005: Start your business heart first with Aidan Key from Gender Diversity

Written By Rhodes Perry

Aidan Key is the founder of Gender Diversity, a nonprofit dedicated to providing support and educational services with respect to transgender and gender diverse children. He leads a support program for parents of trans youth that is the largest in the U.S. and offers trainings and policy development for school districts, organizations, and other youth-based agencies across the nation.

Since 2001, Aidan Key has produced the annual international Gender Odyssey conference for families raising trans children, professionals seeking to expand their knowledge, and for adults exploring and celebrating their gender. 

He regularly presents at college campuses and has been featured on national and international television, radio, online and print articles. Aidan Key is an identical twin, a father, and lives in Seattle with his wife Kristin.

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Questions Answered in this Episode

·      Who is Aidan Key?

·      What does his business do?

·      Why is creating an inclusive workplace culture important to him?

·      How does he leverage his LGBTQ identity to grow his business?

·      What does it mean to “start heart first”?

·      How can you get in touch with Aidan?

Resources Shared in this Episode

·      Aidan Key’s Contact: info@genderdiversity.org

·      Gender Diversity: 1-855-4-GENDER (1-855-443-6337)

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Rhodes Perry

Rhodes Perry, MPA is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He helps leaders build belonging at work to achieve industry breakthroughs. His firm offers transformative leadership development, change management, and capacity building solutions for senior executives focused on advancing their organizations’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Nationally recognized as a LGBTQ+ thought leader, he has two decades of government and nonprofit experience having worked at the White House, PFLAG National, and the City of New York. Media outlets like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press have featured his powerful work as a (DEI) influencer.

http://www.rhodesperry.com
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