AMSTERDAM, November 9, 2026
Selection Lab has won the Diverse & Inclusive Leadership Award at the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2026. Deloitte presented the award on Thursday, November 5, at Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam. The award goes to a company that structurally embeds diversity, equity and inclusion in its organization and leadership.
According to the jury report, Selection Lab “submitted a strong and well-substantiated entry and convincingly demonstrated during the pitch how DEI is integrated into the organization.” The jury also pointed to the visible support and involvement of the founders and the management team, showing that the commitment is carried throughout the entire organization.
That commitment starts with CEO Lotte Welten. From the very start of her career, she worked on diversity and inclusion at several NGOs, long before it became a standard topic in business. She founded Selection Lab with Joeri Everaers and Jordi Wippert to make organizations more diverse through more objective selection.
“Anyone who knows Selection Lab knows that Lotte should have received this award,” says co-founder Jordi Wippert. “She brought her values into Selection Lab. You see them in our product, in our company and in how we work with people. I don’t know anyone who lives by them the way she does, every single day.”
“Where I focused on data and efficiency and Jordi on scalability, Lotte has always put people first,” says co-founder Joeri Everaers. “Objective selection is good for organizations, but it goes beyond that. When people work together, they come to understand each other better and are less quick to judge or discriminate against one another.”
In addition to the award, Selection Lab finished 29th in the Technology Fast 50, with revenue growth of 381 percent over four years. This year marked the 27th edition of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, organized in partnership with ABN AMRO, Euronext, Google Cloud and Kennedy Van der Laan.
Selection Lab is an Amsterdam-based HR tech company that helps employers select more fairly and more effectively. The company develops validated and game-based assessments, conversational AI screening via WhatsApp and web chat (SmartChat) and integrations with widely used ATSs. More than 250 organizations work with Selection Lab. The company is ISO 27001 certified.
More information at selectionlab.com.