IMS Hosts Event Highlighting the Diversity Charter Luxembourg

On Tuesday 20 January 2026, Luxembourg non-profit organisation Inspiring More Sustainability (IMS) held a networking event and workshop relating to the Diversity Charter Luxembourg.

Hosted at the premises of Société Générale Luxembourg in Luxembourg-Ville, the English-language event kicked-off with a lively networking lunch where attendees enjoyed a buffet and refreshments as well as an opportunity to mingle with the event hosts, current signatories of the charter and others in attendance.

With the 12th edition Diversity Day set to take place on Wednesday 13 May 2026, the event provided a recap of Diversity Day 2025 before the programme for his year was unveiled.

The presentation began with an introduction from IMS Project Manager, Pricilla Talbot, and a welcome speech from Aurelia Ederle, Human Resources Director at Société Générale Luxembourg.

Aurelia Ederle said: “This gathering is more than an event, it is a reminder for me, a reminder of the responsibility that we share, the opportunity we have to shape a place where everybody, a workplace, of course, where everybody can be and can bring their whole selves, feel valued and grow strongly. Diversity is not only a commitment we make, it is a source of strength, innovation and collective resilience.”

Pricilla Talbot then gave an overview of the members of the IMS team and detailed the work undertaken by the organisation in 2025, which included hosting seventeen events, as well as the 6th edition of the Diversity Awards 2025, which took place in October 2025.

She then detailed the programme of events the IMS has planned for 2026. These include online events on the subjects of regulation (pay transparency, gender equality, non-discrimination), LGBTQIA+ tools, signatories' tools (barometer, publications) and a new online event titled “Flash CoDev”, which this year will focus on the subject of micro-aggression.

In-person events will include diversity networks which will focus on the subjects of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) business cases, limited resources within Financial and Human Resource departments, inclusive recruitment and career management. 

Thematic events for 2026 will cover the theme of autism at work and will included a “CEO breakfast”, as well as a lunch event for the 2026 signatories of the charter and privileged partners.

The key 2026 events for IMS will be the “Empow(her)ing Journey” Summit - in partnership with the CFL - on Thursday 5 March, and the 12th edition of Diversity Day and a signature session for new joiners, which will both take place on Wednesday 13th May.

Laure Amoyel, from the Luxembourg Ministry for Gender Equality and Diversity, then gave a speech on diversity in which she made a comparison between respecting diversity and New Year resolutions and the need to maintain “consistent action” to succeed.

She remarked: “There is a similarity between New Year's resolutions and diversity insofar as both begin with conscious decisions to improve, be it yourself or the common good, whether they are big or small. […] Diversity is the opportunity to test things, or to maybe put things in a different highlight, or maybe to enable people who were not involved to have them involved. […] Action and repetition are what make the intentions real.”

She added: “With diversity, we have a number of setbacks across the world. Biases, exclusion, resistance […], it is a continuous effort to overcome the obstacles.”

Diversity Charter Project Manager, Gabriela Guerrero, then took to the stage and gave a speech on Diversity Day and the IMS’s aspirations for Diversity Day 2026. She said: “Diversity day is very important, because it brings all organisations together. Organisations from public sector, from private sector, social sector, to have something in common. That is to celebrate diversity, but not only celebrate diversity, also to stand about the position against discrimination, as well as their positioning to offer equality of chances to everybody.”

The event then concluded with presentations from representatives of five businesses in Luxembourg, who each provided information on how they and their company participated in Diversity Day 2025. They included Souad Alamy and Benoît Sokol from Société Générale Luxembourg, Carole Huberty from Fondation Elisabeth, Patrick Lhuillier from Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), Stéphanie Moulin of Arendt & Medernach and Marine Bosquet from Sodexo Luxembourg. They each described how their Diversity Day events utilised initiatives such as job-swapping, virtual-reality technology, workshops focusing on body positivity and the distribution of “care cards’ in public spaces, to encourage positivity and the understanding of others in their respective workplaces.

Further information on Inspiring More Sustainability, including toolkits for employers and employees on the subject of diversity, can be found at Chartediversite.lu.

Caption: Pricilla TalbotIMS Project Manager

Credit: Steven Miller, Chronicle.lu