New Delhi, March 15, 2024: Avtar Group, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Solutions firm, hosted the 16^th Edition of SEGUE Sessions – a half-day event designed to empower Indian Women Professionals navigate their professional landscape with clarity and purpose under the theme #PowerTheShift.

Segue Sessions is one of the most impactful and successful confluences for women professionals, hosted by Avtar Group.  Segue Sessions is aimed at enabling women professionals build sustainable and successful career paths irrespective of interruptions and challenges in their careers. In the sixteenth edition of Segue Sessions hosted in the month of International Women’s Day Celebrations, several women leaders and senior industry practitioners rendered their expertise at keynote address, panel discussion and workshop as part of the conference. Over 150 delegates from across industries participated in this conclave held in Chennai.

Speaking at the Conference, Geetha Ramamoorthi, Managing Director, KBR India, “Be bold to provide opportunities to women with potential and passion, instead of judging them based on prior experience. Especially in the manufacturing industry, it is important that we modernize the workplaces make tweaks in the infrastructure and policies to make the organizations and shopfloor women friendly. While I say that, we also need to sensitize men in manufacturing to the need for including more women in the workplace.”

Addressing the audience at the SEGUE Sessions, Dr Saundarya Rajesh, Founder-President, Avtar Group announced the pre-order of her next book, Conversations with Career Doctor, a solution-centric powerful handbook for every Indian Woman Professional (IWP) to help her stay employed, achieve financial security to thrive and win at workplaces. “Conversations with the Career Doctor isn’t about having a great career, it’s about rewriting the narrative of what ‘winning and thriving’ in the Indian Woman Professional’s career graph means. Each of us has the potential to navigate the twists and turns of our careers. The book will equip women professionals with practical guidance on proactive steps that they must take to grow from strength to strength in their professional spaces. With relatable anecdotes the book will enable women professionals not only to excel, but to thrive on their own terms, defining success from the inside out, and leaving an indelible mark on the world,” said Dr Saundarya at SEGUE Sessions.

Data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS July 2022-June 2023) indicates that there has been a rise in the women’s workforce participation which now stands at 37%. This is an encouraging rise from the 2021-2022 numbers which stood at 32.8% for women and 77.2% for men. However, to achieve India’s ambition to be a $5 trillion economy by 2025, the women’s workforce participation rate will have to drastically climb up. Despites other economic advances, without achieving gender balance in the economic domain, India’s dream of becoming a $5 trillion economy cannot be realised. There are several women who drop out of workforce after marriage or maternity and are unable to find their way back to the kind of jobs they want. This leaves them dissatisfied and their organizations bereft of such potential talent. Furthermore, the women who maintain their career continuum often do not climb to the top due to a variety of reasons – systemic issues, self-limiting biases, lack of career mentors, guilt-trips, and so on.

“At SEGUE we provide the IWPs tools and strategies towards sustainable solutions for problems/challenges faced by them in workplaces. This year, we have transcended career-centricity by delving into the multifaceted dimensions of the Indian Woman Professional’s experiences at workplaces”, added Dr Saundarya.

With a focus on the unique obstacles and unique experiences faced by women professionals, SEGUE Sessions, delivered a compelling and empowering narrative on Navigating Risks, overcoming the double-bind paradox, success stories of women professionals powering through by inspiring inclusion. The conclave also witnessed teams presenting solutions for challenges towards increasing women’s workforce participation in an exclusive segment HackEquity – that cracked the Inclusion Code.

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New Delhi, November 3, 2023: Avtar Group, India’s pioneers in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Consulting, announced the winners of the 2023 Avtar & Seramount Social Excellence Award and Male Ally Legacy Awards (MALA). The Awards were announced in Chennai at the seventh edition of Avtar and Seramount Best of the Best Conference 2023, India’s most respected conference on DEI.

The awards were presented by the Chief Guest, Honorable Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services, Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan. The Minister also recognized and honored the 2023 Top 10 Best Companies for Women in India and Most Inclusion Companies’ Champions.

Presenting the awards, Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister of Information Technology & Digital Services, Government of Tamil Nadu, Elaborating on the various initiatives taken in Tamil Nadu over the years to bring the state where it is today, said, “Many companies are repeat winners and there are so many companies winning awards in all the categories. You can only win an award here if you have the right culture. Creating and sustaining the right culture is the hardest thing to do, especially in large organizations, which have been around for decades. It is the distinguishing variable to the competitive edge that the companies have.  If Tamil Nadu is relatively successful today, it is because we are unique in progress across economics, human development, and relative social equity. The root cause of all this started in 1920-1921 when the Justice Party was elected to power. Women got the right to vote and the right to stand for office. Elementary education became compulsory for boys and girls, along with feeding them to ensure they comply with compulsory education.”

The Best of the Best is an annual DEI conference conducted by Avtar Group, India’s leading Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) solutions firm. The Best Practices of the 100 Best Conference (BOB) is a celebration of the winners of the 8^th Edition of the Avtar & Seramount Best Companies for Women in India (BCWI), Most Inclusive Companies (MICI), Male Ally (Men championing gender inclusion) and Social Excellence Award towards Inclusion of Women in local communities.

The Male Ally Legacy Award celebrates male allies who have spearheaded change in the mindsets and attitudes towards women at the workplace. Meanwhile, the Avtar & Seramount Social Excellence Award for is a recognition programme to identify and celebrate the most impactful social impact initiative amongst applicant companies. This award was conferred upon, Teleperformance for their COTW (Citizen of the World) program – a charitable initiative that seeks to generate a positive impact on local communities, particularly vulnerable children, and their families, through fundraising, in-kind donation, and volunteer work. They also focus on children who are PWDs and offer career rehabilitation to disabled soldiers.

Themed at #GlidetoInclusion, the seventh successive edition of The Best Practices of the 100 Best Conference (BOB) 2023 brought forth conversations on how organizations can #GlidetoInclusion while harnessing the power of diversity.

Speaking at the conference, Dr Saundarya Rajesh, Founder – President, Avtar Group, said, “To build an equitable future, we need not just the voices of change, but allies of action. We proudly celebrate the champions of a new era – those who recognize that the convergence of DEI with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) as a business imperative and a non-negotiable standard. The convergence of DEI and ESG is a mandate for building a world where all voices are heard, all talents are valued, and every individual is able to rise to the fullest of potential. And when talent potential is unleashed to the optimum, innovation is bound to soar, which is indeed the need of the hour. From 53% companies in 2021 stating that having a diverse workforce has positively impacted their innovation revenue, the number rose to 77% in 2023. This indicator is set to cross the 100% mark by 2025.”

The one-day conference had over 30 speakers from different walks of life deliberating over key challenges, solutions in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion journey of achieving equitable workplaces.

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