Shannon Thyme Klinger

“We want everybody to be able to come and be their best and true selves and to promote LGBTQI equity internally in a way that people feel safe. In the pandemic that's translated internally to things like continuing our work to have gender neutral policies and policies that make very clear that they don't discriminate on the basis of gender or sexual orientation.”

“We've created discussion groups to really reach out to the LGBTQI community internally through our employer resource groups, as well as appointed senior sponsors to lean in even more heavily. But as much as we can do internally, that doesn't change the reality that people face when they step foot outside of the campus of Novartis. And so, while complicated and while progress is slow going, partnering with NGOs, with governments, riding a new appreciation for human rights and equity around the world broadly defined, we're working to shape those ecosystems where we operate slowly but surely to create an environment, we hope in the future, where we're not answering this question but we're talking more broadly about what have we done to accomplish even more equity going forward.”