NADÈGE ADVOCACY FOR HANDICAP, DIVERSITY AND CSR

Nadège starts her daily routine at 6 o’clock. She wakes up, prepares breakfast and so on, and goes to work at 7:50 in the morning. During her way she takes her little daughter and then she leaves her in the kinder garden. She starts working at 8:30 am. She is the coordinator of equal-chances policies at Montpellier Business School (MBS). Before starting working there she was working seasonally in Montpellier's tourist office. She arrived at MBS in 2013 to work firstly in the student services office and two months later, she got hired as the assistant of the direction board of human resources diversity and CSR. 

She is originally from Aix-en-Provence city and in 1998 she moved on with her parents near to Béziers, in Southern France. In 2005, at a very young age, she decided to leave home and to settle down in Montpellier where she pursued higher education at the CEMEA national association. She got her diploma two years later as an educator and mentor in social work. After that, she travelled to Austria for one year to participate in an intercultural building and integration project as a volunteer from the "Chantier d’été" association. On March 28^th this year, she presented the "Handivalides Day", a MBS project from licence 2 students of the master program in management in partnership with "Starting Block" association. She says that the purpose was to raise disability awareness of today students and future managers of MBS which is committed to the values of global responsibility and performance. As a woman with a physical handicap she advocates largely taking a more long-term view of handicap in the workplace and in life in general. 

From early 2018, she has being working as well for handicap, health and sustainable development issues at MBS. Since last year, she is engaged with the Phares program where she leads a young group of master and high school students in Montpellier. The program is held also in many others superior education establishments in France by the Fédéeh, a representative national organization from the student community issued to people with a handicap. Diversity for her is not just handicap, but considering people’s differences in a every single way. The fact of gathering, “ensemble”, those differences in a lifelong respectful and understandable world.