How can LGBTQ+ people thrive and succeed at work?

There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% of Fortune 500 board positions are filled by LGBTQ+ people. This deficit, occurring across sectors and around the world, reveals a diversity gap playing out in today’s workplace: LGBTQ+ people are less likely to reach the top jobs. But what is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done?

Layla McCay is Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation, Executive Lead of the UK's Health and Care LGBTQ+ Leaders Network and author of a new book: Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling. Combining fresh data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors, the book reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter as they find their way in work environments, and provides practical strategies that can help empower LGBTQ+ people to reach their full professional potential.

Join Layla at the RSA to explore how everyone – from boards, CEOs, HR professionals, managers and colleagues, through to LGBTQ+ people navigating their own career paths – can recognize and address the barriers to progression, achieve their career goals, and build a more inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and succeed.

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“In Ukraine, I learnt that the stories of those I was trying to draw, were in fact, far more significant than my attempts at figurative likeness on the page. The drawings became an introduction to something and someone more meaningful that we would have otherwise never known”.

George Butler is an award-winning illustrator who has reinvented the role of the Artist Reporter, drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crisis, and social issues for the news.  His drawings are done in situ - in pen, ink, and watercolour.

Over the last 15 years, George has been commissioned to offer a deliberately slow alternative to the headlines.  He attaches his drawings to the personal testimonies of those that he meets and records their resolve and resilience alongside the vulnerability of their situations. This has included in a leprosy clinic in Nepal, a militia in Yemen, the mass graves in Bucha, a caesarean-section in Afghanistan, the oil fields of Myanmar and the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.  

At the RSA, George introduces his latest work Ukraine: Remember Also Me - a collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine. While reporting on the war, George created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce the people behind the headlines. His drawings, made in a variety of places - from people and animals in underground shelters in the Kharkiv metro, to hospitals and bombed out streets and homes - vividly capture stories of family, tragedy, and perseverance.

These powerful portraits of war and conflict are a timely reminder of the humanity we all share and our universal need for peace.

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An unmissable exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire and the action we need to take to reckon with an increasingly flammable world.

For hundreds of millennia, fire has been a partner in our evolution, shaping culture and civilization. Yet in our age of intensifying climate change, we are seeing its destructive power unleashed in ways never before witnessed by human beings.

In the Baillie Gifford prize-winning Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, internationally best-selling author John Vaillant delves into the intertwined histories of the oil industry and climate science, the unprecedented devastation wrought by modern wildfires, and the lives forever changed by these disasters.

Join award-winning authors John Vaillant and Gaia Vince to examine the devastating effects of fossil-fuelled climate warming, and to ask: what does ever more flammable world mean for the future of life on Earth?

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The pursuit of growth continues to define economic life around the world. Yet the prosperity gains of the last two centuries have come at an enormous price: deepening inequalities, destabilizing technologies, environmental destruction and climate change.

Daniel Susskind is an award-winning economist, research professor in economics at King's College London and senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. At the RSA, he joins CEO and former chief economist at the Bank of England Andy Haldane to explore the 'growth dilemma' at a time of huge uncertainty about its very value, and as sluggish productivity and stagnation haunt not only the UK, but also Europe, China, and many other countries around the world.

In his new book Growth: A Reckoning, Susskind looks afresh at the evidence to argue that we cannot abandon growth; we must instead redirect it to make it better reflect what we truly value.

Join us at the RSA to explore perhaps the most important economic question of our times: what type of growth should we pursue, how much of it, and for whose benefit?

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Many of our key systems – economic, social, political, environmental – are in recession. This has left us in an era of anxiety about the future, one at risk of becoming self-reinforcing. What are the bold initiatives we need to spring the trap, inject optimism and dynamism into our decision-making and shift us to an age of aspiration? And what role does - and should - the RSA play in this new Enlightenment?

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A historic intergenerational shift in money, power and influence is coming our way – is this a reset moment for our economies, societies and future?

Ken Costa is a leading figure in global investment banking, and the author of The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer - an urgent exploration into how Gen Z and Millennials’ focus on ethics, purpose, social justice and environmental causes will transform capitalism as we know it, as wealth flows from one generation to the next.

Can we seize this opportunity to build a more inclusive, purposeful, ‘socially energised’ capitalism, which shifts focus away from the individual and more towards collaboration, compassion and community? Or is it time for a more radical break from an economic paradigm that many blame for widening inequality and widespread ecological destruction?

Join ‘Boomer’ Ken Costa and ‘Zennials’ Timi Merriman-Johnson and Rachel Drapperas they explore the implications of the coming shift for markets and wider society, as the next generation look to invest, create value and steward financial assets with a very different set of principles and priorities to those that created the economy we live in today. Is intergenerational engagement the key to avoiding the mistakes of the past and creating a path to a fairer, more flourishing future for people and planet?

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Neuroscientist and environmental journalist Clayton Aldern has travelled the world to meet scientists and doctors working at the intersections of environmental science, psychology and neuroscience to synthesize a new, interdisciplinary approach to a novel field — the neuroscience of climate change.

His new book The Weight of Nature is an impassioned work of research and storytelling, documenting the emotional and physical toll of a warming climate on our minds, brains and bodies.

In the book, he explores how our beliefs, language, communities, family ties, cultural narratives, imagery and soundscapes are all being warped by the repeated shocks and stresses of climate change, reshaping our very humanity, and contributing to a growing public health crisis that has gone largely unreported.

Join Clayton Aldern as he argues that it is only by living in fuller intimacy with our planet that we will apply the compassion, resilience and courage to act to save it. 

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The last century saw a revolution in life expectancy. And this revolution will require us to shift what we do at every age and will demand a transformation of every aspect of our society.

Most of us are now expected to live much longer than previous generations. But instead of seeing this as a precious gift of extra life, we see it as a burden, with ageing populations dogged by infirmity, dependent on an ever-decreasing number of young people to support them. 

Andrew J. Scott – the world’s leading expert on the economics of longevity - argues it doesn't have to be like that. Our longer lives can be a source of hope and fulfilment if we seize the opportunity to invest in our health, skills, finances and relationships to support a flourishing longer life – for ourselves, and for the planet. In conversation with Noreena Hertz, economist, broadcaster and bestselling author of The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect.

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What can other parts of the world learn from Ukraine, as it pioneers bringing acts of ecocide into the discussion of justice in the context of war?

Ukraine is not only having to confront the destruction of human life and infrastructure caused by Russia’s invasion but also having to deal with damage to the environment. The question of the environment is closely linked to that of justice. Ukraine is a pioneer in bringing the acts of ecocide into the discussion of justice in the context of war. The lessons of Ukraine are thus of vital importance to those parts of the world that suffer from environmental damage in the context of armed conflicts, climate breakdown, and other crises.

An expert panel gathers at the RSA to foster public discussion and continued cooperation between organisations and individuals for an ongoing environmentally focused conversation about the consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine, situated in the context of wider environmental challenges faced globally.

This event is held in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute London, the Delegation of Flanders (Embassy of Belgium) in the UK and Ireland, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, the Cyprus High Commission and EUNIC London (European Union National Institutes for Culture).

The event is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Culture of Solidarity Fund powered by the European Cultural Foundation.

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Lucy Kerbel, founder, Tonic; Amanda Parker, cultural strategist and founder, Inc Arts UK; and Kate Varah, executive director, National Theatre, talk to Hayley Sims, head of policy and participation, RSA about COURAGE + THE ARTS.

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