Jean-Luc has been involved in LGBT equality at the workplace in Germany since 2000. He is one of the co-founders of db Pride, Deutsche Bank’s global LGBT employee network, in Germany and was part of its steering committee from 2001 to 2013. As part of this role, he initiated and oversaw several major projects, including the participation in Pride parades in Germany, a new internal straight-ally-programme and the bank’s participation in an LGBT recruiting fair. Personally, he coaches and mentors employees starting or developing LGBT networks and promotes LGBT equality at the workplace through the German non-profit organisation “PROUT AT WORK”, a group he co-founded in 2013 and on whose board he serves. He previously was a board member of a gay center in Frankfurt am Main and actively supported several LGBT organisations in the Frankfurt area. For the past four years, he has also given lectures on LGBT equality at the workplace in practice at the Business University of Vienna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) twice a year.
