SALWA
SALEK
EX-CDEIO & EXECUTIVE AT DESJARDINS | FOUNDER AND CEO OF DÉCIGONE CONSEIL | SPEAKER
" It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"
Salwa Salek is a recognized expert in organizational transformation and inclusive leadership. With over 20 years of experience, she has supported executive teams of major Canadian organizations in leading complex strategic and organizational transformations. During her early career in consulting within PwC’s Management Consulting practice, she worked across diverse sectors—including banking, insurance, technology, professional services, healthcare, non-profits, and the public sector.
Today, as a co-founder and partner of a consulting firm executing mandates across the Francophone world, she has established herself as a leading authority in human-centered transformation, organizational design, and inclusion, with an approach deeply rooted in business realities.
From 2011 to 2024, Salwa held executive roles in the banking and insurance industries, leading large-scale transformations of branch networks, cross-functional operations, and human resources. She implemented innovative strategies in employee experience, talent management, and diversity, enabling these organizations to position themselves as employers of choice and earn national and international recognition.
Today, Salwa serves as a keynote speaker and strategic advisor, supporting organizations that aim to build resilient, inclusive, and high-performing companies. She served as an ambassador for Coopérathon from 2017 to 2022, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Observatoire québécois de la diversité ethnoculturelle, mentor at the Founder Institute (Morocco chapter), and ambassador for L’Effet A—placing inclusion and diversity at the core of organizational performance and leadership.
Salwa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences (Public Relations and Crisis Management) from the Université de Montréal, a Graduate Diploma (DESS) in Management, and a Master’s degree in Management Sciences (Management) from HEC Montréal.
Booking Salwa Salek means bringing to your organization a conference that is strategic, actionable, and deeply human, designed to spark meaningful and sustainable transformation within your teams.
EXPERTISE:
All of the following topics are available in a choice of formats: from classic conferences to training courses and half-day strategy workshops.
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LET'S BE BOLD. LET'S DARE TO OPEN OUR HEARTS.
When human courage becomes the ultimate lever for performance and resilience
Our organizations are increasingly high-performing… yet profoundly exhausted.
In this inspiring and deeply embodied keynote, Salwa Salek invites leaders to dare a shift in posture: opening the heart as a strategic competency.
Far from a naive approach, she demonstrates how this posture builds trust, drives lasting engagement, navigates uncertainty and sustains both human and organizational performance.
Participants leave with a powerful shift in perspective and a new way to exercise leadership that is more conscious, more courageous and immediately applicable in their professional day-to-day.
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INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP: FROM INTENTION TO IMPACT
What truly transforms organizations… and what falls short
Many organizations today express strong intentions around inclusion. Few succeed in turning them into tangible impact.
This keynote offers a clear-eyed and pragmatic take on inclusive leadership, grounded in real cases experienced from the inside, free of ideological discourse. Salwa Salek demonstrates why some initiatives remain symbolic while others profoundly transform culture, engagement and performance.
Participants leave with clear, actionable benchmarks to exercise credible inclusive leadership, avoid common pitfalls and generate real impact on their teams.
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INCLUSION & RESILIENCE: THE STRENGTH OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT NAVIGATE UNCERTAINTY
When the human factor becomes a strategic advantage
In a context of rapid transformation, talent shortages and constant uncertainty, organizational resilience has become a critical priority.
This keynote demonstrates how inclusion, when embedded into leadership and management practices, becomes a true lever for adaptation, innovation and collective strength. Through concrete situations, Salwa Salek connects inclusion, engagement and the ability to weather difficult times without burning out.
Participants leave with a new understanding of resilience and concrete keys to strengthen their teams' capacity to face current and future challenges.
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FROM STRATEGY TO EXECUTION: WHAT TRULY CHANGES THE GAME
Leadership, culture and courageous decisions
Many organizations know what they want to change. Few succeed in making it last.
In this keynote, Salwa Salek shares concrete cases of transformation, without naming any organization, but revealing the real mechanisms that make the difference: structural decisions, system coherence and managerial courage.
A clear-eyed, human and profoundly useful keynote for leaders facing complexity.
Participants leave with a pragmatic and transferable framework, enabling them to distinguish symbolic actions from those that produce lasting impact.
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LOCATION : SPAIN AND CANADA
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) means accepting people as they are and ensuring fair treatment by removing barriers. Strong EDI programs help companies access wider talent, improve performance, boost innovation, reduce turnover, and support employee mental health through psychological safety. For impact, EDI must be led from the top, prioritized with a clear plan, measured with data, and reinforced through ongoing actions, even small ones.
In an unstable context, the scaling back of EDI programs reveals a misunderstanding: EDI is not an “HR project” or a moral duty, but a strategic lever. As long as it is seen as dogmatic, it fuels backlash. By anchoring it at the heart of the business model (customers, governance, KPIs), it becomes a driver of growth, innovation, and resilience.