LGBTQ

Sparked by the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, Alliant Energy employees came together on February 25, 2020, to discuss diversity, equity, inclusion and unconscious bias.

Without support from strong federal policies ensuring LGBTQ rights, corporate leaders who are striving for diversity and inclusion have little leverage to push back against discriminatory state legislation.

2019 was a big year for corporate, executive and employee activism. Here are some of the boldest and most influential brands taking stands stories that crossed our desks.

Atlanta native Shannon Watkins, senior vice president of brand and creative services at Aflac, said that the city’s diversity and its stance as a sort of an outsider to traditional Madison Avenue advertising drive more creativity.

American Express has been ranked ninth on the 2020 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list in the U.S., a recognition of the company’s continuous focus on enhancing the colleague experience.

Goodyear has been recognized as one of Ohio's top-ranked companies for LGBTQ Equality in the recently released 2020 Corporate Equity Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) at the World Economic Forum.

UPS is a global company—and is becoming even more so as much of the world’s economic and population growth continues to occur in emerging markets.

A program manager in our Human Resources department, CJ Dragen shares his experiences of exclusion and discrimination in the military to what it was like joining Intel and being able to be himself, out and proud, in the workplace.

Through a variety of fireside chats, workshops and networking events, we united nearly 250 of the company’s top executives around a common goal – to find meaningful ways to continue advocating for women’s advancement.

Arrow Electronics has achieved a 100 percent score on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.