The LGBTQ Institute Business Forum is a trusted event that helps business leaders think creatively about what’s next. With a continued focus on intersecting identities, the forum helps business leaders consider both challenges and opportunities to LGBTQ+ inclusion. We explore how corporate leaders can create and sustain organizational-wide changes that are necessary to achieve authentic and measurable commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

2021 Forum Expert Panelists

Bentley Hudgins, Political Strategist, New Georgia Project

Feroza Syed, Community Activist

Carl Charles, Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal

Sebastian Smith, National Organizer, National Center for Transgender Equality

Erica Doray Seremeta, CIMA® is the Director of U.S. & Canada Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Client Engagement within Human Resources, Black Rock

Minister Ashton Totten-Reynolds, Flight Attendant and President of EQUAL - the LGBTQ+ Business Resource Group at Delta Air Lines

Jamie Ann Harrell, ​​Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Lead, Goizueta Business School, Emory University

Dean Steed, Communications Lead for Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative

Ames Simmons, Policy Director, National Center for Transgender Equality

Alex Rhodes, Head of Diversity and Inclusion for Global Banking and International Markets for Bank of America

 
 

2020 Forum Expert Panelists

Kamau Bobb, Global Lead for Diversity Strategy and Research at Google and the founding Senior Director of the Constellations Center for Equity in Computing at Georgia Tech

Pamela Stewart, Senior Vice President, National Retail Sales for The Coca-Cola Company

Ranjan Goswami, Vice President of In-Flight Field Operations for Delta Air Lines

Jeff Graham, Executive Director of Georgia Equality

Gabrielle Claiborne, Co-founder and CEO of Transformation Journeys Worldwide

Fred Smith Jr., Associate Professor at Emory University School of Law

Lisa Cunningham, Digital Storyteller

Bob Witeck, President of Witeck Communications, Inc.

Andre Banks, Founder and CEO of A/B Partners

Past Forum Expert Panelists

Judith Harrison Senior Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion, Weber Shandwick

Tom Cunningham, Chief Economist, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

Theresa Spralling, Lead Consultant, Diversity & Inclusion and CEO Emeritus Women of AT&T National Organization

Sandy Mollet, Senior Vice President, Head of NSS Operations & Controls First Data Corporation

Greg Tahvonen, Vice President, Total Rewards & IT Human Resources, Delta Air Lines

Thomas Roberts, Anchor CBS46

Ben Delk, Equality Global Programs Manager, Salesforce

Derrick Grissom, Regional Business Sales Manager, Comcast

Jeffrey Paul Wolff, Vice President, District Manager, Wells Fargo

Tamara Stewart, Executive Vice President of Development, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)

Brian Tolleson, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lexicon Strategies

Matthew W. Patsky, CEO Trillium Asset Management

Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq., President and CEO, ELI

Cynthia Bowman Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Bank of America

Nzinga Shaw, Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Atlanta Hawks & Philips Arena

Scott Porter, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, WarnerMedia

Tracee McDaniel, Founder and Executive Director, Juxtaposed Center for Transformation, Inc.

Jake Abel, Director, International Marketing Delta Air Lines

Rose Scott, Host, Closer Look WABE

David Rubinger, Market President and Publisher, Atlanta Business Chronicle