Names & Job titles of team members:
Ieva Jankelaityte – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lead Archana Warrier – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Intern
Please provide an overview of the work your team delivers:
Manage DEI campaigns as well as education & sensitization sessions within the UK & Ireland Geo, with a strong focus to build skills among diversity identity segments for personal and professional growth.
Focus on external partnerships and developing relations with key stakeholders to achieve mutual business objectives.
Creating systems to provide an equitable workplace for all diversity segments such as policy, infrastructure and governance, ensuring diversity identity segments are represented across hiring, allocation, roles, retention, and career progression.
Please list any significant achievements made by your team since its inception:
• Initiated and hosted a 2 day, Allies of Diversity Conclave event, in 2023, which included over 160 professionals and key stakeholders with a focus on co-creating inclusion projects
• Winner of ‘Outstanding Employee Network’ Category, hosted by Women in IT, in 2023
• Winner of The Scottish HR Network Award, in the Inclusion & Diversity Category, in 2022
• Designed and developed practices with a focus on Neurodiversity Within the Organization in the UK and Ireland and this resulted in internal audits of processes and accessibility
• Started Menopause Awareness Sessions, founded a co-network “Menopause Cafe”
• Restructured and introduced UK and Ireland DEI Council with the primary objective was to incorporate business and employee resource groups to co-chair meetings with an aim to effect sustainable positive change for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging within the organization
• Started UK Calling programme to help women across various organisations to get international experience in a leadership role
What impact has your team had on the organisation?
Over the last Financial Year, we trained over 3000 employees on DE&I related topics.
We have completed the accessibility exercise to ensure that our recruitment, onboarding, integration and learning materials are fully accessible for anyone with disabilities or neurodiverse conditions. Currently working on improving our processes on CSR activities and moving forward on our accessibility journey.
Over the last year, as a result of the UK Calling initiative, women in leadership roles increased by 1.4%.
Business representatives are now fully involved into the DE&I council in order to drive the DE&I agenda further within their teams ensuring that DE&I is a part of business objectives.
Please provide an endorsing statement from someone who can support this nomination (Max. 500 words) Gurpreet Kalra – Head of Talent Development, TCS UK&I:
Our DEI UK team is a champion of diversity and inclusion in it’s true sense, they believe in collaboration and the power of no one should be left behind. In last one year UKI DEI team collaborated extensively with UKI TD team. This was for them to leverage existing capabilities in the TD team whilst adding their own to it to be able to come up with programme and offerings that were always imagined but hadn’t manifested. Some of them being joint accessibility exercise, Allies of Diversity, EMPOWER programme and women’s leadership programmmes. We look forward to more such joint exercises
