Creating an
Inclusive Culture
– Amsterdam
In-Person | Tuesday 1 July 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
15.00 – 18.00 CEST
Event
While, creating a diverse and inclusive workforce is as important as ever; the bigger task is developing and embedding an inclusive culture that both delivers high performance and enables people to feel they belong, regardless how you define diversity.
This event will explore what inclusivity means in today’s context, what distinguishes inclusive teams from others, what we know about building inclusive cultures in practice and what has and hasn’t worked.
Learning Objectives
- Understand how inclusivity and organisational performance are connected.
- Identify habits and behaviours that support inclusivity and highlight those which work against it.
- Consider the implications for team and manager development.
- Set out practical actions HR, OD and D&I practitioners can take to create and sustain a culture that’s both inclusive and high performing.
Who is this event for?
HR, OD and D&I practitioners with responsibility for organisation, team and leadership development.
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Location
Pestana Amsterdam Riverside
Amsteldijk 67, 1074 HZ Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Speaker
Dr. Wanda Wallace
Managing Partner Leadership Forum, Inc.
Dr. Wanda Wallace, Managing Partner of Leadership Forum, helps leaders and teams improve the quality of their conversations in every aspect of organisational life from team debate to inclusivity, career goals, feedback cultures and strategic insight. Better conversations result in better relationships which lead to better performance.
Wanda speaks, coaches, conducts seminars and works with top teams in global corporations around the world.She is passionate about helping leaders recognise the choices they have, see the consequences, take control of their careers and build more inclusive teams.
With her latest book, she draws on her experience watching men and women transition to more senior roles where the team knows more than the leader. This can be a trap for expert executors transitioning to roles with a greater span of responsibility. You Can’t Know It All:Leading in an Age of Deep Expertiseexplains what to do when it’s time to step outside of your comfort zone.
Dr. Wallace has forged close relationships with a number of blue-chip clients across many industries such as those in health care (AbbVie, GlaxoSmithKline, LifeScienceDynamics, Medtronic, Merck), insurance (Allianz Group, MetLife, Prudential, BCBSNC), manufacturing (Siemens, Ford Motor Company, amsOsram, Navistar, Kennametal, UPM, Ledvance), financial services (AllianceBernstein, American Express, Blackrock, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan
Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, HSBC), accounting (Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers), legal (Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, Norton Rose, Dentons), hospitality (Four Seasons), telecommunications (Ericsson, British Telecom, Vodafone) and oil and gas (British Petroleum). She has also worked with start-ups.
As a consultant and educator who is equally at ease in the distinct worlds of business and research, she is an integrator of ideas, putting the best of what she sees to practical application. She also is the author of Reaching the Top, Factors that Impact the Careers and Retention of Senior Women Leaders along two reports co-authored with Corporate Research Forum entitled Diversity and Business Performance (2011) and Developing and Broadening Specialists (2012). In addition, she hosts a weekly podcast entitled ‘Out of the Comfort Zone’. She describes her podcast as her learning lab where she explores new ideas in collaboration with leading thinkers and integrates those ideas into her practice.
Dr. Wallace received her Ph.D. from the Psychology Department at Duke University with special emphasis on cognitive and thought processes. Prior to founding Leadership Forum, she was an associate professor in Marketing and then Associate Dean of Executive Education at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and Executive Vice President at Duke Corporate
