Diversity Equity Inclusion Global Awards: Jury Meet

BW Businessworld along with Ask Insights is hosting the first of its kind Diversity Equity Inclusion Global Summit and the second edition of Global D&I Awards 2019 to acknowledge and reward individuals and organizations’ that have been the champions of D&I at the workplace.

Global thought leaders from across the world will share a platform to present their views, experiences, future trends and strategies for the organizations at the Global Summit. 

“This year’s summit focuses on the future fluent of D&I - Diversity Equity Inclusion Accessibility. The critical aspect is ‘inclusion’ globally else the humans will be critically affected”, said Dr. Niru Kumar.

In today’s world, gender equality, social mobility, social responsibility, initiatives for disable workforce and women are factors that play an important role in the growth of the organisation.

Diversity and inclusion guides to more innovation, more opportunities for all, better access to talent, and better business performance. The idea of diversity and inclusion is based on equality. It pushes people and organisations to move ahead.

Sunandan Chaudhury expressed that ‘diversity of experience’ is a fundamental tool that further leads to creativity and innovation.

The summit will be followed by Awards Ceremony - organzied by BW Businessworld & Ask Insights - The Global D&I Awards 2019 to acknowledge and reward the individuals and organisations championing diversity at the workplace.

The awards are curated by one of the leading global organizations and were judged by the prominent jury comprising of extremely eminent and seniors members from global organizations, multinational corporates, global leaders and esteemed professionals.

The jury comprising the finest minds across diverse sectors, who decided the winners, are as follows: Shiv Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Aditya Birla Group; Jayaram Easwaran, Author & Management Consultant; Kanta Singh, State Project Head UNDP Gurgaon; Dr. M.S Bhat, Director Professor & HOD Psychiatry, UCMS & GTB Hospital; Dr. Niru Kumar, Founder, AskInsights; Lynda White, Organizational Development Consultant, McLeod White & Associates; Papiya Banerjee, CLO & HR Head, Marketing Operations, Airtel; Pavitra Singh, Head of Talent Acquisition, Asia Middle East & North Africa, PepsiCo; Dr. Punam Sahgal, Management Consultant & Behavioural Science Trainer and Sunandan Bhanja Chaudhury, Managing Partner, Executive Access India.

The parameters and criteria for judging, followed by the jury, were gender equality, cultural diversity, diversity and inclusion initiatives of the organisations.

Commenting on the Future Fluent Global Summit, Papiya Banerjee said, “It is a good initiative for a country like India. It brings all of us together to think about what is important”.