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…
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…
To all extraordinary women, business partners, colleagues and friends – whether they are starting or leading companies, advancing science or enduring hardship in conflict zones – your strength, resilience and determination show us a path forward. Your stories inspire us to overcome borders, defend democracy and build a world of equality. We feel honored to…
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…
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…
The networking and exchange of experiences with Ukrainian businesswomen will continue in the digital event “Crisis Management Experiences from NEDS in Ukraine” on February 16, 2024. Hosted by Women on Boards Ukraine | WoB.ua and the Berlin School of Economics and Law / HWR. Here is the link to the event (English). The co-founder of…
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…
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…
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…
In times of great upheaval and economic, ecological and political uncertainty, business decisions become a challenge. Because the contexts in which decisions have to be made are becoming increasingly complex. If we want or have to decide, we look for orientation. We try to apply rules. Here, rules do not only mean fixed instructions that…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
In May 2023, the event “Skilled crafts make things happen – Successes in development cooperation” was organized by the German Confederation of Skilled Crafts (ZDH) in cooperation with the Business Scouts for Development / giz and sequa gGmbH. Master craftsmen from different trades discussed with each other and with the BMZ about the successes and…
Where work is a passion and job is a vocation, there is often a contrary phenomenon: deadlocked group crises. Because flat hierarchies, working at eye level and flexible roles can not only empower and motivate, but also block a team or even make it unable to act. How can that be, even though there is…
Congratulations to all award winners for their great work, and especially to the compassorange consultant Dr. Philine Erfurt-Sandhu, who is at the forefront of anchoring diversity in management, executive boards and supervisory boards. Photo: pexels-cottonbro-studio
When management positions are filled, the willingness to take risks factor is often an assumed indicator in favor of the male applicant: a current, continuing study result (Helena Fornwanger et al, University of Exeter) from behavioral economics points to a twist worth considering here: the risk-taking, competitive orientation and altruism of cis men, cis women…
Anyone who wants to attract and retain PoCs as employees must deal with racism as a system, because racism from society has an impact on organizations. As a starting point, compassorange consultant Judy Gummich therefore recommends that organizations do not ask “are we racist?”, but “which racist structures are at work in our organization”? Unconscious…
In the online lunch talk of the Viadrina program “Women take the lead” designed by compassorange on January 20th, 2023, program participants discussed with Dr. Arn Sauer, co-director of the Federal Foundation for Equality on the following questions: What prevents and what promotes shared management? What are the respective advantages and disadvantages and which framework…
Congratulations dr Philine Sandhu on the presentation of the second exciting study “Investors4Diversity” in the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ)! The new study sheds light on how many more investors have been demanding diversity in the top committees of German, listed companies in recent years, beyond the legal requirements,…
We congratulate! compassorange consultant Julia Sujin Noël (JSN) received a Landecker Democracy Fellowship for the Postmigrant Powerhouse concept and is supported in the implementation by Humanity in Action. Whether in politics and administration, in positions of economic power or other positions with social influence: in the existing structures in Germany there is a glaring lack…
In most companies, it is still predominantly men who hold managerial positions. In order to promote equality, they have not been given enough attention so far – but they are needed as important actors. What motivates male leaders to get involved? What are you already doing for more equality and what challenges are you dealing…
Innogründerinnen: For the first time, the results of the research “Women-friendly universities and colleges for Germany” were presented in an expert hearing by Dr. Tanja Schmidt, INES Berlin presented on November 4th, 2022 in Berlin. Together with experts from science and start-up advice, potentials, supportive framework conditions and hurdles were discussed. In the next step,…
A discourse & networking event for female founders and angel investors. Expectations of politics, wishes and demands for a founder-friendly start – up ecosystem, among other things INES Analytics GmbH / Institute for Empirical Social and Economiccommunity research, dr Tanja Schmidt and Dr. Verena Tobsch , (strategic partner of compassorange), valupa GmbH, Ulrike Böttcher and…
On October 25, 2022, Patricia Redzewsky and Dr. Claudia Neusüß provide a digital interactive input on the topic: How do stereotypes and prejudices show up in everyday work and how do they influence professional development? How will recruiting and performance appraisal become inclusive, diverse and gender-focused? The organizer is Mission Female. Interested parties can register…
Congratulations to our strategic partners Dr. Tanja Schmidt and Dr. Verena Tobsch | Ines Analytics for the Digital Female Leader Award! Fair_Solution offers a highly innovative science-based software tool for companies and organizations that analyzes working conditions and shows options for fair working conditions. Coordinates such as payment, promotion, recruitment, and diversity, equal opportunities and…
On June 24, 20022, the 3rd alumnae conference of the supervisory board program at the School of Economics and Law (HWR) took place under the academic direction of Dr. Philine Sandhu (3rd from left, standing), HWR and consultant at compassorange. dr Claudia Neusüß (bottom left), compassorange is the head coach in the program. The meeting…
In a conference at the invitation of the bga (Federal Female Founders Agency) in September 2021, almost 400 experts from public and private business and start-up support institutions discussed the importance of the topics sustainability and corporate succession for the improved support of female founders. The conference was moderated by Linnea Riensberg, compassorange. One of…
In cooperation with the equal opportunities department of Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder, a management program for women will start in 2022 Key questions: Co-creation leadership: How can contemporary, diversity-oriented leadership look like and how can it succeed? What constitutes leadership competence? The program takes the form of a learning journey and lasts one…
The EuropaCamp of the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius invites you on 26. and 27. April 2019 to various workshops, lectures, discussions, plays and performances. In focus: getting involved and participating, together with representatives from politics, science, art and culture, business and the media. For democracy cannot be taken for granted. Also there is…
The Berlin Gründerinnenzentrale (female entrepreneur center) invites you to the online forum “Entrepreneur – of course!”. The digital format deals with questions of entrepreneurial activity and what women can do to become and remain successful entrepreneurs. With inspiring female entrepreneurs – for women who want to strengthen their self-confidence and their role as entrepreneurs. When?:…
Life Design operationalises agile methods from design, communication sciences and software development for the area of personal life planning. The basic principles are self-exploration according to the principle of design thinking, i.e. curiosity, openness to results, radical collaboration and the development and testing of prototypes. Dr. Claudia Neusüß and Matilda Moore from compass orange are…
The topic was “Gender-Equal University – Shaping Power in Female-led Top Positions”. Mentoring Hessen hosted a group of prominent figures: the Hessian Minister of Science, Angela Dorn , the Presidents of the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Prof. Dr. Brigitta Wolff , the Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Tanja Brühl and the Philipps University of…
How can we use artificial intelligence to draw attention to and combat discrimination experienced by female founders and entrepreneurs? Experts* from the fields of start-up research, gender equality, communication/aesthetics and programming work together in the KITE project think tank to develop ideas to explore the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in combating discrimination. The KITE…
The further training program of the same name for current and prospective supervisory board members will start in June 2019. It is based at the Berlin Professional School of the Berlin School of Economics and Law. The program is aimed at women who are interested in a mandate on a supervisory board or who want…
We pilot, accompany and advise your mentoring programs for career development of (young) managers, in science, public institutions, institutions of development cooperation or in the private sector. As internal, external, reverse or cross mentoring. In English or German. Digital, hybrid or in presence. Gender equality and diversity issues are integrated into all individual formats as…