Anita Zanchettin
Managing Director, Global Talent Strategy Aperian Global 

It was my privilege and honor to participate in WDLS-EU. As my 18-year old son would say: You rock!
So wonderful to meet you! The conference was excellent and I look forward to seeing you again at future WDLS events.


Petra Gregorits
Market Researcher and Management Consultant
Member of the Burgenland Croats, an autochthonous minority in Austria.

You did a great job and the international atmosphere was amazing.
I enjoyed a lot and got new energy, enrichment and inputs.

Sherry Snipes
Director, Diversity & Inclusion
The American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Thank you! I am so energized from the trip to Vienna and pleased to participate in the WDLS-EU. I look forward to participating again in 2011! The diversity journey for Austria is amazing, from the level of engagement and interest to the involvement of government and non-government entities. Keep up the momentum.


Konrad Mitschka
Public Value Competence Centre ORF, Author and Journalist

Oh, I have to thank you. I enjoyed your conference very much!


Elisabeth Kelan
Assistant Professor King’s College London
Leading scholar on gender and generational relations in organizations; Author of ‘Performing Gender at Work’
Thanks a lot for this lovely gesture. Much appreciated. I truly enjoyed being with you and thought you and your team did a wonderful job in pulling it all together. I hope to be involved next year as well!


Astrid Segert
Senior Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Ich habe mich  beim WdLS-EU 2010 wirklich gut unterhalten und viele interessante Menschen kennengelernt. Danke!


Hilmar Kroat-Reder, LL.M.
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability, OMV
I really enjoyed it and look forward to next years summit!


Fatemeh Fakhraie
Editor and Founder of Muslimah Media Watch
Fellow of the American Muslim Civil leadership Institute
I wanted to thank you so much again for the wonderful experience at WDLS-EU 2010! I know that the conference will only increase in greatness as the years progress!


Simone-Eva Redrupp
Practice Group Leader
Global Talent Development EMEA
A quick note to say „Danke Schoen“ for an extraordinary conference last week: everything was perfect: the organisation, the speakers, and very interesting attendees too! Unfortunately, I missed the exciting evening at the Ambassador’s mansion –but heard it was very impressive!
So Congratulations again for a wonderful event!


Selma Prodanovic
CEO of the Brainswork Group
President of IncrediblEurope
I just wanted to congratulate you to the brilliant organization of the outstanding first World Diversity Leadership Summit in Vienna! You did a great job!


Angelika Losek
Network Manager British Council Austria
Was für ein toller Erfolg der Summit letzte Woche - es ist wirklich unheimlich beeindruckend, was Du mit Deinem Team auf die Beine gestellt hast - chapeau!


Deirdre Golden
Director, Global Equality Diversity and Inclusion Practice
ORC Worldwide, London Office
I just wanted to say thank you for a wonderful conference last week, it was both informative and thought provoking. It was the first time I had attended a WDLS conference, but my colleague Liz has spoken so highly of them in the past, and it was great to experience it myself.
Many thanks for your hospitality and the warm welcome, I do hope we will get an opportunity to join you again next year.


Mag. Edwin Schäffer
Leiter des Diversity Referates der WK-Wien
ich kann nur sagen, dass mich das seeeeehr beeindruckt hat, was Ihr auf die Beine gestellt habt – mein ehrliches Kompliment!


Elizabeth D. MacGillivray- Chair
Global Diversity Forum
ORC Worldwide
I hope you have recovered from what must have been an exhausting week – what a wonderful event you put on! Deirdre and I were so glad we came, we really learned so much and enjoyed the two days of conference and networking. It was informative and inspirational and FUN. Please give your staff our thanks for making everything so easy and enjoyable for us. We would love to come back again next year!


Douglas Freeman
WDLS founder
Excellent Work!!!! Bravo


Marianne Richter
Dirketorin Vienna Bilingual Schooling
I would like to thank you so much for your invitation. Your conference was an exciting experience for me. I've had a great time also during the brakes and I've also got a few ideas for what to do.


Lois Cooper
Vice President Employee Relations & Diversity
Adecco Group North America
This is to extend a sincere thank you for helping us to coordinate the logistics for Adecco’s first Global Dialog on Inclusion & Diversity in Vienna last week! Our meeting was excellent and we then went on to WDLS-EU which was awesome! I was very impressed with the line-up of speakers you were able to obtain as well as the government officials that will be supporting your work moving forward.


