News & insights from compassorange

The women are ambitious and fit. Is the academic world a good fit?

That was one of the key questions of the “Learning Journey – Women in Leadership. Co-creation Leadership” (2022-23) at the European University Viadrina. Dr. Claudia Neusüß (programme head), Bastian Bretthauer, Patricia Redzewsky and our wonderful swarm partner Deborah Ruggieri accompanied the programme with great joy. The concept explicitly focused on leadership and leadership culture as…

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Swarm evening: Theory U and embodiment

We will meet on March 20, 2024 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in person in the conference area of ​​WeiberWirtschaft eG in Berlin , together with Lukas Herrmann and moderated by Dr. Claudia Neusüß , to discuss ideas on Theory U and Embodiment (according to Otto Scharmer) and test out selectively. What potential does…

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Addressing the gender pay gap in 2024 as well

Pay equity stands for fairness and job satisfaction. The Gender Pay Gap (GPG) is unfair. It’s good that legislators are also constantly dealing with this in order to create a better normative framework. Around a year ago, the European Parliament and Council passed the Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970, which aims to further close the GPG…

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Outstanding: Dr. Philine Sandhu

Dr. Philine Sandhu is researching how more diversity can be introduced and maintained in management positions, executive boards and supervisory boards. More diversity promotes better risk management and better ESG performance in companies, she explains in the Berlin University of Science and Law podcast . Philine Sandhu was recently named one of the leading 100…

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Happy New Year

Here’s to a new year full of action. What we can do? Exchange ideas, pool skills, broaden perspectives. Overcome obstacles together. In good company. We look forward to working together and exchanging ideas with you this year! Let’s make change.   “I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing…

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Zweifeln als Talk & Walk des Führungsalltags

Führungskräfte wollen die Kreativität, Diversität und Eigenständigkeit von Teammitgliedern und Mitarbeiter*innen unterstützen. Sie wollen Innovation und einen sichtbaren, nachhaltigen Wandel der Organisation ermöglichen. Gleichzeitig agieren sie häufig unter großem Zeit-, Effizienz- und Ergebnisdruck. Wie können Führungskräfte entscheiden, ohne gleichermaßen relevante Dimension zu vernachlässigen? Mit dem französischen Philosophen Jaques Derrida kommen wir hierbei nicht ohne Zweifel…

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AI think tank for female entrepreneurs

KITE II has gained momentum. The AI-supported application to be developed in the KITE project is intended to support female founders in becoming more resilient in dealing with discriminatory experiences in the start-up process. At the first advisory board meeting in an extended circle with the new project management by Nicola Marsden Lab for Social…

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Empowerment of Ukrainian women entrepreneurs

We are pleased to support the empowerment of Ukrainian women entrepreneurs and their market access to the European Union, even in times of the Russian war of aggression. Claudia Neusüß & Sabine Hübner from the compassorange team support the conception, speakers and implementation of the “Women in Business” event with giz / giz Ukraine .…

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What moves the experts in our swarm? Jana Hornberger about spaces for a new way of working together

As an independent trainer, consultant, coach and process facilitator, I am primarily concerned with the question of how we can learn to interact constructively and benevolently with one another and how we can succeed in sustainably changing societal structures of inequality and discrimination. I am committed to a society in which connection and constructive cooperation…

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Female Career Days 2023

The hybrid Career Days also met with great interest in 2023. The Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg organized the Career Days with partner institutions, including the German Research Foundation and the Female Scientist Network. The welcoming speech was given by Prof. Dr. Daniela Dieterich (Dean of the Medical Faculty, OVGU). Organization and inputs from Dr.…

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Empowering Ukrainian Businesswomen in Export Sector

Ukrainian businesswomen working in the export sector are welcomed to participate in the #WomenInBusinessInspirationalTalks on November 2, 2023. The talks take place to stimulate the empowerment of the sector’s businesswomen and their market access to the European Union, even in times of the Russian war of aggression. In collaboration with giz and giz Ukraine Claudia…

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Feminist leadership

Feminist foreign policy is discussed a lot, thanks in part to Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and author and activist Kristina Lunz, co-CEO of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy. But feminist leadership? Feminist leadership does not describe women in leadership positions. It’s more about questioning common attitudes and translating feminist principles into forms of…

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Katrin Unger moderating: women start a business, digitally and sustainably

In the 2nd expert hearing of the project “Female founders promote green business”, organized by bundesweite gründerinnenagentur (bga), women brought together their concentrated (practical) know-how about founding, digitization and sustainability. Because women are already rocking a lot in social enterprises, reports the German Entrepreneurship Monitor, but are underrepresented in the start-up scene. Senior consultant Katrin…

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#Equality Now!

On July 1, 2023, Martha Büllesbach, Head of the Women’s and Equal Opportunities Policy/Organization Department of the DGB district of Bavaria, and Lida Andric-Geuder from her team invited trade unionists from DGB district and city associations to a summer retreat. Goal of the retreat: Strengthen the participation of women on a full-time and voluntary level,…

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Open workshop on “Studying with Disabilities”

A large part of the impairments of students are not visible. Eleven percent of students at German universities state that they have an impairment that makes their studies difficult. Of these, only four percent relate to movement restrictions. However, 53 percent have psychological impairments and 20 percent bring chronic somatic diseases with them. Restrictions that…

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Tracing Othering

We never tire of talking about the concept of othering. Because othering is omnipresent. In armed conflicts, such as the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the rejection of “Western” values, in professional and in private contexts. We understand othering as an attitude and as a process in which a distinction is made between…

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Fight gender-based violence!

This year’s Anne Klein Women’s Prize went to Joumana Seif. The Syrian lawyer fights for human and women’s rights, for women’s participation and for the recognition of gender-based violence as a crime against humanity. dr Imme Scholz, board member of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, honored the award winner, Lotte Leicht, a lawyer specializing in international…

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Look! Current exhibition: Moving Times, Moving Spaces

Judy Gummich, a consultant at compassorange with a focus on diversity and inclusion, is involved in this wonderful, multifaceted and important exhibition. The text of the announcement sums it up: “Eight stories about racism, classism, lesbian and queer hostility, about exclusions in your own lesbian*, queer and BIPOC communities, about strategies to draw strength and…

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Film Tips: Diversity in Hollywood

In our diversity work, we also use (moving) images time and again, or encourage people to look together in our swarm community from the perspective of diversity. dr Regine Schönenberg, senior consultant at compassorange and life design coach, commented on three films: “Don’t look up, The power of the Dog and Dune are the most…

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Movie tip: The Peanut Butter Falcon

Inclusion movie tip: The Penaut Butter Falcon tells the story of Zak, a young adult with Down Syndrome who aspires to become a famous wrestler. With this movie, Zack Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, makes his Hollywood debut as a lead actor. Jonas Sippel from the inclusive Berlin theater RambaZamba dubbed the role. He…

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