Despite recent advances in LGBT legal rights, few workplaces are fully inclusive and welcoming for their LGBT employees. Jessica Halem was hired to lead Harvard Medical School in developing sustainable structures of inclusion to respond to the needs of students, faculty, trainees and staff. Learn how Halem’s engagement with stakeholders, departments and hospitals has created meaningful change at Harvard Medical School and can act as an example for other organizations.
In this session, participants will learn:
Who makes up the LGBT community?
What are everyday acts of inclusion that can be implemented right away?
How do you go beyond parties and t-shirts to ensure real change for years to come?
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5. CREATING LGBT
INCLUSIVE WORKPLACES
Jessica Halem, MBA
LGBT Program Director
Harvard Medical School
Email: jessica.halem@gmail.com
Twitter: @jessicahalem
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jessicahalem/
6. Jessica Halem, MBA is the LGBT Program Director for Harvard Medical School.
She shapes inclusion efforts for faculty, staff, students and trainees throughout the
school and at their 15 hospitals and affiliates.
After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1994, she worked for former
Congresswoman Bella Abzug organizing women leaders from around the world to
advocate locally, nationally and internationally.
Jessica was recruited to lead the Lesbian Community Cancer Project in Chicago. She
transformed a small nonprofit into a nationally recognized leader in LGBT health. In
2008, she was asked to work on Barack Obama's first LGBT Advisory Committee.
While in Chicago, she trained at Second City where she cultivated her improv skills and
led a successful comedy career for 15 years. She has been featured in Fast Company,
the Wall Street Journal and on NPR.
In 2016, she received her MBA from Simmons College School of Management.
7. PLEASE USE THE POLL TO TELL
ME IF YOU ARE…
LGBTQ Straight
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to answer
8.
9. Students
Present
Concerns
2011
Faculty
Commi7ee
2011
Report
to
Dean
2013
The LGBT Office of
Harvard Medical School
was established in the
Spring of 2014
17. Over half of LGBT workers surveyed
hide who they are at work.
The Cost of the Closet, Human Rights Campaign, 2014
18. Straight people are still uncomfortable…
GLAAD, Accelerating Acceptance 2017
25% of workers surveyed said they
would be uncomfortable seeing an
LGBTQ co-worker’s wedding picture
19. The Worst (and Best) Places to Be Gay in America
New York Times, 2017
20. 1. More
openness
about
being
LGBT
2. Improved
relaIonships
with
colleagues
3. Higher
job
saIsfacIon
4. Greater
job
commitment
5. Be7er
health
outcomes
6. Larger
LGBT
client
and
consumer
base
The Business Impact of LGBT Supportive
Workplace Policies
Williams Institute, 2013
21. LGBT employees who make it into senior
management are much more likely to
be OUT than closeted: 71% compared
to 28% of their closeted counterparts.
Uncovering talent: A new model of inclusion.
The Leadership Center for Inclusion Deloitte University 2013
24. REFERENCES & FURTHER READING
• Graham, R., Berkowitz, B., Blum, R., Bockting, W., Bradford, J., de Vries, B., ... & Makadon, H. (2011). The
health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people: Building a foundation for better
understanding. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine.
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13128/the-health-of-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-people-
building
• Yoshino, K., & Smith, C. (2013). Uncovering talent: A new model of inclusion. The Leadership Center for
Inclusion Deloitte University.
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/about-deloitte/us-inclusion-
uncovering-talent-paper.pdf
• GLAAD Accelerating Aceeptance 2017:
http://www.glaad.org/files/aa/2017_GLAAD_Accelerating_Acceptance.pdf
• Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_full.pdf
• The Cost of the Closet: http://www.hrc.org/resources/the-cost-of-the-closet-and-the-rewards-of-inclusion
• The Business Impact of LGBT-Supportive Workplace Policies:
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Business-Impact-of-LGBT-Policies-May-2013.pdf
• The Worst (and Best) Places to Be Gay in America:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/25/opinion/sunday/worst-and-best-places-to-be-gay
• Out & Equal 2017 Workplace Equality Fact Sheet:
http://outandequal.org/2017-workplace-equality-fact-sheet/
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