Birgit Neubauer
Executive Assistant to SEE, British Council
Ich wollte Dir noch einmal zum gelungenen und beeindruckenden World Diversity Leadership Summit gratulieren.
Es war eine großartige Veranstaltung und man kann wirklich nur den Hut vor dem ziehen, was Ihr auf die Beine gestellt habt. Die Qualität der panels, der mix der Teilnehmner, einfach toll! Wir sind stolz dabei gewesen zu sein und ich freue mich schon auf den WDLS 2011


Dominik Sandner
Trainer und Berater Diversity Management
Herzliche Gratulation zum gelungenen WDLS Kongress. Ich bin mit sehr vielen Anregungen raus gegangen.


Erna Cuesta
Senior Consultant and Coach media consult
Ich wollte mich ein paar Tage danach bei Euch bedanken, dafür dass ich dabei sein durfte! Habe für mich sehr viel gelernt, und tolle Leute kennen gelernt! Und danke für die hervorragende Organisation, Ihr habt da Alle unglaubliches geleistet.....


Elisabeth Kelan
Assistant Professor King’s College London 
Leading scholar on gender and generational relations in organizations 
Author of ‘Performing Gender at Work’
I wanted to congratulate you on the fantastic event. It was very inspiring and I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks a lot for having me. It is an amazing achievement to put such a summit together.I am already looking forward to next year!


Claudia Kipka
Head of communication, European Academy of Business Schools
Let me thank all of you for the excellent summit last week. The organization was perfect and the diversity of speakers remarkable in the very best sense of the word! For me and for EABIS, it was a great event to participate to see where the current debate is heading and how it links up with the wider Corporate Responsibility domain. On my way back, I read an article in “Die Presse” about a Danish IT company hiring autistic people with great success: http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/hightech/546156/index.do. I think it’s a great example for a diversity business case and maybe something for next year’s conference.


Rita Knott
Founder of Coaching Mentoring Consulting
Former high-level professional of the Bank Hapoalim
Vielen herzlichen Dank für diese inspirierende WDLS - Konferenz in Wien!! Ich habe mich sehr über die hochkarätigen Sprecher und Panelists gefreut, und ich sprüre, dass Sie bei dieser Aufgabe mit vollem Herz dabei sind!


Norbert Pauser
Managing Director
Pauser&Wondrak Unternehmensberatung OG
Ich danke Euch für die höchst inspirierenden Eindrücke der letzten beiden Tage. Es ist so unglaublich schön mit Menschen Zeit zu verbringen, die ähnliche Zielsetzungen verfolgen und einen Spirit teilen. Bevor ich heute in ein Seminar gehe, möchte ich Euch mein allergrößtes Kompliment aussprechen was Ihr da auf die Beine gestellt habt. Es war mir eine große Ehre ein Teil davon gewesen zu sein!


Caroline Harper Jantuah
Director, The Diversity Practice Ltd
Executive coach, Organisational Development consultant, Public speaker and Trainer
It has been so busy since the conference that I haven't had a chance to congratulate you on organising it and attracting such interesting people from so many places ! Well done. I hope you have received lots of compliments for all your hard work. I certainly had really interesting conversations with a variety of people. So best wishes for the future and hopefully we will get to work together again.


Michael Stuber
Management Consultant, Author and Researcher
It's been a real pleasure to be at your event and I have enjoyed participating, and I have reported to the European Commission about the event.


Sabine Pöhacker
Geschäftsführung comm:unications - Agentur für PR, Events & Marketing
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Ich freue mich, dass alles so gut funktioniert hat. Du hast das Thema Diversity ein gutes Stück vorangebracht. Bravo!


Adrianne George
BEWC Management Board, Sweden
Fantastic Beatrice, again well done! I will be sure to share the update.


Ian Dodds
CEO, Ian Dodds Consulting (IDC)
It was a wonderful event and many thanks for taking the initiative to organise it.


Lola Akinmade
Editor, Matador Goods, Travel Writer/Photographer
Beatrice - First of all, thank you for a fantastic conference and for allowing me to be a part of it.