Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
Inclusive March Challenge 2026
WoMen in Finance Belgium and the Multicultural Network in Finance are kicking off the Inclusive March Challenge 2026 — and this year, we’re diving into one powerful truth:
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
Because no matter how strong a strategy is, it’s the everyday behaviours, shared values, and lived experiences within teams that truly shape impact, inclusion, and long‑term success.
Throughout the month of March, teams across the financial sector will explore what culture really means: how it forms, how it influences wellbeing and psychological safety, and how it can empower individuals to thrive.
Every week, you will have the opportunity to reflect, connect, and return to your teams with concrete, actionable insights.
This challenge is all about:
🌍 Celebrating the richness of our diverse backgrounds
🤝 Strengthening team bonds
🧠 Boosting wellbeing and psychological safety
💡 Building cultures where everyone feels seen, valued, and supported
Live Well, Lead Well
Wo.Men in Finance x Multicultural Network Webinars 2026
Join Wo.Men in Finance and Multicultural Network in Finance for our interactive, collaborative online learning sessions, tackling topics around Wellbeing and Leadership
Register Here
Our 2025 Annual Report is here
Where are the signatories today? Where do they want to go? And how will they use the charter to achieve their goals? These - and many other - questions are answered in the annual Wo.Men in Finance report.
Dowload the full report here
WIF Talks
Whether it involves speaking up in meetings, telling a compelling story, navigating difficult conversations, or using AI to communicate more effectively, the way we express ourselves shapes our influence and presence. Strong communication is not just a skill, it is a tool for leadership, connection, and change.
During our annual event, we opened the stage to real voices and lived experience from our community. Nadia Adjeroun, Liliane Bahufite, Ljubov De Heering, Monica Dias, and An Bourmanne shared powerful 5-minute personal stories about speaking up, overcoming fear, trusting yourself, finding your purpose and discovering new ways to connect.
These honest, vulnerable, and bold stories powerfully opened the event, reminding us that true communication begins with connecting to ourselves before we can genuinely connect with others.
Watch WIF Talks
Wo.Men in Finance Annual Event 2025 Step Up. Speak Out. Inspire
Whether it’s speaking up in a meeting, navigating difficult conversations, inspiring a room, or even using AI to sharpen your message, your voice has power.
Our event, Step Up. Speak Out. Inspire, is a call to action:
To express yourself with courage, clarity, and intention.
To turn communication into connection.
To make your message matter.
“We are convinced that in today's world, the best decisions are made by diverse groups and that the most appealing employers are the inclusive ones„
Christine Van Rijsseghem & Claire Godding - Chair & Co-Chair Women in Finance
Survey Corporate Culture and Career M/F/X
Is there a link between the blocking factors on your career path and the culture of the sector or organisation you work in? Are you curious whether there is a link and what that link would look like? Is there a difference between women and men?
Wo·Men in Finance has, in collaboration with KU Leuven and Ghent University, done a large-scale anonymous survey of the Belgian financial sector to investigate this. Based on the responses of 1351 participants, we are happy to share the full results of the study with you.
Click here to see the full results of the survey
Wo·Men in Finance: that is also a cast-iron diversity charter
Financial institutions that sign the charter commit to measuring gender differences at every level of their company, to setting specific objectives for the company, to drawing up a diversity and inclusion plan and to appointing a person responsible for diversity.
Read the charter hereOur members
Already 70 financial institutions support Wo•Men in Finance.
