Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work

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There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% of Fortune 500 board positions are filled by LGBTQ+ people. This deficit, occurring across sectors and around the world, reveals a diversity gap playing out in today’s workplace: LGBTQ+ people are less likely to reach the top jobs. But what is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done? Layla McCay brings together data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors, to reveal the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter in the workplace, and provides practical strategies to help empower LGBTQ+ people to reach their full professional potential.

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Biography
Layla McCay is Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation and Executive Lead of the national Health and Care LGBTQ+ Leaders Network. A psychiatrist and founder of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, Layla McCay has been recognized on the Outstanding 100 LGBTQ+ Executives Role Model List 2023 as a global role model driving LGBTQ+ inclusion in business. She features regularly in the media, from the Financial Times to BBC Question Time. She lives with her wife in London.

Join us on 2 July at 2pm – register here.