LGBTQ+ employees finds historic progress for LGBTQ+ employees in the workplace with 80 percent reporting feeling comfortable being out at work, up from 36 percent in 2016. Yet challenges remain for more marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender employees, as well as LGBTQ+ women and people of color, despite this historic progress.
October, 2023
Global Workplace Talent Research: 80% of LGBTQ+ Employees are Comfortable Being Out at Work, Up from 36% in 2016
NEW YORK CITY, NY - A new global workplace survey of over 2,700 LGBTQ+ employees from 5 continents released today by Out Leadership finds today's workplace as overwhelmingly supportive of LGBTQ+ inclusivity and being out at work as a positive differentiator in the careers of most LGBTQ+ employees. Despite this remarkable progress, challenges remain especially for the transgender, nonbinary, and people of color - especially women of color.
New Report: Adoption of LGBTQ+ Inclusive ESG Reporting Skyrocketing Among Top Corporations
NEW YORK CITY, NY - According to a new report released today by Out Leadership during Return on Equality, an LGBTQ+ inclusive ESG summit hosted by Nasdaq, nearly all Fortune 100 companies report on their LGBTQ+ inclusion efforts through their ESG and DEI reports.
September, 2023
New Report Shows Florida's 'Anti-Woke" Policies Are Costing the State Millions in Business Activity
NEW YORK CITY, NY - With recent reporting indicating that Florida is losing millions of dollars of business as a result of Governor DeSantis' 'anti-woke' bills, Todd Sears, the Founder and CEO of Out Leadership, the premier global LGBTQ+ organization harnessing the power of business to drive equality, today released the following reaction: "Reports of Florida's economy suffering because of Governor DeSantis' radical 'anti-woke' policies should come as no surprise. His radical agenda of banning decades of successful diversity efforts, and even penalizing companies, like Disney, who simply want to support their employees, continue to wreak havoc on Florida's economy. As we have said for years, there are economic consequences to discrimination, and equally there are economic opportunities that come from full inclusion," said Todd Sears, Founder and CEO of Out Leadership. "Florida's score of 50.60 on the 2023 Out Leadership LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index (released June 1, 2023) ranks Florida as among the worst states for LGBTQ+ access and equality-and for business. Florida's high profile 'Don't Say Gay' bill, as well as the numerous anti-LGBTQ+ discriminatory measures supported by Governor DeSantis, have propelled the state into the bottom half of country's equality nationwide."
July, 2023
Out Leadership Statement on new White House Actions to Protect LGBTQ+ Americans
NEW YORK CITY, NY - June 8, 2023 - As President Joe Biden announces new measures to protect LGBTQ+ Americans ahead of tonight's largest White House Pride Month gathering in history, Todd Sears, founder and CEO of Out Leadership, the premier global LGBTQ+ organization harnessing the power of business to drive equality, today offered the following statement: "LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency every day - and it is a result of the anti-LGBTQ+ climate rising to an all-time high in many states across the country. The introduction of over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills attacking our community has economic, talent and human consequences for LGBTQ+ Americans and their families, which directly impacts a business's ability to conduct business in a state.
The Best and Worst States for LGBTQ+ Equality
NEW YORK CITY, NY - This year for the first time since Out Leadership began publishing the State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index five years ago, the nation's overall average score on LGBTQ+ equality dropped -1.14 points. The net negative rating for the country is largely due to over 500 anti-equality bills introduced at the state level this legislative cycle.
June, 2023
Research Shows Attacks on LGBTQ+ Rights by Gov. DeSantis and other Anti-Equality Lawmakers Has Devastating Economic and Business Consequences
NEW YORK CITY, NY - May 19, 2023 - With the recent news that Disney has scrapped plans for a new campus in Florida citing "changing business conditions," Todd Sears, the founder and CEO of Out Leadership, the premier global LGBTQ+ organization harnessing the power of business to drive equality, today released the following statement: "Disney's decision to not build their new campus in Florida has cost the citizens of that state 2,000 new jobs and can be directly tied to Governor DeSantis' continued political attacks on LGBTQ+ individuals, women, and people of color. Despite corporations trending decisively towards equality, these actions by Governor DeSantis, and anti-equality leaders in other states, continue to threaten businesses and subsequently their local economies.
June, 2022
For Pride Month, OUT LEADERSHIP releases 4th Annual STATE LGBTQ+ BUSINESS CLIMATE INDEX, ranking all 50 states on LGBTQ+ Equality
NEW YORK - Out Leadership, the premier global network for LGBTQ+ business leaders and companies, today unveiled the 4th annual State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index for 2022. The Index is a ranking from highest to lowest of all 50 states as it relates to legal, political, emotional support, health, business and other parameters for LGBTQ+ Americans.
Out Leadership
Out Leadership is the world's first and only LGBTQ+ corporation whose sole product is Equality. Out Leadership harnesses the power of business to drive equality by connecting LGBTQ+ and leaders across the globe, advocating for inclusion at every level, from employee to executive to CEO. With 94 member companies (including Amazon, American Express, Bloomberg, Citi, CocaCola, Comcast, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, IBM, Microsoft, Nike and Walmart), Out Leadership partners with 56 non-profits (GLAAD, Freedom for All Americans, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, to name a few) and donates over 20% of its net-profit every year to global LGBTQ+ non profits.
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