Anuradha Hebbar | Source | Partner & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Global Practice Leader at Kincentric
Anuradha Hebbar
An inspiring, visionary leader with 25 years of Fortune 500 corporate and consulting experience, Anuradha Hebbar is a Partner and Global Leader of Kincentric’s DE&I practice. As a trusted advisor to clients around the world, Anuradha helps organizations address their strategic human capital issues to optimize the employee experience, transform organizations, and drive change by advising on how to deeply integrate inclusion, diversity and equity into their culture, values and talent systems and processes.
Anuradha has experience in many industries including retail, consumer products, industrial, technology, health care, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and marketing communications. She was the Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Verizon as well as Zurich Insurance, Divisional Vice President at Health Care Service Corporation, and Strategic Director of D&I at McDonald’s Corporation. Anuradha was named a Chicago United “Business Leader of Color 2021,”; a 2021 Crain’s “Notable Executive in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,”; a “2016 Top 100 under 50 Executive Leader” by Diversity MBA; and a “2015 Diversity Leader” by Profiles in Diversity Journal. She is a frequent speaker and thought leader, serving on various industry councils and boards. Anuradha is a graduate of Smith College, the Boston University School of Law and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar Association. In addition, Anuradha holds a certificate in e-business strategy from the University of Chicago.
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Organizations need to review their compensation policies and practices to determine if a gender pay gap exists and take immediate steps to close those gaps. But pay gap—whether real or perceived – is just one example of the many systemic issues leading women in the workplace to often feel overlooked, undervalued and yes, underpaid, especially at the senior management level. To really understand the issues negatively impacting the experience of women in the workplace, organizations also need to take a hard look at their engagement survey data.
Interview with "The Memo" on the gender pay gap, October 2022 (https://qz.com/7-questions-to-audit-the-pay-gap-at-your-company-1849667309)
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Our global employee engagement research shows that inclusion is a solid predictor of employee engagement, and we’ve seen an increase in employees expressing concerns about such things as a lack of inclusion and psychological safety at work. As a result, and unlike never before, employees are placing pressure on companies to take meaningful actions around DE&I and are using their voices to demand change, making it impossible to not take this shift seriously. (https://hrspotlight.com/20-leaders-tell-you-why-organizations-cannot-ignore-the-dei-shift-part-2/)
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Now, more than ever, leaders must understand that diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to a company's ability to attract and retain talent, innovate, improve performance and drive results.
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20 Leaders Tell You Why Organizations Cannot Ignore the DEI Shift - Part 2 - HRSpotlight
Diversity, inclusivity, equality have emerged as the mainstays of today's workplace. 20 leaders tell you why you cannot ignore this shift.
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7 questions to audit the pay gap at your company
Reality or perception, employees think their company has a pay gap
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Kincentric
Partner & Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Global Practice Leader
started Jan 2020