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Adriana Bianca
Brasil
What does “Diversity” mean to you?
Diversity means enriching the company with a variety of cultures, talents, ideas, optimizing the sustained and continuous achievement of Henkel business results.
What does “Inclusion” mean to you?
Inclusion means respecting all kinds of differences of people, enabling anyone to join Henkel’s winning culture.
Angela Curley
North America
Markus Dinslacken
Head of Global Diversity & Inclusion, Headquarter
Astrid Bosten
Global Diversity & Inclusion, Headquarter
Benedicte Grossmann
BeNeLux
Csilla Gera
Central Eastern Europe
Diane Humphrey
United Kingdom
Ilaria Cantu
Italy
What’s your name and what’s your profession?
I’m Ilaria, I’m 37 years old, I’ve joined Henkel in 2006 and I’m working in HR since a took my degree. I love sea and sailing and I think D&I is a great mean to improve our business effectiveness!
What does “Diversity” mean to you?
Being diverse means give people the chance to express their full potential, simply being theirselves!
What does “Inclusion” mean to you?
Inclusion means cancel bounderies and biases, make people feel part of the same Henkel world.
Katja Fellenberg
Global Diversity & Inclusion, Headquarter
Lina Morast
Henkel Norden (Finland, Denmark, Norway)
Lourdes Abrisqueta
Spain
What’s your name and what’s your profession?
Lourdes Abrisqueta , 13 years in the company in HR . Recruiting, selecting , training and developing the Henkel Iberica’s employees. Lately member of the equality group in Henkel Iberica in charge of developing the equality plan in the company.
What does “Diversity” mean to you?
For me is a life personal attitude . In our environment favors team enrichement , innovative&different ideas, cooperation, respect and opend mindness.
What does “Inclusion” mean to you?
Is the materialization of a flexible society that accepts any group without judging either gender, age, religion, disabled and promotes equality of this groups when access to full social life.
Marwa Mohamed
Agypt (Levant, Jordan, Iran, Turkey, Israel)
Narjess Ben Amar
Tunesia (Algeria, Tunesia, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa)
What does “Diversity” mean to you?
Diversity represents the difference between people, community, languages, and culture: That’s our strength @ Henkel, with difference we create our sustainable success.
What does “Inclusion” mean to you?
Inclusion is the main way to make our value added visible, we respect difference of each other all the time and where we are.
Xiomara Salavarrieta
Mercosur
Sarah Christiaansen-Carlin
France
Thalia Vouvonikou
Greece
What’s your name and what’s your profession?
My name is Thalia Vouvonikou, HR KAM, Henkel Hellas.
I am working for HR department in Henkel Hellas the last 3, 5 years. I am the responsible HR KAM for U-W Division and Functions. I am also the process owner for Learning, Recruitment & Labor Relations activities.
What does “Diversity” mean to you?
I am very happy to be a part of D&I ambassador’s team since I see “Diversity” as the only approach to drive an efficient organization and achieve continuity on business results.
What does “Inclusion” mean to you?
“Inclusion” means acceptance and tolerance of all different ideas, cultures, and mindsets. Inclusion is the basis for the creation and maintenance of successful teams.
Zhaoxia Xu
Asia Pacific

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