As the founder and chair of Altria’s LGBTQ+ employee resource group, Wesley has boosted LGBTQ+ visibility and driven programmatic and policy changes to benefit Altria’s LGBTQ+ employees, including expanding surrogacy and adoption benefits for same-sex families, launching a voluntary self-ID program, and creating a Pronoun Proud campaign to encourage employees to demonstrate allyship by sharing their pronouns. He has testified before numerous U.S. legislatures in support of banning the LGBTQ+ panic defence and is frequent author and speaker on inclusion and diversity. He is the past president of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and serves as chair of its Corporate Counsel Division and as a commissioner for the American Bar Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Commission. In recognition of his work championing LGBTQ+ equality within both the corporate and legal communities, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association recognized Wesley in 2024 with its Paula Ettelbrick Award.
