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Women in Leadership: Lenka Hlinková

April 8 @ 18:00 - 19:30

At HerSpace, we are proud to be part of a collective and necessary effort to be active participants in helping women advance in their social, personal and professional lives. We have designed the Women in Leadership series as a way to amplify the voices, stories and experiences of women.  Our featured women speakers have diverse backgrounds, have reached milestones in their careers,  and have made an impact in their industry and communities. We all benefit when stories of challenges and wins are shared. We offer their stories, knowledge and insights to help empower you in your own journey.

Women in Leadership is a recurring event that will feature an inspirational female leader every month. If you would like to nominate a woman in your network as a way to honor her work, please reach out so our collection can grow with our community.

*This event is free for HerSpace Members*

This event is co-produced by HerSpace, Africa Connect and Diversify


Lenka Hlinková

Lenka graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava. During her studies, she started her own e-commerce project and co-founded the startup e-styler that gathered fashion and accessories from various European e-shops on one platform with a single check-out. Later, she worked in an international Telco company as a Project Manager and within her 14 years experience in Tech, she also worked as a Software Development Business Analyst, Team Leader and UX Designer. She lived 2 years in London working on digital projects for prestigious clients such as Audi and Westfield Shopping Centers.

Lenka is the author of the first Slovak motivational and educational book for women interested in Tech called Female Algorithm. Since 2018, she has been working with non-profit organizations motivating girls and women within Tech and in 2020 founded her own non-profit with the same aim, named after her book. With a team of 14 members, they help women to achieve their full career potential, provide consultancy in diversity and inclusion issues and teach women and girls technical skills. In 2019, she co-founded an IT company providing long-term internships to people willing to enter technology sector and became the national leader of the Lean In Initiative in Slovakia founded by Sheryl Sanberg (Facebook COO). Lenka cooperates with Google for the third year as a Google Certified Trainer for Online Security.

Chisom Udeze

Founder of Diversify, Diversify Consult, HerSpace & The Annual

Chisom is an Economist, a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Strategist, and a 3 times founder of impact driven companies. She has over 14 years of experience working with organizations like the European Commission, The United Nations, ExxonMobil and The Economist Group. Chisom is analytical and a data enthusiast. She is passionate about interrogating the cross-sectoral relationship between society’s inhabitants, resources, production, technology, distribution and output. She efficiently and effectively unlocks complex systems, interprets data, forecasts socio-economic trends and conducts research.

Having lived and worked in 7 countries across 3 continents, she is highly adaptable to different circumstances and people, and thrives in uncertain environments.

As the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult, Chisom and her team work with companies, institutions, governments and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies and embed measurable diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and society. In addition, in 2022, Diversify launched the Diversify Nordics Summit, the largest conference in the Nordics that gathers cross-sectoral stakeholders to amplify DEIB in the Nordics and beyond.

In 2020, she founded HerSpace, a diverse and inclusive co-creation community for all genders, with particular focus on women and non-binary people. In 2022, HerSpace launched HerTech, Women in Tech incubator, for women-led companies, with a focus on the inclusion of diverse founders. 

Chisom is a thought-leader in DEIB and a passionate advocate for mental health and wellness. She writes often on DEIB and justice related topics, some of her work is published on Forbes.

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