Overview
From Coping to Competing, Progressive workplaces highlights a shift in mindset for cutting the curve for trendsetting.
India as the nation, under the aegis of Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aspires to be a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2025, where transforming workplaces have been determining a crucial role in enhancing economic growth and contribution to economy.
McKinsey report backs to assert that in an ascending crowning business ecosystem, more than 95 percent of economic profit is contributed by the top 20 per cent of organisations that are working on innovating parameters for employee protection, trust, satisfaction, benefits, evolving DNA, cultural work-ecosystem, flexibility and newer approach and others.
The Progressive Places to Work 2023
In a bid to acknowledge and celebrate efforts by signature workplaces on their laudable innovations and evolution with focus on developing employee friendly culture, diversifying of benefit-oriented policies, promoting equitable work-culture, inclusivity of women in key-decision making and strategic role, building robust tech DNA, setting sustainable environment, and others.
The Progressive Places to Work 2023 is an effort to shine the strobe light on such top workplaces that have seized the unique unfreezing opportunity before them to imagine and create new systems and modes of organisation that are more flexible, integrated, resilient, and ultimately, more human.
The conclave will aim to accelerate some trendsetting progressive workplaces at the forefront, which integrates employee benefit, wellbeing, building a resilient, happy, and productive staff, and equality in business strategy and planning. It will also act as a powerful forum for shared learnings, cross-sectoral interaction, and analysis expertise to accelerate progress, delivered by proactive cooperation for scalable results.
Coffee Table Book 2023
The coffee table book will celebrate the passion and hard work of the organization contributing to value led efforts. The progressive places to work felicitations are designed to acknowledge the effort made by organizations towards achieving the objective of creating an employee centric work environment.
Through this initiative, we aspire to include success stories of companies that have elevated their employees in a variety of ways, including providing employment stability, caring for emotional and mental well-being, and cultivating a resilient, cheerful, and productive workforce. This list aims to honour, recognise, and laud companies who have set the bar high when it comes to improving their workplace culture.
Key Topics
Workplace growth
Nurturing disciplined ecosystem for workplace growth
Opportunities at workplace
Enhancing equitable opportunities at workplace
Strategic decision-making
Adoption of women in strategic decision-making
Organisation policies
Diversifying organisation policies to practice
Identifying the levers
Identifying the levers of inclusiveness, employee engagement, cross-dimensional networking within organisation
Leveraging learning modules
Nurturing disciplined ecosystem for workplace growth
Tacking
Nurturing disciplined ecosystem for workplace growth
Who Should Attend It
CHRO
HR heads
Learning and Development Heads
Strategic Decisionmakers
Tech Innovators
Chief People Officers
Talent Heads
CEOs COOs and others
CIO and CDO and CTO
Criteria of Recognition
- Organization must have an operational office(s) in India for a minimum of 3 years as of September 2023
- Organisations that provide proper compensation and related benefits to their employees i.e Incentives, bonuses etc
- Organization that provides skill, career development and training for their employees
- Organization that gives strong emphasis on nurturing holistic employee wellbeing
- Organization that actively advocate for and support healthy work-life balance among their employees
- Organization that promotes gender diversity at all organizational level, fostering inclusion and equality
- Organization that has maternity benefits to their women employees along with other health benefits
- Organizations that implement robust policies and programs to proactively prevent sexual harassment
- Organizations that have policies & and initiatives for promoting employee safety
- Organizations that promote Open door Policy
- Organizations that have re-engineered their operations model by mastering digital transformation
Advisory Board
Global Head - Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Engagement & Experience, Wellness, Rewards & Recognition - HCL Technologies
Director Global Talent Management & Learning - Mastercard
Associate Director, Human Resource Policy & Management Office - ISRO Head Quarters
HR Transformation Director – South Asia, Pacific and Middle East, L’Oreal
Speakers
Director, Consulting, Deloitte India
Director (HR), GAIL
Partner, Human Capital, Consulting
Deloitte India
CHRO, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals
Director Sleep Medicine & Senior Neurologist, Neurology & Sleep Centre; Vice President, Indian Society of Sleep Research; Founder, Sleep medicine Institute
Wonder Woman Of India & Only Woman Commando Trainer
Executive Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group
Head of HR, PhonePe
Executive Director, Consulting
Deloitte India
Chief Human Resource Officer, Myntra
Chief Human Resources Officer, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance
DMD(HR)& CDO, State Bank of India
President & Chief Human Resources Officer, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company
AVP-HR at Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical
Agenda
Indicative Talk Points –
- Human-centric approach, enhancing employee employer relationship.
