SEB broadens collaboration with Mitt Liv

We at SEB have a strong belief that commitment drives change. Through our partnerships we want to become involved so that together we can create conditions to increase diversity and contribute to a more inclusive and equal society.
SEB has various collaborations designed to promote inclusion and diversity in the countries in which we operate. Here we have collected together information about the collaborations that we mainly have in Sweden. Our aim is that this site will be dynamic and that we continuously will add interesting information from all our sites.
In Sweden, SEB collaborates with Mentor and Mitt Liv – two organisations that in slightly different ways work to get people into working life with the help of mentors. While Mentor is aimed at young students and has the ambition to build bridges both between young people and adults and between schools and the business community. Mitt Liv focuses on people with a foreign background and tertiary education. There it is about helping students to get jobs that corresponds to their skills and qualifications.
SEB collaborates with Unicus, an IT consulting company that sells “testing services with a twist”. The twist is that the company only employees people with Asperger’s syndrome, who have previously been unemployed. SEB engages consultants from Unicus to work with testing.
Crip in Tech offers companies certification, coaching, training and other consulting services from IT consultants with reduced mobility.
Diversity Charter is a non-profit organisation that works to promote diversity in companies and organisations. They want inclusion and diversity to be an integrated part of the strategy of every company and organisation. In conjunction with SEB signing up to Diversity Charter Sweden, the bank participates in the European Commission’s initiative for the annual European Diversity Month in May which draws attention to the importance of diversity in the workplace.
IGEday (Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day) is an annual event initiated by the Womengineer Foundation. Engineering companies and technology organisations are encouraged to open their doors to girls and non-binaries aged 13-19 to let them experience what it is like to be an engineer for one day. The aim of the day is for participants to meet role models and be inspired to choose engineering studies themselves.
In the fast-paced world of financial markets, where every market movement mirrors global dynamics, Jenny Jacobi, Head of Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) Strategy and Steering at SEB, finds her passion and her place.
Curiosity has formed Mia Hamstedt’s career. “I have always been interested in people, what drives them and what makes them happy and productive.”
After several years of research into social sustainability, Emma Heikensten wanted to move into the dissemination of research, in order to highlight the problems of financial inequality.
Evidence-based, talent-centric, and unbiased. That is how Sam Joukhadar envisions the bank's future talent acquisition.
As Deputy CEO of SEB’s fund management company and with many years of experience in the financial industry, Elisabet Jamal Bergström sees a great need for even more women to get involved in the financial economy.
Özge Özen Zink is Business Manager at Private Banking Entrepreneur Core at SEB in Stockholm. She sees herself as an intrapreneur at SEB and an ambassador on social media with a decisive role to drive change and innovative thinking.