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Anneli Karlstedt

Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Professional;
Board Member, Finnish Business and Society (FIBS, Network Partner of the WBCSD); Director, Regional Internal and Regional Communications, Wärtsilä

Anneli Karlstedt

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My personal driver from early on has been to support the creation of a sustainable workplace environment where the leaders and employees can feel trusted and valued and make others feel so, too. This focus on employee experience has a positive knock-on effect on the customer experience, and hence contributes to overall business success.

Inclusion to me means actively seeking diverse perspectives, providing equal opportunities, and addressing barriers that prevent participation. I work with senior and top leaders to create more consciously inclusive environments, challenging them to pursue the obvious benefits and set targets.

Seeing diversified teams come together to ideate, cocreate and progress is my aim. I believe that bringing diverse people together with different characteristics and backgrounds, but also identities, experience, expertise and cognitively diverse capabilities will make the world and any company a stronger one.

Diversity is close to my heart because I have three neuroatypical children. Now that they are adults, we can share a good laugh about everything that happened.

I led Nokia Corporation’s global DEI for 5 years from 2018 - 2023. Before that I explored the areas of leadership development and culture transformation. I currently work as Head of Internal and Regional Communications at Wärtsilä, a global company of 18,000 people, that specializes in manufacturing and servicing power sources and other equipment for the marine and energy markets.

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