Dive Brief:
- Out Leadership, a global business advisory organization, today announced the launch of OutWOMEN, an initiative that champions the success of senior LGBT women in business.
- Beth Brooke-Marciniak, global vice chair of public policy at EY and a member of Out Leadership's Global Advisory Board, and Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics, will co-chair the inaugural OutWOMEN event in March.
- According to Out Leadership, OutWOMEN is an important new platform the organization will build to bring together senior LGBT executives to create business opportunities and cultivate talent – and thereby drive equality forward.
Dive Insight:
Stephanie Sandberg, managing director of Advisory & Client Services, Out Leadership, says leaders in the LGBT business space and people in the trenches, who are working to deliver on the business promise of LGBT inclusion, have long wondered: 'Where are the women?' "
She adds that LGBT women are often under-recognized and underserved in the conversation, so OutWOMEN seeks to serve this impactful network.
Brooke-Marciniak says that there are few women role models in the upper echelons of leadership, as just 5% Fortune 500 CEOs are women and even fewer of those women openly identify as LGBT.
