Shifting mindsets
towards inclusion

With speaker, author and leading academic Dr. Poornima Luthra.

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How can we be more inclusive in our interactions with colleagues? How can we nurture inclusive environments for everyone to bring their unique self to work?

About

Dr. Poornima Luthra makes sense of questions like the above as a speaker, author, academic and educator. With 15 years of experience across the public, private and social sectors, she’s the leading expert on developing inclusive workplaces that truly embrace diversity. She passionately converges her academic rigour with practical application to foster active allyship and inclusive leadership.

Ranked as one of the world’s
30 up-and-coming management thinkers in 2023 by the prestigious Thinkers50

Speaker

In her keynotes and presentations, Poornima creates transformative educational experiences to expand, empower and enable inclusion.

Having shared her ideas on stages such as TEDx, Thinkers50 & Diversify Nordics Summit, Poornima has been creating safe spaces to challenge how to consider, talk about, better understand, and ultimately challenge our own biases, supporting individuals to make conscious shifts in mindset and behaviours towards nurturing inclusion.

  • Pom Davey

    Chief Learning Officer, KPMG

    “I recently had the pleasure of engaging Poornima to be a keynote speaker and presenter for a new leadership development programme for KPMG Nordics L&D Centre of Excellence. She presented on the topic of Inclusive Leadership. Her expertise and knowledge shone through in her delivery to ensure participants emerged from the workshop with a series of practical tips and techniques to enhance their leadership style and approach.”

  • Jette Singleton

    HR Director, Carlsberg Group

    “The training Dr. Poornima Luthra has delivered here at Carlsberg has started a positive domino effect which cannot be stopped or reversed. Ever since she commenced training in small groups, culture and bias have become favourite topics as Poornima’s training works it’s way through our organisation, tolerance, curiosity and respect follow suit. This is D&I training if you really mean it.”

  • Thomas Senderovitz, M.D.

    Senior Vice President, Novo Nordisk

    “During two intense programs, I have had the immense pleasure of engaging with Poornima. First, she designed and ran workshops on DEI for all my leaders in Data Science - and recently, I participated in three well-designed and super facilitated inspiring and thought provoking workshops with the Development leaders. I have worked with DEI for many years, and I can’t think of any better inspirator or facilitator in this field than Poornima.”

Consultant

Poornima is charting a new course towards inclusive workplace cultures. She helps individuals and organisations shift mindsets towards inclusive practices. She is a trusted advisor and workshop facilitator to well-known companies and non-profits worldwide, from Novo Nordisk to Deloitte, L’Oreal and Medicines sans Frontiers (Doctors without Borders).

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Author

Through a combination of research, practice and rich data, Poornima has authored two bestselling books, with a third that has just been released. Diversifying Diversity, The Art of Active Allyship and Leading Through Bias provide both context and practical strategies to empower individuals and organisations to embrace inclusive practices.

What is Poornima's latest book, 'Leading through Bias' about? Watch this video to find out.

Articles

  • 7 ways to practice active allyship

    (-) Harvard Business Review

  • Do your global teams see DEI as an American issue?

    (-) Harvard Business Review

  • Is poor generational intelligence holding you back at work?

    (-) World Economic Forum

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