Ines Wichert

Ines Wichert is a Managing Director at TalUpp, the leadership development consultancy. It's revolutionary leadership development app for emerging leaders enables organizations to develop deeper and more diverse leadership pipelines faster.

Ines works with organizations and individuals to develop talent and build high-performance teams. Her new book Accelerated Leadership Development. How to Turn your Top Talent into Leaders is published by Kogan Page.

Ines has a special interest in diversity and inclusion. Her last book Where Have All the Senior Women Gone? Nine Critical Job Assignments for Women Leaders was published by Palgrave Macmillan. Previously, Ines ran the Diversity & Inclusion Centre of Excellence for IBM’s Smarter Workforce in Europe and led the Women in Leadership research hub at the IBM's Smarter Workforce Institute.

Ines has appeared on BBC News commenting on women’s career development, and has written and been interviewed for, among others, the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, the Sunday Times and various leading HR publications in the UK and abroad. She regularly speaks at events on the topic of talent management and leadership development.

Before joining IBM, Ines worked for many years as a management consultant at SHL (later CEB and now Gartner) advising global organizations on their talent issues.

She has a Doctorate in Organizational Psychology from the University of Cambridge and is a chartered, HCPC registered Occupational Psychologist.