Passion and finding purpose is a state of mind
My high school son was struggling with an essay on “Your passion & purpose”. We had a long discussion and he asked me “Mom, did you know what your purpose was or what you would land up pursuing when you were 15 years old?” I reflected on a similar discussion with...
Changing Non-Transforming Behaviors
A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor. - Franklin D. Roosevelt The coronavirus pandemic has been an embodiment of the way humankind can overcome hurdles. Situations have been tough, and environments have had to change thanklessly. Yet, we have found our way around...
Say Yes!
It is that month when celebrating women is the norm. Being a proponent of women empowerment, I have always found the idea of focusing one day in a year on women as tokenism. But it does work if the plans and ideas around women are committed throughout the year, with...
Choose to Challenge
The world has gone through an unprecedented crisis last year. Despite the progress in women's issues in recent decades, the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated existing disparities, causing a reversion to traditional gender roles and with possible long-lasting physical,...
Empowering women – The role of “Entrepreneurship”
“When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.” Hilary Clinton The need for women to become financially stronger is growing greater with the times, and our world leaders are leaving no opportunity to awaken this notion in common minds. Women’s...
What’s Your Worth?
I came across an interesting post on LinkedIn, and my first reaction as amplified by others too on that post was ‘it’s so true’ (check the pic). Coaching and consulting leaders over the past decade, I have observed that people who are consistently successful in...
I Inspire – Leadership Lessons for 2021
2020 was a year that has tested our society like few others in recent memory, it’s safe to say that many of us are looking forward to putting this year behind us. We have navigated through incredibly turbulent times and we are not out of them yet, but there does seem...
THE NEW TENET
Much has been written about the year gone by, highlighted by the largest pandemic ever seen by mankind. From being a phoenix and rising from the ashes, to all that was well being turned to dust. The pain, the learnings, the resilience, the innovation and the...
Learning from 2020 : The Year of Resilience
While it was a difficult year for most of us, I believe that 2020 is also a year of Resilience! When I look back and reflect on all that I learned over the past year, I value all the lessons it has taught us. Go with the flow: At the end of 2019, I decided to take up...
Jaipur Rugs changing lives for a better future
Introduction The idea of Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) is that Corporations have a mandatory obligation to work for the benefit of the stakeholders. The idea has been implied that the private sector is the dominant engine of growth, also the principle creator...
Best D&I Practices of Inclusion – LGBT
Introduction In the absence of well-framed employment relations law, setting out mandates of Diversity and Inclusion could be perplexing in terms of identifying the problems, challenges and executing development plans. A diverse country like India faces challenges...
Best D&I Practices of Inclusion – Gender
Introduction In the absence of well-framed employment relations law, setting out mandates of Diversity and Inclusion could be perplexing in terms of identifying the problems, challenges and executing development plans. A diverse country like India faces challenges...
HeForSHe – Barclays Inclusive Policy
In the absence of well-framed employment relations law, setting out mandates of Diversity and Inclusion could be perplexing in terms of identifying the problems, challenges and executing development plans. A diverse country like India faces challenges that are unique...
Do you have a D&I epiphany moment?
Many years ago, one weekend evening, we had gathered with families at a friend’s place. The friend’s preteen children were crouched over a large book of autostereograms or what is simply known as the Magic Eye book. These books have several Single Image Random...
Making Your Mental Health A Priority
Today we see a lot of emphases is laid on the importance of mental health and wellbeing. However, in order to make our mental health a priority, we need to understand and also identify signs which indicate unstable mental health. Mental health generally encompasses a...
Learn to Embrace the Tension of Diversity THE CONFERENCE BOARD
As leaders, the rich diversity of culture and thought around the world is one of our greatest resources — if we use it as such. Differences in ideas, methods, motivations, and competencies can be used to build great organizations. However, this wonderful...
Celebrating Diversity LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
The rise of the global community brings many opportunities and challenges. In the past, community members could communicate with each other, trade with each other, and share a common culture. In the future, communication, trade, and culture will become much more...
How to be a responsible ally
An ally is a person from a privileged racial, sexual, gender or other identity, that supports and seeks to further the causes of those that lack such privilege. An ally is someone that makes a choice to take a stand against oppression or social injustice and speaks...
The Leadership Equation
Leadership is an abstract and complex topic. While a lot has been written about leadership, the best way to learn it is through experience. I embarked on my journey as a business leader about 5 years ago, when I moved to Dhaka to manage the Bangladesh operations for...
Meet the world’s first all women SuperMileage team.
Mechanical engineering isn’t for girls. We beg to differ. Team Panthera is the official supermileage team of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women, Kashmere Gate, Delhi. It is Asia’s only all women supermileage team. This team was formed with the aim of...
Tweet Chat – 27th March 2019 – Future of Work
Thriving in the future of work Prior to the "I Inspire 2019" event, we had conducted a tweet chat inviting all people to share their thoughts and opinions about the future of work and how we as a member of an organization thrive for a better workforce and work...
Apple doesn’t care about competition, Why should I?
I was 8 years old when I tried to ride a bicycle for the first time. My brother gave me a little push and I was doing pretty well till I saw another kid zoom past me. I tried to give a chase and went straight ahead to hit a pole. I was so embarrassed that I never got...
Tweet Chat – 18th March 2019 – Inclusion, Innovation & Transformation
Inclusion, Innovation and Transformation Prior to the event "I Inspire 2019", we had conducted a tweet chat discussing about Inclusion, innovation and transformation and how it changes the workforce of the organization. For this tweet chat we had invited three noted...
Tweet chat – 13th March 2019 – 2018 A year of change
In accordance to the "I Inspire 2019" event, we had conducted a tweet chat discussing about how the year 2018 has been a year of change and how it influenced new changes and new outcomes. For this tweet chat, we had invited three guests to share their thoughts and...
Tweet Chat – 7th March 2019 – Invest in women for building a better future
Prior to the event "I Inspire 2019", we had conducted a tweet chat discussing about investing in women for building a better future and their role in the society and in the organization. For this tweet chat we had invited four noted guests to contribute, participate...
Tweet Chat – 21st February 2019 – Beyond Bias: Accepting & Celebrating Diversity
Prior to the "I Inspire" event, we conducted another tweet chat discussing about the spread of diversity and celebrating and accepting the diverse society. We had three very known personalities and organizations to participate in the discussion. Our first guest was...
Tweet Chat – 7th February 2019 – Include and Impact
Business goals & societal goals Prior to I Inspire 19, we conducted a tweet chat on the topic - "Include & Impact: Aligning Business, Diverse Talent and Societal Impact Goals" where 3 inclusion champions, Sarika Bhattacharyya, CEO, BeyonDiversity, Sohini...
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People with Disability- Make them Employable
People with disability are likely to experience adverse socio economic outcome like less access to education, health facilities, lower level of employment leading to poverty coupled with the ongoing discriminatory prejudice and stigma in society. The journey towards...
Organizational Culture embracing inclusion
This festive week, I was planning to upgrade my television to smart TVand my friends suggested to check out the online deals. Being a fan of amazon online, the app kept tempting me with the uber expensive new iphone as well. Similarly, Netflix keeps suggesting my...
How diversity as an idea is evolving
“Mom, we won the match!” shouted my 12-year-old son as he got home from school. “Akshi was too cool. She took the last goal in the last 4 minutes to spare”. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him raving about his teammate who is a girl playing in his school soccer...