Vanessa Sheridan & Associates

Since 1991, Vanessa Sheridan has helped organizations of all sizes generate significant results and enhance their workplace cultures by providing professional transgender-related business services. Transgender in the workplace is an exploding diversity/inclusion topic and a legitimate area of business interest that is becoming increasingly prevalent in companies around the world. Nearly 50% of the Fortune 500 companies have adopted transgender-inclusive policies since the year 2000.

Vanessa Sheridan is nationally recognized as an expert consultant, speaker/presenter, and inclusion/ awareness trainer on transgender issues. Her work helps client organizations develop transgender-inclusive employee policies, create guidelines/procedures for implementing those policies, provide training for employee groups, and address transgender employee health insurance issues. A few of the organizations with which Vanessa has worked include Best Buy (corporate headquarters), HSBC North America (corporate headquarters), the Human Rights Campaign, the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), the University of Minnesota, the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, and Global Novations, Inc.

Vanessa Sheridan is the author of the groundbreaking business resource, The Complete Guide to Transgender in The Workplace--the first hardcover, comprehensive volume on this leading-edge business topic ever to be released by a mainstream publishing house. She has also been a two-time national Lambda Literary Award finalist for her pioneering books on transgender spirituality topics.

Vanessa is the first transgender Board of Directors member of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives; a member of the Advisory Board for GLBTQ Online High School, the world's first online high school specifically for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth, or those questioning their sexuality or gender; and is listed and profiled as a “leader in religious movements for justice for LGBT persons” by The LGBT Religious Archives Network.