Within one year, Niarchos expanded SAP’s LGBT employee network from 400 to 6,000 members contributing to a more inclusive environment for employees from more than 100 countries. He regularly coaches LGBT Leads from more than 15 countries, delivers LGBT enablement workshops and speaks at international conferences about the benefits of equality. Niarchos was the main driver for having representation of LGBT inclusive Images in SAP’s corporate image library. He was also responsible for enabling the writing of a chapter of a book about LGBT Inclusion, “Implementing LGBT-Diversity Management in a Global Company: The Case of SAP. Externally, he created and promoted several LGBT Inclusion Coalitions that bring together LGBT leaders from Latin American-based companies for regular best-practice sharing and regularly acts as an out spokesperson and support campaigns on the benefits of equality in the media.
