Michael Stuber: The DE&I Engineer who shapes culture and leadership

From Insight to Impact: Engineering Diverse Cultures and Inclusive Leadership

“For over 25 years, I have worked with global corporations to turn people and culture into drivers of performance. As The D&I Engineer, I develop tailored activities that bridge complexity with clarity—connecting data with discourse, and identity with impact.”

Unlike most providers, Michael brings a unique combination of evidence-based insight, activist energy, and strategic change competence. This enables our clients to advance leadership and culture in complex and sometimes polarised environments.

A proven track record across roles and regions

Outstanding Experience: Over 400 customised projects in 20+ countries across 4 continents. From global D&I strategy reviews and cultural audits to ESG-aligned roadmaps and success measurement frameworks.

Workshops & Training: Interactive and reflective learning formats for executives, management teams, and employees. Including leadership learning journes, conscious inclusion sessions, and bias interventions.

Speaking & Publishing: 150+ events, 5 books, and the DiversityMine—recognised among the global Top 10 D&I blogs. Topics include the business case, leadership & culture, strategy & tools, and HR as well as individual DE&I topics.

Research & Innovation: Author of several D&I models, including the Propelling Performance Principle value-chain, Unconscious Biases or gender diversity. Researcher of performance effects of DE&I, unconscious biases, international implementation of DE&I and corporate DE&I practices and gaps.

Unique strengths and differentiators

Strategic depth: From stakeholder mapping to maturity models and engagement gap analyses
Analytical clarity: Diagnostic precision paired with meta-insight from 20+ studies and hundreds of blog and external articles
Practical relevance: Direct integration with your business model, industry context, and cultural heritage
Cultural intelligence: Experience across sectors and with highly diverse teams and countries

What You Can Expect (full quotes below)

“Michael helped our Executive Committee see the strategic value of D&I – with impressive clarity and credibility.”
“Brilliant workshops with open, honest conversations. Made difficult topics truly workable.”
“Michael’s holistic approach and diagnostic expertise made our D&I strategy truly future-ready.”

Current Focus Areas (2025 and Beyond)

Consciously inclusive leadership – grounded in business needs and current context
Culture reviews & change facilitation – adapted to industry, maturity and organisational scope
DE&I re-positioning – from compliance or activism to holistic progress and strategic advantage for all stakeholders
Future-focused training – deep, activating and development-oriented
Sparring & support for CXOs – to align action with personal background, professional dynamics and purpose

ENGINEERING D&I.

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Whether you are rethinking your DE&I approach, launching a culture change, or looking for senior-level sparring: I bring you the missing piece that turns insight into progress and ambition into traction.

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RATIONAL | Verena Haertle, Head of People Development, 12/2023

Consistently framing Diversity & Inclusion in our business context has enabled us at RATIONAL to adopt a broad, holistic approach to the topic. This is creating a new kind of awareness and pronounced openness across all levels to actively engage in further cultural change. Michael Stuber facilitates this process with his critical view, strategic vision and with a convenient style all of which helps us to progress significantly. It is also a real pleasure working with him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RWE | Alison Chappell, Chief Diversity Officer, 2008

European Diversity brought many important strengths to our programme of Diversity focus groups and workshops. Particularly important to us were their depth of experience in the German market; their ability to offer seamless service across Germany, the UK and Central Europe; the thought leadership offered by Michael Stuber as programme leader, and the fact that all aspects of the programme were closely managed by Michael himself, ensuring quality and consistency.

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.

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.

Bosch Engineering | Juanita Jordan, Head of HR, 2010

Mr. Stuber supported us very well with his extensive experience in Diversity. His "Propelling Principle" helps us to move the topic of Diversity forward within our organization. We thank European Diversity Research & Consulting for the good cooperation.

HP | Eva Faenger, Diversity Manager HP Germany, 06/2010

Michael Stuber is often referred to as the “Diversity Guru”. I definitely agree with regard to his profound diversity expertise and knowledge, huge network and ample experiences in implementing diversity concepts in global companies. He is very pragmatic, focused and straight-forward in his consulting. His concept of the Propelling Potential Principle is very effective as it combines a clear sense of what is needed to make progress and to create change.

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.

Vodafone | Elke Kopp, Diversity Manager, 03/2011

Due to the professional support of Michael Stuber our 'Gender-Diversity-Day' was a great success.

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.

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.

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.

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