Outstanding success through a strong focus on each specific client context
Consultation, Support and Guidance Our customers see our strengths in this.
We have implemented successful projects for numerous European, German, Swiss and international companies, non-profit organisations and public institutions. A selection of those who have agreed to be named publicly can be found here:
- German Clients (*international mandates): Allianz, Bayer*, Bayer MaterialScience* (jetzt Covestro), Bosch Engineering, Commerzbank*, Deutsche Bank*, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom*, E.ON*, GEA Group*, IKEA, KfW, Merck*, Metro*, PageGroup Germany, RWE*, Volkswagen AutoUni*, Volkswagen Bank
- European Clients: Airbus/EADS, Arup Ireland, AXA Winterthur, BP, Credit Suisse, Generali Schweiz, HSBC, Infineon, Sandoz, SBB, Swiss Post, Swisscom, UBS, Vodafone
- Global Clients: Air Products, Brown-Forman, Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson Controls, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Motorola, Stryker, Symantec
- Non-Profit Clients: European Commission, BMFSFJ, Federal Office for Labour, Diaconia Gallneukirchen, International Organisation for Migration, Heinrich Böll Foundation
From many of these clients you will find credential quotes on our websites.
Innovative projects in the D&I environment
Even before it became a recognised approach, we started as a social enterprise with a clear social impact mission. An effective mix of the further development of D&I content and innovative projects illustrates our special position.
Public education on D&I,
that shapes the topic
Innovative projects and formats,
that turned into standards
Further Reading
Case Study Leadership
Case Study Strategy Review
Case Study Management Involvement
Case Study Dialogue Sessions
Case Study Unit-specific plans
Symantec | Fernando Serpa, Global Manager Diversity and Inclusion, Symantec (Januar 2005), 01/2005
As part of our Global Diversity strategy, Symantec has created diversity councils led by a local Diversity champion at our sites throughout Europe. mi.st European Diversity Consulting has assisted us in preparing and carrying out successful work meetings with our local partners while effectively acknowledging European and national specifics. mi.st European Diversity Consulting has shown professionalism, expertise and responsiveness to our diversity needs and has contributed to the success of our diversity initiative in Europe.
Deutsche Telekom | Stefan Conradi, RTS, 2010
As part of the implementation of a quota for women at Deutsche Telekom, European Diversity research & Consulting led through gender diversity workshops for professionals and executives in the area of recruiting and talent service. The Gender & Diversity models and the interactive discussion on the topic were very effective and appropriate for the target groups and helped to establish a positive understanding as well as to create new approaches to further implementation.
HSBC | Virma Sokmen, Head of CMB HSBC Turkey, 12/2012
At HSBC, D&I is a business-lead initiative and as a pan-European committee of managers we were glad to have European Diversity's external perspective and input. Michael Stuber's business acumen and his striving for individual solutions helped to advance the regional D&I agenda taking into account business and country needs. We look forward to continue our collaboration in the future.
UBS | Group Diversity, Director Research, 08/2007
The expertise of European Diversity Research & Consulting led to the creation of valuable products, with which our employees can be informed about Diversity and learn of successful implementation examples.
SBB | Regula Rütti, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, 12/2017
Michael Stuber impressed me and my team not only with his expertise and abundant experience, he also quickly understands an organisation, its resources and pending challenges in a way that supports progress. He is a brilliant analyser with a holistic approach, an adaptive implementer and - when needed - an ambitious challenger. He detects contexts and causes, clarifies expectation, pinpoints objectives, makes his point clear, challenges, encourages reflection and opens up spaces to think and act. European Diversity is a go-to vendor when you and your company want to move the needle on D&I.
Commerzbank | Uwe Tschäge, Dpty President of the Supervisory Board, 2013
We have known Michael Stuber as an knowledgable and engaged Diversity expert for years. Due to his experience and personality also had the pleasure to have him as a moderated of very hetereogeneous panels - with great success.
Deutsche Telekom | Maud Pagel, Group Head of Diversity, 08/2004
The foundation for the implementation of Diversity at Deutsche Telekom group is our group Diversity strategy and its key element, the group Diversity policy. European Diversity Consulting has been supporting us in a very professional way, always focusing on our specific business context when developing various building blocks of our strategy.
Jansen Supply Chain (Johnson & Johnson) | Claudio Cescato, General Manager, 05/2016
Michael Stuber's D&I work starts from how D&I can contribute to the value-creation of a company. Consequently his approach is both systematic and holistic, reaching across all layers of an organisation. In this process, he recognises and acknowledges the specifics of a company in an excellent way. We have, for example, deployed dialogue sessions with a large part of our shop floor employees and their supervisors in order to promote a basic understanding of D&I and its importance. The results fed into specific workshops with management teams. This comprehensive approach contributed greatly to a deeper, shared understanding of D&I and serves as a base for our ongoing efforts, which ultimately aim at embedding the topic further in our corporate culture.
