Marie Louise Sund

As a Surgeon, with a PhD in Surgery, Marie Louise is well acquainted with the challenges women meet in male dominated workplaces. She has been engaged in gender issues and diversity for a long time. After Emma Watson finished he iconic speech in UN Women in 2014 with ”If not now - when? If not me – then who?”, Marie was inspired to found #ShesGotThis – an organisation addressing unconscious discrimination by including men an women, using humour and without blaming. After two successful campaigns in Norway, both reaching 1 million individuals through social media, Marie has spoken at the UN and was invited to Michele Obama´s ”United State of Women Conference in the White House. ShesGotThis has been launched internationally in a number of countries. This year, Sunde, together with 3 partners, founded a company focusing on building technology solutions that will help improve understanding of causality, change attitudes, and improve gender balance in the business community. For this work, ShesGotThis partners with academia as well as leading Norwegian companies. Marie is a sought after speaker. She is a former ballet dancer, and has founded a youth theatre group. She established the Norwegian chapter of Nexus, a youth organisation to foster social change, and is at the advisory board of Partnership for Change.

Gender equality

I am building a company using technology to level the play field and facilitate a gender equal work place. In addition, I have an organization working to raise awareness on unconscious gender bias in an open way, including both men and women in the conversation. I would be very happy to collaborate with others doing similar things.