FORGING QUEER LEADERS | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation

LGBTQ+ individuals disproportionately encounter bias, adversity, stigma, and marginalization throughout their lives. It's an enormous obstacle - but also prepares them for leadership in a fast-moving, volatile, uncertain, complex, and adaptive working world.

The book explores the unique and inspiring developmental experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders, the amazing capabilities they bring to teams, and what that means for everyone pursuing positive and inclusive organizational strategy. With stories from the armed forces, lawyers, entrepreneurs, authors, academics, thought-leaders, medical professionals - you name it - this shows how queer folk everywhere are harnessing their hard-won power and resilience to excel.

With a history of excellence in queer leadership, the contextual underpinning of adversity and resilience theory, and uplifting stories and soundbites from queer game-changers in every field - this is an essential resource for LGBTQ+ individuals, allies, advocates, business professionals and leaders of all kinds.

Bree Fram is joining us on the Busboys stage to share more about her research on LGBTQ+ leaders throughout history, her experiences as a successful trans woman, and how you can apply these uplifting stories to your life and career. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during and after the event, and Fram will be signing following the program.

This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of FORGING QUEER LEADERS will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is in person and will not be livestreamed. 

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Bree Fram is an active-duty astronautical engineer in the US Space Force and is currently one of the highest-ranking transgender officers in the United States military. She is the co-lead of the Department of the Air Force LGBTQ+ Initiative Team and a former president of SPARTA, an organization dedicated to the support and professional development of over 2000 transgender service members.

Bree’s writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Military Times, Inkstick, and LGBTQ Nation. She’s been a featured speaker on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and LGBTQ+ topics at Fortune 500 corporations, universities, and government organizations, and is a member of the State Department’s US Speakers Program. Bree is the co-editor of the book With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in Their Own Words, which came out in 2021. Bree is based in Reston, Virginia

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