Open Workshops
Interactive Learning for Meaningful Change with our Open Workshops
To initiate the most impactful discussions on DEI, we offer you a wide range of talks, workshops and tailor-made off-sites. 
Our facilitators and speakers from business, art, nonprofit, and science will bring you DEI-related content that will move, inspire and motivate your employees.
Our Open Workshops are typically 3-hour-long sessions, but we can accommodate your company's specific needs.
                                                              Open Workshops are proudly sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company.
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Open Workshops
Inclusive Leadership
Design an inclusive organization with your management team!
This 8-part workshop series embarks management teams on a transformative journey towards establishing equity, diversity, and inclusivity at the heart of their organizational framework, following an insightful initial DEI audit. Through a meticulously crafted agenda, the management team co-creates the inclusive design of 8 functional areas.
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WeAreOpen Team
WeAreOpen

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Inclusive Hiring
Transform your team by unlocking potential through inclusive hiring, fostering a workplace where every talent shines
Learn about unbiased, inclusive hiring in our hands-on workshop, where we’ll collaboratively dissect and enhance your company’s hiring policies to navigate the natural human biases and ensure a fair, equitable recruitment process.
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WeAreOpen Team
WeAreOpen

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Build bridges of understanding and unity through theatrical roleplay
Forum Theater: Play It Out!
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

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Turn Disabilities into Superpower!
Understand how to think about challenges as opportunities
“Turn Disabilities into Superpowers!" is an empowering corporate workshop designed to help participants recognize and harness the potential of their mental, physical or any kind of handicaps, transforming them from perceived limitations into valuable assets. In this workshop, participants will gain a deeper understanding of their unique challenges and learn how to leverage them as powerful tools to overcome obstacles and excel in their professional lives.
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Orsolya Temesvári JD
Lawyer, resilience trainer, speaker for D&I in a wheelchair

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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.
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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.
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Beáta Nagy
Professor, BCE
Beáta Nagy is a professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. She earned master degrees in sociology and economic sciences in 1986, received the doctoral degree in sociology in 1996, and the habilitation doctorate in 2008. In 2001 she was co-founder of the Centre for Gender and Culture.
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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, speaker for WeAreOpen and often moderator of film screenings, round tables and book launches.
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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.
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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.
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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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Mirtill Megyeri
Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding Group Manager
Mirtill is a real Y generation professional, a passionate senior HR consultant, having 10+ years of extensive international experience in talent engagement, employer branding and multigenerational work environment improvement. She is one of the founders of Zyntert.com, a Z generation specific job portal. After several years in business consulting - supporting mainly X generation and baby boomer leaders - she works as an employer brand manager in a global role. She is a TEDx speaker and listed on the Hungarian Forbes 30/30 list (2018). Her mission is to help understanding between different generations, whether it's about a workplace, consumer habits or everyday life.
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