Starting a New Job While Non-Binary? Set Yourself Up for Success

You’ve made it through the interview process, accepted your job offer, and now you’re off to begin your new job. When you start in your new position and meet your co-workers, you want to make the best first impression possible. …

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A Look At Our 2024 Pride Summit

Here at PowerToFly, we believe in celebrating Pride all year long but that doesn’t stop us from going all out each June with our annual Pride: Championing LGBTQIA+ Leaders & Allies summit!

We were thrilled that over 11,000 people registered …

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How Invesco’s Veronica Castillo Lifts Up Latinx Professionals at Work and in Her Community

Veronica Castillo is quick to point out that growing up, she was not fed by a silver spoon.

“My parents are of Mexican descent,” she explains. “My mom raised me as a single mom and migrant farm worker. We had …

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Looking Through the Prism: Talking to Esri’s Jenna DeWitt on Founding an LGBTQIA+ ERG

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are a vital resource at companies for building employee engagement and enabling diverse voices to be heard. We are joined in conversation by Jenna DeWitt, Senior editor at Esri, to discuss founding that company’s LGBTQIA+ ERG: …

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Navigating Identity in a Corporate Setting

Many LGBTQIA+ people have had to ask themselves the question: When do I come out to my colleagues? Navigating identity in a corporate setting can be difficult especially for LGBTQIA+ people. We are thrilled to bring together Raytheon’s Joe Wahl, …

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How to Start an LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group

Jenna DeWitt graduated with a journalism degree in 2011, a bleak year for the magazine industry. Through connections from her Baylor University mentors, she pursued openings with nonprofit publications and began rising up the ranks of the Christian magazine world, …

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How Twilio is Empowering LGBTQIA+ Employees at Work

Corporate institutions have long approached Pride Month—a time when LGBTQIA+ communities celebrate the freedom to be themselves—as a way to associate their brand as supporters of the movement. Typically this is done by switching the company logo to rainbow colors …

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7 Employee Benefits Your Company Needs to Be Truly LGBT+ Inclusive

While June celebrates Pride Month, many companies offer benefits that support the LGBTQ+ community all year round (as they should!). 

The positive impact these benefits make extends outside of the LGBTQ+ community, as inclusive policies are appealing to all workers. …

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Exploring Allyship’s Various Forms with Raytheon

The word “ally” is simply that — a word — until an individual puts it into action. As such, allyship takes on various forms and meanings based on one’s lived experience.

Just ask Raytheon’s Vivian Ramos, senior manager of operations program …

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How Nestlé’s Laurie Bolt Brings Her Whole Self to Work

When we sit down with Laurie Bolt to chat about bringing her whole self to work, she tells us, “I’m not just a Director of Business Optimization at Nestlé. I’m a mother. I’m a wife. I’m part of the LGBTQIA+ …

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