Making progress and reaping benefits requires real change

Like all change approaches, D&I strategies must evolve with your organisational maturity level and context. D&I must be relevant, aligned and impactful. A task that goes far beyond inspired action planning.

D&I strategies sometimes appear simplistic: They might cover thematic areas or generic implementation approaches. In these cases, a lack of commitment or even reservations are wide-spread. Our D&I strategy development or reviews therefore focus on linking D&I to corporate priorities and to existing management tools. Acceptance and support confirm the approach.

Strategic design: different perspectives – strong positioning – high relevance

D&I can only make a tangible contribution to your strategy if it has a clearly relevant value proposition. Our analyses show which positioning makes sense – from an evidence-based perspective. Whether initial design, revision or maturing D&I strategies: Our robust expertise and internationally proven methodologies identify where your approach can be further improved. With strategy reviews we achieve high acceptance and new commitment among your stakeholders.

Synergetic implementation: deeper insights – more effective approaches – new energy

When the momentum or enthusiasm for your D&I work diminishes, new connections must to be created. Win-win partnerships with leadership or cultural initiatives, new communication and specific offers for the business are among our successful approaches to gain buy-in for your D&I programmes.

“We have to bring back the ‘Change’ into D&I” from the Mumbai Trilogy, Michael Stuber

The mission of change: Ambitious goals – necessary changes – clear impact

A number of D&I programs have became household activities and often lost their inspiring effect along the way. Without the ambition to make processes and cultures more effective and to achieve tangible progress, D&I risks to become a window-dressing accessory. That is why we design D&I as a change topic that promises and delivers measurable progress and adds value.

Implementation: Clear – consistent – consequent

Your company has valuable resources for implementing ambitious D&I programs, too. With our approaches these can be identified and activated:

Strategically focused work with management and leadership teams
The culturally oriented involvement of employees and multipliers
A robust approach to measuring the success of D&I
The continuous further qualification of D&I experts as change champions

ENGINEERING D&I.

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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.

E.ON | Sven Rudloff, Group HR Policy, 10/2005

E.ON emerged from different companies, so that Diversity is key to the integration of our group on the one hand, and it is part of our corporate identity OneE.ON on the other hand. In bringing together experts and concepts from the U.S. and Europe, European Diversity Research & Consulting proved their competence in intercultural presentation and in facilitating our global development process. The expertise of European Diversity Consulting provides valuable assistance in the design and implementation of Diversity events and meetings.

Johnson & Johnson | Mieke Smet, Director Global Talent Management, 2008

In Johnson&Johnson we worked together with Michael Stuber to set up a European Diversity Strategy Meeting. Michael is the kind of consultant who knows exactly how to deal with balancing external input and internal visibility and ownership. He supports you when you have a leading role, he understands very clearly how to help, how to move forward without putting himself in the spotlight. He understands the dynamics of the business and is very sensitive to all kind of different people to work with. To be very clear: he himself behaves in a very inclusive way.

HP | Eva Faenger, Diversity Manager HP Germany, 10/2010

Last year we launched a change process in order to focus our diversity activities and release new potentials. Mr. Stuber accompanied this process with great professionalism. His extensive technical and methodological expertise, his experience with countless other global companies, his clarity and openness as well as his holistic approach has convinced us. With "head, heart and hand", he has helped us to bring the launch of this comprehensive process to success.

Bayer HealthCare | Corinna Dawkins, Vice President HR, 01/2011

With Michael Stuber as the leading figure in this consulting company you can count on 15+ years of competence and insights in the D&I endeavours of the industry, helping you to set direction in your own organization.

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.

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.

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.

HSBC | Nicole Sucha-Basra, Learning, Talent, Resourcing & Organisational Development Continental Europe, 2013

European Diversity has been supporting our HSBC Continental Europe D&I Committee since January 2012. Their international experience and knowledge of the external market was hugely valuable to our business and HR members of the committee. As a consultant, Michael Stuber has helped us finding effective approaches, also in the restructuring of that committee to make it more action focused as well as aligned with business and corporate frameworks. We are grateful for the support and look forward to continue working together in our efforts to increase diversity across the organisation and help drive engagement through inclusion.

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.

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.

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