SBC Collective

The SBC Collective is a curated group of practitioners brought together by Safir Boukhalfa Consulting. Each member is a specialist in their field, and all share a common commitment: to make workplaces and institutions more equitable, more human.

The Collective exists because real inclusion work is interdisciplinary. It draws on law, economics, education, art, communication, and lived experience. No single consultant can hold all of that. We can.

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What the Collective Offers

Engagements can be scoped individually or as part of a broader programme designed in partnership with SBC.

When you work with the Collective, you get coordinated, coherent support grounded in a shared set of values. We bring together the disciplines that inclusion work actually requires.

Speaking & keynotes

Speaking engagements and conference keynotes for any scale.

Panel & moderation

Panel discussions and expert moderation.

Workshops

Facilitated sessions for organisations and teams.

Consulting

Consulting, advisory, and collaborative multi-practitioner engagements.

Training Design & Delivery

Custom training programmes designed and delivered by specialists.

Multi-Practitioner Engagements

Collaborative engagements drawing on multiple members of the Collective.

Meet the Collective

Each member brings deep specialist knowledge and a commitment to equity.

Angeline Aow

SHE/HER

DEIJ in Education and Inclusive School Design

English

Angeline is a Malaysian born Australian international educator, author, and DEIJ consultant based in Berlin since 2005. She serves as PYP Coordinator at Berlin International School and as International Advisor on Inclusion via Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism at the Council of International Schools. She is the co-author of Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders (Routledge, 2022), and the founder of WomenEdDE, a network supporting women in educational leadership across Germany.

Speaking experience: Keynote speaker at SENIA Europe conference on inclusive school cultures. In-person DEIJ Advocacy Workshop in Amsterdam (2024). Panelist at the World Education Summit. Named one of The PIE’s Top 50 Voices in Europe (2023).

DEI strategy and implementation

Inclusive leadership and culture

Education and pedagogy

Keynote
panel
workshop
facilitation

Claudia Eslava Alva

SHE/HER

Creative Communication and Brand Strategy

English
Spanish
Claudia is a Venezuelan-born graphic designer and creative director with Peruvian roots, based in Spain for over 15 years. With over a decade of experience across advertising, public relations, visual production, and graphic design, she leads brand development for national and international organisations, with a focus on long-term identity, visual storytelling, and communication strategy. Her work spans creative direction, social media, and project management across multiple sectors.
Speaking experience: Speaker and moderator in academic environments. Host for institutional visits and cross-sector events.

Creative communication and brand

Learning, training and facilitation

Keynote
panel
moderation

Will Fredo Furtado

They/them

Art, Culture and Decolonial Knowledge

English
Spanish
Portuguese
German
Will Fredo is a Portuguese-German artist, writer, and scholar of Guatemalan and Cabo Verdean descent, based in Berlin. Their practice brings together western and non-western knowledge systems to recover forgotten archives and trace global histories of poetic dissidence. Since 2017, they have been part of Contemporary And (C& as Edi), an art platform for international perspectives. They are currently editor-in-chief of the Latin American edition (C&AL).
Speaking experience: Moderated panels for the Sao Paulo Bienal (2023) and Goethe Institut NYC (2020). Lectures at HGB Leipzig (2024), NYU Berlin (2023), and ZHdK (2022). Critical thinking workshops in Tunisia (2020), Germany (2022), and Brazil (2023).

Art, culture and decolonial practice

Education and pedagogy
Intersectionality and anti-racism
Journalism & Media
Keynote
panel
workshop
facilitation
consultancy

Louise Moulié

SHE/HER

DE&I Strategy, Training and Change Management

English
Spanish
French

Louise is the founder of Diversity Secrets, a DE&I consulting, training, and podcast platform. She supports organisations in designing and embedding DE&I initiatives that create lasting, measurable results, from strategy design through to change management and governance. Before founding Diversity Secrets, she served as Head of DE&I Advocacy at the American Chamber of Commerce in France.

Speaking experience: DE&I workshops on inclusive leadership, multiculturalism, privilege, and allyship for 2,000+ professionals globally. Diversity Secrets Podcast with 10,000+ downloads. International conferences and webinars on intersectionality, navigating DEI in a pushback era, and radical approaches to inclusion.

