Blind Hiring Summit: Embracing the New Age of HR
DEI Data Summit
Diversity Fatigue Summit
GIOF 2022 Annual Meeting
Banking for everyone: Arising accessibility trends in banking and financial services
GIOF 2021
GIOF 2020 
Susanna Romantsova
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Leader at IKEA Retail Poland
Susanna is responsible for building an inclusive workplace and integrating all dimensions of diversity into business practices. Susanna has developed and implemented the 3-year ED&I strategy at IKEA Poland, initiated the Paternal Leave IKEA, age diversity program, co-create the Gender Equal Pay movement, and helped the company to be recognized with LGBT+ Diamond award as the employer of choice for LGBT+ community. This year Susanna has also been leading the first in Poland refugee employability program “Skills for Employment".
A graduate of SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Susanna completed her MA studies in clinical psychology and Psychology of Diversity specialization at Harvard University.
Takes part in
Employability as a key to refugee inclusion. How to design and implement a long-lasting and impactful program.
Refugees face many barriers when they arrive in a new host country, including not knowing the local language, unfamiliarity with the culture, and limited opportunities to connect with the local neighborhood. This makes it even harder to integrate — which reinforces any negative misconceptions about them and makes businesses reluctant to give them employment opportunities. This needs to change. We know that refugees bring skills, diversity, and a different perspective to our business.
Refugee employability means refugee inclusion. Refugee inclusion means the long-lasting prosperity of our societies.
Susanna Romantsova