I Inspire 2015

I Inspire has become a part of corporate lives since three years and has been a big motivator for everyone who is leading a corporate life. Conducted by BizDivas- an organisation that work towards motivating women and increasing women entrepreneurship through best way possible, they never imagined that an idea of such a conference would actually be accepted so well that even big names like Anjali Gopalan (Founder and Excutive Director, Naz Foundation (India) Trust), A. Muruganantham (Social Entrepreneur) also famously known as Menstruation Man of India, Lalitha Kumaramangalam (Chairperson, National Commission of Women), Priti Patkar (Social Worker and Human Rights Activist) and so on, were keen to become a part of this.

Sarika Bhattacharyya in conversation with heads of various companies on inclusion

Today at the Westin Hotel, Gurgaon, I Inspire’s third edition took place and the theme was ‘Inclusion’. The event began with a panel discussion on how even a man is equally responsible for making the working environment positive for a woman. And as the conversation went on, the audience and the panelist, who were: Sameer Chadha (CEO Barclays Shares Services), Sanjay Modi (CEO, Monster India), BL Narayan- CHRO Capgemini, Rajiv Gupta (Partner and Director The Boston Consulting Group, India) and Ranjeet Oak (Head- Holiday, MakeMyTrip.com), got to know that it is need of an hour in every organisation to have flexible timings.

Audience present during I Inspire conference

As the event progressed, Lalitha Kumar Mangalam, the Chairman of National Commission of Women, briefed the audience about the fact that it’s the who is more responsible than the man for the downfall of the other women and during a panel discussion between Gauri Deshmukh (CHRO BoAML), Samik Basu (CHRO PepsiCo), Ajay Kukreja (CHRO Honeywell), Nisha Verma (COR Vodafone India), Leena Sahijwani (Director, Rewards and Women’s Network Leader GE South Asia), the audience realised that it’s overthinking and self-expectations that lead to dissatisfaction and stress and imbalances your life even more. The event not only had such informative and inspiring discussions but also a session wherein through Anjali Gopalan, the audience got to know how important it is to accept being what we are and how dangerous could it be to pretend. I Inspire 2015, with Navin Gulia, who is physically challenged but quite talented, ended on a note of inspiring the audience for fighting the situations, taking risk, take failure as a part of learning and never to have faith in oneself.

Sarika Bhattacharyya introducing the panelist to the audience