We are experts in creating diverse and inclusive organisations. And we would love to help you.
I founded Avenir to create a better future. My vision is for everyone to be accepted and valued for who they are. It means people feel fulfilled and able to achieve their potential. And it builds organisational resilience
– Nadia Nagamootoo, Founder & CEO
How we work
We listen to your needs and offer you a plan that is just right for your organisation
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We offer insights about your organisation that will help you do your job better and create immediate senior leadership buy-in to your work
Everything we do is in service of increasing the speed at which inclusion is embedded into your organisation
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FOUNDER & CEO
NADIA NAGAMOOTOO
Nadia is a prolific diversity, equity & inclusion thought leader, a global keynote speaker, award-winning businesswoman, and best-selling author of Beyond Discomfort: Why inclusive leadership is so hard (and what you can do about it).
Nadia’s work is driven by her purpose to create ripples of change in every organisation and person she touches; striving for a world where everyone feels like it was designed for them.
She is boldly challenging our understanding of leadership, pushing for leaders to recognise the deep, inner work needed if they are to truly embody conscious inclusion.
Nadia has shared her thought leadership in organisations such as PwC, Nestlé, Kingfisher, European Women in Boards, CBRE, Pure Data Centres Group, Henley Centre for Coaching and many more! She has also moderated panel discussions at global conferences and events, and joined as a guest on numerous podcast shows.
Meet our amazing team
SENIOR CONSULTANT
CLARE HARRIS
Clare has global, multi-sector experience in equality, diversity & inclusion (ED&I), leadership development, coaching, facilitation, and people management.
As a qualified coach and organisational development practitioner, she is known for her practical and insightful approach when partnering with clients. Clare has worked across automotive, publishing, technology, and not-for-profit sectors, in-house and as a Consultant. She has designed and delivered programmes around the world in locations as diverse as Japan, Tajikistan, Jaipur and New York. She has over 20 years’ experience and ensures that her work has impact and longevity.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
RICH LITTLEDALE
Rich is a coaching psychologist, business psychologist, and people expert, with a focus on leadership, talent, and career development.
This often means developing and delivering work that aims to support individuals from minoritised groups or communities. He has more than 20 years’ experience working with teams and leaders in a broad range of settings. This includes scale up CEOs who know that they need to grow and develop their leadership to keep up with their businesses, leaders of more mature organisations who are trying to lead with greater courage and purpose, or developing leaders who are just starting to understand and leverage the power of their background and experience.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
JANIS DYER
Janis has deep expertise in people analytics, assessment design and delivery and leadership development.
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She combines her assessment experience, passion for inclusion & diversity, and analytic skills to help businesses identify where and how they can improve fairness of their selection, talent and promotion processes. She designs robust and fair assessments and has a wealth of experience with senior leader assessment and development. She is a registered and Chartered Occupational Psychologist with 20 years’ experience working across industry sectors and geographies.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
JITEN PATEL
Jiten is a recognised Conscious Inclusion thought leader, an award-winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategist
and practitioner, a published author and blogger on the subject of maximising inclusion through diversity. He has developed specific expertise in the fields of Consciously Inclusive Leadership, race and anti-racism, cognitive biases and microaggressions, stereotype threat, structural privilege, consciously inclusive strategic planning and operational implementation. He is the co-author of Demystifying Diversity which went into a second edition in July 2020. Jiten has worked with in a broad range of sectors and with clients of all sizes; blue chip companies all the way through to small local charities.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
SILKE IRMSCHER
Silke is a trainer, coach and facilitator with 15+ years’ experience of working with people at multinational companies in
Asia that come from various national and cultural backgrounds. She specialises in helping others to build skills of navigating in diverse environments, facilitating communication across cultural backgrounds and creating effective leadership in today´s fast changing global business. Silke is committed to working with companies to create psychologically safe work environments where people can perform with creativity, and where cooperation is shaped by trustful relationships and inspiring team spirit. Silke is fluent in German, English and Indonesian.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
VIDA SKREB
Vida is an experienced leadership coach specialising in creating sustainable behavioural change in a global
corporate setting. She helps clients develop emotional, relational, and cognitive competencies through applying insights from neuroscience and psychology. Starting as a neuroplasticity researcher and now as a leadership consultant, her focus is on creating meaningful individual and cultural shifts for a fair, caring, inclusive, and productive workplace. She is multicultural and multilingual and lived in several European countries. She has worked with leaders from over 20 different countries worldwide!
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PERSONAL ASSISTANT & OPERATIONS MANAGER
CAROLE SEARLE
Carole is the glue that holds everything together at Avenir. With a business background spanning over 20 years, Carole assists in the smooth
operations of client projects and is also Nadia’s Executive Assistant. She has a strong belief in Avenir’s mission to create more inclusive workplaces and works closely with clients to support this endeavour.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
DIYA KHANNA
Diya is a Global Diversity Equity Inclusion speaker, facilitator, and consultant. She worked at Amazon where she led CORE+ (Conversations on Race and Ethnicity)
an annual internal conference for 1.3 million employees. Her work is focused on developing DEI programs, strategies, policies at scale. Diya is a proven subject matter expert on inclusive leadership and cultural intelligence and is known for her big vision and tactical implementation. She has been invited to be a monthly DEI contributor for Newsweek and has been mentioned in Fast Company, The Seattle Times, and Thinkers50.
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COMMUNICATIONS & CONTENT MANAGER
JENNY LYNTON
Jenny is a Content Specialist, with extensive experience working in a wide range of industries. She utilises the skills gained from these areas
and over the years, in her work at Avenir as a communications and content manager. Jenny contributes to much of Avenir’s web and social content. She is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, more importantly, the social, moral and business case for DEI.
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SENIOR CONSULTANT
SARAH DEADMAN
Sarah is a Business Psychologist and qualified Executive Coach. Sarah has specialised over the last 15 years in Organisational Development,
Culture change, Leadership Development and Selection and Assessment. She is particularly interested in women’s career aspirations and has carried out two research projects, focusing on the blockers to their aspirations, and the societal impact this has. Sarah now brings her passion and expertise in self-development and leadership to Avenir in the facilitation of inclusion programmes and coaching.
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Our Partners
Our expertise is focused on creating inclusive organisations. We understand that you may need more specific DEI-related services so we make it easy for our clients by partnering with other leading providers to deliver complete solutions to meet your priorities. These partners include:
Shape Talent partners with complex multinational organisations who are serious about gender equality. We help you make the sustainable change that leads to diverse and inclusive cultures where people and business can thrive.
Insight Experience is a global leadership development company that works with Fortune 1000 companies and are committed to talent development. We design, develop and deliver business and leadership simulations, pioneering the integration of strategic, financial, operational, and people leadership decisions in high-impact learning experiences.
We transform the way teams in large organisations connect through creative arts. Via this uniquely trusting environment, we deliver profoundly engaging learning experiences that unlock lasting change.
