OPIM

Our Team

  • Jana Tikalová
    Founder and CEO
    DEI Consultant & Trainer
    I have been active in diversity, human rights, and inclusion for 20+ years. During my university studies, I founded OPIM. I graduated from anthropology in the UK. I worked on the international level first 8 years.

    I have experience with senior positions in HR and Training development in travel retail and automotive. As a trainer and consultant, I help to leverage diversity & inclusion in the organization.

    I am a visionary and a well of ideas open to new challenges. In OPIM I lead the team and B2B partners relations. I am a co-founder and member of the Advisory Board of D&I Shapers by OPIM.

  • Jana Gajdošová
    Partnership & Operations Manager
    Human rights, diversity and inclusion has been my dream work since my ethnology studies. I am part of OPIM over 10 years, starting as a volunteer and coordinator of its evergreen project Living Library. Currently I take care of operations and communication.

    I connect my passion for D&I with my experience of project management.

    I also have passion for education and career consulting. I have been member of the EU working group, representing the Czech Republic for early education termination.

    I am communicative, but I also like my quiet time for conceptual work, learning and reading.
  • Martin Kokeš
    IT support & development
    I am a teacher of web design and applications in the secondary school. Among my students there are students with special needs.

    When I was introduced OPIM and one of the projects Diversity Talent Pool, it all fit into the big picture. Somehow my work helps the students to connect with future employers.

    In OPIM I focus primarely on the app backend Diversity Talent Pool and implementation of new technologies.
  • Katarína Kabáth
    Trainer, Coach and Facilitator
    I am a passionate facilitator and coach, a guide through individual and corporate change with over 20 years of experience in the business field, focusing on supporting, training and coaching adults in multicultural and diverse environments of about 50 countries and different corporate or organizational cultures.

    I am an advocate of lifelong growth and learning. I am certified in e.g. Cultural Intelligence, Game Changing Index, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, Points of You® trainer, Sociomapping® facilitator or Integral Growth Coaching.

    At OPIM I co-design academy, coach and run workshops.
  • Zdeněk Sloboda
    Trainer and Facilitator
    I graduated in journalism and media studies, worked in media and advertising agency and I am a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism of the Faculty of Arts of UP and the Department of Andragogy and Personnel Management of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. In addition to texts on media education, I am also the author of a handbook on gender and sexuality for teachers, and I am a long-standing member of the advisory bodies of the Government Council for Gender Equality and the Government Council for Human Rights. Between 2019 and 2021, I was a member of the EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality) Expert Forum for the Czech Republic. I am a member of the Gender Expert Chamber of the Czech Republic.

    At OPIM I train the inclusive language.
  • Dinah Spritzer
    Trainer & Facilitator
    I am a communication consultant focusing on diversity, intercultural dialogue, writing without jargon, media literacy, sexual harassment prevention and boosting women's confidence.

    I have been working as a journalist for two decades across the globe, covering minorities, religion, and gender for the New York Times, USAToday, The Jerusalem Post, and other brand-name media.
    I am an American who specializes in the unique social and cultural dynamics of CEE and has lived in Prague since 2001.

    I teach journalism at New York University and am an author of "Global and Intercultural Communications," an academic book (2021).

    In OPIM I co-facilitate workshops on intercultural dialogue.