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With Geff Parsons
With Geff Parsons
Practical workplace inclusion strategies.
In this video Geff Parsons will explore the rationale underpinning inclusion from both wellbeing and commercial perspectives, and will provide practical tips around inclusive behaviour and language, both for leaders/managers and colleagues.
More from Geff Parsons: Real Life Stories: Being Openly LGBTQ+ At Work and A Guide To Inclusive Language.
In this video Geff Parsons will explore the rationale underpinning inclusion from both wellbeing and commercial perspectives, and will provide practical tips around inclusive behaviour and language, both for leaders/managers and colleagues.
More from Geff Parsons: Real Life Stories: Being Openly LGBTQ+ At Work and A Guide To Inclusive Language.
See the LGBTQ+ Inclusion Resource Hub for more support on this topic.
About Geff Parsons:
Geff (he/him) is now CEO of The Inclusion Imperative, a DE&I consultancy business, through which he uses his experience, knowledge and skills to help improve the standards of DE&I, and especially LGBTQ+ inclusion, in other organisations, through speaking, training, coaching and mentoring engagements.
Prior to his retirement from the world of financial services at the end of February 2022, Geff, who identifies as a cis gay man, was a Managing Director at Macquarie Group (based in London, covering all of EMEA), where he also chaired or co-chaired the LGBTQ+ network, Pride, for 8 years.
Under Geff’s stewardship Macquarie has gone from being ranked >300 in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, to 1st place in 2022, and is now officially the UK’s most LGBTQ+ friendly workplace. He has also received many personal accolades including; winning the award for ‘LGBT+ Inspirational Leader’ at the British LGBT Awards in May 2019; being ranked in the top quartile of the list of the Top 100 LGBTQ+ Executives globally (sponsored by the Financial Times and Yahoo Finance) in each of2018, 2019 and 2021; and being shortlisted for the award of ‘Business Role Model’ at the PinkNews Awards in October 2018.
Geff (he/him) is now CEO of The Inclusion Imperative, a DE&I consultancy business, through which he uses his experience, knowledge and skills to help improve the standards of DE&I, and especially LGBTQ+ inclusion, in other organisations, through speaking, training, coaching and mentoring engagements.
Prior to his retirement from the world of financial services at the end of February 2022, Geff, who identifies as a cis gay man, was a Managing Director at Macquarie Group (based in London, covering all of EMEA), where he also chaired or co-chaired the LGBTQ+ network, Pride, for 8 years.
Under Geff’s stewardship Macquarie has gone from being ranked >300 in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, to 1st place in 2022, and is now officially the UK’s most LGBTQ+ friendly workplace. He has also received many personal accolades including; winning the award for ‘LGBT+ Inspirational Leader’ at the British LGBT Awards in May 2019; being ranked in the top quartile of the list of the Top 100 LGBTQ+ Executives globally (sponsored by the Financial Times and Yahoo Finance) in each of2018, 2019 and 2021; and being shortlisted for the award of ‘Business Role Model’ at the PinkNews Awards in October 2018.