D&I Stakeholders & Audiences rediscovered (Trilogy)
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* (now Covestro), BayWa, BayWa r.e.*, Bosch Engineering, Commerzbank*, Deutsche Bank*, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom*, E.ON*, Evonik*, GEA Group*, IKEA, Infineon*, KfW, Merck*, Metro*, PageGroup Germany, RWE*, Siemens Healthineers*, Volkswagen AutoUni*, Volkswagen Bank
- European Clients: Airbus/EADS, Arup Ireland, AXA Winterthur, BP, Credit Suisse, Generali Schweiz, HSBC, Infineon, PageGroup Netherlands, Sandoz, SBB, Swiss Post, Swisscom, TX Group, TX Markets, 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, Diaconia Gallneukirchen, Federal Office for Labour, IMS Luxembourg, 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
TX Group | Pascal Krapf, Senior HR Consultant, 12/2020
Michael Stuber identified key business priorities in each of our operating companies and proposed relevant linkages with future D&I initiatives. He also showed the need to tie D&I more closely to our identity and embed it in our shared culture as well as HR processes and tools. Going further, Michael's expertise guides us to additional key considerations by uncovering and subsequently addressing hidden biases and dynamics through focus group interviews.
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.
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.
Siemens Healthineers | Bernd Zimmermann, Global Head of OD, 09/2020
Michael Stuber is one of the few consultants who approaches D&I from a holistic organisational development perspective and can advise and accompany an international corporation. His broad experience and organisational diagnostic competence help us to identify what is really important or effective. His participative, strategic and future-focused style quickly creates constructive conversations in the organisation and nurtures fast and sustainable change. I have always greatly appreciated working with him as he brings smart thinking, profound experience and a soul to his projects.
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.
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.
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.
Airbus Group | Suzanne Lewis, Head of D&I, 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.
TX Markets | Jeremy Seitz, CTO, 11/2021
At TX Markets, we chose European Diversity to support us in diversity training with the technology leaders across our companies, including Tutti, Ricardo and Homegate. Michael was awesome to work with, he created a structured approach that allowed us to have open and thoughtful conversations about many important and difficult topics. He led us to design our own approach for improving diversity in a collaborative way. With so much experience and knowledge in the topic, he was able to guide us on a journey that fostered open-mindedness, a feeling of psychological safety, and a business-focused approach that was not bound by politics or corporate-speak. This approach helped us tackle real issues: how we can build and retain a more diverse workforce and leadership to help accelerate our innovation and tech goals.
Arup Ireland | D&I Team, 10/2017
Michael Stuber worked with us at Arup Ireland to review our current D&I programme. We found Michael to be insightful, organised and very knowledgeable. Michael’s great strength lies in his face-to-face communication skills and his ability to communicate complex D&I topics to any audience. Michael is able to quickly pick up on themes and underlying issues that may be more difficult for those working ‘in the business’ to see. His findings acted as a catalyst to the next step of our D&I journey.
Global D&I Congress | Nina Woodard, Conference Chair, 03/20217
I had the privilege of working with Michael as a part of the World HRD Congress 25th Anniversary Diversity and Inclusion program. Michael prepared a special kick off program for the event that was very inspirational and helped us start the day on the right note. His fact based insights are very impactful and an asset to any diversity and inclusion program by insuring that the bottom line impacts are visible and real. He is very dedicated to meeting the needs of the conference or program and to being able to customize and still beautifully maintain the integrity of his work.
BayWa r.e. | Céline Tran, MD France & Global DEI Sponsor, 12/2021
Michael has been a key enabler to organise our DEI journey. His experience and expertise combined with a very clear way of expressing his thoughts and recommendations have been highly valuable to define our DEI strategy and action plans as well as to prepare for senior management meetings. His investment in getting to know our organization and our HR processes allowed him to leverage the existing processes as ground foundations for further actions and define additional tailormade DEI initiatives. His interactions with senior management, through interviews, individual coaching or management trainings, were very relevant and impactful. It has been a pleasure working alongside with Michael over several months on diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
SBB | Regula Rütti, Leiterin Diversity & Inclusion, 12/2017
Michael Stuber hat mich und mein Team nicht nur mit seiner Fachkompetenz und seiner immensen Erfahrung beeindruckt, er verfügt auch über die entwicklungsfördernde Fähigkeit, eine Organisation, deren Ressourcen sowie die anstehenden Herausforderungen rasch zu erfassen. Er ist ein brillanter Diagnostiker mit ganzheitlichem Ansatz, ein flexibler Macher und bei Bedarf auch ein anspruchsvoller Querdenker. Er erkennt Zusammenhänge und Ursachen, klärt Erwartungen, präzisiert Ziele, nimmt auch pointiert Stellung, hinterfragt kritisch, regt zu Selbstreflexion an und eröffnet Handlungs- und Denkräume. Ungleich Besser ist eine gute Adresse, wenn Sie und Ihr Unternehmen in Sachen Diversity & Inclusion einen massgeblichen Schritt vorwärts kommen wollen!
Bayer MaterialScience | Maud Wiedemann & Dr. Christine Mendoza-Frohn, Tandem lead of the global Diversity & Inclusion initiative, 2012-2013
We highly appreciate Michael Stuber being an integral member of our Diversity & Inclusion core team at Bayer MaterialScience. From the beginning of our cooperation, he has been listening to the status achieved so far and contributed with his broad experience and as a knowledgeable subject matter expert. He supports our initiative with high customer-orientation and flexibility according to specific ad-hoc as well as long-term needs. The fruitful cooperation is not only related to the field of Diversity & Inclusion itself but embraces as well change management for sustainable achievements.
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. We first worked under his guidance on a bottom-up approach in which we engaged our supply chain operator population in a dialogue. 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, we trained our total supervisory population. 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.
