INLEAD develops leadership and inclusion to activate diversity and drive performance, innovation, and employer attractiveness.

INLEAD stands for ‘Inclusive Leaders’ – people managers who are naturally inclusive – and has been committed to leadership and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) development since 2015. We provide a range of services, including strategic consulting, executive coaching, shadowing, bespoke training, workshops and digital solutions.

INLEAD is synonymous with leveraged diversity, or diversity that is activated for the benefit of the organisation and all its stakeholders. We support you in developing and implementing integrated leadership and inclusion solutions. As a strategic partner, we share your ambition to achieve sustainable results in this area.

Our values and working philosophy

We work with our clients in a holistic, solution- and resource-oriented manner, adopting a fundamentally positive and optimistic attitude. Drawing on systems theory, we build lasting working relationships characterised by mutual respect, openness, confidentiality and a positive view of humanity.

    Inclusion & Diversity

    Our vision: Diversity AND inclusion – for good reason

    Diversity is a reality, whether it is perceived or not. It is everywhere and always present in all civil societies, organisations, companies and teams. It only becomes a key resource and an undisputed success factor for organisations of all sizes when it is consciously perceived. However, diversity alone is not enough. Only intentional inclusion enables us to benefit from it fully.

    Why develop leadership and inclusion with INLEAD?

    Diversity, in and of itself, is not enough. Inclusion means participation, equal opportunities, psychological safety, respect, empathy, and equity.

    We firmly believe that everyone benefits from greater inclusion, regardless of gender, age, skin colour, personality, lifestyle, sexual identity, abilities and skills, or whether they are under- or over-represented or privileged or non-privileged. INLEAD was born from this conviction. Our intention is to foster inclusion for the benefit of everyone, without exception.

    INLEAD was born of a firm commitment to inclusion—for the benefit of us all.

    Team

    Jérôme Oguey, Founder & Director of INLEAD®

    Jérôme is a business economist who specialises in organisational and management development.

    His dual expertise – 10 years’ experience in management and leadership with diverse teams and large virtual organisations, combined with 30 years of practice in national and international consulting – characterises this internationally certified coach (ICF PCC | EMCC ITCA).

    With conviction, commitment and humour, Jérôme guides executive teams, managers and HR teams towards concrete results in French, German and English.

    “Managerial humility is the essential condition for truly inclusive leadership – an inexhaustible source of innovation, quality and performance.”
    Jérôme Oguey, Founder of INLEAD

    Carmen Cronauer, Consultant

    Carmen is a business economist who specialises in organisational and management development.

    Her decades of international experience in marketing, sales and consulting, combined with her enthusiasm and capacity for empathy, characterise this strategic consultant.

    Carmen gets to the heart of complexity. With her clarity and intuition, she offers managers a space for reflection that leads to personal growth and the development of their managerial potential.

    “Recognise your choices and create room for manoeuvre.”
    Carmen Cronauer, INLEAD consultant

      Client testimonials

        ‘Together with INLEAD, we at V-ZUG have set a strong signal for inclusive leadership. We were convinced by INLEAD's practical and well-founded input - clearly structured, relevant to day-to-day management and immediately actionable.

        More than 250 V-ZUG line managers have taken part in leadership workshops on inclusive leadership and, thanks to INLEAD, have developed a shared understanding of diversity, unconscious bias and inclusion. Jérôme knows how to convey complex content in an understandable and well-founded way. In addition to his high level of expertise, we were impressed by his professional and lively moderation in three languages.

        I can highly recommend working with Jérôme. Thank you again for the invaluable I&D workshops.’

        Fabian Britschgi, Head Corporate Health

        Inclusion & Diversity V-ZUG

        ‘We turned to Jérôme in the context of an initiative to advance women’s careers in our law firm. He developed and facilitated five workshops in French and German (the mother tongues of our audience) on topics such as dealing with gender differences. Jérôme is professional, attentive, adaptable, and provides excellent pre- and post-intervention follow-up. Our collaboration with him continues with targeted development and support measures.’

        Aurélie Dommanget, HR Manager

        Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd / Lawyers

        ‘I was happy to work with Jérôme during the course of the Women’s Innovation Networks of Zurich Insurance. He designed a workshop for us on gender intelligence and moderated it in a poised and competent manner. The discussions and concrete recommendations for their next career steps were very enriching for the participants. Jérôme is a dedicated and professional coach and trainer, whom I gladly recommend.’

        Sabine Späth

        Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG

        ‘Jérôme provides leadership training both for our experienced leaders and for future managers. We always receive enthusiastic feedback on his practical expertise, his empathy, his sense of humour and the flexible, varied design of the learning components. We appreciate his professionalism and strong client orientation. I can highly recommend collaborating with Jérôme.’

        Angelika Rinner, Head of People and Organisational Development (POD)

        Canton of Zurich

        ‘We work very successfully with Jérôme Oguey. Jérôme acts as a leadership trainer and gives seminars for new and experienced line managers. In addition to his professional competence and vast practical experience, I particularly appreciate his customer orientation, flexibility and reliability. Our participants appreciate his positive image of humanity, his empathetic and encouraging attitude, his sense of humour and the high level of interactivity in the training. I highly recommend working with Jérôme.’

        Bettina Rötzer, Head Global Leadership Development

        Credit Suisse

        ‘In the past three years I’ve worked with Jérôme very intensively and in different situations. As an external coach and trainer, he facilitated management workshops, acted as an individual sparring partner and was involved in a broad leadership development programme. Personally, I appreciated the highly professional and pleasant cooperation. I experienced Jérôme as extremely customer- and solution-oriented as well as technically competent. The internal feedback has always been very positive and testifies to the quality of a successful collaboration.’

        Reto Handschin, Head of Human Resources

        ‘It was a pleasure to work with Jérôme. I am convinced that his support will help us to improve as an organisation.’

        Anina Mäder, Head Quality & Compliance

        Save the Children

        ‘We are pleased to have INLEAD at our side as a strategic partner in the field of inclusive leadership. Together we managed to advance the cause of inclusion at management level. Jérôme’s expertise and highly professional work is crucial to our members and their leaders. Our workshops, organised in close cooperation, are very successful and attract a lot of interest. These will certainly continue in the future.’

        Alkistis Petropaki, General Manager

        Advance

        Partner Organisations

        Diversity and inclusion are multifaceted themes that are too important and complex to be competently addressed by a single organisation. We are therefore glad to rely on complementarity with organisations that, like INLEAD, are strongly committed to fostering diversity and inclusion.

        Competence Center for Diversity, Disability and Inclusion (CCDI) of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) is a pioneer in D&I management in Switzerland and a longstanding partner of INLEAD. The centre offers the most comprehensive D&I

        Advance Gender Equality in Business offers a mentoring programme for talented women from its member companies.

        GetDiversity specialises in executive search and has been recruiting senior leaders for executive committees, boards of directors, and foundation boards since 2007. At least half of its candidates are women and its blinding approach helps to reduce bias in selection processes.

        Impact by AGON supports companies and organisations in the strategic positioning of diversity—through communication, public affairs, and events.

        Witty works helps companies use inclusive language. Its AI-based language assistant detects unconscious stereotypes and prejudices in communication and suggests inclusive alternatives.

        INLEAD