The Brave Pride Playbook: PRIDE365 — The Culture Infrastructure Edition explores how relationships, leadership, communications, and everyday workplace experiences shape belonging over time. This year's Culture Infrastructure Edition introduces The Elevation Ecosystem™, a framework for understanding how people help one another navigate complexity, access opportunity, and thrive. Featuring original insights from Target 10, this free resource was created for leaders, organizations, employee resource groups, and anyone committed to building cultures where people feel seen, supported, and valued.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Culture + Brand Partners Releases 2026 Edition of The Brave Pride Playbook: PRIDE365 — The Culture Infrastructure Edition
June 1, 2026
New "Culture Infrastructure Edition" explores how relationships, leadership, communications, and everyday workplace experiences shape belonging year-round.
NEW YORK, NY — Culture + Brand Partners (C+BP) today announced the release of the 2026 edition of The Brave Pride Playbook: PRIDE365 — The Culture Infrastructure Edition, a practical resource designed to help individuals, leaders, and organizations move beyond Pride Month and build cultures where people can thrive.
This year's edition, The Culture Infrastructure Edition, introduces a central idea: culture is sustained not by statements, campaigns, or intentions alone, but through the systems, relationships, behaviors, and signals people experience every day.
"People often think of culture as something abstract," said Michael J. Chamberlain, Co-Founder of Culture + Brand Partners. "But culture is experienced in very tangible ways. Through who gets supported. Who gets access. Who gets heard. Who gets protected. This year's playbook focuses on the infrastructure that shapes those experiences."
The publication includes practical tools, reflection exercises, leadership guidance, workplace culture audits, and The Elevation Ecosystem™, a framework developed by Culture + Brand Partners that explores the role coaches, mentors, sponsors, advocates, and peer anchors play in helping people navigate complexity, grow professionally, and feel supported.
The 2026 edition also features original contributions from Target 10, one of the nation's leading LGBTQ+ marketing and communications agencies. In a featured essay, Matt Wagner, SVP of Client Services, examines cultural credibility, trust, representation, and the role communications play as a form of culture infrastructure.
"Employees, consumers, stakeholders, and communities are constantly interpreting organizational behavior," said Wagner. "People notice what organizations sustain, who they support, and whether actions align with values over time. Credibility is built through accumulated proof."
The playbook explores topics including:
Culture as infrastructure
Leadership during uncertainty
Visibility, safety, and support in practice
Transgender and nonbinary workplace experiences
Small actions that shape belonging
Culture signals employees notice every day
Moving from performative gestures to sustained practice
Communications, trust, and cultural credibility
Designed for leaders, communications professionals, employee resource groups, managers, advocates, and individuals alike, the playbook reflects a growing recognition that workplace culture influences not only employee experience, but organizational performance, reputation, engagement, and retention.
"We believe Pride is not something organizations express once a year," said Serena Fong, Co-Founder of Culture + Brand Partners. "It's something people build and sustain together over time. Our hope is that this resource helps people have better conversations, make better decisions, and create cultures where more people can fully contribute and thrive."
The Brave Pride Playbook: PRIDE365 is available as a free digital resource beginning June 1, 2026.
About Culture + Brand Partners
Culture + Brand Partners helps organizations align culture, leadership, communications, and brand in ways that strengthen belonging, performance, and impact. Founded by Michael J. Chamberlain and Serena Fong, the firm works with organizations navigating culture transformation, leadership alignment, employee experience, communications strategy, and reputation.
Culture + Brand Partners believes that Culture Is Strategy.
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