Beyond the Status Quo # 11 Dear Men & An Insider's View

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Dear Men - An insider's view with Ágata Baú, Natalie Lund & Wolf Schlegel

ABOUT THE SESSION

Project: Dear Men
Let's create awareness of all the sexism and sexist stuff Women have to go through in their work life.

Talk: An insider's view
In his talk, Wolf shares his personal journey from a naive white man to a positive feminist. Learn why we should care about diversity at our workplaces and become familiar with a simple model to recognise discrimination. Last but not least, you are going to benefit from practical tips how to be an ally in everyday situations.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Ágata is Community Manager at the Thoughtworks Hamburg office, but has a lifetime working with theater, production and cultural events in Brazil and Germany. She is an actress by degree and by passion and has done many things related to this: theater, children's theater, commercial shows and conceptual shows. She had a cultural production company and created her own multicultural festival for small children and is very proud of it. Ágata has taught postgraduate courses in cultural production and theater workshops for beginners (including at Thoughtworks). She has toured Brazil as the cast in a play more than once. Worked in major theater festivals with important groups inside and outside the country. She made Stella (her best production for sure). Ágata is passionate about events, people and stories.

Having never lived anywhere longer than 3,5 years Natalie has decided to stay in Berlin for now. Having been born in Brazil, grown up in Germany, France and Hong Kong gave her the flexibility to be, work and feel at home wherever she is.
After studying performing arts in Hamburg, she decided to follow love and move to Dubai, then to Sydney and back to Hong Kong. She has worked on stage, in film, with tourism, in Kindergarten with 2-5 year olds, worked in organizing GOTO Software Development conferences and now works as the Community Manager at Thoughtworks .
After years of feeling like an outsider due to having so many interests Natalie has finally learned that there is a name for people like her. Multipotentialite!

Wolf is a professionally qualified software engineer with over 25 years of international consulting experience. He works for ThoughtWorks Germany and helps teams deliver working software. Wolf's primary professional interests are digital transformations, enterprise architecture, cloud, agile enablement and humanitarian software. He continues to enjoy coding (as in coding architect) and teaches computer science at TH Cologne. In his time at Thoughtworks Wolf evolved from a naive white man to a passionate feminist.

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Beyond the status quo -
Empowering diversity and inclusion at the workplace

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