Generali Schweiz | Jean-Pierre Schmid, CHRO, 11/2018
Michael Stuber very competently and professionally accompanied our Diversity & Inclusion strategy development. In the workshop with our executive team, he succeeded in showing us the added value of Diversity & Inclusion and how to embed it in our corporate strategy. The collaboration was very enriching, effective and constructive and we benefited enormously from his many years of experience and expertise.
E.ON | Sven Rudloff, Group HR Policy, 03/2007
e-Diversity is a unique and entertaining instrument which quickly trains numerous employees while dealing with issues of Diversity and Anti-Discrimination. Adaptations for specifics of our corporation were completed within a short amount of time.
Stryker | Alysoun Sturt-Scobie, HR-Manager EMEA, 2009
Michael Stuber is always proactive and supportive. He drives through initiatives and delivers material and ideas within agreed timelines. He also shows a careful and respectful understanding/ need to work within corporate budget constraints. He is consistent in the way that he demonstrates commitment to a project and offers sound objective advice in order for companies to understand how to win over the key stakeholders.
Jansen Supply Chain (Johnson & Johnson) | Ellen Driesen, HR Director, 03/2017
Michael Stuber is a passionate guide and role model in the space of diversity and inclusion. He supported us in tackling the challenges and opportunities that a diverse workforce offers, in our daily HR, leadership and collaborative practices. Addressing this “was and is” still key in our global but at the same time extreme multicultural local environment. We first worked under his guidance on a bottom-up approach in which we engaged our supply chain operator population in a direct dialogue on topics as generation, culture, gender etc. Based on this population’s feedback, the need was very clear to create greater awareness around the topic with our line management population. Starting from the propelling potential principle and a framework of various biases that block our perception and thinking, we trained our total supervisory population to make them aware of own bias and to give them some tools to achieve a more objective or at least different kind of point of view when acting as “servant, inspiring leaders”. Seen the size of the group that needed to be trained, he has also been very helpful in training our HR team as facilitators. In working with Michael, I appreciated very much his effort to tailoring messages towards our needs and his huge experience in what works and does not work in this space. He puts things in perspective, not only from a business point of view but also from a societal.
Bayer MaterialScience | Dr. Tony van Osselaer, Executive Committee Member, 2013
Michael Stuber has contributed to develop a very specific Bayer MaterialScience storyline, which integrates Diversity & Inclusion as a business imperative supporting the execution of our business strategy. Through his experience in rolling out Diversity & Inclusion programs in global companies, he has been and is a valuable sparring partner with high credibility for our top leaders as well as the members of the Executive Committee.
Infineon Austria | Dr. Monika Kircher, CEO, 03/2014
With their competence and experience, European Diversity has significantly contributed to the successful development of Infineon's Gender Diversity Network. In three workshops with the entire network and through intense collaboration with HR, we succeeded in clarifying roles, design strategies and define actions. Michael Stuber's external perspective and his ability to capture and address company specifics were major assets in the constructive development of solutions. His refreshing, to the point humour is a welcome added-value.
Sandoz Group Germany | Hermann Hofmann, Head Public Affairs & Communications, 2011
European Diversity Research & Consulting significantly helped to further develop our Diversity & Inclusion Strategy. Particularly valuable was the combination of experience and knowledge of different options and constellations. Cooperating with European Diversity Research & Consulting in the strategy development was just as inspiring as motivating. It has helped to increase the top managements' commitment once again. We won't renounce the support of European Diversity Research & Consulting along the implementation process.
Swisscom | Elena Folini, Head of HR P&M and Diversity, 08/2019
After a few years of internal work and insight, Michael Stuber's external professional perspective, profound expertise and long-standing experience have significantly helped us to analyse our Diversity & Inclusion situation holistically and with all dependencies and to redesign our approach focused on vision, strategy, processes and culture in a change-oriented way. With targeted interventions at various levels, we achieved a new quality of positive reactions in just over six months. In addition, the partnership was a great enrichment for my development and always a real pleasure.
T-Systems | Claudia Knies-May, Corporate Diversity Management, 12/2005
Thanks to the contribution of Michael Stuber, the kick-off of our Diversity council with senior managers was a total success.
