Tannaz Falaknaz is a senior expert in politics, management and diversity. As a long-standing trainer sensitizing people to the phenomenon of unconscious bias, she accompanies and advises clients from the fields of business, politics, society and science towards more diversity.
Through extensive insights into administrative agencies, workshops for public administrators and unconscious thinking patterns in the political context form one of her main areas of work. She also conducts internal and external mentoring programs and serves as a facilitator. She now works as an expert in the field of politics and international affairs, for example as a key contributor to the projects of the Helene Weber College, has led a local political empowerment program for female students and a mentoring program for women with migration backgrounds. She also trained as a systemic organizational consultant with Riesner & Braun Consulting.
Funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, she studied German philology, journalism and communication sciences as well as social and economic communication. Before this, she worked for six years in the theater scene in Münster, including as a director and head of a children’s and youth theater group, in dramaturgy, and in public relations. Tannaz Falaknaz is active in local politics and is primarily concerned with equality policy, participation and the promotion of engagement and democracy. Her main focus is on internal party strategies to attract women into local politics. In this context, she is also involved as a mentor. For EAF Berlin, she offers lectures on “Introduction to Local Politics” and “Women in Politics”. She is involved with the Iranian Community Germany e.V. and with the Berlin-based start-up JoinPolitics as a fellow.
