Career Story Nights - The Queer Edition
A live storytelling night where LGBTQIA+ professionals share powerful moments from their careers, in celebration of WorldPride Amsterdam.
The Future Workplace is Queer
About Career Story Nights:
Career Story Nights is a live storytelling evening where professionals share pivotal moments from their careers. These are not polished keynote speeches or LinkedIn success stories. They are honest reflections on the decisions, challenges and turning points that shape our working lives.
Each edition explores a different chapter of professional life. Previous evenings have explored themes such as career pivots, reinvention and corporate careers.
This edition explores the relationship between queerness, identity and work.
We invite stories from LGBTQIA+ professionals navigating careers across industries, organisations and creative spaces.
Queer careers are often shaped by moments of visibility, belonging, resilience, self-expression and change. This evening creates space for honest reflections on the realities of building a career while navigating identity in professional environments.
Stories of:
Bringing new perspectives into workplaces and leadership spaces
Navigating discrimination, bias and micro-aggressions
Finding belonging and community in unexpected places
Balancing visibility, authenticity and professional identity
Creating change within organisations and beyond them
Redefining success on your own terms
About the evening:
Throughout the evening, you will hear a series of short, live career stories from professionals across different industries.
Each story centres on a pivotal moment, a decision, a challenge or a shift that changed how someone saw their career.
After the storytelling, there is time to connect with others in the room and continue the conversation.
Career Story Nights creates a space for reflection, connection and honest conversations about the reality of working life.
Seven storytellers x seven minutes each.
No slides.
No pitching.
No distractions.
Do you want to share your story? Fill in the application form here. We'd love to hear from you. https://tally.so/r/PdbE25
Co-Host
Sarah Massey (she/her) is a queer rights activist and former Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, the USA’s oldest LGBTQ civil rights organisation. Now based in Amsterdam, she runs Massey Media, a marketing consultancy supporting businesses in creating more inclusive and queer-informed marketing strategies.