Pride Month 2023
Each year Pride Month offers a fantastic opportunity for companies to address diversity, inclusion and LGBTQIA+ rights within the workplace, and take a stand for diversity, inclusion & equality.
With the aim to educate and inspire, our LGBTQIA+ speakers have a resounding impact, helping businesses achieve inclusivity.
What is Pride Month?
Pride month is an opportunity to honour, educate and take to the streets of major cities to enjoy the rainbow-themed Pride parades. Pride is an annual celebration of LGBTQIA+ equality. Every June, organisations across the world come together to both celebrate Pride and recognise the LGBTQIA+ discrimination still present in society.
Pride Month also prompts business leaders to reflect on their discrimination procedures and make important shifts to workplace culture to protect their LGBTQIA+ employees.
Celebrating Pride Month sends a clear message to your staff that you support them and their identities. There are many ways to celebrate Pride in the workplace, from booking an LGBTQIA+ speaker, to hosting a workshop on inclusion, and even reviewing diversity policies.
Looking to book a speaker for Pride? We have put below a handful of our LGBTQIA+ speakers!
They got married in 2018 and are now working towards starting their own family. They are passionate speakers on gender, equality and diversity and having become something of an inspiration to the wider transgender community, they work tirelessly to represent it both in the UK and internationally, seizing every opportunity to increase acceptance and understanding.
Dr Sophie Cook became the first transgender woman to work in football’s Premier League as club photographer for AFC Bournemouth following her transition from Steve to Sophie in the summer of 2015. In the 2017 General Election she contested the East Worthing & Shoreham seat, increasing the Labour vote by 114% and narrowly missing out on becoming the UK’s first trans MP.
Will’s passion for public speaking has led him to speak in front of large audiences for some of the UK’s leading organisations such as Tik Tok, The British Heart Foundation, MediaCom & LinkedIn. He has also hosted career related talks at De Montfort University in Leicester.
Diversity, inclusion and racial equality is a topic close to Will’s heart as he was racially abused in school and college. Now, he is determined to make change, educate and inspire. In 2019, MediaCom invited Will to deliver a talk on the importance of diversity in the workplace and it was well received by the audience.
In 2019, Urzila became the highest-selling comedian in the 33-year long history of The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, one of the three largest comedy festivals in the world.
She also took home the coveted People’s Choice Award and made her Netflix debut as part of the streaming service’s unprecedented world-wide comedy series, Comedians Around the World which saw her handpicked as was one of 47 comedians to perform a half-hour special filmed at Just For Laughs in Montreal.
Ben Cohen MBE
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