Open Workshops
and Open Talks
Interactive Learning for Meaningful Change with our Open Workshops and Open Talks
To initiate the most impactful discussions on DEI, we offer you a wide range of talks, workshops and tailor-made offsites. 

Workshops:
Based on WeAreOpen’s 10-year experience in diversity and inclusion and its accumulated know-how, we created a range of workshops that will help your company become more open, on many levels. Topics include Inclusive Hiring, Unconscious Bias, Inclusive Leadership, Open Communication and Feedback Culture and many more.

Talks:
Our speakers from business, art, nonprofit, and science will bring you DEI-related content that will move, inspire and motivate your employees.
Open Workshops
From Unconscious Bias to Active Allyship
Embrace Diversity, Empower Change
Engage in interactive exercises to reveal insights that challenge perspectives. Understand the psychology behind prejudice, discrimination, and stereotypes. Explore experiences of marginalized groups, fostering empathy. Uncover the effects of bias and the benefits of combatting it. Acquire strategies to undermine unconscious bias. Embrace the power to make a positive impact and create action plans for change. Join us, championing diversity and becoming an active ally for an inclusive future.
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WeAreOpen Team
WeAreOpen

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Inclusive Leadership
Empowering Growth and Diversity for High-Performing Teams
Our Inclusive Leadership workshop is for forward-thinking leaders aiming to unlock growth potential through communication and feedback culture. Embrace diverse perspectives for impactful decisions. Learn to build adaptive organizations thriving in diverse markets. Discover secrets to drive high-performing teams. Craft a compelling company vision through this transformative workshop. Join us on the inclusivity journey, where leadership fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth.
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WeAreOpen Team
WeAreOpen

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Open Communication and Feedback Culture
Fostering Growth through Coworkers' Voices
An open, inclusive, diverse corporate culture boosts collaboration, worker advancement, and productivity. Workshop goal: enhance communication and feedback. Promote openness, constructive feedback for effective teamwork. Cultivate an environment fostering openness, teamwork, and individual potential. Workshop includes interactive exercises for real-world application.
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WeAreOpen Team
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Inclusive Hiring
Building Diverse and Empowered Teams
Our Inclusive Hiring workshop empowers diverse, equitable practices. Disrupt bias, attract talent, expand sourcing, eliminate interview bias. Leave equipped to select and empower candidates, driving lasting change. Join us in the journey towards inclusive hiring, building diverse teams for success.
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WeAreOpen Team
WeAreOpen

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Turn Disabilities into Superpower!
Self-Reflection, Mindset Transformation, Empowerment and Support
"Turn Disabilities into Superpowers" empowers individuals to harness their challenges as assets. Understand and leverage unique hurdles for professional success. Interactive discussions, activities, case studies guide mindset shift. Explore strategies to embrace characteristics, unlock potential, enhance performance.
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Orsolya Temesvári JD
Lawyer, resilience trainer, speaker for D&I in a wheelchair

