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What my clients say

Vodafone D2 | Yasmin Wateler, Diversity Manager, 2012
It was a pleasure working with Michael Stuber. Indeed a resourceful and inspiring session with insightful analysis. I would recommend European Diversity to companies which are keen to capture and realise the value of diversity be it in the workplace, marketplace or consumer space and more importantly gender balanced leadership.
Bayer MaterialScience | Dr. Tony van Osselaer, Executive Committee Member, 2013
Michael Stuber has contributed to develop a very specific Bayer MaterialScience storyline, (...) supporting the execution of our business strategy. Through his experience (...) he has been and is a valuable sparring partner with high credibility for our top leaders as well as the members of the Executive Committee.
TX Group | Pascal Krapf, Senior HR Consultant, 12/2020
Michael Stuber identified key business priorities in each of our operating companies and proposed relevant linkages with future D&I initiatives. He also showed the need to tie D&I more closely to our identity and embed it in our shared culture as well as HR processes and tools. Going further, Michael's...
Credit Suisse | Eva Ingold, Head Diversity and Inclusion, Oktober 2007
Nobody in Europe is more profoundly acquainted with Diversity as Michael Stuber. He creatively co-designed the ‘Diversity & Inclusion Switzerland’ conference and his facilitation was both energetic and empathetic.
Swisscom | Elena Folini, Head of HR P&M, 08/2019
After a few years of internal work and insight, Michael Stuber's external professional perspective, profound expertise and long-standing experience have significantly helped us to analyse our situation holistically and with all dependencies and to redesign our approach focused on vision, strategy, processes and culture in a change-oriented way. With targeted...
Jansen Supply Chain (Johnson & Johnson) | Ellen Driesen, HR Director, 03/2017
Michael Stuber is a passionate guide and role model in the space of leadership & culture. We first worked under his guidance on a bottom-up approach in which we engaged our supply chain operator population in a dialogue. Based on this population’s feedback, the need was very clear to create...
Commerzbank | Uwe Tschäge, Dpty President of the Supervisory Board, 2013
We have known Michael Stuber as an knowledgable consultant and moderator for years. Due to his experience and personality we also had the pleasure to have him as a moderator of very hetereogeneous panels - with great success.
SBB | Judith Renevey, Head of D&I, 02/2019
In the summer of 2018, SBB successfully introduced 'D&I for management teams', a new format reflecting a holistic D&I approach. The co-conception with European Diversity has proven very successful. Using a train-the-trainer approach with detailed qualification of the facilitators, the offer consists of a learning process, tied to business priorities...
BayWa r.e. | Céline Tran, MD France & Global DEI Sponsor, 12/2021
Michael has been a key enabler to organise our DEI journey. His experience and expertise combined with a very clear way of expressing his thoughts and recommendations have been highly valuable to define our DEI strategy and action plans as well as to prepare for senior management meetings. His investment...
Global HRD Congress | Nina Woodard, Conference Chair, 03/20217
I had the privilege of working with Michael as a part of the World HRD Congress 25th Anniversary Diversity and Inclusion program. Michael prepared a special kick off program for the event that was very inspirational and helped us start the day on the right note. His fact based insights...
Sandoz Group Germany | Hermann Hofmann, Head Public Affairs & Communications, 2011
Michael Stuber significantly helped to further develop our Diversity & Inclusion strategy. Particularly valuable was the combination of experience and knowledge of different options and constellations. Cooperating with Michael Stuber in the strategy development was just as inspiring as motivating. It has helped to increase the top managements' commitment once...
Symantec | Fernando Serpa, Global Manager Diversity and Inclusion, Symantec (Januar 2005), 01/2005
As part of our Global strategy, Symantec has created councils led by a local champion at our sites throughout Europe. Michael Stuber has assisted us in preparing and carrying out successful work meetings with our local partners while effectively acknowledging European and national specifics. He has shown professionalism, expertise and...
