Creating an LGBTQ+ community in the workplace
Walter Hassler, Chief Financial Officer at dentsu DACH, on his journey from regarding his sexual orientation as a private matter to setting up a cluster-wide LGBTQ+ employee resource group...
Walter Hassler is the Chief Financial Officer at Dentsu, Germany, and the DACH cluster, a region with over 3500 employees, 60 nationalities, and main offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, Geneva and Vienna. He started his career at Deloitte and in 2006 moved to WPP agency network as Controller, and later COO for the JWT network for Austria, where he built up agencies in the Czech Republic and Hungary. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Vienna and a Master in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from IMC Krems.
June 17, 2024 • by Walter Hassler in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion • 6 min read
Walter Hassler, Chief Financial Officer at dentsu DACH, on his journey from regarding his sexual orientation as a private matter to setting up a cluster-wide LGBTQ+ employee resource group...