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iii. Career development programmes for women
All development programmes at CRISIL are consciously designed to ensure equitable gender representation and leadership enablement. Leadership Excellence and Accelerated Development (LEAD), Leadership Excellence Program (LEP) and the 1,000 Women Leaders Programme in association with Jombay are some key initiatives towards building a strong pipeline of women leaders at CRISIL. Moreover, mentoring initiatives are open throughout the year for women employees. We have brought in external facilitators to help create an internal pool of mentors.
CRISIL uses occasions such as International Women’s Day to partner with women-led businesses in the context of employee engagement.
CRISIL’s Board members make time to interact with women employees. In the past year, women leaders were invited to interact with Ms Holly Kulka, Board Member, CRISIL Ratings.
The interactions typically involve the Board member sharing strategic perspectives and inspiring by way of personal
Leadership interview
We interviewed Ms. Shyamala Gopinath, Independent Director, CRISIL Limited and Ms. Vinita Bali, former Independent Director, CRISIL Limited during the February 2023 Board meeting.
They discussed their experiences and learnings, along with the importance of gender diversity at the workplace. The conversation was recorded and shared with all CRISIL employees on the internal communication engine.
With 3,000+ views, it certainly inspired many employees to micro-action on leadership aspirations as well as allyship.
accounts, followed by a lively interaction via a question- and-answer session. These have been excellent opportunities for women leaders to gain face time with Board members and for the latter to get to know some of our women leaders first-hand.
Leadership connect with women employees
39% 394 22% 34,641
Women globally Women employees Of women at grade hours of training to hired during the year Director and above women employees
#SheIsTheImpact. Listen to our women leaders speak on CRISIL experience and career.
LGBTQIA+ initiatives
(supporting the rainbow community)
Globally, some landmark events have transpired in recent years around broader acceptance of sexual orientations and gender identity.
CRISIL whole-heartedly supports inclusive policies for the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/ questioning, intersex and asexual/aromantic/agender plus) spectrum.
CRISIL covers same-sex partners in the medical insurance policy, and it covers gender affirmative surgery.
We understand that LGBTQIA+ is complex; hence, enabling psychological safety for all is one of the most important
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factors towards greater inclusion. The Eskalera platform has been leveraged to understand concepts of identity, vulnerability, inclusion, exclusion and psychological safety. This platform has helped us set the tone for discussion on various sensitive issues around LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Events around the Pride Month (June) set an adequate premise for enhancing allyship.
We witnessed an incredible display of support and enthusiasm among employees for #BeAnAlly campaign to spread the message of DE&I in all its forms. Employees shared their thoughts on what ‘allyship means to them’ through various forms of creative expression.
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