Rajiv Vij is an Executive Coach, Speaker, and Author of two books.

His latest, “Inside-Out Leadership”, describes how deepening self-awareness, regulating emotional triggers, reforming conditioned beliefs, and aligning life and work to a higher purpose can not only build inspirational leaders, but also directly contribute to personal happiness, balance and fulfilment.

For #ILSSOnline, Rajiv discusses how to embrace your own journey of self-discovery, and how this process can transform leaders and their people for the better, particularly in the social impact space.

ILSS is thrilled to announce its first #ILSSOnline webinar in 2022. Anu Prasad (Our Founder-CEO) will be in conversation with Ravi Venkatesan (Author, UNICEF Special Representative for Young People, Founder of GAME – Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship and Former Chairman, Microsoft India).

They will be talking about Ravi’s recently published book “What The Heck Do I Do With My Life? How To Flourish in Our Turbulent Times”.

The discussion will be centred around navigating the ever-changing world around us and how specific skills and strategies can help chart a growth path at any stage of life.

ILSS is very excited to announce People Dialogues, an online symposium dedicated to furthering the conversation on people management in the development sector, featuring a stellar line-up of speakers, including:

Aditya Natraj (Piramal Foundation), Donald Yeh (The Bridgespan Group), Gayatri Nair Lobo (A.T.E. Chandra Foundation), Mekin Maheshwari (Udhyam Learning Foundation, GAME – Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship), Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja (Central Square Foundation), Tarun Cherukuri (Indus Action), and more!

Write to us at peoplepractices@indialeadersforsocialsector.com for any assistance.

Ashif Shaikh is co-founder Jan Sahas. He has 20-years of experience in working towards safe migration and ending violence against women through eradication of practice of manual scavenging, commercial sexual exploitation of children and also supporting survivors of rape, trafficking and sexual abuse and helping them access to justice in India. Jan Sahas has liberated and rehabilitated 66,000 people from manual scavenging and other forms of forced labour, is also supporting 24,000 survivors of rape and sexual violence. Ashif is leading a Migrant Resilience Collaborative (MRC) and working with 1.5 million migrant households. He is a member of various committees of NITI Aayog, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and other ministries of Government of India, and has received various national and international awards and fellowships including Schwab Foundation Social Innovator Award 2020, Ashoka Fellowship, Times of India Social Impact Award and the Star Impact Award by Bill Clinton, for his work.

Speakers:

Abhishek Gupta, COO – YuWaah at UNICEF,
Sheena Gandhi, Co-Founder – Sahayog Foundation,
Surojit Chattoraj, COO – ECHO India

Abhishek has spent 20+ years working with the corporate and development sector. Presently, he is COO at YuWaah (Generation Unlimited), a Global Partnership incubated by UNICEF. Earlier, he was the Advisor to Dy. CM of Delhi on Skills Development. He has also led three social enterprises over 8 years, namely Skills Academy, Basix Academy for Building Lifelong Employability and Hole-in-the-Wall Education, where he worked on education/skilling initiatives for unemployed youth and underprivileged young children. He holds a full-time PG management diploma from Indian School of business. He has also been a volunteer for a political party, he managed an assembly constituency election campaign and raised public funds during 2013-15.

Sheena Gandhi has 15+ years of experience working in the field of communications. She has played an integral role in shaping the image and reputation of blue-chip brands and companies across travel, hospitality and FMCG industries. Her core areas of expertise are engagement with influencers, partnerships, strategy and crisis management. Sheena holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations from Xavier Institute of Communications. A strong advocate of collaboration and partnership, she began her transition journey in 2018 into the social sector by managing the communication & advocacy whilst leading the partner & stakeholder engagement mandate for MSD for Mothers programs in India. She is currently co-founder of Sahayog Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on fostering collaborations in the social sector.

Surojit is Chief Operating Officer at Echo India. He has over 32 years of experience of successfully building and running large businesses, and in leading strong pan India teams and mentoring their growth. He started his career in Human Resources from campus with the Indian Hotels Company and then moved on to start his own venture in publishing & retailing. For twenty years, he has been involved in the recruitment field of which the last fifteen years have been with ABC Consultants where he has led teams pan India focusing on delivering senior management hiring solutions to clients across industry sectors. His key skills have been building and leading strong teams to achieve organizational goals. Surojit holds an MBA in Marketing and HR from Institute of Management Development & Research, Pune.

Apar Gupta is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF). The IFF is an Indian digital liberties organisation that seeks to ensure that technology respects fundamental rights.He completed his post-graduate studies from the Columbia University School of Law and have practised for more than a decade.

