Innovation without Inclusion is Illusion

We are not just navigating a digital revolution, we’re living in a threshold moment where old systems are breaking down and new ones are not yet defined. With 30 years of experience across entrepreneurship, governance, and social transformation, Bojana shares how educational inequality, poverty, and exclusion block access to opportunity and innovation. Through community-rooted interventions and trust-based networks, Studiezalen bridges these divides. In this talk, Bojana explores how liminal leadership; leading from the “in-between”, demands presence, trust, and moral courage. She challenges tech leaders to move beyond tokenism, rethink talent, and design inclusive ecosystems that truly leave no one behind.

The Why:

• If we keep building the future with the same exclusions, we’re not evolving; we’re automating injustice.
• The most overlooked source of innovation lives outside the spotlight; in the stories we’ve ignored, the systems we’ve normalized, and the voices we are not hearing.

Key Takeaways:

• Get insights into liminal leadership; holding space in uncertainty. The boldest leadership is rooted in moral courage and the willingness to hold discomfort; yours and others’ as fuel for transformation.
• Learn how holistic, community-based approaches like Studiezalen’s can unlock overlooked talent and real inclusion.
• Walk away with language and tools to challenge tokenism, center lived experience, and shift from representation to redistribution.

This session is for...

• You if you’re done ticking boxes and ready to build something that actually changes lives.
• You if you’re navigating complexity, holding power, and wondering how to lead without losing your integrity.
• You if you sense the old rules don’t fit, but need language, courage, and community to build new ones.
• …you believe innovation should not only move faster, but reach further.