SBB | Regula Rütti, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, 12/2017
Michael Stuber impressed me and my team not only with his expertise and abundant experience, he also quickly understands an organisation, its resources and pending challenges in a way that supports progress. He is a brilliant analyser with a holistic approach, an adaptive implementer and - when needed - an...
Evonik | Dr. Katrin Schmallenbach, VP HR, 10/2019
European Diversity supported Evonik in three strategic projects. Michael Stuber's expertise, his experienced and critical perspective on the specifics of our company and his in-depth understanding of the relevant issues had a major impact on our work. This applied both to cultural, process and strategic analyses as well as the...
Generali Schweiz | Jean-Pierre Schmid, CHRO, 11/2018
Michael Stuber very competently and professionally accompanied our Diversity & Inclusion strategy development. In the workshop with our executive team, he succeeded in showing us the added value of Diversity & Inclusion and how to embed it in our corporate strategy. The collaboration was very enriching, effective and constructive and...
HSBC | Nicole Sucha-Basra, Learning, Talent, Resourcing & Organisational Development Continental Europe, 2013
Michael Stuber has been supporting our continental council since January 2012. Their international experience and knowledge of the external market was hugely valuable to our business and HR members of the committee. As a consultant, Michael Stuber has helped us finding effective approaches, also in the restructuring of that committee...
Deutsche Telekom | Maud Pagel, Group Head of Diversity, 08/2004
The foundation for the implementation of Diversity at Deutsche Telekom group is our group Diversity strategy and its key element, the group Diversity policy. Michael Stuber has been supporting us in a very professional way, always focusing on our specific business context when developing various building blocks of our strategy.
Jansen Supply Chain (Johnson & Johnson) | Claudio Cescato, General Manager, 05/2016
Michael Stuber's D&I work starts from how to improve the value-creation of a company. Consequently his approach is both systematic and holistic, reaching across all layers of an organisation. In this process, he recognises and acknowledges the specifics of a company in an excellent way. We have, for example, deployed...
KfW | Richard Kufferath-Sieberin, Director HR Policy, 11/2013
KfW goes through a holistic modernisation process. This also includes corporate culture and in 2012 the KfW Executive Board approved a gender balance concept as one key element of this renewal process, which was honoured with the German Human Resources Management Award in 2013. I thank Michael Stuber for his...
TX Markets | Jeremy Seitz, CTO, 11/2021
At TX Markets, we chose Michael Stuber to support us in management training with the technology leaders across our companies. Michael was awesome to work with, he created a structured approach that allowed us to have open and thoughtful conversations about many important and difficult topics. He led us to...
Evonik Corporation | Bonnie Tully, President North America Region, 10/2022
We found the Team Leadership Journey a valuable experience (as) it made us recognize we all have biases, and allowed us to reflect on this truth. Then, the Leadership Journey process gave us a format to create an actionable plan (as) we accept there is no quick fix when it...
HSBC | Virma Sokmen, Head of CMB HSBC Turkey, 12/2012
At HSBC, D&I is a business-lead initiative and as a pan-European committee of managers we were glad to have European Diversity's external perspective and input. Michael Stuber's business acumen and his striving for individual solutions helped to advance the regional D&I agenda taking into account business and country needs. We...
E.ON | Sven Rudloff, Group HR Policy, 03/2007
e-Diversity is a unique and entertaining instrument which quickly trains numerous employees while dealing with issues of Diversity and Anti-Discrimination. Adaptations for specifics of our corporation were completed within a short amount of time.
IKEA Deutschland | Franka Johne, HR Expert Retention Management, 04/2014
Understanding the specific needs of a company and align D&I with the corporate strategy and culture are strengths of Michael Stuber. We are grateful about the pragmatic as well as inspiring collaboration and value the competent, flexible and constructive consulting services of European Diversity.
Airbus Group | Suzanne Lewis, Head of D&I, Engagement und D&I, 06/2014
Michael Stuber provided us with insightful and professional support in the consolidation of our new Diversity and inclusion strategy. His experience and proactive, holistic approach helped us to take a different look at how we do things, and build a solid business-value driven approach to reinforce our relationships with the...

