Umar Mirza on diversity, inclusivity and why flat companies own the future

Umar Mirza is a social entrepreneur, change agent, and debat eleader, and his expertise is to scale up social impact projects and companies. He is a founding partner of MDI consultants, a consultancy company with a focus on Social Innovation. He started the Scholierentop, which gathers college students on a platform to influence the future of their own city. He is Executive Partner of Ekmekci, a fast growing franchise chain of restaurants in the Netherlands with over 120 employees, and he is one of the driving forces of NL2025, a network of CEOs and social leaders who help to scale up projects to improve education, health and entrepreneurship in the Netherlands.

In this episode, we discuss:

- why small-scale and medium companies have the future

- the difference between inclusivity and diversity

- why bureaucracy is off, while flat companies are on

- how hiring a person for their first job can lead to them becoming entrepreneurs

- intergenerational differences between GenY and... all the rest

More information about Umar:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/umarmirza/

More information about MDI Consultants:

https://www.mdiconsultants.nl/