This June, Out & Equal has partnered with The Lead With Your Brand!™ podcast for special Pride month programming. This is the second of two special roundtable discussions.
Pride on Brand : The Trans Experience in the Workplace
In this special episode, Jayzen welcomes Kate Fisher from Oracle, Aro Royston from Boeing, Alex Dropp from Bank of America and Ashley Brundage from Empowering Differences to talk about their experiences as trans people in the workplace.
In this episode, our panel candidly shares their experiences and how their personal experiences have shaped their careers and the workplace.
Out & Equal has developed discussion guides to supplement the program, and we encourage you to use the podcasts as a virtual “book club” with your resource group or team! Listen to the episodes and schedule a group discussion using this resource as part of your own Pride programming.
Check out LeadWithYourBrand(dot)com/pride to download the discussion guides and visit OutAndEqual(dot)org to explore Out & Equal’s Pride resources!
Guest Bios
Kate Fisher (she/her)
Enterprise Account Manager, Oracle
Kate is with Oracle Corp’s Cloud Infrastructure organization working with some of Oracle’s most strategic customers. She has over 25 years experience in the IT industry in various engineering, consulting and sales roles. She is also active in building safe workplace environments that value, promote and recruit diverse talent as a global co-chair for the Oracle OPEN (Oracle Pride Employee Network) an LGBTQ+ ERG. Kate is also a member of the Board of Directors for one-n-ten a nonprofit organization serving and assisting LGBTQ+ youth and she is a 3 time SCCA Autocross National Champion.
Aro Royston (he/him)
Graphic Artist, Boeing
Aro is responsible for helping Boeing acquire contract awards, resulting in new business orders valued at more than $10 billion. He has worked at Boeing for eight years. Aro is a passionate leader in equity, diversity and inclusion. He is the enterprise vice president of the Boeing Employee Pride Alliance (BEPA) Business Resource Group, vice president of the Global Sales and Marketing Diversity and Inclusion Champions Council and a member of the Boeing Black Employees Association (BBEA) Business Resource Group. He is also a founding member of Boeing’s Racial Equity Taskforce. He continues to mold an inclusive, accepting and learning culture at The Boeing Company.
Alex Dropp (they/them)
Director, Global Banking and Markets, Bank of America
Alex is a Director and serves as a Product Manager working on regulatory reporting as part of the Platform Development team. Alex’s finance career began over 25 years ago as a retail stock broker. Alex has traveled globally to work with institutional clients, and in 2007 was recruited to lead the institutional training team for Bank of America’s clearing division. Alex won Bank of America’s Global Diversity and Inclusion award in 2014 and 2015 for their work with the Disability Network highlighting Learning Disabilities and for their volunteer work with the LGBT+ Pride Network.
Ashley T Brundage (she/her)
President, Empowering Differences
Ashely started her career as a means of survival. Fighting discrimination and homelessness she found employment as a part time bank teller then rose to national VP of Diversity and Inclusion in less than 5 years. She captured this process of career development in her new book and online course called Empowering Differences. Personally she enjoys time her wife of 19 years and their 2 teenage boys.
Additional Information
To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program, please visit: LeadWithyYourBrand (dot) com
To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit: JayzenPatria(dot)com
Learn more about Out & Equal at OutAndEqual(dot)org