27/05/2026
Last week, our Executive Director, Chisom Udeze, delivered a talk at Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) to mark the UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.
The session explored what happens when different cultural assumptions meet in everyday working life: in meetings, language choices, feedback, humour, informal conversations, leadership and belonging.
Drawing on recognisable examples from Norwegian workplaces and society, Chisom spoke about the norms we often do not question because they feel familiar to us.
She also addressed the cost of microaggressions that “weren’t meant that way” and the minority stress carried quietly by colleagues who calculate whether speaking up will mean being labelled difficult, excluded further, or professionally disadvantaged.
Cultural diversity is not only about who is in the room. It is about whether people are understood, valued and able to belong once they are there.
Thank you to Siri Antonsen and Janet G. Veum for organising this session, and to everyone at Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) who participated and made space for such a necessary conversation.
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