Consciously Building Diversity & Inclusion - 12 Dec 2020

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Diversity is hiring people of different backgrounds like language, religion, gender, rural, urban small or big towns.

LISTEN TO GLOBAL EXPERIENCES FROM

Coca Cola, Microsoft & Aditya Birla Group

CONSCIOUSLY BUILDING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: UNIFYING TEAMS, IMPROVING CORPORATE PERFORMANCE

6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA

Opening Remarks Mr V Balaraman Past President, MMA & Former MD, Pond’s India Ltd

Address by the Speaker Ms Anu Oza HR Director, IMG Talent Management Ford Motor Pvt Ltd, India

Discussion and Q&A with Special Invitees Mr D Shivakumar

Ms Anu Oza

Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development

HR Director, IMG Talent Management

Aditya Birla Group

Ford Motor Pvt Ltd, India

Ms Nirmala Menon Founder and CEO

SATURDAY

Interweave Consulting Pvt Ltd

Mr Vijay Rajagopalan

DEC 12, 2020 | 6.00 PM

Head of Products & Engineering Microsoft Azure Commerce & Ecosystem

Mr Kandy Anand CEO, Igniting Business Growth LLC, Seattle, USA

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8:00 PM

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synopsis This program is about the many efforts to increase diversity and benefit from differences. It looks at some of the individual and social challenges in building a more diverse, tolerant and inclusive workplace. It examines the role of diversity and Inclusion in unifying teams and improving corporate performance.

It is interspersed with examples and case studies of companies that have made progress in this endeavour. It also looks at the returns on investing in diversity and inclusion. It also has best practices in this field.

DISTINGUISHED

GUESTS

OF

HONOUR

D SHIVAKUMAR

V BALARAMAN

Mr. Shiv Shivakumar is currently the Group Executive President ,

MBA from IIM Ahmedabad

Corporate

Strategy

&

Business

Development

at

Aditya

Birla

Group

Former MD of Ponds’

Mr. Shivakumar joined the Group in January 2018. Before that, he

Former export Director of Hindustan Lever

served as Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo for four years. He also Was independent director on Nokia, Mahindra World city;

worked with Nokia as CEO for India and later emerging markets

Polaris; Mother Dairy New Delhi; Intellect Design Arena Ltd

for a decade.

Chairman of CAMS; Chairman of Footwear Design and

He is currently the Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association

Development Institute.

and Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India. He is also on the board of XLRI and IIM Udaipur.

Currently on Delphi TVS and India Nippon Electricals Ltd Past President of MMA.

Mr.

Shivakumar

was

awarded

‘Distinguished

Alumnus’

by

IIT

Madras and IIM Calcutta.

ANU OZA Anu

Oza

has

been

working

in

NIRMALA MENON public

relations,

Nirmala Menon is a HR professional with over thirty years of experience in varied

marketing, communications, and corporate social

roles across diverse

responsibility for more than a decade. In addition

Founder & CEO at Interweave, her contributions in the field of Diversity and

to working with Unilever, both in Asia and in the United

Kingdom,

she

has

consulted

for

the

UN

organisations both in India and the United States. As

Inclusion has been recognised with her being listed among the "Top 50 Diversity Professionals" in the Global Diversity List.

Global Compact and the UN Population Fund. She

Prior

has also provided a variety of probono services to

IBM, India where

non-profits

diversity management. Her stint as part of IBM’s global diversity team provided

in

Asia

and

elsewhere

around

the

Interweave, she was the Diversity and Employee Relations she gained

wide

leader

for

and specific experience in the area of

her international experience embedding IBM’s diversity philosophy and practices

world.

Oza’s

to

HR

companies

background

enables

with

of

issues

her

to

leadership,

assist

change

diagnosis, dialogue, conflict resolution, and labour She

holds

Today,

Nirmala

and

her

team

at

Interweave

work

with

several

marquee

organisations across industries as a one-stop shop for organisational diversity

management, cultural

compliance.

across countries in APAC, Ireland, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

graduate

degrees

from

and inclusion solutions.

Recognised

as

a

subject

matter

expert,

Nirmala

is

associated

with

various

Harvard and the London School of Economics, and

industry bodies like NASSCOM, CII, NHRD, SHRM, etc. in India. She was also a

has served as a guest lecturer at Harvard and the

representative

Columbia Business School.

Compact & the UNIFEM to formulate the Women's Empowerment Principles.

in

the

informal

international

advisory

group

of

UN

Global

A certified Corporate Director from the Institute of Directors and a certified coach from the International Coaching Academy, Nirmala also holds a Masters in Business from XLRI, India and an MS from Temple University, USA.

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VIJAY RAJGOPALAN

KANDY ANAND

Vijay Rajagopalan is the head of Products & Engineering

Kandy is an experienced leader focused on accelerating

for Microsoft’s Azure Commerce & Ecosystem. His team is

growth and transforming commercial operations. He has

primarily responsible for the partner & customer growth of

extensive

Microsoft Cloud Platform – Azure.

experience with over three decades of senior leadership

Prior to this role, Vijay head several leadership positions in Microsoft’s corporate headquarters in Seattle. Vijay was a founding engineer of Microsoft’s Cloud business -

commercial,

operational,

P&L,

and

M&A

roles at Unilever, Coca-Cola and Molson Coors Brewing Company.

Azure.

His most recent roles include CEO and President, Molson

He was primarily responsible for the early transformation

Coors International; Chief Growth Officer, Molson Coors

of Azure and enabling infrastructure services and turning

Brewing Company; President-Philippines, Coca-Cola; and

it to a multi-billion dollar product.

Global

In the last 20 years that Vijay has been at Microsoft, he

Vice

President

of

Commercial

Leadership

for

Coca-Cola.

has worked across a wide variety of products and services

He has been on the board of retail restaurant companies

ranging

for over a decade--Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Limited and

Studio

from and

Online

Services,

Microsoft

Azure

Windows in

Server,

various

capacities

engineering, product leadership & strategy roles. spends

a

lot

of

time

with

customers,

Visual -

Vijay

partners

&

developers, presenting at conferences, to encourage a

Wingstop

Inc.

He

is

on

the

board

of

the

University

of

Colorado, Denver Business School and is actively involved in several community initiatives.

Check out his profile here:

constant feedback loop between Microsoft's customers and product teams. He is very passionate about diversity & inclusion, cultural transformation in organizations. Vijay passionate about music and an avid cricket enthusiast.

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