Maria Klönhammer on fostering diversity and inclusion

Committed, that’s what we are to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). We believe they are key to success, for ourselves and the broader energy community we are part of. Together we commit to providing an open culture that fosters everyone’s growth. We’re happy to share this commitment. Consultant Maria Klönhammer has been one of the driving forces behind this. What is our commitment about, and why does it matter?

Why is diversity, equity and inclusion important to us?

Topics such as diversity and inclusion always felt natural to us, since we’re working on international projects with a team of more than 15 nationalities. Getting people from different backgrounds and perspectives on board is our core business, so to speak. However, we all have our blind spots and we wanted to learn more about DE&I.

What are we doing to promote this in our company?

First, our team followed a series of workshops to understand more about the concepts and challenges in terms of DE&I. Next, we held several conversations across the company to learn more about the topic from each other. Recently, we organised a series of internal workshops, resulting in the creation of our DE&I commitment. We will continue our conversations by organising workshops every quarter.

How will this commitment help us?

With our commitment, we want to make DE&I more concrete and communicate it both internally and externally, so that we can be held accountable. We discussed and wrote our commitment together. It reflects what we do, how we do it, and why. It will help us to take even more actions to secure our open culture that fosters everyone’s growth.

You can download our commitment here.