Oriol Lacorte: “Mental Health to Me Personally Is Finding Purpose in What I Do Both at Work and Outside of Work”

Hi Oriol! Thanks for chatting with us – can you tell us a bit about yourself?

My name Is Oriol Lacorte and I work for Zimmer Biomet as a Marketing Director in EMEA. I am also the Chair of exhale, the Zimmer Biomet Employee Resource Group for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Orial and family 

It’s currently mental health awareness week and we are focusing on how we can foster healthy attitudes to wellbeing in the LGBTQ+ community. What advice would you give to an LGBTQ+ professional who is struggling with their mental health?

This is not limited to just LGBTQ+ professionals but to everyone in the workplace. Talk to peers that are welcoming and encouraging, or join an Employee Resource Group if you have the privilege to work in a company that supports those.  This will release the stress of not knowing where to seek help or how to display your true self.  Let’s also realize most of us struggle to find our own work-life harmony and in achieving both personal and professional goals.  I find it useful to stop, breathe, and talk openly to my manager and peers about my own struggles.

What tips would you offer employers on how they can better support LGBTQ+ people and their mental health?

I truly believe it is necessary to achieve both our professional and personal goals to live in harmony. When I am working, I am fully engaged with tasks and activities, and when I am not working, I am equally engaged with family and my priorities at home. Mental health to me personally is finding purpose in what I do both at work and outside of work, by embracing all of it and living all my facets with passion and enjoying what I do.