Diversity Icebreaker and TeamReflect in Team Development
What if the real reason your team underperforms isn’t lack of competence – but how you use your differences?
Duration: 75 minutes
Why Teams Struggle – And What It Costs
Most teams don’t lack talent—they lack a shared understanding of how to work together effectively. Miscommunication, low psychological safety, and underused diversity often lead to slower decisions, weaker collaboration, and missed opportunities.
In a complex and fast-moving business environment, these challenges are not just frustrating—they directly impact performance, innovation, and results.
From Insight to Performance
In this 75-minute webinar, you’ll be introduced to a practical and proven approach to team development using Diversity Icebreaker® and TeamReflect®.
You’ll learn how to create a shared language for collaboration, understand how your team actually works, and identify the strengths that drive performance. The session combines research-based insights with concrete examples, showing how teams can move from awareness to action.
What You Will Take Away
You will leave the webinar with clear ideas you can apply immediately in your own team. This includes how to build trust, improve communication, and use differences as a strategic advantage.
Whether you are a leader, HR professional, or consultant, this session will give you a structured way to develop stronger, more aligned, and higher-performing teams.
Target group
Leaders, HR & L&D professionals, consultants and coaches working with teams.
Date and time
May 26th. 2026 at 3:00 – 4:15 PM CET
Webinar facilitator
Bjørn Z. Ekelund is a psychologist (University of Oslo/Norway) with an MBA, and the developer of Diversity Icebreaker® (DI). He is internationally recognized for his work on communication and collaboration, and DI has become Norway’s most widely used tool in this field, applied by more than half a million people across more than 80 countries.
With over 30 years of experience, Bjørn is one of Norway’s most seasoned consultants in teamwork, team development, communication, and leadership across roles and cultural differences. He has led consulting firms for decades and delivered more than 1,000 assignments in over 20 countries.
Throughout his career, he has contributed to research and teaching at several of the world’s top-ranked educational institutions within his field. In 2019, he published the book “Unleashing the Power of Diversity: How to Open Minds for Good,” where he outlines how Diversity Icebreaker can be used to create a shared language and build trust across people, teams, and organizations.
His extensive experience with Diversity Icebreaker has also been a key foundation for the development of TeamReflect®, a modern, research-based tool for team reflection and development.
Registration
Send an email to: seminar@human-factors.no
It is free to participate