From Compliance to Culture: Preparing Your Company for Pay Transparency
Are you an HR Leader or People Partner preparing your organization for the upcoming EU Pay Transparency Directive?
Corporate Culture Community and Delivery Hero invite you to an evening exchange exploring how companies move from legal compliance to cultural change.
Beyond reporting requirements, the real challenge lies in how organizations communicate transparency, prepare managers for conversations, and implement sustainable structures.
Join us for an evening of peer exchange, practical insights from HR leaders, and an interactive session on navigating pay transparency conversations.
📅 Event Details
Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time: 18:00 – 21:30
Location: Delivery Hero HQ, Berlin
🗓️ Agenda
18:00 – 18:45 | Arrival & Welcome
Check-in, networking, and light refreshments. Please note, we close doors at 18:50.
18:45 – 19:00 | Ongoing Networking
19:00 – 19:15 | Opening & Context + Community Surprise
19:15 – 20:00 | Panel Discussion
How HR leaders are preparing their organizations for Pay Transparency
20:00 – 20:30 | Interactive Exercise: Pay Transparency Conversations
Participants will explore real-life scenarios in an interactive exercise, practicing how HR leaders and managers can navigate difficult conversations about compensation transparency.
20:30 – 21:30 | Networking & Community Exchange
Connect with fellow HR leaders and exchange experiences over snacks and drinks.
🧡 Why join?
Because pay transparency is not just a compliance topic - it’s a cultural one.
This session is designed for HR leaders who want to move beyond legal checklists and think strategically about how transparency impacts trust, leadership and company culture.
You will leave with:
• Practical insights from experienced HR leaders
• A better understanding of how other companies approach pay transparency
• Concrete ideas for communication and change management
• Valuable peer connections in the HR community
About the Speaker
Saime Kütüklü - Saime is Director of Total Rewards at Delivery Hero SE, where she is responsible for compensation and benefits programmes in Germany and the EU Pay Transparency project across multiple European brands of DH. With 10+ years in total rewards, she is known for turning complex compensation design into clear, actionable strategy for HR leaders and employees alike.
Rachel Wright - Rachel connects people - whether by helping HR teams connect with their organizations or by bringing 750+ HR professionals together in Berlin around shared challenges. She combines over 10 years of communications experience with deep HR expertise honed at fast-growing companies like Zalando and Flix. An entrepreneur at heart, she also founded and bootstrapped her own events agency, building a client roster that included Wayfair, Lingoda, Moss, and Remerge. Today she consults HR teams on internal communications projects and runs a newsletter keeping the HR community connected to what matters.
Andreea Lungulescu - Andreea founded The Principal Recruiter after 16+ years shaping specialist talent strategies. Awarded twice for Global TA Innovation, she led global TA programmes at Zalando and Wayfair, including building Wayfair's Tech Hub in India from scratch.
She also built Talent Crunch Berlin, a DACH community now with over 6,500 members and 48 events, from scratch. She writes, coaches, speaks at conferences, and appears on podcasts about efficient and future-proof hiring and career development.
Outside work she enjoys architecture, cars, dancing, and acrylic painting.
Tara Sousa - Tara is an HR Business Partner with 13 years of experience across Latin America and Europe, working at the leadership level in tech, fintech, and FMCG environments, including N26, Zalando, and Danone. She has led large-scale transformations, including reorganisations affecting 1,000+ employees and regional restructurings delivering significant cost efficiencies, across multiple countries and legal frameworks.
She works closest to the decisions that shape organisations: workforce planning, compensation, talent trade-offs, and how leadership teams are built and held accountable through change. She is known for reading what a business actually needs and moving leaders from a problem to a decision.
In her free time, she enjoys yoga, cooking, and exploring Berlin one coffee shop at a time.
About the Host
Corporate Culture Community is an international community of culture curators - People and Culture, HR, Workplace and Office Managers - across organizations. A space to exchange, reflect, learn and build meaningful connections around the real experience of working on company culture.
About the Partners
Delivery Hero is one of the world’s leading local delivery platforms operating in over 70 countries, connecting millions of customers with restaurants and local businesses.
The HR Leaders Summit is part of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress and brings together HR, People and Culture leaders to explore the future of work. The event focuses on topics such as HR tech, AI, leadership and talent, offering insights, practical learnings and valuable connections across the international HR community
Attendance & Registration
This event is curated for HR Leaders, HR Managers and HR Business Partners in tech and scaling organizations. Limited to 30-40 participants to ensure meaningful discussion and peer exchange.
⚠️ Cancellation Policy
Please cancel at least 48 hours prior to the event if you cannot attend. No-shows will be blocked from attending CCC events for 3 months. We appreciate your understanding - this helps us maintain quality experiences for all attendees.
📸 Note: Photos may be taken during the event. If you'd prefer not to be photographed, please let us know at check-in.