Page Group | Goran Barić, Managing Director Germany, 12/2018
Michael Stuber's D&I Workshop for our Management Team provided a deepened understanding of the scope and relevance of D&I beyond personal perception. With impressive inspiration and an adequate piece of humour, he facilitated a constructive dialogue to shape our approach to further integrate and leverage D&I in our company so that it contributes to the business. Specific insights in Unconscious Biases and pragmatic mitigation enable us to continue to be a corporate role model for D&I.
Vodafone D2 | Yasmin Wateler, Diversity Manager, 2012
It was a pleasure working with Michael Stuber. Indeed a resourceful and inspiring session with insightful analysis. I would recommend European Diversity Research & Consulting to companies which are keen to capture and realise the value of female economy be it in the workplace, marketplace or consumer space and more importantly gender balanced leadership.
SBB | Judith Renevey, Head of D&I, 02/2019
In the summer of 2018, SBB successfully introduced "D&I for management teams", a new format reflecting a holistic D&I approach. The co-conception with UngleichBesser has proven very successful. Using a train-the-trainer approach with detailed qualification of the facilitators, the offer consists of a learning process, tying D&I to business priorities in each field and focusing on the specific D&I contribution to achieving their objectives.
Credit Suisse | Eva Ingold, Head Diversity and Inclusion, Oktober 2007
Nobody in Europe is more profoundly acquainted with Diversity as Michael Stuber. He creatively co-designed the ‘Diversity & Inclusion Switzerland’ conference and his facilitation was both energetic and empathetic.
Airbus Group | Suzanne Lewis, Head of D&I, Engagement und I&D, 06/2014
European Diversity provided us with insightful and professional support in the consolidation of our new Diversity and inclusion strategy. Their experience and proactive, holistic approach helped us to take a different look at how we do things, and build a solid business-value driven approach to reinforce our relationships with the stakeholders and position D & I differently in the company.
Volkswagen AutoUni | Andrea Troxler Fueter, Module Managing Diversity, 11/2004
European Diversity Research & Consulting proves to be an exceedingly competent concept partner through the creation and execution of the blended-learning-program of ,Managing Diversity'. With their essential combination of knowledge and experience, working with them was extremely constructive, professional and enriching.
Evangelisches Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen | Christa Schrauf, Rector, 2011
Mr Stuber is a Diversity Expert who knows how to convey his great expertise in this field in a methodically and didactically manner, so that the participants of a meeting will have a higher awareness of the topic and will thereby be prepared to face current and future challenges in the field of Diversity.
Merck Group | Jennifer O’Lear, Chief Diversity Officer, 01/2012
European Diversity provided us with extremely valuable input and expertise as we are consolidating our various D&I programmes into a new global diversity strategy. Their years of experience with other leading companies as well as their international perspective and thorough understanding of relevant models allowed us to develop a solid business-driven approach and build robust stakeholder buy-in.
Deutsche Bank | Elisabeth Kurkowski, Global Diversity Team, 09/2004
We developed two Diversity brochures for our internal an external communication. European Diversity Research & Consulting supported us very well in the conceptual design, in drafting the first one in 2001 , and in the 2004 expert translation.
Schweizerische Post | Thomas Meier, Head of Organisation Development, 03/2011
Swiss Post faced an organizational development process by realigning the Diversity Management approach. The main task was to evolve our hitherto pursued focuses on Gender and Communication into an integrated and holistic concept. Who could support us effectively with the necessary know-how but also with an instinct to win people? Michael Stuber makes the difference. With his background, his foresight and his empathy, we managed to position Diversity Management as a business relevant topic.
Motorola EMEA | Frieder Schrade, Global Leadership & Organization Development, 08/1998
At the beginning of our European Diversity activities, we developed, in cooperation with European Diversity Research & Consulting, a Diversity statement that highlighted the specific meaning of Diversity for Motorola in Europe. Furthermore, European Diversity Research & Consulting compiled a very effective and innovative presentation as part of an information package for our line managers.
KfW | Richard Kufferath-Sieberin, Director HR Policy, 11/2013
KfW goes through a holistic modernisation process targeted on strategic focus, professionalisation, efficiency and customer orientation. This also includes corporate culture and in 2012 the KfW Executive Board approved a gender balance concept as one key element of this renewal process, which was honoured with the German Human Resources Management Award in 2013. I thank Michael Stuber for his professional support in the design and the adoption of that KfW framework. Michael Stuber combines high technical and methodological expertise with authentic persuasion. With this skill-set he has consistently focused on the alignment of our gender balance concept to the sustainable cultural change process. At the same time, he also recognised requirements in other areas at KfW and hence contributed to a credible integration of gender balance in the overall modernisation.
