On May 20th and 21st, Gaitho Waruguru and I hosted the LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Conference at Leiden University in collaboration with the Workplace Pride Foundation.
The aim of the conference was to showcase the state of the art of research on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion, to contribute to building a diverse platform of researchers, and to facilitate the dialogue between scientists, advocates, policymakers, employers, and employees.
The conference featured keynote speeches by Dr. Lee Badgett (UMass Amherst) and Yvonne Muthoni (Kenya Open for Business), several multi-disciplinary academic sessions, as well as focused panel sessions that brought together researchers, employers, employees, practitioners and policymakers around topics relevant to LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion, including but not limited to the challenges and opportunities that LGBTQI+ people experience in the areas of training, recruitment, selection, promotion and retention, the policies and regulations affecting these areas, as well as promising interventions and solutions.
We look back on a very exciting and insightful conference, thanks to the great contributions of our speakers, panelists and audience members from all over the world!
A visual recap of the conference by cartoonist Suus van den Akker is provided below, and a short article summarizing the first conference day is available here
