The Glass Closet

Despite much progress in recent years, gay rights issues around the world remain a serious problem. The Glass Closet by John Browne is a brave and fascinating book that shows how businesses can lead the way in promoting gay rights and why being yourself is best for business and for you. * Sir Richard Branson, Chairman Virgin Group *Personal and instructive, The Glass Closet provides a compelling roadmap to what, as a society and as individuals, we can achieve if LGBT men and women are completely free from prejudice and anxiety because of who they are. * Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO Goldman Sachs *Lord Browne has written a book of unfl inching honesty and lasting social value. In it he says, ‘You will do more to better the world when you can be authentic.’ It took much of his remarkable career for him to reach that conclusion; but in doing so, he makes it infi nitely easier for others to follow. * Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO WPP *This is a brave book. It takes a subject hardly ever discussed in global business, gay rights, and blows apart misconceptions. * Martha Lane Fox, Founder lastminute.com *How many of your people are living a double life? How many are wasting energy and emotion keeping their closet closed? Business leaders are used to shaping their worlds, to making a diff erence. This is one place we can, and should. * Peter Sands, CEO Standard Chartered *A courageous and salutary reminder that despite huge progress we still have a long way to go to create the kind of tolerant and inclusive society of which business – as this book powerfully argues – must be a driving force. * Paul Polman, CEO Unilever *This is essential reading for anybody interested in diversity in the workplace – Andrew Clark * The Times *Browne makes a strong case for companies to go on the front foot and promote openness * Sunday Times *A leading spokesman for gay rights in the corporate world. * The Economist *

JOHN BROWNE (Lord Browne of Madingley) was CEO of BP from 1995-2007, where he built a reputation as a visionary leader, transforming BP into one of the world’s largest companies. He was president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the US Academy of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the trustees of the Tate Galleries. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Stanford universities, was knighted in 1998, and made a life peer in 2001. He is now a partner at Riverstone Holdings and the author of the memoir Beyond Business, popular science book Seven Elements that Have Changed the World and revealing business polemic, The Glass Closet.

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