Citizen Dialogue

This weekend I’ve participated in the Including Diversity conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. And I’ve learned very much.

Most of the people do believe that diversity makes their organization and the rest of the world better, that’s a good start. Our work now is to see that the necessary steps are being taken to really include diversity.

During the weekend we’ve learned that everyone is winning by promote and include diversity with more motivation, better work environment and better ideas. And to take the nice declarations and make them to practice everywhere we can make a change.

The same day as the conference ended, right wing extremists and police was beating the participants of the pride parade in Moscow who where demanding equal rights in Russia. This shows that the struggle for equality and diversity is important and something we need to work with.

We need to be the change we want to see, in our organizations, all sorts of discrimination only should appear in our common history. It’s a matter of will and focus from all of us. We can’t change somebody else before we changed ourselves. What that means is different from person to person.

I’ve learned very much during the weekend, when I meet people from all over the world, when I participated in both formal and informal discussion. And I’m going to do everything in my power to include diversity.

I also urge everyone of you to change the rest of the world, ask questions to the political and economical leaders, report to the media if you see discrimination, support people working with the issue and much more.

If we succeed to include diversity for real, then everybody is a winner!

Read more about the conference here!