The business case for more diversity in the workplace is clear: Talent attraction & retention, employee satisfaction, innovation, problem-solving, better customer understanding, image and social responsibility.

Implementing diversity policies no longer is just a "must-do" driven by legal frameworks and policies, but increasingly acknowledged as an opportunity.

However, diversity management implies mindset-change and awareness raising thus the implementation can be quite challenging. Topics are sensitive ranging from disability to social and ethnical origin, over generation and  gender. Diversity management is starting to become a topic of concern for companies in China; Chinese companies (e.g. Huawei, Alibaba, Geely) are as active as MNC (e.g. IBM, Accor, L’Oréal) on the topic.

The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to our seminar on Diversity works. This seminar will help you to get an understanding of what diversity means at the workplace China, how it can be turned into a business case, and how current pioneers in the field implement diversity management in China.

Agenda
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.05 Welcome Remarks, Dr. Iris Duchetsmann, Member of the Board, European Chamber Shanghai
09.05-09.25 Coming to a workplace near you - diversity and the law, Philip Lazare, Partner, Luther
09.25-09.45 Diversity works: Background, Business case, Training approach in China, Liu Yi, Diversity trainer and facilitator, Constellations International
09.45-10.05 Diversity and inclusion at L'Oreal China: 2020 ambition, Christophe Gamet, VP Human Ressources China at L’Oréal
10.05-10.30 Q&A, discussion

Our Speakers

Liu Yi, Diversity trainer and facilitator, Constellations
Liu Yi has joined the CONSTELLATIONS INTERNATIONAL team in Shanghai in 2014 where she is working as a facilitator and project manager for corporate and NGO projects alike, on topics such as diversity and inclusion, sustainability and social entrepreneurship. Liu Yi is passionate about what communication, learning and innovation can do to transform challenges of Today into opportunities of growth towards sustainability and diversity - at the level of the person, the community, the organization and the system. She holds a Master degree in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh. She has worked with the UN in Bonn and Liberia as communication specialist, and then as visual anthropologist researching and filming on diversity communities such as ethnic and gender minorities, disabilities with Yunnan university. She is a certified Intercultural Trainer and a certified Non-Violent Communication trainer candidate, facilitator of participatory methods such as Open Space Technology, fellow of International Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and alumni of Zukunftsbruecke German-Chinese Young Professional Leadership Campus. Together with coach, trainer and facilitator Cecile Mazourine, they developed experiential program on diversity and inclusion, as part of the diversity management portfolio of CONSTELLATIONS. CONSTELLATIONS International is a consulting agency based in Shanghai designing and facilitating learning programs at the interface of business & society between Europe and China.

Philip Lazare, Partner, Luther
Philip is a partner at the Shanghai office of the international law firm Luther. He has spent the past 15 years of his professional life in China. A corporate and tax lawyer by training, he has advised clients in nearly every industry that has foreign investment, covering an ever expanding plate of legal issues. With labor and compliance issues featuring prominently in every organization, he has had his fair share of dealing with the thorny legal issues in the contemporary Chinese workplace.

 Christophe Gamet, HR VP of L’Oréal China
Christophe GAMET is French but was raised in Africa. He started his career in L’Oreal France as a HR trainee in 1992, after graduating from Sciences Politiques Paris and obtaining a Master degree on Social Management from ESCP-EAP. He then occupied during 8 years various HR assignments in France, in several Divisions of the Group. In 2000, Christophe began his overseas L’Oreal career as HR Director in Brazil, in Spain, and from 2008 for Latin America Zone (10 countries) based in Brazil. In 2010, he was sent back to headquarter in France to take the responsibility of Latin America & Africa Middle East Zones (20 countries).
In April 2012, Christophe was appointed HR VP of L’Oreal China. Christophe is married and his wife comes from Latin America. He has 2 children, aged 10 and 12 years.

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