D&I isn’t about doing the right thing. It’s about doing the right thing for your organization.

Other Speaking Topics

Michael has spoken on a lot of different topics in his career. While these topics aren’t the ones that he’s promoting currently, he’s always happy to deliver these topics, if it’s what you’re looking for. The topic always needs to work for where you are on your IDEA journey. To learn more about each topic, click on the topic title below.

 2sLGBTQI+ Inclusion

  1. Breaking Down the Alphabet: Understanding the Difference Between Attraction, Identity, and Expression

  2. Breaking Down the Numbers: The Cost of the Closet (aka The Business Case for LGBTQ2+ Inclusion)

  3. Safety in Numbers: Ensuring your Space is a Safe Space

  4. Strength in Numbers: How to be an Active Ally

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA)

  1. Put on your glasses: Why blind hiring is not the magic solution!

  2. The Chicken and the Egg: Which comes first: Diversity or Inclusion?

  3. Watch Your Blind Spot: An Introduction to Unconscious Bias

  4. You Can’t Be What You Can’t See: Why Representation Matters

  5. Your IDEA Training Sucks: The truth about learning programs on inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility

  6. The Right IDEA: Doing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Right