Levelling up your ESG practices with a Diversity and Inclusion lens: What, Why, How

Join PWC and Diversify for a conversation on “Levelling up your ESG practices with a Diversity and Inclusion lens: What, Why, How” on October 20, from 8.30 to 10.00 CEST at PWC office on Dronning Eufemias gate 71, 0194 Oslo. 

Our speakers for the session are: Magna Kristine Sørum Saure (She/Her), Senior Manager at PWC Oslo, Chisom Udeze (She/Her), DEIB strategist, Economist, Founder of Diversify and HerSpace, Ingrid Fladberg Brucker (She/Her), Director / Head of Employment Law at PWC Oslo, and Iva Ogrizovic (She/Her), Program Director at Diversify.

This event is FREE to attend and will be held in person. Please register HERE.

Speakers:

Magna Kristine Sørum Saure (She/Her) | Senior Manager, PWC Oslo

Magna works as a DIB consultant at PwC in Oslo, and supports both PwC and its clients. She specialises in how companies can succeed with DIB through a whole system change focus, ensuring that DIB is more than a set of symbolic initiatives.

Ingrid Fladberg Brucker (She/Her) | Director / Head of Employment Law at PWC Oslo

Ingrid is a lawyer and the head of the Work Life team at PwC Law Firm. She has close to 15 years experience working with employment and non-discrimination law, and is a popular speaker and a published author.

Chisom Udeze (She/Her) | DEIB strategist, Economist, Founder of Diversify and HerSpace

Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders.

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.

Iva Ogrizovic (She/Her) | Program Director, Diversify

Iva holds a Master’s in Philosophy and Comparative Literature and in her home country, Croatia, she mostly worked as a freelancer in culture event management (film and music festivals) and in production (theater and TV). For the past three years of living in Norway she has been working for a non profit organisation, Diversify, as a Program Director. Here she co-designs and manages programs for skilled immigrants addressing the difficulties they face when trying to secure relevant employment. The programs center on entrepreneurship, mentorship and professional development. Her work also involves supporting Diversify’s DEIB consultancy and training. Iva is passionate about professional and personal development and empowering people to realize and use their potential to make positive changes in their lives.