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The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room Podcast is a curated safe space to have uncomfortable conversations about the pervasive inequalities in society and our workplaces. The idea of the podcast was born from my sense of conflict about identity, self and the concept of privilege and fuelled by my own need to understand how my overlapping identities and experiences had impacted and would continue to impact my life chances. Two years ago I decided to ‘opt out’ to find my own purpose and focus on passion projects

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81: Conversations with DEI leaders: Richa Singh...

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2022/10/17

Shownotes:We all know that countries and cultures are not monolithic and homogeneous. That when we speak about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), we are at different points in our journey; sensitivity and awareness levels may wildly differ from country to country within a region or a continent. So, the drivers for DEI will differ from one geography to another. For practitioners to not force fit HQ policies in local markets, a level of cultural intelligence is critical to understanding this.Over

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80: A conversation with Sheeraz Gulsher, Co-Founder...

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2022/10/09

ShownotesFor the 80th episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast, I met with the amazing Sheeraz Gulsher, one of the co-Founders of People Like Us. People Like Us is an award winning not-for-profit that celebrates and supports media, marketing and communications professionals from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and minorities ethnic backgrounds.According to the website they are also working towards building a fairer workplace through equitable pay. A couple of weeks ago I met with Sheeraz to learn more

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79: End of Bossism: Servant Leadership Comes of Age...

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2022/09/26

ShownotesIn several episodes of The Elephant in the Room podcast I have spoken with CEOs, academics, influencers on what leadership means. This is a part of my own quest to understand leaders and leadership by listening to others and to redefine it through the lens of my own experience.In this episode of the podcast I speak with @Dave Guerra the author of best seller ‘Super Performance’, a transformist and a proponent of servant leadership.In this freewheeling conversation we spoke

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78: Rich world view, poor Adivasi: Status of Adivasi...

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2022/09/13

Shownotes“I would say that this report presents a contradictory picture, which is probably a feature of this report. And this contradiction is about rich Adivasi and poor Adivasi. Rich Adivasi in terms of their world view and cultural practices, but poor Adivasi in terms of the deprivation”The 78th episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast, is a follow up episode, on thefirst ‘Status of Adivasi Livelihoods’ (SAL) Report by PRADAN. The report based on a survey of around 5000 households from across

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77: A conversation with Rachita Vora, Co-Founder,...

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2022/08/26

ShownotesMy guest on The Elephant in the Room podcast this week took the path less trodden. After a BA in History from Yale and an MBA from Judge Business School - she didn’t follow the path of her peers to investment banking but decided to pursue a career in the social sector in spite of the disapproval of family and friends.Rachita Vora is co-founder of India Development Review. India Development Review (IDR) is India’s first and largest independent media platform for the development community

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76: Building a clean label brand - the highs and lows...

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2022/08/19

“And it is really hard, I think, especially when imposter syndrome sort of plays on your mind saying, do I deserve to be so audacious with my dreams. And actually, for some time, I think I used to say the right thing, so I used to say that I'm playing a go big strategy, but when it came to actually making decisions, I would take a slightly safer route. And in fact an investor actually called me out on it and he said, you know, you're saying you want to go big, but your dreams do seem to be limited

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75: Prison reforms: Decongesting Indian Prisons:...

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2022/08/10

Shownotes: For the 6th episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast in partnership with India Justice Report - we focused on the overburdened Indian prisons. For a very long time India’s prison system has been knownfor overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and the disproportionate number of under trials in the prison population.The covid-19 pandemic led the Indian Supreme Court to issue directions to the High Court for decongestion of prisons in order to prevent the outbreak of the epidemic in closed

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74: How leaders lead? A conversation with Liz...

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2022/07/28

Shownotes:My guest on The Elephant in the Room podcast this week is Liz Sweigart, PhDChief Product & Strategy Officer, Safe Kids AI. Liz serves on several boards, is a frequent author and speaker on mental wellness and mental health.In the episode we explore leaders, leadership, conscious, moral, ethical, moral leadership. We also spoke about her journey to discovering who she is and separating that from what she does.👉🏾 The imperatives for leaders to lead differently👉🏾 What it means to be

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73: Reclaiming my identity and life a conversation...

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2022/07/22

Shownotes:What do people think of as they are coming to the end of their college/University degree? The future, a new life, new job, new friends, travel, and new adventures. And most people step into this beautiful but messy world full of hopes and dreams. My guest this week on The Elephant in the Room podcast Ruchika Singh, had to press pause on the life she was looking forward to when she fell ill suddenly during exams in the last year of her engineering degree. Life ground to a halt as she was

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54:58

72: Building a humane prisons in India: A case for...

