Expand Your LGBTQ+ Understanding This Pride Month at WorkPride
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As Pride Month continues, our WorkPride 2023 event is quickly approaching, and with it a brand-new range of opportunities to take advantage of. From allyship advice to openings doors to graduates, this unique week of empowering events is a fantastic opportunity! Whether you’re back for another year, or this is your first time joining us, here are some reasons you won’t want to miss out on the 2023 event.
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Expand your knowledge on diverse LGBTQ+ experiences
In an ever-evolving world of diverse identities, it’s important to keep on top of the appropriate language, behavior and attitudes to display towards everyone to ensure an inclusive environment. Our fantastic range of panels will focus on all gender identities and sexual orientations within the LGBTQ+ community, and identities beyond. Not only is it important to understand what these labels mean, but with WorkPride providing panels where the varied experiences of marginalized communities are discussed, it also allows participants to expand their knowledge of how other identities navigate the workplace and wider society.
It is becoming more vital than ever to make sure that inclusivity efforts are intersectional. There can be no true inclusion if any valid identity is being excluded. With daily panels focusing on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people from different backgrounds (particularly the Community in Focus panels, which place a spotlight on the challenges faced by various races and religions), WorkPride is the perfect opportunity to expand your diversity and inclusion standards.
Find an inclusive career path
Whether you’re an LGBTQ+ graduate or someone looking for a brand-new career path, if you want to be certain that your next line of work is inclusive from the outset, there is no better way to ensure this than signing up for WorkPride. We partner with openly pro-LGBTQ+ companies that provide a safe space for queer employees and are constantly looking to improve standards of equality.
Many of these businesses are on the lookout for employees who will hold the same diversity and inclusion ethics as they do – could this be the opportunity for you? Check out our panels geared towards assisting LGBTQ+ graduates, professionals and allies in finding areas of work best suited to them.
Learn the professional and financial benefits of D&I
Despite having the internet at our fingertips, looking for helpful and authentic advice can be a genuine struggle for many. Separating professional tips from amateur blogging is becoming way too much of a hassle. To ease this difficulty, try attending one of our many panels dedicated to educating aspiring professionals on the benefits of applying diversity and inclusion techniques to their everyday work format.
Covering topics such as ‘Starting a Career in Diversity & Inclusion - Everything You Need to Know” to ‘The Impact of LGBTQ+ Officers - the Impact, Purpose and Value of Hiring one into Your Organization’, every panel seeks to educate, inform and inspire those with an interest in applying inclusive methods to their work. Cut straight to the point with advice from LGBTQ+ professionals.
Find out how you can make your allyship authentic
Whether you identify within the LGBTQ+ community, or you are a firm ally, it’s important for everybody to understand the impact of allyship, and what authentic support from an ally should look like. Allyship is not just for cisgender, heterosexual people either – although their support is vital – it's also about members of the LGBTQ+ community looking out for each other in times of need.
WorkPride 2023 takes a special look at the value of allyship in multiple panels, each focusing on a different aspect of it. From discussing the importance of businesses supporting the LGBTQ+ community across the globe, to advice for how you can help out as an individual, learn how to ensure that your allyship is as authentic as it can be in our extensive range of panels.
Take the chance to make great connections
WorkPride provides plenty of opportunities for people to ask questions and establish connections with prolific LGBTQ+ professionals from a range of businesses. This is a fantastic chance to begin a career path fueled by inclusive and diverse behavior, language and attitude, with the knowledge that you’re receiving authentic and experienced advice.
To take full advantage of this opportunity, why not think about what topics you’d like to expand your knowledge on, and put together a list of questions? Our range of panelists and hosts will be happy to share their tips and tricks with you. Whether it’s wanting to live authentically, wanting to progress as an LGBTQ+ person in business, or just general wellbeing advice, WorkPride contains a multitude of events geared towards helping you on your journey.
Check out the full list of panels available here.
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