Ellen Young went through a hostile work environment as an employee and took it through a legal process. She shares what she noticed early, what she did that turned out to be right, and what she would do differently. Ellen is Marketing Manager at SalesScreen in Oslo and has built her career across SaaS, agritech and edtech, including three years as Marketing Director at Farmforce. She has also worked as a DEI consultant running workshops on inclusive leadership and inclusive working environments. She came to Norway from the United States in 2019 for an MPhil in Gender Studies at the University of Oslo and has been here since.

Patience Allen brings the HR and leadership perspective. What happens on the employer side, what HR can and cannot realistically do for you, and why the answer often depends as much on a company's own policies and the competence of the people involved as on Norwegian law. She covers what to watch out for, what recourse you may have, and what is worth clarifying, asking about or getting in writing when you first join a company, while everything is still going well. Patience is Chief People and Project Officer and COO at PictoryTale in Oslo, and runs Allen Consulting, where her work has included serving as interim global HR Director at Glamox and advising on diversity and inclusion, organisational development and employment contracts. She has previously been CEO of Legelisten.no and led teams of over twenty at Telia across six countries. She holds an MBA from the University of Michigan.