Out & Equal Workplace Summit 2021 ERG Podcast club

Enhance Your O&E Summit 2021 Experience!

In celebration of the 2021 Summit, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates has partnered with the Lead With Your Brand!™ podcast to showcase some of our favorite episodes that spotlight LGBTQ+ voices in business including Out & Equal’s CEO, Erin Uritus, Dow Chemical North America’s President, Louis Vega, and Congressman Mark Takano, the first openly gay person of color in the US Congress.

The team at Out & Equal has created downloadable discussion guides so that your ERG can use the podcast as a virtual “podcast club” to extend your Summit 2021 experience. It’s an easy way to connect with each other, continue the conversation and share your own career stories. It’s as easy as 1…2…3!

1. Select a podcast episode or two that you’d like to focus on

2. Send the link to this page and show information to all of your ERG members and ask everyone to listen

3. Download the discussion guides from the links below and schedule a call with all of your members. Don’t forget to choose someone to act as the discussion leader!

In addition to the weekly shows that you love, there are also two special roundtable episodes, The Trans Experience in the Workplace and The Intersection of Race and LGBTQ+ in the Workplace. Each of the special episodes features a panel of guests exploring a particular aspect of the LGBTQ+ experience in the workplace and its impact on personal brand. Note that there are unique discussion guides for the two roundtable episodes.

Enjoy Summit 2021!

Oswald M. Méndez, CEO, New Majority Ready LLC

Oswald is an unconventional thinker who balances creative and analytical approaches to problem-solve. Throughout his career, Oswald has been at the forefront of market trends. His ability to combine analytics and the Zeitgeist has led to his business success by uncovering new and unique growth opportunities.

Lorri Jean, CEO, Los Angeles LGBT Center

Lorri Jean is the CEO of the world's largest LGBTQ+ non-profit, the Los Angeles LGBT Center. As CEO, Lori has driven a period of unprecedented expansion, increasing the budget from $8 to $150 million, the number of locations from one to ten and the numbers of people served annually to more than a half million.

Pride Month Special Episode : Pride on Brand : The Trans Experience in the Workplace

In this special episode, Jayzen welcomes Kate Fisher from Oracle, Aro Royston from Boeing, Alex Dropp from Bank of America and Ashley Brundage from Empowering Differences to talk about their experiences as trans people in the workplace. Click above to download the discussion guide from Out & Equal, and use the podcasts as a virtual “book club” with your resource group or team!

Yvette Miley, SVP of DEI, NBCU News Group

Yvette is the SVP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the NBCU News Group. Her responsibilities include recruiting and retention, training and development, employee engagement, strategic partnerships, and editorial initiatives across all four networks. She has worked for NBCUniversal for 27 years and is the recipient of many of the industry’s highest honors, including three Emmy Awards.

Pride Month Special Episode : Pride on Brand : The Intersection of Race and LGBTQ+ in the Workplace

In this special episode, Jayzen welcomes Patty Dingle from BNY Mellon and Dr. Reza Rahaman from MIT to explore the impact of race and sexual orientation on their careers and in the workplace. Click above to download the discussion guide from Out & Equal, and use the podcasts as a virtual “book club” with your resource group or team!

Louis Vega, President, Dow North America

Over his 20+ year career at Dow, Vega has gained wide-ranging expertise, honed his strong business acumen, and led significant growth projects and business development programs.All of this has been augmented through his extensive international experience, which includes roles in Horgen, Switzerland; Washington D.C.; Dubai, UAE; Midland, Michigan; New York, New York; and Melbourne, Australia.

Telly Leung, Broadway Star & Producer

Telly has performed in seven Broadway shows, including the starring role in Disney’s Aladdin for over two years. He is also a producer, director and professor and always brings the unique “Telly” brand to the job, which as been shaped by his family history and by embracing his true self.

Jennifer Henderson, SVP, PNC Bank

We are thrilled to be kicking off Pride Month with Jen Henderson, who has had a career in tech spanning over thirty-five years and is a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ causes. She is currently the Senior Vice President of Systems Engineering Delivery for Corporate and Institutional Banking at PNC. Jen knows firsthand the power both in and out of your career that comes with accepting one's true self.