From 2015, he has been working extensively on public interest issues which include strategic litigation and organisation of campaigns and collectives. In courts, his work as a lawyer includes key digital rights cases on privacy and censorship. He is a part of key constitutional challenges on Section 66A, the Right to Privacy and Aadhaar representing public interest litigants. Beyond court work he has worked extensively with activists and set up digital campaigns such as those on Net Neutrality (SaveTheInternet.in), fight against defamation laws (SpeechBill.in) and safeguard privacy (SaveOurPrivacy.in).

Speakers

Rahul Bose has been called the ‘Indian art house icon’, by TIME magazine. His international awards include the Best Actor award at the Singapore Film Festival in 2000 and the runner-up prize – the John Schlesinger Award for Best Debut Director in 2002 for ‘Everybody Says I’m Fine!’. Rahul’s other awards include : Indian Youth Icon of the Year – Social Justice, the Green Globe award for Climate Change, the Lt. Governor’s Commendation Award for Services to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Hakim Khan Sur award for National Integration and GQ’s Man of the Year for Social Justice.

Rahul has lectured on leadership, gender justice and cinema at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and MIT, amongst others. Indian rugby’s most recognisable face, Rahul represented India, playing 17 internationals from 1998 to 2009. He is currently on the board of the Indian Rugby Football Union.

Rahul has founded two NGOs : The Foundation, dedicated to the equalisation of opportunity through education and HEAL, working to prevent child sexual abuse.

Anurag Kundu has extensive experience of working on children’s issues with particular focus on education issues and has been advising the Government of NCT of Delhi since 2015. Anurag has been a key member of the team that conceptualised and implemented the nationally and internationally acclaimed education reforms of the Government of NCT of Delhi. He has chaired and been part of several key committees such as framing Government of Delhi’s policy on the question of “No-Detention Policy” under Right to Education Act, committee on strategic issues related to lockdown during Covid-19 pandemic, implementation plan of New Education Policy in the state of Delhi, Right to Education State Advisory Council amongst others.

Pooja Taparia is Founder and Chief Executive of Arpan, a globally recognized, award winning NGO working towards the elimination of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in India. Based in Mumbai, with a team of over 100 dedicated professionals, Arpan is India’s largest NGO providing CSA Prevention and Intervention services for both children and adults. Pooja is a member of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) and has received numerous awards for her work on Child Abuse, including the Inspire Award, the Astitwa Award, the Architects of the Future Award and the Karmaveer Puraskar Award.

Sudarshan Suchi is Save the Children’s Chief Executive Officer. He is a seasoned civil society leader with three decades of local to global experience in academics, development and corporate setting; and, an authority in participatory practices to empower communities to lead transformation. Sudarshan comes with the core competency of conceptualising development programs, development-based business models, efficient resource mobilisation, establishing partnerships, collaboration and coalitions towards issues that impact children’s fair access to basic human rights.

“On every level in the sector, we have to collectivize. We have to stand with and for each other if we want to make change. We haven’t yet begun to tap into our collective voice.”

– Naghma Mulla, CEO at EdelGive Foundation, on how organizations and individuals must come together to change the giving space in India’s social sector. Her conversation, centered on the Pay-What-It-Takes India Initiative, was a frank, personal, and fascinating take on the development sphere – where it is now, and where it can go.

Dr RS Praveen Kumar is an officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS) with a career spanning more than 25yrs. He has served both nationally and internationally, demonstrating commendable leadership and prudence in resolving conflicts and maintaining law and order.

He took over the administration of social welfare residential educational institutions in the year 2012, working with about 200,000 children from vulnerable backgrounds providing them with better access to education and opportunities to pursue their interests and careers. One of them being Malavath Poorna, a 13-year-old tribal student who made history by being the youngest girl in the world to scale Mount Everest. Her story has been made into a critically acclaimed film in 2017 called ‘Poorna’ and Rahul Bose, the actor and filmmaker played Dr Praveen Kumar’s role in the film.

Sanjay has more than 30 years of diverse and global experience across corporate and societal development sectors. This spans senior leadership and entrepreneurial roles in corporate strategy, digital transformation, management consulting and sustainable development. Since 2016, at EkStep Foundation, he is leading the evolution of Societal Platform Thinking, an innovative method to resolve complex societal challenges with speed, at scale, sustainably.

He advises multiple social entrepreneurs who are developing Societal Platforms in domains such as but not limited to, education, financial inclusion, healthcare, urban governance, and livelihoods. This includes large scale systems change initiatives supported by Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative. In parallel, he is catalysing ShikshaLokam, a Societal Platform that is focused on developing leadership across the education system in India.

Passionate about mentoring young entrepreneurs, he advises startups supported by Fundamentum, a scale investment fund, The/Nudge CSI, a not-for-profit incubator and accelerator, and Edumentum, a not-for-profit incubator focused on education.