Ursula Tavender is a future-readiness strategist, multi-award-winning equity advisor, and co-founder of Innovationin; a transformation partner for organisations ready to redefine success in an AI-shaped world.
She partners with executive teams to design people-centric AI strategies, activate future skills and build adaptive, resilient organisations equipped for continuous change. Her work is guided by one belief: We don’t futureproof business with technology, we futureproof it with its people.
Innovationin is a finalist for New Business of the Year in both the Hampshire Business Awards and the Surrey Business Awards 2025, reflecting its mission to shape a new era of people-powered transformation.
Ursula’s advisory work spans people-powered AI adoption, leadership capability, performance design, talent ecosystems and culture transformation.
She helps organisations strengthen their strategic readiness by:
• Creating people-powered AI transformation that reshapes performance, collaboration and identity
• Developing internal talent ecosystems that unlock agility, creativity and problem-solving
• Evolving performance models so people can grow their value instead of defending it
• Embedding future readiness as a core organisational muscle
• Equipping teams and leaders with the mindset, skills and behaviours needed to thrive in an era of constant change
Before expanding into future-readiness and AI strategy, Ursula spent over a decade advising organisations on equity, inclusion and systemic change. She is widely recognised for co-delivering Pfizer UK’s award-winning gender equity strategy, which reduced the gender pay gap from 15.9% to 6.6% in just four years.
As founder of The Inclusive Workplace Conference (acquired by Mark Allen Exhibitions in 2025), Ursula has convened more than 2,000 senior HR, DEI and wellbeing leaders and over 350 expert speakers to help shape the national agenda on inclusive innovation. She continues to serve as a strategic advisor to the programme.
Alongside her organisational work, Ursula equips individuals to build visibility, confidence and career agility. In Summer 2025, she and her co-founder Dagmar Albers published The Visibility Advantage, a practical, mindset-shifting toolkit that helps people communicate their achievements with clarity and confidence, without the ick factor.
Outside of her consultancy work, Ursula mentors young women through The Girls’ Network, supporting those from underrepresented backgrounds to build confidence, networks and access to opportunity.
Named one of HR Magazine’s Top 10 Most Influential Thinkers in both 2024 and 2025 and serving as a UN Women CSW69 Delegate, Ursula is driven by a clear mission: to ensure people are not only included in the future of work, but positioned to lead it.
Dagmar Albers is a strategic problem solver with over 25 years of experience guiding global organizations to harness the power of insights, innovation, and inclusive workplace cultures. Her expertise spans employee and customer insights, analytics, experimentation, and cultural transformation. She excels at designing and leading programs that deliver measurable, lasting change—going beyond reports to real-world impact.
As Co-Founder of Innovationin, Dagmar works with Ursula Tavender to build workplaces where fairness and belonging drive performance. They partner with progressive organisations to uncover and remove structural barriers, then design strategies and programs that dismantle them.
Before co-founding Innovationin, Dagmar built and led Pfizer’s Customer Insights & Experimentation Practice, delivering strategic consulting across all business units and functions. She championed a culture of data-driven decision-making, thoughtful risk-taking, and customer-first innovation — enabling brand teams worldwide to design strategies grounded in real-world insight, not guesswork.
Later, she led Pfizer UK’s award-winning strategy that slashed the gender pay gap from 15.9% to 6.6% in just four years — while boosting senior-level female applications by 14.4% and hires by 11%. The groundbreaking work earned two Innovation Awards for impact and originality.
Dagmar introduced and scaled new capabilities that helped teams turn bold ideas into business wins. From shaping ideation processes to embedding disciplined experimentation, she made it possible for teams to move faster, smarter, and with purpose. Her leadership didn’t just influence projects — it transformed how decisions were made and value was delivered.
Known for aligning diverse perspectives and energising teams, Dagmar turns complexity into clarity and ambition into action. Her mission: to make work a place where people thrive and ideas scale.
