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Immigration & Integration

In our work on Immigration & Integration, we focus on creating inclusive environments that empower immigrant and refugee communities both socially and economically. We prioritize understanding their unique challenges and advocate for equitable access to resources, opportunities, and support systems.

Through community engagement and collaborative initiatives, we facilitate smooth transitions, helping individuals navigate cultural, social, and professional landscapes. Our approach includes organizing mentorship and entrepreneurial programs, job training, and skill development workshops tailored to the specific needs of immigrant populations, ensuring they feel valued in their new communities.

We engage diverse stakeholders—local governments, civil society organizations, and community leaders—to co-create policies that promote social cohesion and dismantle barriers to integration. By amplifying the voices of marginalized groups, we advocate for inclusive practices that reflect society’s diversity.

Through ongoing research and knowledge-sharing, we inform best practices in immigration and integration, fostering a sense of belonging. Our ultimate goal is to build resilient, inclusive societies where everyone has the opportunity to thrive, regardless of their background.

The Zenith Mentorship Program helps people with immigrant and minority backgrounds in Norway to find relevant employment or scale-up their existing businesses via one-on-one primary and secondary mentorship, peer learning, professional development workshops and events.
Nexus has been developed to address socio-economic discrimination and difficulties that people with immigrant background face in Norway when securing relevant and skilled employment. The Nexus Mentorship Program will reduce some of the common barriers that immigrants face when trying to enter the Norwegian job market.
Entrepreneurial training program KRAFT is an actionable solution to the employment and professional development challenges that immigrants and people from underrepresented backgrounds face in Norway. Through the Kraft program, participants will receive the tools, resources and network needed for sustainable professional development and personal empowerment.
Springboard empowers immigrants, especially women, with the tools they need to start their own businesses. The primary goal of this project is to provide professional training through detailed courses and mentorship for immigrants to secure the skills and knowledge they need to improve their lives and start sustainable businesses.
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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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