• Women in Leadership: Stine Sofie Grindheim

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    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 ... Read more

  • Community Lunch

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    It is with great excitement that we announce the return of Community Lunch! Join us to connect and share over a delicious and nutritious vegetarian food. Using her own curry paste, Cassey will serve a Sweet potato, Brocolli and Cauliflower curry with jasmine rice and raita (yogurt and cucumber). This event is free for HerSpace ... Read more

  • Community Lunch

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    Join us to connect and share over a delicious and nutritious vegetarian food. This month Mamma Afrika, aka Fatoumata Simaha will be filling our bellies with African inspired taste sensations! The menu : Domoda: Vegan Gambian Peanut Stew Jollof Rice: a staple west African dish, packed with vegies! Chakri: a sweet dessert made from Sorhgum millet ... Read more

  • Community Lunch

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    Join us to connect with a diverse and versatile community of wonderful souls, over a delicious and nutritious vegetarian food. On the menu is: Autumnal inspired yellow lentil dalh with accompanying beetroot and cucumber salad Cost: NOK150 Max attendees: 15 **This event is free or discounted for HerSpace Members.**

  • ORBIT

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    Join us for a one day in-person immersion retreat to launch ORBIT, an inclusive community to support our personal, social and professional evolution.   Orbit is an arena for people who crave authenticity, truth and belonging. We choose a compassionate and radical acceptance of self, and in the process, we embrace and come into our collective ... Read more

  • Women in Leadership: Melanie Coffee

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    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 ... Read more

  • Community Lunch

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    Join us to connect with a diverse and versatile community of wonderful souls, over a delicious and nutritious vegetarian food. This time we will have Sandra Brastein in the kitchen, who as a nutritionist, has a passion for good food! Sandra will be serving a Spicy Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Soup– a perfect way to celebrate ... Read more

  • Women in Leadership: Frederikke Antonie Schmidt

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    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 ... Read more

  • Women in Leadership: Shine Theory

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    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 ... Read more

  • Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Creating a Human-centric Hybrid Work Environment

    Diversity and inclusion in the workplace is imperative for a sustainable, competitive and innovative company and society at large. Diversity also goes beyond the outward perception of a company – it includes how the internal structures work and signal the value systems of an organization’s management or leadership team. This series is designed by Diversify ... Read more

    Free
  • Beyond the Binary Gender: Transgender Inclusion

    Bull & Co Universitetsgata 9, Oslo

    International Transgender Day; India is leading the way! Millions have watched Pose on HBO. In India, people don’t watch! Government acts! While recognition of genders outside of male and female has only recently been discussed in Western societies, in the Indian society, people of non-binary gender expressions have played important roles for over 2000 years. ... Read more

    Free
  • Diverse Founders and Entrepreneurs

    HerSpace Strandgata 19, Oslo, Norway

    Are you an entrepreneur of immigrant or minority background?    Would you like to take part in a conversation to outline, challenge and find solutions to barriers that stand in the way of establishing and growing your business? We would like to welcome you to join us. This event aims to gather people and share ... Read more

    Free

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.