#424: Lakshmi Sreenivasan on adapting to the concept of DE&I and making an organisation inclusive

“India is definitely open to diversity, equity and inclusion work, but it's just happening like a seasonal or occasional event and it is more event-based; it is not on a people development base. There is definitely a lot of scope, organisation can reassess what they want to do with diversity or with DE&I”

This latest episode of The Shape of Work introduces our listeners to Lakshmi Sreenivasan, Founder at The Outcast Collective, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consulting and advisory firm. The Outcast Collective was started with a mission to bring those individuals on the margins to the centre. In this episode, Lakshmi talks about making an organisation completely inclusive and how to handle the concept of DE&I.

Lakshmi has an overall work experience of a decade and has worked at Square Sequel Consulting and LS Learning Systems before her time at The Outcast Collective. She did her B.Com from the University of Madras, her PGDBM from ICFAI, her Masters of Psychology in Indira Gandhi National Open University and her PGTFT from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is also a Erickson Certified Coach and has done Design Thinking from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Episode Highlights

• How to adapt to the concept of DE&I?
• How to make an organisation completely inclusive?
• Best practices for addressing unconscious bias in the workplace
• The role of technology in accelerating the DE&I agenda

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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