YourDOST Introduces Wellness Changemakers: Leadership Edition - A Q&A Series with Top Indian Leaders About Building Empathetic and High Performing Organizations
Mumbai: YourDOST, one of India’s largest emotional wellness platform, has introduced a new initiative called Wellness Changemakers: Leadership Edition. This is a weekly series of talks around the theme ‘Balancing Empathy and High Performance’, featuring some of the country’s most respected corporate leaders who are also very vocal champions of workplace wellness.
The current lineup of speakers is
- Suman Ghose, Founder - Inroads Leadership Development, Author - ‘From Command to Empathy: Using EQ in the Age of Disruption’ - 20th Apr
- Paul Dupuis, MD and CEO - Randstad India, Author - The E5 Movement: Leadership Through the Rule of Five, 27th Apr
- Dr. Shalini Lal, Co-founder - Unqbe, Author - The Secret Life of Organizations: Invisible Rules of Success for the Young Indian Professional - 11th May and many more to come.
This weekly series will kick off on 20th April and will be hosted every Tuesday at 7:00 PM. The initiative offers ‘Free participation’ to participants by registering at - https://bit.ly/WellnessChangemakersLeadership. The format for each hour-long session will be a one-on-one Q&A between the guest speaker and the moderator, followed by an audience Q&A thus giving all participants an opportunity to have their questions answered directly by the speaker.
The importance of emotional wellbeing in the corporate sector has become tremendously important, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Working Professionals have also started feeling that major changes in the HR provisions is required to maintain equilibrium amongst the workforce. As per a YourDOST study conducted in Dec 2020, 84% of Indian working professionals feel that having an empathetic team and manager are extremely important for them at work. Many leaders now find themselves thinking if a high performing organization can also be empathetic and vice versa.
YourDOST has introduced the wellness changemakers masterclass to address this need-gap and much more.
“The Indian corporate sector is in dire need of solutions that can address employee wellbeing in an empathetic manner. We at YourDOST aim to help organizations do just that. The first step in finding a solution is to acknowledge the problem and create avenues for stakeholders to come together. We are taking this first step. The speakers for the Wellness Changemakers have been mindfully selected to foster intractability and an open mindset around the topics. There are takeaways for everyone as we all need to be a part of the solution,” said Ms. Richa Singh, CEO, and Co-Founder, YourDOST.
While organizations have been grappling with employee mental health issues for a few decades, the pandemic has brought in a new set of challenges. Companies are now looking to create avenues that can help employees in their professional as well as their personal lives during the pandemic. YourDOST partnered with 100+ new corporates during the pandemic itself to help them with employee wellness. The company offers technology based emotional wellness solutions impacting all levels (individual, team organization) for ensuring resilient, empathetic and high-performing culture. YourDOST works with over 250+ organizations and has conducted over 2 million counseling sessions till date.
