In this video, we unpack the economic cost of suppressing queer and trans identities in the workplace, highlighting the impacts on both individuals and businesses. Drawing from expert insights by Joanne Lockwood, we expose the stifling effects of closeting on job satisfaction, innovation, and turnover rates. But there's a silver lining: the transformative power of inclusion and allyship, means everyone deserves to be their authentic selves at work.
We discuss the three key steps to fostering belonging: creating psychological safety, aligning organizational values with employees, and promoting authenticity. Leaders play a critical role in establishing psychological safety within the organization, by being open to feedback, valuing unique characteristics, and celebrating diversity in all forms.
In business we tend to try and stick to a formula that works. We invest in developing our brand and push our products to market. We use social media to associate ourselves in our customers minds as a brand to engage with and often we keep the same formula for many years.
Your company is one that produces products for the mass markets, consumer products that you naturally expect that everyone can use and can benefit from, am I right? You engage with your own product design teams, probably carry out market research to make sure that every aspect has been considered from all angles?