How not to drive a Diversity Initiative?

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How not to drive a
Diversity Initiative
Prasad Menon – Edifecs Technologies Private Limited

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Introduction
Prasad joins Edifecs as Leader – People & Culture after working with Cleartrip for
over five years as Chief People Officer. Prior to Cleartrip Prasad was with Flipkart,
leading its People function for Technology and Product organization, along with
Total Rewards and Corporate Social Responsibilities. Before Flipkart he has
steered people agenda in organizations like McAfee, 24/7 Customer, Ashok
Leyland. He is an Engineer turned HR professional in pursuit of humanizing the
workplace. Prasad believes that his purpose in life is ‘to contribute’ and is
passionate about giving back to the community.
He has lent another dimension to his purpose by founding GIVEPrakruti Eco Ventures – A community project
that stands for building awareness on sustainability and enriched living. He is also the HR lead (Pro Bono)
for CoronaSafe Network – An open-source disaster management platform built by tech volunteers in
collaboration with Kerala government to tackle the current pandemic. On the personal front Prasad is
married to HR professional Deepa Pinto and has 3 kids. They have been in Bangalore for 9+ years. Prasad
is an outdoor person and you can say that for this man from South India he has made 5 trips to the northern
most point of India Leh/Ladakh.

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PRESENTED BY
Prasad Menon
Leader – People & Culture
Microlearning Digital Summit | FEBRUARY 26

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Everything is a
story
You are a story
I am a story

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Diversity?

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99ish%..Prejudiced of some form…

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Crappy rewards: Equity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

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Inequity has serious consequences!

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How not to drive a
Diversity Initiative
INCLUSION
EQUITY

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Distinction : Invitation to Party
84%
16%
GENDER RATIO
Men Women
70%
30%
GENDER RATIO
Men Women

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Life story 2 : Santosh

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Life story 3 : Prema Vidya

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Access isn’t Equity
Creating Access

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Tokenism
Robust hardware & sensitized Software
Not a problem, but an opportunity
Move Diversity & Inclusion out of HR
Know what opportunity Diversity and Inclusion solves for
Solve for respect not recognition
A mindset for sustained Growth & opportunity
Fails … 8 of them scrapped out

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What do you get & what did you unget?
Thank you
Email ID : prasad.menon@edifecs.com
Mobile: +919620206258

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T H A N K Y O U
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Honored on two fronts:
as one of the largest minority-owned
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Sunny Singh – Middle Market Disruptor
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