Senior Champions Network: Maximising your influence

A3: Spheres of influenceB10: Listening to others

Facilitator: Nick Corrigan, Director of

Empowerment Programmes, Stonewall

Session objectives

▪ Build a professional network of senior peers championing LGBT equality

▪ Understand your potential extended influence for furthering LGBT inclusion in your workplace

▪ Develop an action plan to drive positive change in your organisation

Who are you?

Senior Champions

▪ Have power

▪ Drive change

▪ Represent others

▪ Improve business

Speed network 1

What makes you a Senior Champion?

Maximising your influence...

You know why this is important…

▪ 80% of millennials consider organisations’ D&I policies when applying for jobs

▪ 62% of graduates go back into the closet when they enter the job market

▪ 26% of LGB workers are not at all open about their sexual orientation at work

▪ 39% of trans employees would not feel confident about reporting transphobic bullying and harassment in the workplace to their employer

▪ 85% of LGB employees who are out at work are satisfied with their job (compared to 51% of those not out)

▪ 82% of trans employees who are comfortable disclosing their gender identity at work are satisfied with the support they receive from their manager (compared to 49%)

▪ 51% of Boards think that Board diversity is not important and only 3% are pursuing LGBT representation

Why increase your influence?

▪ Different sites, different experiences

▪ Successes to share

▪ Top down messages lead to ground up action

▪ Networks are not populations

▪ LGB and T are not the same or equal

▪ Crossing identities

▪ Stonewall’s reach is limited

How we will work

network speakers success action lunch

Session X:Session title

Facilitator(s): Name(s), Job Title, Organisation

Speakers: Name, Job Title, Organisation

Nev KempChief Superintendent, Sussex Police Commander

for Brighton and Hove, Sussex Police

@ChSuptNevKemp

Spheres of Influence

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Speed network 3

Who do you hear from most and least?

Listening to others

Session X:Session title

Facilitator(s): Name(s), Job Title, Organisation

Speakers: Name, Job Title, Organisation

La-Chun Lindsay Managing Director, GE Aviation

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