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It’s Time to Empower LGBTIQA+ Leaders Across Australia!
LGBTIQA+ rights have come a long way in the last 20 years.
And yet, identifying as part of the LGBTIQA+ community is still a career impediment.
LGBTIQA+ staff are more likely to encounter microaggressions, experience sexual harassment (especially women) and become disenfranchised within their organisation. Despite the overwhelming ethical and financial business case for inclusion, we simply aren’t there yet. Too often do we hear that LGBTIQA+ staff are excluded from promotion, are overlooked by superiors, and concerns regarding gender and sexual-orientation are dismissed.
LGBTIQA+ leaders have a strong legacy of driving positive change – even in the most difficult circumstances. In the 2020s, an era of the socially aware and responsible consumer, organisations cannot afford to merely provide lip service to LGBTIQA+ inclusion.
What can be done?
We can come together to share our ideas, to share our stories, to listen to those that have trodden the path before us, and take inspiration from those who break barriers and move the bar, each and every day. LGBTIQ+ Leadership Summit offers the perspectives, advice, and knowledge from LGBTIQA+ leaders that have made it to the top. Join us at an event that is part inspiration, part education, and all inclusion.
The focus is to empower you to believe in your authentic self, put your hand up for opportunities and take your seat at the leadership table.
You will learn what it took for our most senior LGBTIQA+ executives to flourish, where they stumbled, encountered discrimination and bias and overcame hurdles. But, most importantly, you’ll take away what they learned along the way so you can put that in your leadership kitbag and thrive.
It’s your time to take your place at the leadership table. It’s your time to take advantage of the momentum for change sweeping workplaces across Australia. It’s your time to be heard, listened to, and respected.
Agenda
Pre-Conference Workshop | 22nd August 2024
Conference Day One | 23rd August 2024
Conference Day Two | 24th August 2024
Post-Conference Workshops | 25th August 2024
Benefits of Attending
- Create mentally healthy workplaces where everyone thrives
- Seize the opportunities throughout your career to achieve your goals
- Attain the confidence to call out bigotry and unwelcome commentary
- Hear stories of authenticity and feel confident in harnessing your own authentic self at work
- Learn how give your best self to your team
- Enable a safe space for all colleagues to be themselves
- Overcome your inner imposter that thinks your sexuality will hold you back
Who Should Attend
- Senior Management, CEOs & MDs
- HR, Diversity, Indigenous, Equality & Talent Development
- Procurement, Supply Chain & Advisors
- Education, Education Management and Coordinators
- Government departments across all levels
- Any professional within the LGBTIQA+ Community
- Operations directors and Project Managers
- Community engagement
Highlights from the 2022 LGBTIQA+ Leadership Summit
Your Incredible Speaker Line-Up
Event Partners
ACON is Australia’s largest HIV prevention, HIV support and LGBTQ health organisation. Part of ACON’s mission is to help make the places where our community members live, work, study and play more inclusive, improving the mental health and wellbeing of our community through the reduction of stigma, discrimination, and social exclusion.
ACON’s Pride Inclusion Programs include Pride in Diversity, Pride in Sport, Pride in Health + Wellbeing, and Pride Training. Pride in Diversity is the national not-for-profit employer support program for LGBTQ workplace inclusion and publishes the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI), Australia’s national benchmarking instrument for LGBTQ workplace inclusion.
Pride in Law is a national association of lawyers, academics, and other legal professionals dedicated to enhancing the lives of the LGBTIQ+ community. It is a professional not-for-profit LGBTIQ+ legal networking association aimed at connecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and trans, intersex, queer, and questioning members of the legal community and their allies.
Australia’s first and only independent legal networking association designed to bring together the LGBTIQ+ legal profession across multiple disciplines. With a goal to promote a positive working atmosphere that is ‘Law Focused, Pride Inspired’. Pride in Law is an essential resource for all legal professionals seeking to embrace their LGBTIQ+ community.
Out for Australia’s mission is to empower LGBTQIA+ people to thrive at work in the formative stages of their career. As Australia’s leading LGBTQIA+ mentoring program, Out For Australia builds connection across our community, across our workplaces, and across generations through thought leadership, events and amplifying visible role models.
Their Purpose is to empower our next generation to thrive at work.
Established in 1981 as the Gay Business Association, the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Business Association (SGLBA) is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the professional support and development of members of the LGBTIQ community throughout Sydney.
We provide opportunities to learn, network, and promote services among members and guests from both the LGBTIQ community and its allies. We do this by delivering our members a diversity of complimentary or subsidised monthly events, services, opportunities, and partnerships – either directly, or by partnering with other organisations.
We facilitate opportunities for members to grow their business beyond the LGBTIQ community and welcome engagement from across the business community. We believe there is one business community – not a ‘straight’ one or an ‘LGBTIQ’ one. Membership is open to professionals of any orientation who support the SGLBA and value the opportunities that membership presents.
Inner City Legal Centre provides a state-wide specialist LGBTIQ legal service and specialist sex workers legal service as well as the Safe Relationships Project for same sex couples. The centre also provides a means tested generalist legal service for people living in the Inner City, Eastern Suburbs and Northern Sydney.
The LGBQTI+ and Trans and Gender Diverse Legal Service (TGDLS) provide advice on same sex parenting, surrogacy, de facto relationships, discrimination, violence and vilification, medical issues, domestic violence and employment.Contact us at www.iclc.org.au today if you would like more information about our services, are interested in volunteering, or would like to set up a workplace giving program to help support these one-of-a-kind specialist services.
The LGBTI Legal Service is a non-profit community legal service that was launched in 2010 by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG. The Service recognises the difficulties faced by LGBTIQA+ community and strives to provide access to justice and legal assistance to all Queenslanders within the LGBTIQA+ community. The service also endeavours to regularly provide community legal education activities and resources in order to increase awareness of legal rights and issues relating to the LGBTIQA+ community in Queensland. The Service includes a Law Reform division which is actively involved in advocating for law reform and human rights affecting the LGBTIQA+ community. Read more about our involvement in Law Reform here.
The LGBTI Legal Service Inc has been established by and continues to be overseen by a Management Committee of individuals representing the diverse communities under the LGBTIQA+ banner. As a non-profit, volunteer-centric community organisation, we rely heavily on the support of the community and volunteers. There are a number of ways that you can become part of and assist our organisation.
The Australian Pride Network exists to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Pride on a national level, encouraging diverse communities in Australia to hold and attend pride events, whilst increasing promotional and networking opportunities among Australian pride organisations.
The mission of the Australian Pride Network is to increase awareness of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) Pride organisations around Australia and to affect positive change through information sharing, collaboration and outreach. For more
Mr Gay Pride Australia is a competition to find, build and develop future leaders. Candidates are chosen with attributes that include Leadership, Relatability, Communication, and their ability to Engage with the wider LGBTI community.
The competition then provides a platform for community representatives to further their cause and passions to make a difference and also select the official Australian representative for Mr. Gay World.Mr Gay Pride Australia is not a beauty contest. A candidate’s physical appearance is not assessed at any competition stage.
Testimonial From Our LGBTIQA+ LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2022
Great practical advice with tips that many people could use and champion.
Great to see a CEO being vulnerable and supportive!
Great practical advice with tips that many people could use and champion.
enthusiastic and well intentioned
Really useful info Easy to listen to. Great ideas
Truly engaging & fascinating experiences & perspectives.
