Diversity and inclusion

The past year has proven to organisations that sexism and offensive behaviour is far more widespread than anyone would have guessed.

If you as an organisation wish to combat an offensive culture and instead support a culture based on safety and inclusion, then Mannaz can advise you from strategy to execution, from developing policies to facilitating workshops.

This is an area where you as an organisation must show both insight, empathy, and professionalism to ensure that potential specific cases are managed, while you uphold a focus on dialogue and cultural change.

A process might include the following elements:

• Mapping phase: Investigation, analysis, and clarifying the culture and potentially offensive behaviour
• Cultural development phase: Developing policies, guidelines, and management and employees
• Retention, evaluation, and follow-up: Evaluating the effort, adjusting actions and structure for follow-up. Build a strategy for a continued focus and progress.

Marianne Egelund Siig
CEO and expert within gender equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Marianne has over decades worked professionally with gender equality, diversity, and inclusion. She has created great value within these areas in her positions as Head of Diversity and Inclusion in Nordea, as a member of advisory boards, as a speaker at conferences and academic seminars, as a participant in panel debates, as partner for several think tanks and as a part of the steering committee for CBS’s Diversity and Difference Platform.

Additionally, Marianne has for several years written for Berlingske Business and Point of View International about management, gender equality, and diversity. Read some of Marianne’s inspiring articles here.

Contact Marianne at mes@mannaz.com or +45 4517 6000

Christina Lundsgaard Ottsen
Management consultant, psychologist, PhD, researcher and author.

Christina is a highly skilled equity, diversity and inclusion expert (ED&I) with deep knowledge of the psychological mechanisms behind cognitive bias. She facilitates decision-making and sustainable development in organisations through increased cultural awareness and collaboration. Christina is the author of ‘Biasbevidst ledelse’ (Bias Conscious Leadership).

As a trained cognitive psychologist with a ph.d. in cross-cultural diversity she joined Mannaz after 10 years of research at Qatar University and Aarhus University with leadership consulting on the side. Since 2008 she has worked strategically with diversity and inclusive leadership in both Scandinavia and the Middle East to raise the quality of decision-making processes and strengthen sustainable development.

Contact Christina cot@mannaz.com or +45 2682 8885

Lars Nellemann
Management consultant, Ph.d. and author. Expert in diversity.

Lars Nellemann has with his Ph.d in diversity and with his work for the Danish Institute for Human Rights and CABI been a part of placing diversity and inclusion on the organisational and managerial agenda in Denmark. Furthermore, he authored the book: “Diversity in the workplace: when we are equal, but not the same”. Lars has in cooperation with companies including ISS, TDC, Falck, Nykredit and Nordea been a part of creating specific methods and approaches for working strategically and systematically with diversity in relation to gender, age, ethnicity, religion, disability, and sexual orientation.

Contact Lars at lne@mannaz.com or +45 5139 6043

Berit Kristine Bøggild
Client Director, cand.merc. and expert in change management, tranformation management and inclusive management. 

Berit contributes to creating change through involvement. By working with both management, informal leaders, and the broad scope of the organisation, Berit supports a cultural change. She is preoccupied with what is necessary in each organisation in order to enforce change and succeed in creating a momentum, so that organisations can achieve real changes in behaviour. Berit works with management of both organisational development and innovation with emphasis on creating space for the necessary input and feedback to develop individuals, organisations, and products/solutions. She has worked both internally and as an external consultant in private companies and public organisations with developing and implementing change, and so ensuring that both leaders and employees is able to recognise themselves in the new strategic direction.

Contact Berit at bkb@mannaz.com or +45 2295 0151

Stuart Schofield
Client Director, consultant and authorised occupational psychologist.

Stuart Schofield is an occupational psychologist with 25 years experience in leadership development for some of the world’s largest organisations. He has evaluated, coached and developed leaders from a broad spectrum of cultures, and he has through a significant part of his carreer lived and worked in Asia. Stuart is primarily preoccupied with how cultures can be transformed, and how trust and coorperation can be created and maintained in teams with great diversity – two challenges that are equally relevant today, if not even more so, now that distance management and working from home has become the new normal.

Contact Stuart on ssc@mannaz.com or +44 7990 036110

Joakim Eriksson
Seniorconsultant, expert in personal development and transformational processes.

Joakim has worked with cultural change and transformational processes in many different businesses and industries both as a consultant and in previous management roles. Through his career he has worked in several countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia and Joakim therefore has first hand experience of issues related to diversity and inclusion. As a consultant, Joakim especially focuses on the ability of the leader to work with personal development, as this is often an essential part of an organisational transformation. When Joakim helps organisations improve diversity and inclusion, he helps leaders and teams to increase their consciousness of their own biases, and how they can practically implement behavioural changes.

Contact Joakim at jer@mannaz.com or +46 735 286 071

Dorte Spiegelhauer
Client Director, cand.merc., EMCC-certified coach and expert in transformational leadership.

Dorte contributes to releasing the significant potential that occurs when teams, management teams, and organisation are diverse. She emphasises increasing innovation and vigour through conscious leadership of diverse teams with, for example, different competencies, backgrounds, or perspectives. The objective is improved decision-making and faster transformation through flexible management of complex issues and a security that ensures that mistakes, dissatisfaction and disagreement are caught in the early stages, and are then utilised for shared learning and progress rather than becoming a complicated crisis. Dorte works with the development of both the individual leader and management teams and their ability to create diverse and including organisations.

Contact Dorte at dsp@mannaz.com or +45 5139 6062