✨Journeys of Empowerment✨ - Episode 32

Procurement with Purpose: Peter’s Path to Inclusion & Authenticity

What if your professional role became a gateway to create systemic change in business and in society?

I had the honour of speaking with Peter Zerp, Inclusive procurement strategy expert at Accenture, ESDP board chair and NGO board member. His journey of resilience, empowerment and transformation is a true testament to defying expectations and creating meaningful change. In our conversation, we explored key challenges, turning points and the moments that reshaped his path to success.

What we explored:

👉🏾 Inclusive procurement: making supplier diversity a strategic priority in global business;

👉🏾 Authenticity at work: the courage to bring your whole self into professional spaces;

👉🏾 Overcoming bias: the daily effort it takes to unlearn assumptions and open doors;

👉🏾 Redefining success: moving from status and titles to meaning and fulfillment;

👉🏾 Personal reflection & growth: why looking inward might be the most radical act of all!

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 “Diversity isn’t a ‘nice-to-have’...it’s a necessity for real progress”

🙌🏾 “Authenticity means being honest with yourself first and then with the world”

🙌🏾 “Everyone has something special. We just need to create space for it to be seen”

Connect with Peter:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterzerp/ 

Learn more about ESDP | Empowering ethnic minority businesses:

•  Website: https://esdp-org.eu 

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