The Reaching Out MBA student conference is the annual gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) graduate business school students from all over the world. Our organization is dedicated to promoting the acceptance and visibility of LGBT businesspeople and their interests in the workplace. The conference provides a forum for prospective and current graduate business school students, recent alumni and current business leaders to build personal and professional networks, exchange information and promote cooperation within their respective areas of interest.
The 12th Annual Reaching Out LGBT MBA student conference is being hosted and organized jointly by the MBA students of Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business, Georgia Tech’s College of Management, UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. It will take place from October 15 to October 18 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta.
The theme of this year’s Reaching Out GLBT MBA Conference is Emerging as Leaders. In addition to acknowledging the first time that Southeastern schools have hosted the conference, the theme echoes two major ideas: