Why InklusioNordic exists
InklusioNordic is built with practitioners, lived-experience experts and civil society organisations to make inclusion easier to embed in real organisational life.
The Nordics already have many of the right conditions:
trust, collaboration and willingness to act. What is still missing is practical infrastructure that makes inclusion easy to roll out, easy to apply and strong enough to travel across organisations and borders.
Built from roll out reality
InklusioNordic grew out of a practical problem.
When Stine Ringvig Marsal led the rollout of disability awareness training at Copenhagen Airport, the training was delivered as e-learning to 24,000 employees across 1,250 companies. Something important happened.
The conversations did not stay inside the “disability” category. They spilled into everyday working life and into related issues such as neurodivergence, LGBT+ inclusion, and barriers experienced by colleagues from minoritised ethnic or cultural backgrounds.
That pattern became even clearer over the next three years, when Stine served as Nordic Regional Director for the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower and worked with more than 500 organisations.
Company after company wanted to do better. The intent was there. But the format that could make learning easy to roll out, easy to apply and able to cut across diversity silos was still missing.
So she started interviewing.
170 qualitative interviews were carried out with professionals navigating neurodivergence, disability, cultural difference and LGBT+ identity at work. The finding that changed everything was this: many of the barriers affecting wellbeing, engagement and retention were shared across groups.
They showed up in the same workplace situations. Meetings with no agenda. Feedback without context. Social events designed around one idea of ease. Onboarding that assumed everyone started from the same place.
These barriers hit minority employees first, hardest and most often. But they also affected anyone working under high cognitive load or strain, including people dealing with grief, caregiving, chronic pain or burnout.
That meant the answer was not more topic-by-topic training.
It was a shared system built around the workplace situations where barriers actually show up.
A collaboration of lived experience experts, NGO’s and organisations wanting to take inclusion seriously:
Built with the people who know these barriers best
From day one, InklusioNordic has been designed as a shared Nordic initiative. We collaborate with NGOs and lived-experience experts across disability, neurodivergence, LGBTQ+ rights and equal access.
They bring deep subject knowledge. We combine it with experience from complex organisations, change management and rollout realities. The result is training built on real stories, not abstractions. That makes it easier for leaders and teams to recognise their own behaviour and adjust how they work.
Everything we create is rooted in how organisations really work, including change management, internal politics and operational constraints.
Our formats are realistic and easy to use, so inclusion becomes a shared language across the organisation, not an extra task on a few people’s plates.
