How Companies Can Celebrate Pride Month

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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June is Pride Month in the United States, a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. Many companies are showing symbolic support, but could they be delivering greater impact? Michelle Margulis - Macmillan's own editorial manager of podcasts - shares her advice, insights, and personal experience as a gay woman in the workplace. Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more tips to fuel your professional success. Join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/QDTModernMentor https://twitter.com/QDTModernMentor https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-mentor-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. And today's episode is both a special and an important one.
0:24.6	It's currently Pride Month. And while many organizations have made progress symbolically, there's opportunity to lean more deeply into substance. So I invited Michelle Margulis to speak with me about her experience as a gay woman in the workplace.
0:39.9	Michelle is the editorial manager of podcasts at McMillan and a member of their Pride Affinity Group for LGBTQ employees.
0:47.6	Michelle shares insights, recommendations, and actions that organizations and individuals can take
0:52.4	to support and engage their LGBTQ colleagues
0:55.2	and employees more meaningfully.
0:58.5	Well, Michelle, thank you so much for being willing to join me on Modern Mentor today.
1:03.6	Thank you so much, Rachel. It's so exciting to be on this side of things.
1:08.1	You and I have been having some conversations about Pride Months and about the fact that
1:14.5	a lot of organizations are really well-intentioned, right? They are telling stories. They are
1:20.3	signaling things that feel really important. But when it comes to the actual lived experience of
1:26.3	being a member of the LGBTQ community, it feels
1:30.1	like organizations are maybe leaving a little bit of substance on the table.
1:33.8	And so I think you and I are going to talk today, not in a way that is meant to be critical,
1:38.7	but in a way that's meant to be constructive and maybe helpful to either organizations or to allies within organizations that
1:46.2	want to be doing the right thing, but like myself, may have the expertise to know it's important,
1:51.4	but not the experience to recommend any actions. And so that is what you have been generous enough
1:57.9	to offer to us today. If you don't mind, I would love to start
2:02.4	by hearing from you about what Pride Month represents for you in the workplace. Yeah, I think you
2:08.4	summed things up very well, that there's lots of opportunities for growth. In an ideal world,
2:13.7	I think this month would be a chance for organizations to really reflect on how they can better support their LGBTQ employees.
2:22.3	You know, it would be a chance for leadership to get really humble and open themselves up to suggestions and to let LGBTQ staff speak to their concerns and their needs and their hopes for the future without
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