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With the heightened urgency for diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable workplaces, companies, leaders, and employees seek concrete, actionable, effective, and measurable outcomes to their initiatives. In today’s world, an organization’s culture is imperative to its success. Building an inclusive culture requires the responsibility and ownership of all stakeholders, including leaders, managers, HR, and employees.

A diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace in which people feel a sense of belonging is both a business and an ethical imperative. Unlocking and maximizing the potential of a diverse and inclusive culture requires collaboration, awareness, and nuances. With people at the center of organizations, it is important to intentionally curate an engaging and supportive work environment. Therefore, it is vital to understand the perceptual, interpersonal, systemic and psychological impacts of conscious and unconscious exclusion.

Consequently, leaders, managers, and employees need to develop and nurture the skills required to manage, lead, and thrive in diverse workplaces and teams.

Our courses raise awareness, identify relevant interventions, and provide best practice tools to support workplaces and individuals who are committed to going beyond compliance to build an inclusive work environment.

Target Audience

Executives

Leaders

HR

Managers

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Anyone with an interest in supporting an inclusive workplace.

How it works

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Length of courses

2 – 8 weeks

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EFFORT

3 – 6 hours per week

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FORMAT

100% online, live and instructor-led

Many successful companies consider diversity, equity, and inclusion a key to gain competitive advantage; an essential component in their growth strategy. Making DEI a strategic imperative can deliver genuine business value, but in order to build a DEI-focused initiative that is able to recognize these benefits, it’s necessary to turn intent into actionable outcomes that foster growth and value creation.

Our Courses

Our courses can be delivered to your employees digitally or in-person at your workplace.
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“Big thanks to Chisom and Iva (and fantastic guest lecturer Emil!) for hosting an incredibly engaging and enlightening course that extends far beyond just addressing bias. Beyond the huge and important topic on bias, this course was packed with insights and foundational knowledge on DEIB, intersectionality, microaggressions, microaffirmations, power, privilege, and allyship. The seamless flow from one topic to another made the structure of the course particularly enjoyable and allowed for a comprehensive understanding. Beyond that, we were an amazing group of people and had open, safe and impactful discussions. I can only recommend this course to anyone who hasn’t had a chance to really dive deep into the aforementioned topics as Iva and Chisom did a fantastic job explaining complex and interconnected topics within cognition and sociology and, at the same time, inspiring everyone to critically think, reflect, introspect and share.”
Vera Schwarz

Meet Our Facilitators

Chisom Udeze
Chisom Udeze (She/Her)
CEO of Diversify Consult, DEIBJ Strategist & Economist
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Iva Ogrizovic (She/Her)
People & Culture Partner at Diversify Consult
Poornima Luthra
Dr. Poornima Luthra (She/Her)
Educator, DEIB Expert & Author
Rahwa Yohannes
Rahwa Tilahun Yohaness (She/Her)
Chief Editor at afrika.no, Activist on a Break, and Antirasism and Anti-discrimination Consultant
Thandi Dyani
Thandi Dyani (She/Her)
Justice Equity Diversity & Belonging Consultant and Regional Network Organizer, Africa and The Nordics – BMW Foundation
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Sarah M Przedpelska (She/Her)
Educator & Consultant
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Chi Lee (They/Them)
DEIB Consultant
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Ieman Mona El-Mowafi (She/Her)
Senior Consultant, System Thinking Practitioner and Researcher
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Sayantani Saha (She/Her)
Inclusion & Diversity Associate
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Zuzana Warden (She/Her)

Inclusion & Diversity manager

Sayantani Saha (She/Her)

Inclusion & Diversity Associate

Sayantani has diverse work experience across different fields. She has worked as a copy editor in a newspaper, a buyer and merchandiser in a retail organisation and as a social media professional in various organisations back in India. At HerSpace and Diversify, she manages community events and programs, supports the organisations’ DEIB initiatives and takes care of all things social media. 

Through her broad range of experience, Sayatani is skilled in project management, marketing and social media and community development. Sayantani has a Bachelor’s in Political Science and Masters in Fashion Management.

Sarah M Przedpelska (She/Her)

Educator & Consultant

Sarah M Przedpelska is an educator and geographer, who likes feelings, people and justice. Through her research in Canada and Norway, she’s worked with and published on belonging, youth mentoring and the social limits of technology.

