Coach CEO Joshua Schulman on Inclusivity Training

In the span of his 30-year career, Coach chief executive officer Joshua Schulman has seen undeniable progress in the acceptance of the LGBTQ community. The executive, who is openly gay, now feels a responsibility to help push things along further. Schulman had a childhood dream to be the ceo of a department store and led Bergdorf Goodman until 2017 when he joined Coach. “When I was growing up, I didn’t see any department store ceo’s who were gay as role models. Today as a kid in high school, one could see Jeff Gennette at Macy’s, Tim Cook at Apple, Pete Buttigieg running — those are three amazing examples of role models that didn’t exist when I was young,” he said. According to Schulman, more change is necessary. “In the long arc of history, 30 years isn’t that long of a time, I hope it doesn’t take us another 30 years from now to have role models in positions of power like that who are not necessarily cisgender, white gay men, but who really reflect the full diversity of the LGBTQ community,” he said. Schulman began his career working for Gucci Group’s Domenico de Sole and Marc Jacobs and Robert Duffy during their short

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