Dr SR Saundarya Rajesh on Clubhouse

Bio

Dr Saundarya Rajesh is founder-president of Avtar Group (www.avtarinc.com) one of India’s most respected organizations on #Diversity & #Inclusion.
She is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best known as the pioneer of Second Career opportunities for women in Corporate India. Over 50000 women have obtained careers through Avtar.
She has been recognised as a “#100Women Achiever” by India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development as also listed in the United Nation’s “Women Transforming India”.
In 2018, Dr. Saundarya was recognized as one of the Chevening Top 35 Global Changemakers and was featured in a specially-commissioned exhibition of portraits in London.
In early 2019, she won Twitter India’s #Web Wonder Women Award for disseminating positive energy via the web. She is also the only Indian to receive the “Winds of Change 2019” award by The Forum on Workplace Inclusion, Minnesota, USA.
As a banker in her early twenties, Dr Saundarya Rajesh discovered the anomalies between men's careers and women's careers that existed in the workplace. A relentless advocate of the potential of women’s workforce participation, Dr. Saundarya is an advisor of choice for an impressive list of organizations and leaders on the benefits of #Inclusion, #Equity and #Diversity. One of the earliest voices in India to speak about the need for gender balance in the workplace, her diversity immersion sessions have benefited varied audiences, ranging from industry bodies to the police force, from entrepreneurs to college goers, from organizations like Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, Mahindra Group and Tata Group to small and medium businesses. Inspirational in her approach to tackling systemic issues faced by women, Dr. Saundarya has irrevocably changed the game for the Indian Woman Professional.
An entrepreneur who has created successful, growing enterprises such as Avtar Career Creators, Flexi Careers India and Avtar Human Capital Trust, Dr. Saundarya is also counted among India’s early stage innovators in the space of Artificial Intelligence in HR. Bruhat Insights Global, founded by Dr. Saundarya provides cutting edge predictive and prescriptive analytics for hiring solutions. She is an alum of Stanford GSB's Seed program.
She is also the author of the bestselling book - The 99 Day Diversity Challenge.
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