Beyond the Seat at the Table: From Inclusion to Influence
Abi Adamson
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Abi Adamson, Founder of The Culture Partnership, is a pioneering voice in workplace culture transformation, recognized by The New York Times as one of the "Stars of LinkedIn." She has designed and implemented cultural strategies for global industry leaders, including Spotify, Sony Music, SoHo House, and Wise, focusing on creating environments where belonging thrives. A sought-after consultant with demonstrable impact, Abi regularly contributes insights to prominent publications including The Metro, Raconteur, People Management, and HR Zone. She will deliver her first TEDx talk "Who Owns Culture" in November 2025 and release her debut book "Culture Blooming: Nurturing Workplaces Where People Grow" with Berrett-Koehler Publishers in August 2026. Abi transforms organizations by equipping leaders with practical tools to navigate complex conversations around inclusion and psychological safety, ensuring everyone can authentically contribute their unique strengths.
All sessions by Abi →Being invited into the room is not the same as having power in it. Too often, women find themselves present yet overlooked, included yet undervalued. Abi Adamson explores the gap between visibility and true influence, the invisible patterns that keep women from fully leveraging their contributions, and practical strategies to move from simply being included to becoming genuinely indispensable.
1. Presence is not power
Why a seat at the table does not automatically translate into a voice that shapes decisions.
2. The invisible patterns
The glass cliff, unrecognised office housework and idea attribution gaps that keep women visible yet undervalued.
3. From inclusion to influence
Personal strategies to increase influence and impact, whether advocating for yourself or creating pathways for others.
Being invited into the room is not the same as having power in it. Too often, women find themselves present yet overlooked, included yet undervalued. This session explores the gap between visibility and true influence, examining the invisible patterns that keep women from fully leveraging their contributions.
Abi Adamson names the patterns, from the glass cliff to unrecognised office housework and idea attribution gaps, and shows what it takes to move from presence to power. Attendees leave with practical strategies to move from simply being included to becoming genuinely indispensable, whether advocating for themselves or creating pathways for others.
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Being invited into the room is not the same as having power in it. Too often, women find themselves present yet overlooked, included yet undervalued.
Abi Adamson is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.4 out of 5, across 60 responses, and rate Abi personally 4.6 out of 5.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Abi, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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