Fabrice Houdart: LGBTQ Equality & Corporate Responsibility
In this episode host, Dennis Velco chats with Fabrice Houdart about LGBTQ equality and corporate responsibility. Fabrice has had a fascinating career championing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer rights and equality. Currently, he is the Managing Director, Global Equality Initiatives at Out Leadership.
01:00 Fabrice Houdart's introduction - exploration at the World Bank how LGBTQ rights impact the economic development of businesses and the economies of countries
02:45 Joins the Office of High Commissioner on Human Rights at the United Nations in 2016
00:30 Describes how he works toward helping corporations to understand LGBTQ rights
06:30 Explains how children suffer by not being able to be themselves with family and at school
11:00 Corporations and employers have a rare opportunity to have a positive impact on society
14:00 Only around 17,000 persons in the US gives more than $1,000 a year to support LGBTQ non-profits
16:00 LGBTQ rights are the "canary in the coal mine" for broader human rights issues
17:00 How the employees/public/consumers/investors play a role in influencing employers/companies
18:00 The current struggle between conscience social responsibility versus only focused on profit over all else
23:00 The complexity of companies can be confusing where they can be leaders in one area while in other areas seem quite opposite.
26:15 Examples
27:00 The LGBTQ equality footprint is Pro-LGBTQ support minus anti-LGBT support.
29:30 OutBuro LGBTQ employer ratings have the potential to be an impact for good where all win
Fabrice Houdart was previously Human Rights Officer at the United Nations in New York, and for the past four years, he worked on Free & Equal, an unprecedented United Nations campaign for LGBTI equality. He co-authored and led the United Nations Global LGBTI standards of conduct for Business, the largest corporate social responsibility initiative on LGBTI issues in the World. To date, more than 270 of the largest companies in the world have expressed support for the initiative. From 2001 - 2016, Fabrice was Senior Country Officer at the World Bank. At the Bank, he authored economic development analyses on Yemen, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Tunisia and provided contributions to the 2012 Gender World Development Report (WDR) and the 2011 Conflict, Security, and Development WDR. He holds a B.A. in economics and management from Dauphine University in Paris and an MBA from American University in DC. Fabrice volunteers on the Board of Outright Action International, Housing Works, the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, Alturi, the KindRED Pride Foundation, Witness to Mass Incarceration, and the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA). In 2019, he received the Golden Gate Business Association Award, the IGLTA Pioneer Award, and the Alan Turing LGTBIQ Award for his work on LGBTI rights. He was ranked 2nd by Yahoo Finance among LGBTI public sector executives globally in their 2019 Outstanding list. He was interviewed by The Economist, quoted in the New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, and The Guardian on issues pertaining to the human rights of LGBTIQ people. He lives in New York City with twin sons 6-year old Maxime and Eitan.
Connect with Fabrice on OutBüro at https://www.outburo.com/profile/fabricehoudart/
Join Fabrice on OutBüro, the LGBTQ professional and entrepreneur online community network for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, a.lies and our employers who support LGBTQ welcoming workplace equality focused benefits, policies, and business practices. https://www.OutBuro.com
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