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2022/07/03

Shownotes: The core purpose of the partnership between The Purpose Room and The India Justice Report is about helping raise awareness and understanding of the Indian justice system and also getting ordinary citizens to understand, be aware and curious about the justice system. The aim of course is to discuss how the delivery of quality justice must be seen as a priority and become real in the lives of everyone.In the first episode Maja Daruwala, Chief Editor of the India Justice Report, and a

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71: Using gender sensitive communications as a tool...

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2022/06/30

ShownotesThe language we use often reflects the widely accepted socio-cultural values, norms, and beliefs that society holds,including roles men/women and non binary people play.For as long as we know language has been used to undermine people making them seem less competent, confident and places an expectations on what people can aspire too. The constant use of such language reinforces assumptions. E.g. Assumptions that all members of a category (Director) share a genderorthat all members of a

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70: A conversation on Gihan Hyde on ESG communications

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2022/06/13

Shownotes:It is phenomenal to meet with women who refuse to conform to stereotypes, are not averse to risks and are very confident of the space they occupy (or seek to occupy).As a Black, Arab, female founderof an ESG ConsultancyCommunique.Gihan A.M Hyde جيهان هايدwants to use her skills to work on what she is passionate about, challenging stereotypes is not why she does what she does.Was it necessary or important to mention her race/ethnicity instead of just talking about her expertise? Yes it

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69: What ails Indian policing? A conversation with...

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2022/05/31

Shownotes“Policing is a service to the citizen, when citizen needs the policemen, the policemen should be there at the police station. This is the responsibility of a democratically elected government, this is a guarantee given under the constitution to protect the life and property of every citizen.”Maintaining law and order is a state subject in India. This means that each of India’s 28 states has the responsibility to ensure an effective and efficient police force that ensures the safety and

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68: Roma Balwani: The leadership journey

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2022/05/15

ShownotesWhat makes a good leader? Who is a good leader? Are women better leaders? What or who shapes our leadership styles? Why do women continue to be underrepresented at the C-Suite level across the world? These are some of the questions I have been asking my guests on The Elephant in the Room podcast - in an attempt to demystify leadership and what it means because it means different things to different people. For the 68th episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast I spoke with Roma Balwani a

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67: Target 33% - Challenges for women in policing in...

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2022/04/29

ShownotesThe third episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast in partnership with the India Justice Report focuses on the status of women in policing in India. Despite the target set by the Indian Home Ministryin 2009 to achieve 33% women in the police force - representation has increased by a mere 5% in a decade. While many states have mandated 10% to 33% reservation for women in the police, not one of these States has met its goal. With one woman in every four police officials, the state of Bihar

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66: Sarah Waddington CBE, MD, Astute:Work : The...

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2022/04/26

Shownotes:CBE, Founder of Socially Mobile, Future Proof and several other initiatives to build a better industry. Sarah Waddington, CBE had the foresight to launch her purpose driven management consultancy a decade before others started talking about Purpose. In this episode I spoke to her about journey 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👉🏾 The importance of shared values for great results and purpose being a commercial imperative in today’s world👉🏾 What PR practitioners can do to remaining relevant as advisers to the

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65: Sophie Standke, Beam Suntory: On purpose and...

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2022/04/20

LinkedInHow often have you complained about the homogeneity of panels at conferences; teams at client pitches; leadership teams in organisations? My personal experiences over the past decade have strengthened my belief that it is not just important to have representation, equally important is visibility. Visibility that can help to create recognition about diverse leadership and make it the norm rather than the exception. So, I committed to spotlighting and showcasing women leaders from across

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64: Ramadan - what you can do to support your muslim...

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2022/04/08

ShownotesIt is the holy month of Ramadan (Ramazan) for millions of muslims across the world - a time of fasting, prayer and reflection. My memories of Ramadan(from India) are all about food (Iftar) and sweet sewai. Earlier this week I caught up Uzma Lodhi to hear her thoughts on Ramadan, what it means to her and how important it is for her personal identity, We also spoke about…..👉🏾 Childhood memories of waking up for sehri with her siblings👉🏾 The tendency to generalise, to treat communities as

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63: Cross cultural influences and leadership in PR...

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2022/04/05

Shownotes:Becky Cho, Head of Corporate Affairs at VFC, APAC is my guest on of The Elephant in the Room podcast this week. Becky has lived and worked across countries and continents and did not take the traditional route into PR. Interestingly she was an art agent before moving to Leo Burnett and then taking on her first role in corporate affairs at Philip Morris in Taiwan.In the episode Becky speaks about her own journey, cross cultural influences, transferable skills, the barriers she faced while

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62: Bridging the ethnicity pay gap divide in the UK:...

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2022/03/28

ShownotesTheresa May’s 2017 general election manifesto had a pledge to require all large employers to publish their ethnicity pay gaps. And then Boris Johnsons election manifesto did not contain anything on the ethnicity pay gap reporting.In February this year the House of Comms women and equalities committee (WEC) said in a report that ‘Large companies should be required by law to publish data on employee salaries, following the framework already in place for gender. Research cited in the report

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