DEI strategy and implementation

Learning, training and facilitation

Inclusive leadership and culture
Keynote
panel
workshop
facilitation
moderation
podcast

Ophélie Omnes

She/Her

Public Affairs and Advocacy

English
Italian
French
Ophelie has a decade of experience as a lawyer in international law firms, now applied to public affairs and positive lobbying. She advises NGOs and companies on strengthening the impact of their advocacy with political decision-makers and the public, and supports European and international organisations in building more inclusive and equitable work environments. She also teaches in public and private universities.
Speaking experience: Keynote workshop on advocacy at the Night of Ideas, co-organised by Texas State University and the French Embassy in the US (April 2025). Panel at the French Senate organised by NGO Mela’Lille on diversity and inclusion in French higher education (April 2024). Regular speaker on EU affairs, civic participation, and environmental justice.

Advocacy, public affairs & European Law

Inclusive leadership and culture

DEI strategy and implementation

Journalism & Media
Keynote
panel
workshop

Jamal Ouazzani

He/Him

Intersectionality, LGBTQIA+ Inclusion and Anti-Racism

English
Italian
French
Spanish
Arabic
Mandarin
Portuguese
Jamal is a French-Moroccan Muslim queer essayist, poet, filmmaker, and DEI consultant based in Paris. After ten years at international advertising agencies across Paris, Dubai, Shanghai, and New York, he pivoted to keynote speaking and DEI consulting. He hosts JINS Podcast, the first show centering love, sexuality, and gender for BIPoC and Muslim audiences, with over 750,000 streams and 45,000 listeners.
Speaking experience: Sessions on DEI foundations, intersectionality, LGBTQIA+ inclusion, religion at work, and anti-racism, delivered to organisations across Europe and North America. Regular speaker on Arab and Muslim representation in media and public discourse. Host of JINS Podcast (750,000+ streams).

Intersectionality and anti-racism

LGBTQIA+ inclusion
Religion and worldview at work
Journalism & Media
Keynote
panel
workshop
round table
facilitation
poetic performance

Kristall Thamas

She/Her

D&I in Organisations and ERG Development

English
German
Dari
Kristall is a Berlin-based Diversity and Inclusion practitioner with a degree in Gender and Diversity Studies from Rhine-Waal University. She has built her career at Zalando SE, one of Europe’s leading tech and fashion companies, where she has served as D&I Community Manager and D&I Manager. In these roles, she has led ERG creation, company-wide D&I programming reaching thousands of employees, and initiatives spanning neurodiversity, inclusive language, and allyship.
Speaking experience: Moderated the Women’s Leadership Panel at Zalando for International Women’s Day with 450+ attendees (2024). Delivered a live session on neurodiversity at work to 3,000+ employees. Speaker at DE&I Advocates Berlin.

DEI strategy and implementation

Inclusive leadership and culture

Learning, training and facilitation

Journalism & Media
panel
workshop
Moderation
facilitation

Chisom Udeze

She/Her

DEIB Strategy, Economics and Organisational Change

English
Yoruba
Igbo
Nigerian Pidgin
Chisom is a Nigerian-born, US-raised economist and DEIB strategist with over 14 years of experience driving organisational change across seven countries and three continents. She is the founder of Diversify and Diversify Consult in Oslo, which work with companies, governments, and civil society to develop sustainable DEIB strategies. She created the Diversify Nordics Summit, the leading DEIB conference in the Nordics, held annually as part of Oslo Innovation Week.
Speaking experience: Keynote and opening address at the Diversify Nordics Summit (2022, 2023, 2024). Speaker at Iceland Innovation Week (2024) and Katapult Future Fest (2023, 2025). Fireside chat with The Conduit Oslo on belonging and gender equity (2024).

DEI strategy and implementation

Organisational design and HR strategy

Economics and data
panel
workshop
Keynote
round table
facilitation
poetic performance

Work with the Collective

Whether you are looking for a speaker for an event, a facilitator for a workshop series, or a team to support a longer-term engagement, we would love to explore what makes sense for your context.

Reach out via the contact form or email us directly at hello@safirboukhalfa.com. Tell us a bit about what you are working on, and we will get back to you with a proposal.