About the Theme:
“The New Age Organization:
Driving Purpose & Performance.“
The theme for this year’s virtual Inclusion Summit on the 22nd & 23rd of September 2022 is “The New Age Organization – Driving Purpose & Performance.” The idea of the summit is to recognize and learn from individuals and organizations that were able to remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The Great Place to Work® India research also establishes that Inclusive workplaces perform better than the rest. The research emphasizes inclusive practices and affirmative action as being hallmark experiences driven by some of the best-performing workplaces.
About the summit
The Great Place Inclusion Summit is a leading learning conference about the fundamentals of driving workplace inclusion effectively and discovering new industry trends. The objective of the Inclusion Summit is to create a platform to exchange shared experiences.
The Great Place Inclusion Summit speakers and organizations have diverse experiences, along with practical exposure to driving workplace inclusion.
Through this summit, we encourage participants to recognize and learn some of the best practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
What you can expect at
The Great Place Inclusion Summit 2022?
This year conversations at the Great Place Inclusion Summit are focused on integrating Diversity, Equity & Inclusion closer to the overall business strategy, from running business operations and interacting with customers & stakeholders to brand and marketing strategies. Over two days, you can expect to witness insightful keynotes, breakout rooms, masterclass, fireside chat, and panel discussion to satiate your curiosity and provide your mind with some food for thought.
Come and experience the power-packed, knowledge-rich sessions in a meticulously designed virtual setting.
Unveiling India’s Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity & InclusionTM 2022 and India’s Best WorksplacesTM for Women 2022.
Industry specific insights on how to implement workplace inclusion.
Why is action towards equity and equality even more critical now, than ever before.
Local & Global thought leaders who are shaping the evolution of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
2022 Speakers
Manasi Girishchandra Joshi
World Champion
Para-badminton athlete
Faye D’souza
Award Winning Journalist
Ameen Haque
Story Coach & Storyteller
Founder@Storywallahs
Beena J
General Secretary
At Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan
N Venu
Managing Director & CEO
India & South Asia, and Member of Executive Team at Hitachi Energy
Biju Dominic
Chief Evangelist
Fractal Analytics
Beverly Louis
Founder
Mann Foundation, Gayathri Shanmugam, Chief Programs officer, Haqdarshak
Gayathri Shanmugam
Chief Programs Officer
At Haqdarshak
Chhavi Bajaj
Senior Director
Organisation and Talent Development and HR4HR, Flipkart
Deepu Prakash
Senior Vice President
Process and Technology Innovation - Fingent
Hemant Badri
Senior Vice-President and Head of Supply Chain
Flipkart
KS Harish
Country Group HR Head
South Asia at Bayer Group
Priya Dcruz
HR Partner Commercial & Lead Inclusion & Diversity
South Asia, Bayer Group of Companies
Rajesh Chopra
Mastercard
Rajesh Mani
Mastercard
Prasenjit
Founder-Director
Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Yeshasvini Ramaswamy
CEO
Great Place To Work® Institute India
Namrata Mathur
Vice President
People Resources & CHRO - McDonald’s India
Workplaces of today require an inclusive mindset to achieve their business objectives. Leadership action towards Equity and Inclusion is more important than ever before. The two days ahead are going to help you discover keyways in which equity and inclusion can get integrated with your business strategy.
Speaker: Yeshasvini Ramaswamy, CEO Great Place To Work® Institute India
The need to embrace differences across industries & professional sectors in the country is going to be key in utilizing full potential of India’s youth. Therefore, what is a Champion mindset we need to adopt to address centuries of systemic bias to be an ally for a more Inclusive India.
Speaker: Manasi Girishchandra Joshi, World Champion, Para-badminton athlete. Moderated by: Sandhya Ramesh, Head – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Great Place To Work® Institute India
As the world transitions to conscious leadership, this session aims to cover why are ESG principles critical for the New-age organizations, what is the risk of not investing in ESG and how can one integrate principles of responsible business during continuous operations.
Speaker: Venu Nuguri, Managing Director & CEO - India & South Asia, and Member of Executive Team at Hitachi Energy Moderated by: Yeshasvini Ramaswamy, CEO, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
From time immemorial, storytelling has played a key role in building culture. The stories that we hear, shape our perceptions which strengthen our beliefs and impact our behaviours. In workplaces, story-sharing is a powerful tool that helps us embrace differences. This session focuses on the principles of effective storytelling and its impact on building a inclusive culture.
Speaker: Ameen Haque, Founder Storywallahs Moderated by: Preeti Malhotra, Practice Head Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Diversity in caste, religion and faith poses its own sets of challenges in a country like India. This session aims to break the myth of the non-existence of casteism in Urban India and Indian workplaces and what are steps that organizations can take to create environments of belonging.
Speakers: Beena Pallical, General Secretary of the Dalit Arthik Adhikar Andolan, Prasenjit Bhattacharya, Founder-Director Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Moderated by Basuri Dutta, Vice-President, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Biases (in the context of diversity and inclusion), impact our decision making and sometimes even when we use data, we are drawn to insights that serve our biases. This session highlights techniques to be aware of biases and how one can navigate the same.
