Vivian Acquah
Supporting you in maximising your team's potential!
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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👋 Hello! I'm Vivian Acquah, a Certified Inclusion Strategist (CDE®), Certified ESDP, LinkedIn Top Voice, and Nominee for European Businesswoman 2023 (ESDP). I'm also a passionate advocate for topics related to inclusion, in particular neurodiversity, and a transformational speaker, facilitator, and trainer.
🔎 Background Information
After becoming a mother, I transitioned from a Finance/IT consulting career to inclusion consulting. I promised my son (Orlando) and future generations to create thriving workplaces for EVERYONE.
Today, I am the founder of Amplify DEI and the co-founder of Global Inclusion in Practice, where I operate as an Inclusion Coach and Consultant.
💼 What
Employees are the foundation of any organization. I support managers in engaging, energizing, and keeping their team members safe and sustainably, leading to increased revenue for your company. I also perform workplace audits to uncover stress points and identify wins, and I consult on strategies to improve your organization's workplace wellness.
🚀 How
I use a holistic approach to build sustainable employability. I consider all wellness and well-being elements, including physical, mental, career, social, community, and financial wellness, while purposefully incorporating fairness and inclusion.
👣 Your Next Step
Ready to make your organization a better place to work and be a part of? I offer services in English and Dutch, including interactive (online) keynotes, training, workshops, and strategy development. Learn more about the impactful Amplify Empathy with Virtual Reality training via bit.ly/amplifyempathytraining.
📞 Call to Action
Whether you're looking for inspiring workshops/training or an interactive keynote speaker, I'm just a DM and a call away. Don't forget to visit my LinkedIn Recommendations to see what others say about my workstyle/trainingstyle. Book me as a speaker/trainer at bit.ly/vivaspeak or email info@amplifydei.com.
Area of Expertise
Topics
Amplify Diversity Through Mentoring
Stop losing talent and leaving money on the table!
Diversity mentorship programs can empower a wide range of employees to share their experiences, ideas, knowledge, and opinions for equal opportunities. Through diversity initiatives, employees can learn cultural awareness to create an inclusive company culture.
Diversity mentorship programs create an environment of trust, belonging, understanding, encouragement, and support for diverse employees. It allows employees to voice their challenges, overcome obstacles, and find solutions.
This will result in inspiring employees to perform to infinity and beyond.
Unlocking Empathy With VR
According to Harvard Business Review, traditional unconscious bias training does not translate to the profound behavioral change you might expect.
In fact, only 10% of training programs gave attendees strategies for reducing bias.
In comparison to traditional methods, VR can also help people understand fairness and inclusion concepts effectively.
Being able to live and feel someone else’s experience through their lens provides behavioral and cognitive learning, which is more effective in retention, and that increases pro-social behaviors such as compassion and empathy more than both classroom and online learning.
VR training can help people experience the biases and behaviors that impact underrepresented populations and slowly dismantle the bias as empathy builds.
Breaking Barriers: Why We Need to Share the Stories of Neurodivergent Women
Did you know that many women with conditions like autism and ADHD often go undiagnosed until much later in life—sometimes not until adulthood?
It's not just surprising, it's heartbreaking.
This delay can leave so many without the right support, care, or understanding they deserve.
But here's the thing—we can change that.
During this session Vivian Acquah will discuss how through sharing different and real stories of neurodivergent women, we can start to knock down some of these stereotypes.
We can increase people’s awareness and start discussions that might just alter people’s lives.
Every story is a chance to provide access to empathy, comprehension, and vital resources for individuals who have been overlooked for so long.
Vivian Acquah, CDE® , a certified inclusion strategist, is a passionate advocate for pulling back the curtain on these often-misunderstood experiences.
She knows how vital it is to spotlight the stories of neurodivergent women and to amplify their voices.
Join this session and be part of something powerful.
Together, we’ll dive into the unique stories of these incredible women and see how sharing their experiences can spark real change.
Because when we listen, we learn—and that's how real transformation begins.
Pump Up The Jam @ Work Energizer
It has been proven through various studies that happy people spark joy towards the workplace and can positively affect your creativity, your productivity and your health.
Pump Up The Jam @ Work is inspired by the 90’s song from Technotronic. Listening to this song alone will create a spark of joy within you to reset and re-energize everywhere, even at the workplace.
The essential ingredients for Pump Up The Jam @ Work are air, water, nutrition, sound, light, nature, movement, mind, community, the human factor. Each ingredient contains energizers for you to bring your A-game on a daily basis.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Did you make work-related goals this year to advance your career? Have you considered mentoring as a way to achieve your career goals and achieve personal growth? Mentoring is a powerful ingredient for bringing your career to new heights when you decide to become a mentee or mentor.
There are various benefits to mentoring. Organizations that actively work on mentoring, are being rewarded with higher levels of employee engagement, motivation, retention, and knowledge sharing.
It has been proven to be so beneficial that 71% of the Fortune 500 companies offer mentoring programs to their employees.
By embracing mentoring in the workplace, you can go beyond your comfort zone and boost your career. For mentors and mentees, studies show that mentoring can lead to greater career success, such as promotions and increased opportunities.
Amplify DEI 2021
Amplify DEI Host & Speaker
The Amplify DEI 2021 Summit features 92+ guest speakers who will be:
*Imparting knowledge on what successful DEI is;
*Sharing experiences highlighting why DEI is important;
*Providing evidence on why DEI needs to be a part of the DNA of any company.
EMS Leadership Summit
The EMS Leadership Summit will bring together the best leaders in the industry, representing eight countries and every discipline of emergency services to teach you about leadership.
Amplify DEI
The Amplify DEI 2020 Summit features 60+ guest speakers who will be:
*Imparting knowledge on what successful DEI is;
*Sharing experiences highlighting why DEI is important;
*Providing evidence on why DEI needs to be a part of the DNA of any company.
Digital Marketing World Forum Europe - #DMWF
Moderator for the event. See the LinkedIn recommendation by the event manager Rachael Reid
"I had the pleasure of working with Vivian at DMWF Europe as our Track Chair on 25th November 2019. Vivian was fantastic and I can't wait to have her back on our stage in 2020. Lighting up our stage and engaging the community in the theatres and keeping the pace going between session. It's a talent to be able to engage a room and Vivian has this. A fantastic moderator, chair and public speaker!"
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivianacquah/
Women in Agile
The first European Women in Agile Conference, starting in the Netherlands. Thursday November the 7th will be a whole day of Fun, Learning, Networking, Playing, Meeting, Storytelling, Amazing, Sharing, Friendship and Exchanging at the Corendon Village Hotel Amsterdam (with the Boeing 747 in the garden).
I did a Pump Up The Jam @ Work workshop at this event.
DevOps Summit Amsterdam 2019 - Two days DevOps experience Sessionize Event
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