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 has extensive experience coaching, facilitating and consulting with leaders around the world. As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, she applies her expertise on human behaviour to create meaningful conversations to provoke thought and change that leads to higher performance – both for the individual and the organisation. She has a deep specialism in the field of Inclusion and Diversity. Her 2016 and 2018 ground breaking pieces of research on men working flexibly and the systemic impact on women, organisations and society has achieved significant publicity and attention. She has over 15 years’ experience in the field of organisational development, culture change, leadership.
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
JON ATKINS
Jon’s passion for ensuring ongoing leadership success has been displayed through numerous complex leadership development projects.
He has extensive experience of developing people to thrive in an organisation. This includes individual coaching, group skill facilitation and development centre design & delivery. Jon has also worked with numerous companies across multiple sectors to help them deliver their diversity and inclusion agenda. He is a passionate advocate for embracing difference and building cultures that allow difference to thrive. Underpinning this is a deep understanding of bias, inclusion and the psychology behind how people really think, decide and engage with others.
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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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INCLUSION SPECIALIST
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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CULTURAL INCLUSION SPECIALIST
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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COMMUNICATIONS & CONTENT MANAGER
GLORY OLUBORI
Glory has diverse work experiences in fields such as events coordination, accounting, administration, research, analysis,
report writing and managing communications. She utilises the skills gained from these areas, and over the years, in her work here as a communications and content manager. Glory contributes to much of Avenir’s web and social content, and this is centred around our five pillars: the business case for inclusive leadership, DEI Maturity, Hiring and DEI, Remote working and DEI, and Fostering an open culture. She is also passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion, more importantly, the social, moral and business case for DEI, and broader topics such as organisational health and wellbeing.
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FACILITATOR & COACH
CAROLINE DUNCAN
Caroline has extensive experience supporting performance and well-being in leaders, managers and professionals through coaching and facilitation.
She brings insight, challenge and support, leveraging over 20 years commercial experience in finance, strategy and HR. She is also an engaging facilitator and presenter and develops and delivers relevant and practical development programmes and team days. Her evidence-based practice is sensitive to the demands of operating in complex, fast-moving and commercial organisational systems. Her coaching philosophy is informed by person-centred approaches and leverages acceptance and commitment coaching, compassionate mind coaching, existential and Gestalt theory, and emotional intelligence, balanced with a practical and commercial focus.
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FACILITATOR & COACH
SIMONE DOUANI
Simone’s area of expertise includes unconscious bias and broader diversity & inclusion work, leadership styles, one-to-one performance
and person-centered coaching, executive coaching, forum theatre, bespoke role-play, courageous conversations, leadership and advanced communication workshops. With 15 years’ experience in the corporate world and 25 years’ experience in performing arts, he presents with a high level of engagement and energy during workshops, which is a key element of his style.
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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: