Belonging Transforms

Welcome to the Belonging Transforms podcast series where we explore and celebrate the many facets of diversity, equity and inclusion. Featuring a range of diverse guests and topics in every episode and hosted by Natalia Oropeza, Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Cybersecurity of Siemens AG, we bring you insights and inspiration.

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E5: Gender Equity in the Regions

In Fiscal Year 2022, we launched our global Gender Equity Program and committed to accelerating gender diversity across our organization. We want to increase the share of women in business functions to more accurately reflect their share in local talent pools. On top of that, our goal is to align the share of women that are promoted to management with the gender balance we see in non-managerial positions. In this episode, Natalia Oropeza is joined by two of the country CEOs who are driving the G...

Oct 28, 2024•26 min

Increasing gender equity in the workplace

When it comes to gender diversity, women represent more than half of the world’s population and just under half of the global workforce, however they are still underrepresented within many organizations, including Siemens, where the number is currently less than 30% globally. In this conversation with Siemens CFO Ralf Thomas, we discuss how we are accelerating our commitment to increase the share of women, especially in business functions and in management positions.

Aug 31, 2022•12 min•Ep. 4

How inclusive language creates belonging

In this latest episode, our host Natalia Oropeza speaks with Kim Clark - a diversity, equity, inclusion educator and consultant at Ragan Consulting Group. Kim has lead global employee communication teams at KLA, GoDaddy, GitHub and PayPal. She teaches at San Jose State University and she’s the co-author of a new book called The Conscious Communicator. Natalia asks Kim to explain what inclusive language is, why it seems to be increasingly important these days, what advice she would give to those ...

Aug 04, 2022•21 min•Ep. 3

Creating places where we can all belong

In Episode 2, recorded on February 3, 2022, our host Natalia Oropeza (Chief Diversity Officer and Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Siemens AG) is joined by Dr. Zsolt Sluitner, Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Real Estate (SRE) to discuss how the built environment influences not only the quality of people’s lives but also their sense of belonging.

Mar 15, 2022•29 min•Ep. 2

The role of big business in driving diversity, equity and inclusion.

In this, the first episode in our series, Natalia Oropeza (Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Cybersecurity of Siemens AG) is joined by special guests from the Volkswagen Group, Beate Hofer (Chief Information Officer) and Elke Heitmüller (Head of Diversity) as they discuss the role and responsibility of big business in creating diverse, equitable and inclusive environments.

Sep 27, 2021•36 min•Ep. 1

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