✨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/
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