Events

Team Marching Sheep participated in the learning and development summit organised by UBS Forums in Mumbai on 26th September. Our on ground experience and client case studies of how L&D can play a pivotal role in driving current business objectives and long term business strategy, continue to add value even in the face of economic slowdown, travel freeze and budget cuts were very well received. It was indeed a great experience to hear from colleagues from different organisations and meet old friends!

It was an honour to moderate a panel on Diversity in Leadership with leaders from diverse organisations at HR Conclave 2019 in Bangalore. Siddharth Vishwanath from Zivame, Anisha Mishra from Qbera Loans, Shalini Nataraj from Maersk Global Service Centres India Pvt Ltd, Chennai, Vishwanadh Raju from AxisCades. Great discussions around different nuances of diversity- gender, sexual orientation, generational, and people with disability.

Spent the afternoon on 14th August engaging with students at Ambedkar University, Delhi. It was heartening to hear students discuss about topics like Toxic Masculinity, diversity and inclusion and different facets of diversity in the workplace. It was interesting to note their level of awareness, openness to discuss issues on the range of gender and sexual identities, the recent Transgender Bill and Surrogacy Bill. With future leaders like them, we can sure look forward to more divers and inclusive workplaces. The session was facilitated by Sonica Aron and Neharika Mahajan.

It was an absolute pleasure for MarchingSheep to be associated with the Diversity and Inclusion Bootcamp 2019 (curated by Transformance Forums) as a Knowledge Partner held on 20th Sept, 2019. With Sonica Aron, our founder & Managing Partner emphasizing the importance of a 360 degrees approach to D&I & Neharika Mahajan from MarchingSheep holding the conference together with her insights from every speech, the bootcamp was the perfect platform for learning & knowledge sharing, with eminent leaders from across industries coming together & sharing their perspectives & on ground experience of driving D&I agenda in their organisations. It included engaging discussions & insightful talks on approaches & strategies to implement diversity, tackle challenges in being inclusive organizations, deal with unconscious bias & the best practices in the area of D&I.

Thank you Dr. Shoma Mukherji and Delhi School of Business for inviting Sonica Aron to speak at Global Advances in Business and Communication Conference. It was an honour to address an audience comprising of academicians, professionals and students on topics of diversity and inclusion, social conditioning and unconscious bias.

It was a pleasure to conduct a session on the vicious cycle of unconscious bias for the team at EXL Service, Gurgaon . We thank Emmy Anita Gilbert for inviting us. Loved the vibrancy among the audience, the discussions, maturity and acceptance of the topic. Kudos to the Leadership for organizing such sessions.

Thank you Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and Vinti Mehrotra for the amazing opportunity to chair the panel discussion on Diversity and Hiring. Thank you Panelists Neha Saxena Shenoy from Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd, Nainsee Garg from Philips India, Girish Sharma from Accenture and Sumita Das from Sterlite Power.

It was really encouraging to interact with people from diverse fields working towards the agenda of divetsity and inclusion. Awareness is the first step towards change. Challenging norms through conversations and discussions will surely help us drove change.

It was wonderful to conduct a half day session with the leadership team of Philips India Electronics Limited on unconscious bias and minimizing its impact at the workplace. Loved the spirit of the open discussion, challenging and questioning, being able to openly articulate biases. Kudos to the Leadership and Armaan Seth for making this happen!