Inclusive Leadership

with Hanna Völkle

Description

Fostering and navigating diversity are key aspects of effective leadership. Inclusive Leadership is a relationship-oriented leadership approach built on proactivity, fairness, and empathy. It recognizes diversity as a strength and helps leaders create environments where different perspectives are valued, innovation can flourish, and a respectful, future-ready organizational culture can thrive.

The Inclusive Leadership Workshop invites participants to reflect on their own leadership attitudes and behaviors related to diversity and inclusion. Through awareness of unconscious biases and reflection on personal leadership practices, participants learn how to foster collaboration, fairness, and belonging within their teams. The workshop encourages critical reflection on stereotypes and habitual thinking patterns — in oneself and within one’s organization — and supports the development of inclusive communication and leadership skills.

The session combines theory with practical application through interactive methods such as short inputs, case examples, videos, small-group discussions, and plenary exchanges. The program emphasizes experiential learning, dialogue, and peer exchange.

Workshop goals

• Increase awareness of unconscious biases and their impact on collaboration
• Develop an inclusive leadership mindset and diversity-sensitive practices
• Reflect on one’s own leadership role and communication style
• Strengthen respectful, empathetic, and forward-looking team culture

About the trainer

Hanna Völkle is a Senior Expert at EAF Berlin, specializing in diversity, equal opportunities, and digitalization, with a particular focus on project development and networking at both societal and organizational levels. She holds degrees in social sciences and political economy and is a certified diversity trainer.

Before joining EAF Berlin, Hanna worked as a research associate at the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute for Economics and Gender Studies at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, where she taught courses in political economy and digital transformation and led the institute’s “Digitalization, Gender & Diversity” initiatives.

From 2022 to November 2024, she served on the board of EAF Berlin. Since 2020, she has been pursuing a PhD at the University of Vechta under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulrike Knobloch on Feminist Economics of Time.

This workshop is part of the Diversity in Leadership Program and open to 2026 Diversity in Leadership participants only.