Speaker: Biju Dominic, Chief Evangelist, Fractal Analytics Moderated by: Dalreen Patrao, Co-founder & Director Great Manager Institute
An immersive learning session that builds authentic empathy to participate in social change -both in our personal and professional spaces.
Session curated by: Atypical Advantage & Maithily Bhupatkar, Head of Consulting Delivery, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
India’s Best Workplaces in Diversity Equity & InclusionTM - 2022: Top 5
& India’s Best WorkplacesTM for Women (Mid-sized) – 2022: Top 75
Learn from the transformation story of a Best Workplace which has been able to solve key business challenges by applying an inclusion lens. The session aims to cover the journey towards integrating inclusion as a way of conducting business.
Speakers: Chhavi Bajaj, Senior Director - Organisation and Talent Development and HR4HR, Flipkart & Hemant Badri, Senior Vice-President and Head of Supply Chain, Flipkart
Moderated by: Balbir Singh, COO, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
While social stereotypes and biases play a role in hiring and retention of diverse communities, industries have their own set of accepted truths. Occasionally, you see organizations who come forward to challenge the status quo for their industry creating what one calls
“Next Practices”.
Session 1: Breaking the education-qualification stereotype
Speaker 1: Deepu Prakash, Senior Vice President at Fingent Technologies
Moderated by: Sunil Bablani, Business Head – Lissen.IO, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Session 2: Breaking the ability-stereotype
Speaker 2: Namrata Mathur, Vice President – People Resources & CHRO, McDonald’s India
Moderated by: Aalaap Roy, Director D2C Brand Marketing & Sales, Great Manager Institute
Session 3: Breaking the industry stereotype through Gender-smart agriculture.
Speaker 3: KS Harish, Country Group HR Head – South Asia at Bayer Group & Priya DCruz, HR Business Partner, Commercial of Bayer Group
Moderated by: Geetanjali Jagannathan, Head – Brand & Marketing, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
There are numerous social issues that impact the economic capability of our country. Identifying problems that impact marginalized communities in India and building sustainable and scalable business models to solve them is the work of a few. This session aims to bring to you the journeys of two organizations leading from the front.
Speakers: Beverly Louis, Founder Mann Foundation, Gayathri Shanmugam, Chief Programs officer, Haqdarshak
Moderated by: Asmita Dube, Business Manager – Events & Community, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Driving belongingness in a global environment comes with its headwinds & tailwinds. In this session, we learn about how MNCs take charge of driving an inclusive culture across geographies, and how they contextualize their efforts to maximize impact.
Speakers: Rajesh Mani, Senior Vice President and Head, India Tech Hub, Mastercard, Rajesh Chopra, Senior Vice President and Head, Advisors - South Asia, Mastercard
Moderated by Delnaz Elavia, Practice Head Consulting, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Younger generations in our country want to be involved in more purposeful and meaningful ways of utilizing their time and talent. How has the role of management teams and organizations evolved to drive influencer-based leadership that appeals to multiple generations in the workplaces of tomorrow.
Speaker: Faye D’souza
Moderated by: Akshat Shah, Vice President, Sales & Client Experience, Great Place To Work® Institute, India
Moderated by Sandhya Ramesh, Head – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Great Place To Work® Institute India
India’s Best WorkplaceTM for Women (Large) – Top 100
Past Speakers
Abhinav A. Bindra
India's First Individual Olympic Gold Medalist
Divyanshu Ganatra
India’s First Blind Solo Paraglider
Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation
Kathy Buckley
An Award-Winning Actress,
Speaker, and Hearing-Impaired Comedian
Harish (He/She)
Head DE&I,
Axis Bank
Paul Raddon
General Manager and Global Head of Operations
at hsbc global service centres
Harita Gupta
Head
Asia Pacific and China, Sutherland
Argho Sen
Head of Commercial Banking, India
Natwest Group
Raj Narayan
Head Hr
TITAN & co.
Harshvendra Soin
Global Chief People Officer
Tech Mahindra
Anshuman Kumar
Director Global Brand & Corporate Communication
Intuit India
Priyanka Anand
Vice President and Head Hr
Ericsson India
Harish Bhat
Brand Custodian
At TATA Sons
Nabamita Banerjee
Director
Partner (Human) Resources at TATA Starbucks
Devika Nair
Senior Manager
D&I, CSR, Marketing and Communications at Allegis Group
Manish Sharma
Principal Business Technology
ZS Associates
Rajiv Sharma
Senior Director
People and Culture at Aristocrat India Development Center
Sachin Sadashiv Narke (He/Him/His)
Chief Learning Officer, Head-Talent Acquisition, and Unit Head Hr
At Forbes Marshall
Raman S. R.
Hr Business Partner & Lead – Talent Agility
SAP India
Anita Joshi
Director - Hr and Head D&I
SAP India
Prasenjit Bhattacharya
CEO
Great Place To Work® India
Sandhya Ramesh
Head Diversity and Inclusion
Great Place To Work® India
