Being an ally to the disabled community is an often-overlooked aspect of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). It is crucial to recognize the importance of allyship towards people with disabilities.

As organizations strive to create more inclusive and welcoming workplaces, it’s crucial to ensure that this commitment extends to potential employees in the recruitment process. A trans-inclusive recruitment process not only fosters a sense of belonging, safety, and respect for transgender individuals, but it also helps in attracting and retaining top talent.

The pandemic brought so many unique challenges. For Samantha, an unexpected one came on her first ‘normal’ day in the office – where to sit for lunch.

Today we're remembering those who took part in the Stonewall Riots in 1969 and helped pioneer the LGBTQI+ rights movement that followed.

Simone Wilder, Quality Assurance Specialist for Gene Therapies, shares her experience of being hard of hearing and what the Novartis global commitment to disability equity means to her.

Kumar, Senior Expert I Data Science, on career growth and collaboration.

“Belonging means to feel respected and to feel comfortable enough to share who you are.” For Steve, being authentic is key to building successful relationships both for those within the LGBTQI+ community and beyond.

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Check out the top LGBTQ+ jobs with Novartis on myGwork.com, the world’s largest business community for LGBTQ+ professionals, students and anyone who believes in workplace equality.

February is the LGBTQ+ History Month initiated in the UK back in 2005. While various countries have different months for the occasion, the main goal is same to raise awareness of prejudice and injustice against the LGBTQ+ community, combat the discrimination while celebrating the achievements and the visibility of the community throughout the history.

Garrett Dibon-Smith, Global Training and Development Manager and LGBTQI+ Lead from Novartis, reveals his new year's resolutions for 2023.

This week we will mark ‘Transgender Awareness Week’ by raising awareness of the barriers that the transgender community regularly need to overcome.

If you want to tackle bias, then you have to have people acknowledge those assumptions.

Four years ago, the Indian Supreme Court decriminalized Sec 377, thereby marking a huge step forward for the LGBTQI+ community. Since then, our AGLOW Employee Resource Group along with our leaders have been persistently driving inclusion for our Indian LGBTQI+ associates, through awareness campaigns, changes to internal policies and community outre...

As part of our ongoing commitment to LGBTQI equity, we’re proud to be recognized as a Stonewall Top Global Employer 2022. This important recognition reflects the huge strides we’ve made as a company over the past few years toward creating a more equitable and inclusive work environment for our LGBTQI community around the world. Most of al...

Here at #NovartisIreland our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion champions organised some great Pride events culminating in a Pride Panel Discussion chaired by Saffa (Sofi) Musleh on 29th June.We were invited to wear our most colourful clothes for what was a fantastic & open panel discussion.Many thanks to the wonderful paneli...

“We have to collaborate inside and out, and collaboration means diversity, and collaboration means inclusion, and collaboration means recognize what we can do better and to ask for help. That's what makes us a team and that is what is going to make us grow as an organization and as a society.” – Giselle  At Novartis, we want to unlock our...

7 years ago Nejc joined Novartis and he is now responsible to lead LGBTQI+ and Disability equities across the globe. This June Novartis announces a new partnership with myGwork to collaborate with our peers across sectors, and to offer a networking place for our LGBTQI+ associates. Watch the video to hear Nejc discuss the partnership and the ongoin...

To show our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace,
free of discrimination, Novartis became the main partner of the Prague Pride
FUN & RUN on 22 May 2022, a charity run against homophobia, biphobia and
transphobia and the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. More than 80 Novartis
associates came attended with their families and friends t...

As we mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, we stand with the LGBTQI+ community to raise awareness about the discrimination and human rights violations they are still facing today, including in access to healthcare.As an organization, we actively promote LGBTQI+ equity at work and in our wider society. Through our cult...

With 17 LGBTQI+ Employee Representative Groups established around the world, Novartis LGBTQI+ associates have created a community with a voice that is truly influential. Listen to Salvatore discuss the importance of IDAHOBIT Day and how LGBTQI+ inclusion is lived at Novartis.

We celebrated ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ in
recognition of the achievements of Transgender people around the world. At
Novartis, transgender employees are able to thrive in an inclusive environment
with zero tolerance for discrimination, supported by a global network of
LGBTQI+ Employee Resource Groups. Stephie shares her work-place transi...