 

Currently, Sarah does research and project development with schools in Oslo, and runs a community focused consultancy called Kolekcja.

Mary Waweru (She/Her)

CEO of Crest Impact and Anti-Racism, DEI & Social Impact Consultant

Mary moved from Kenya to Finland in 2004 as a student. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Business and a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Entrepreneurship and Business Management.

After spending 15 years working in hospitality, Mary entered the advertising space as a Global Project Manager. During this time, she dedicated her free time to meeting organisations, city officials and other immigrants with the aim of creating spaces where uncomfortable topics were allowed to progress society. She also wanted to do something about the difficulties immigrants experienced finding suitable roles in Finland. Mary has always been involved in gender advancement projects and educational non-profit organisations in both Kenya and Finland. Being Kenyan and raised with the spirit and foundation of Umoja and community, she possesses unwavering interest in social and community development and feels comfortable in advisory roles on a multinational level.

Mary is now a racial equity trainer and consultant who develops anti-racism and DEI courses for multinational organisations and individuals. She is involved in multiple partnerships and programmes through which she offers strategic guidance to organisations that want to build non-oppressive and sustainable brands. Mary is also a content creator on LinkedIn on topics such as: Anti-Blackness, Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Social Impact, Decolonisation and the underemployment of immigrants.

Chi Lee (They/Them)

DEIB Consultant

Chi Lee has a Masters Degree in Museum Studies from Harvard University.  For over two decades, they have been a freelance consultant for design/build studios working with global retail companies. Chi previously worked as a liaison and organizer for Arts for Humanity, a non-profit bringing the arts to underserved communities. They have also served as a translator for Four Seas Group, a Chinese-American non-profit increasing accessibility to the performance arts for local communities.

Emil Novák-Tót (He/Him or E/Em)

DEI Practitioner & Strategist and Founder of in it for CHANGE

Emil Novák-Tót (he/him or e/em) is a researcher and DEIB practitioner with about seven years of experience in linguistic and socio-psychological research in speech, stereotypes, charisma, power, belonging and related workplace dynamics.

He is founder and consultant at In It For Change, a Copenhagen-based consultancy helping mission-led teams to tie culture and social impact together. As a researcher, e was involved in building the theoretical foundations of Develop Diverse’s flagship inclusive writing software as well as its consulting services from its founding. He has contributed to designing, writing and delivering inclusive language workshops at universities and global companies alike. E has also been dedicated to contributing to employee-led initiatives and advising leadership on DEIB, both internally and as an external advisor at CBS.

At the dynamic and ever-changing overlaps of various marginalised and privileged identities (white, trans, immigrant, disabled, neurospicy), Emil strives to combine lived experience expertise and research in ways that are ethical and sustainable. E tries eir best to approach topics of DEIB with bias-consciousness, an open and inquisitive mindset, radical honesty, and from a place of critical sensitivity to how today’s inequalities have been shaped by a still ongoing history of violent Western colonisation.

Eir current fixation is trans liberation and why it’s one of two major prerequisites to gender equality. (The other one is anti-racism, and the short answer is “because of white supremacy”).

Thandi Dyani (She/Her)

Justice Equity Diversity & Belonging Consultant and Regional Network Organizer, Africa and The Nordics – BMW Foundation

Thandi Dyani is an independent consultant, and external Network Organizer for Africa Region & the Nordics in the Emergent Team of the BMW foundation working with Leaders to inspire responsible leadership and catalyze change aligned with the SDGs.

She is a fiercely passionate advocate for gender and racial equity and works with different organizations to foster justice, equity, diversity and belonging. Thandi loves humanizing spaces and designs strategy and programs, provides training, keynotes and awareness for those that want to start their EDB journeys.

Thandi co-initiated The UnLearning Journey for racial equity as well as the Gender Alliance, both platforms for reflection, awareness, training, leadership transformation and deep listening for a more just future. She has also been a DJ for more than 20 years and splits her time and work between the Nordics and Sub-Saharan Africa.Thandi co-initiated The UnLearning Journey for racial equity as well as the Gender Alliance, both platforms for reflection, awareness, training, leadership transformation and deep listening for a more just future. She has also been a DJ for more than 20 years and splits her time and work between the Nordics and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Rahwa Tilahun Yohaness (She/Her)

Chief editor at afrika.no, activist on a break, and antirasism and anti-discrimination consultant

Rahwa is a public speaker, activist, social critic, and the founder and director of Manifold Norway. Rahwa has years of experience in community organising and bringing people with diverse backgrounds and experiences together. She practices a policy of “walking the talk” and engages with people who have lived experience in everything she does.

