About Abam

I’m Abam Mambo, workplace culture expert, award-winning employment lawyer and creator of the Belonging Quotient. I help leaders, brands and organizations raise their Belonging Quotient so they can cultivate a culture of Belonging. Why Belonging?

Abam Mambo is a global speaker on Belonging, Culture and Leadership. She believes that belongingness is the most human, familiar, relatable and effective driver of engagement, performance, and retention that WE’RE NOT USING. Consequently, she created the Belonging Quotient – a leadership and engagement model that raises the individual and communal belonging quotient, and places belonging at the center of a team, brand or organization’s culture in order to improve engagement, performance, wellbeing and retention.

An award-winning lawyer, Abam has spoken in over 25 cities on four continents, to organizations including the World Health Organization, GlaxoSmithKline, LEGO APAC, BNY Mellon, IHH Healthcare, Transparency International, Mace Group, ADM, Deere, Yara, etc.

A 15-year corporate veteran with expertise in employment law, corporate compliance and investigations, Abam has advised, counseled and consulted C-suite executives, HR and management in North America, Africa and Asia on all aspects of the employee life cycle. Specifically, her expertise is on fair employment practices, diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, and speak up culture.

She’s held regional director roles in Legal, Compliance and Investigations, at Microsoft and GSK, and has lived and led teams in North America, Africa and Asia. The Managing Director at consultancy, BelongingIQ, she is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School where she was a contributing editor to the Michigan Law Review, and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.