- Shifting focus from profit-steered growth to purpose and value enhancement
- Empowering employees to leverage personal growth beyond organizational growth.
- Creating an employee friendly environment
Speaker –
- Om Prakash Mishra – DMD (HR) & CDO, State Bank of India
Moderator –
- Ashwani Mishra – Editor- Technology, ET Edge Insights
DE&I has taken a larger role in corporate strategic planning. In talking about diversity, the tendency might be to limit it to gender and race. From the perspective of a Progressive organization, diversity has other dimensions. The dimensions of diversity are more today than they have ever been, and the likelihood is that these dimensions will increase as the future unfolds. Age, Race & Ethnicity, Unconscious Bias, Gender, Sexual orientation, Disability are among the top issues companies are working on, but workplace diversity is a lot more then these issues alone.
Indicative Talk Points –
- Not just talking the talk, but walking the walk: Incorporating key DEI initiatives into the fabric of organization
- Setting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Goals
- Why D&I should be a priority to the C-level?
- What are the major roadblocks to sustainable DEI
- Developing a measurable and achievable D&I strategy to generate revenue
Speaker
- Chandini Kamal – Global Head – Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Engagement & Experience, Wellness, Rewards & Recognition, HCL Technologies
- Nupur Nagpal, CHRO, Myntra
Moderator
- Manoj Dimri, Executive Director, Consulting, Deloitte India
Indicative Talk Points –
- Preparing for economic uncertainties: Reflecting on the unpredictable nature of today’s job market
- Adapting to the changing work landscape and New Work Models
- Recognizing signs of employee disengagement and burnout
- Cultivating authentic and compassionate leaders
- Attracting and retaining multigenerational talent
Speakers –
- Yogesh Basole – AVP-HR at Crompton Greaves Consumer Electrical
- Saba Adil – Chief Human Resources Officer, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance
- Nupur Nagpal, CHRO, Myntra
Moderator –
- Deepan Dasgupta – Partner, Human Capital, Consulting, Deloitte India
Have you ever missed a deadline because you pushed off a big project for too long? Have you ever become frustrated at one of your direct reports for not completing a project according to your guidance? Self-management is a critical workplace skill. Imagine an environment where the majority of those working within it were unable to stay on task, on strategy, and on schedule. That would make it very challenging to complete projects.
Indicative Talk Points –
- Self-management and its relevance in today’s evolving workplace
- How self-management empowers individuals to take ownership of their work
- Leadership & Self-Management
Speakers –
- Ayush Gupta – Director (HR), GAIL
Moderator –
- Aditya Gadre, Director, Consulting, Deloitte India
The hectic pace of modern life has contributed to a rise in anxiety and depression. As awareness of mental illness and workplace stress has grown, there have been more calls for self-care and employee wellness. Today, it’s more important than ever to follow workplace wellness trends. Employers will probably invest more in programmes that emphasize health and wellbeing in the future years, and employees will probably prioritize self-care more.
Speaker –
- Dr Manvir Bhatia – Director Sleep Medicine & Senior Neurologist, Neurology & Sleep Centre; Vice President, Indian Society of Sleep Research; Founder, Sleep medicine Institute
Speaker –
- Keshav Suri – Executive Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group
Moderator –
- Queenie Nair, Editor- Sustainability, ET Edge Insights
Seema Rao, Wonder Woman Of India & Only Woman Commando Trainer