I am a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University.

In my research, I focus on how and why employees who are different than most of their colleagues (i.e., different than the norm) feel less included. In my studies, employees can indicate how exactly they are different (e.g., personality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation), and I find that as employees indicate differences on more dimensions, they feel less included. For example, employees who are different on both ethnicity and gender feel less included than employees who are different on only ethnicity or only gender.

Furthermore, I find that the organizational climate is an important factor: In an inclusive climate, everyone feels included, regardless of their dissimilarities.

Nina Strassner started her career as certified Lawyer for Labour Law for ten years, holding a Masters Degree in IT and IP Law and as a trained Businessmediator and Arbitrator before she joined SAPs Management in 2019. In her current role as "Global Head of People Initiatives and Impact" at SAP, she is responsible for the Leadership Development of HR Directors and their Project Managers in shaping the cultural identities in their regions, servicing and assisting them on matter of "leading with impact" as their trusted advisor in this regard, leading a great team of experts. Before she was Head of Diversity and People Programs for SAP for Germanys 23.000 Employees. She is the current Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of the "Charta der Vielfalt" in Germany since 2021.

After graduating from Sciences Po in 2006, Yann TANGUY joined Accenture as a consultant in organizational transformation and discovered NGOs through voluntary programs.

His interest in the dynamics of NGOs towards vulnerable populations, corporate social responsibility, and civic engagement, has never left him.

In 2011, he became project manager for the CEO of “Action Contre la Faim”, then joined SFR Group in 2013 as Executive Director of the corporate foundation and then Director of CSR.

On a voluntary basis, he is Treasurer of Emmaüs Connect (NGO working on digital inclusion).

In 2020, he was appointed Executive Director of the Les entreprises pour la Cité network and General Secretary of the Diversity Charter.