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Open Talks
Let's Talk about Open Businesses!
Why is it Worth Being Open?
It is a well-documented fact that diversity at the workplace increases financial performance, boosts creativity and innovation, and contributes to talent attraction and retention. Furthermore, employees generally feel better, happier and more loyal. Being open is not only the right thing to do, but it also makes business sense - on every level. This session explores the business case for diversity and inclusion in Hungary.
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Nóra Várady
WeAreOpen
Millenials and Other Generations in a Workplace
Discovering the Experiences and Needs of a Multigenerational Workforce
Millennials comprise more than half of the workforce, but what about everyone else? There are now five different generations working together in the workplace. How do we create an employee experience where every single employee can thrive? The speaker Mirtill Megyeri is the co-founder Zyntern, TEDx speaker, featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018.
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Mirtill Megyeri
Zyntern
Working Parents
Breaking Down Gender Stereotypes Related to Parenting
Work-life policies, designed initially by men for men, haven’t changed over the years. Today, women who want to align their goals and ambition in motherhood are rejecting the status quo and demanding change. Why are stereotypes related to parenting harmful for the business? What should be changed in organisations in order to break down these?
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Beáta Nagy
Corvinus University
Inclusion Through Empathy
Building Bridges of Understanding and Unity
Empathy is our ability to put ourselves in the shoes of others and to understand what another person is experiencing. Empathy is the key to a diverse and inclusive workplace: empathetic leaders may be more effective at fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces. In this workshop we explore how leaders can develop and increase their empathy.
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Andrew Hefler and Declan Hannigan
Grund Essentials
Different Cultures and Different Generations at the Workplace
Embracing Diversity's Strength
The Forum Theatre is a technique to engage the audience into the action, to teach and open discussion about a specific topic. A scene, indicating some kind of oppression, is shown twice. During the replay, any member of the audience is allowed to shout ‘Stop!’, and change the situation to enable a different outcome.
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Andrew Hefler and Declan Hannigan
Grund Essentials
Hidden Stories: Coming Out at Work
Support Your LGBTQ+ Coworkers
LGBTQ+ workers face many challenges when looking for a job or trying to integrate into a workplace community. Most of them hide their identity at the workplace. This identity struggle has harmful impacts on their health, happiness, and productivity. This session explores how a company can support its LGBTQ+ employees and build an inclusive culture.
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Tamás Dombos
Háttér Society
Building an LMBTQ+ Inclusive Workplace: The Power of Allies
Creating a Strong and Inclusive LGBTQ+ Workplace
When LMBTQ+ people don’t feel safe and valued at work, productivity goes down, and organizations fail in their efforts to attract and retain them. Many organizations realize this and have created clear policies on the issues. But to truly change the climate at the workplace, LMBTQ+ people need allies to speak up. In this OPEN Talk session, we will discuss how anyone can be an ally to create a respectful workplace that is inclusive of LMBTQ+co-workers.
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Ádám Kanicsár
LGBTQ journalist and activist
Where’s the Woman’s Place? - Women in Pop Culture
Breaking Gender Barriers and Celebrating Women
What exactly is the female gaze: how do women see the world behind the lens? This OPEN Talk is all about gender balance, and most of all the representation of women and the female perspective in visual and popular culture. The event will feature a handful of fascinating, original, and provocative creative content and arts to demonstrate how pop culture can either challenge or uphold gender stereotypes.
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Veronika Hermann
Eötvös Loránd University
Media Representation and Racism
Creating Awareness for the Roma Community
Meet the award-winner documentary filmmaker and executive director of the Romedia Foundation who will share stories about modern racism and lead you through the process of creating awareness of Roma inclusion.
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Katalin Bársony
Romedia Foundation

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EXPERIENCE MATTERS
Our Speakers and Facilitators who we Believe Are the Best in Business
Orsolya Temesvári
Lawyer, resilience trainer, speaker for D&I in a wheelchair
Orsolya Temesvári survived a serious injury, leaving her paralyzed and forcing her into a wheelchair. Survival turned her attention to trauma, resilience, and opportunities for growth as a person with a disability. Her mission is to teach others to turn their physical and/or mental boundaries into opportunities. Orsolya combines work experience from a multinational organization with her current life challenges to provide a special perspective on disability, diversity, and development. She’s fully engaged in the conversation about advocating for the disabled within the workplace.
Zsuzsa László
Diversity and Inclusion Expert
Zsuzsa László is a trainer in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Intercultural Communication, Conflict Management, Communication and Leadership Development. She regularly works in the business sector and for civil and public organizations. She designs training materials related to D&I, DEI and Intercultural Communication. From 2016 she is certified ICF business coach working in the business and non-profit sector.
Ádám Kanicsár
LGBTQ journalist and activist
Ádám András Kanicsár is an LGBTQ journalist and activist, a regular contributor to WMN, HVG and Humen Magazine, and has also published articles in Jelen, Glamour, NLC, ELLE and Kreatív. He is a communications and marketing professional, podcast host, regular talk show host at Sziget Festival and Madhouse, lecturer for Open We Are and often moderator of film screenings, round tables and book launches.
Declan Hannigan
Lead Trainer at Grund Essentials
Declan Hannigan has been training in applied improvisation for 12 years and has worked internationally with blue chip companies across the region and beyond. As an actor you can see him on all your streaming platforms with the likes of Charlize Theron and Jared Harris.
Andrew Hefler
Performing artist-Director-Moderator-Screenwriter-VO-Impro & communication trainer.
Andrew Hefler has been designing training based on improvisation techniques for 17 years. He is a director, trainer, working in theatre, music, film and television for nearly thirty years.
Veronika Hermann
Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University
Veronika Hermann is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She holds MA degrees in Hungarian Literature, Comparative Literature and Media Studies, and obtained her PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies in 2015. Her research interest covers Cold War popular culture, contemporary and 20th century Eastern European popular culture, relations between socialism and nationalism, and structures of social history in literary and media texts. She has publications and she lectures in Hungarian and English. Her first book Identity politics in literature was published in 2020.
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