Rahwa is currently running a campaign about “kvitteringsordning” to promote the implementation of a policy to document all police stop and control activities. She was also one of the main organisers behind the “We Can’t Breathe” demonstration in Oslo, which mobilised 15 000 people in June 2020.

Rahwa collaborates with grassroots organisations, academics, artists, and activists in the diaspora to organise and facilitate various events, including panel discussions, educational and artistic workshops, and community gatherings. She currently works as an advisor for the Norwegian Council for Africa, a human rights and solidarity organisation working to increase knowledge about the African continent.

Dr. Poornima Luthra (She/Her)

Educator, DEIB Expert & Author

Dr. Poornima Luthra is the author of ‘Diversifying Diversity: Your guide to being an active ally of inclusion in the workplace’ and ‘The Art of Active Allyship’, the author of the HBR articles ‘Do your global teams see DEI as an American issue?’ and ‘7 ways to practice active allyship’.

She is the founder and CEO of TalentED Consultancy ApS as well as Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Poornima has spent the last fifteen years researching and teaching university courses in the field of talent management, with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion. Poornima’s work in DEI focuses on expanding the dimensions of diversity we address with an emphasis on intersectionality, empowering individuals to be active allies of inclusion and enabling inclusive leadership.

Poornima is the recipient of the Professional Women of Colour Denmark 2021 Impact award, and a finalist in the Trailblazer category of the 2022 Nordic Blaze Inclusion Awards. Most recently, Poornima been recognised as one of the world’s 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas will make an important impact on management thinking in the future by Thinkers50.

Poornima has worked with and spoken at numerous Danish and International clients/ partners that include Carlsberg; Novo Nordisk; A.P. Møller Maersk; Reckitt; Accenture; KPMG Nordics; Danske Bank; FedEx; Google Denmark; Amazon Web Services; Nordea; Total; Telia; Maersk Tankers; Deloitte; Wilhelmsen; Nothvolt; Ørsted; Medicines sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders); McCormick APZ; McCormick UK; SimCorp; Visma amongst others.

Iva Ogrizovic (She/Her)

People & Culture Partner at Diversify Consult

Iva Ogrizovic is a Director at Diversify and People & Culture Partner at Diversify Consult. At Diversify Consult, Iva focuses on developing and implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) strategies and co-designs and delivers DEIB training and development programs.

As the Director at Diversify, she co-creates and manages many of its initiatives including, but not limited to, The Blaze Inclusion Award, The Annual Gala, various Mentorship Programs and Entrepreneurial Incubators and Accelerators. Her passion lies in fostering professional and personal development as well as empowering individuals to use their potential for transformative growth.

Chisom Udeze (She/Her)

CEO of Diversify Consult, DEIBJ Strategist & Economist

Chisom is an Economist, Strategist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Consultant, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of leadership experience working in business critical roles to drive organisational change, revenue growth and sustainable impact. She’s adept at building relationships with world-renowned and cross-sectoral companies and intersectional stakeholders.

She has worked with organizations such as the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders.

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.

Ieman Mona El-Mowafi (She/Her)

Senior Consultant, System Thinking Practitioner and Researcher

Ieman Mona El-Mowafi is a population health scholar, activist and organizer with a strong focus on humanitarian and development settings. She received her MSc from the University of Ottawa and as an Egyptian-Norwegian-Canadian researcher, she has worked to forge relationships and initiate systemic change among Black and racialized students in Canada. In collaboration with leading activists in Canada, she has supported a number of anti-racism initiatives on University campuses, including stakeholder mobilization and evaluations of institutional diversity and inclusion policies.

She founded NorImpact, an organization dedicated working with organizations to implement and evaluate programs and execute sustainable action plans to address system level gaps through effective monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, and evidence-based recommendations. Her research interests center on communities’ dignity, wellness, and self-determination in order to effectively and ethically further social justice.

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