Demonstrating the 10 Tenets of Leadership Capital by empowering women for leadership roles

RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED

"Reliance is an organisation that is not just diverse, but very inclusive. It is our conscious effort to create an inclusive and equitable workplace for all.

Our focus on key tenets like Empathy and Trust ensure that we make this a reality every day. Also, our personalised capability building efforts ensure that employees get the kind of support they want. R-Aadya is one such initiative that is specially curated for our women employees. An inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and maximise their potential is foundational to our motto, 'Growth is Life'."

- Hemalakshmi Raju, Chief Learning Officer and Leader - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, RIL

• More than 2,000 women empowered by R-Aadya, an initiative that addresses challenges women colleagues face related to career advancement.
• R-Aadya cohort programme is designed to help women colleagues navigate personal leadership challenges.
• 'R-Aadya Table Talks' and 'Inspiring Women Leaders' help women colleagues tap into their leadership potential.

RELIANCE RETAIL

"Our learning and capability building programmes demonstrate Empathy for the unique journeys of our women colleagues at Retail. We equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to perform their roles and grow in the business.

For example, under our 'WE Women Leaders' programme, we develop competencies in communication and building personal brand to help shape confident and capable leaders who can take on any challenge- thus building Capability Capital. By equipping them with the right skills, we're setting them up to succeed above and beyond expectations, demonstrating Achievement Capital."

- Chitra Padmanabhan, Head - HR Strategy & Corporate Functions, Reliance Retail

• We Women Leaders is a six-month focused and structured leadership programme for high potential women at mid-level to build future leaders. It has covered 138 participants over five seasons so far.
• Jagriti and Pragati are flagship training programmes in the grocery format to help women employees move into managerial roles at stores. So far, 418 Jagriti and 48 Pragati participants are certified to be deployed as deputy and store managers.
• EmpowHer is empowering the female workforce in Fashion & Lifestyle by offering comprehensive functional and behavioural training to help them step into leadership roles within store operations.

RELIANCE JIO

"Jio's has always aimed to bring Digital Life to all Indians. With the Jio Customer Associate (JCA) programme, Jio has empowered more than one lakh women from diverse backgrounds to help in customer connect and retention. We are achieving this at an unmatched scale which has exceeded all expectations.

JCAs are not only technologically enabled right from onboarding to capability enhancement, but they are also now thriving as a self-sustaining community supported by Jio team where true synergies of cooperation and growth together are being achieved.

The programme has also strengthened team Jio's empathy muscle and thousands of success stories fuel our resolve to take this programme to even more Indian women and change many more lives together."

- Lalatendu Panda, Business Head, Jio Point

"Jio is on a mission to connect and digitally empower 100 million homes on affordable broadband. This involves extensive field work to directly reach out to these households spread across India.

Our JioFiber Shakti team, comprising of passionate women, is at the forefront of this initiative. We have empowered them with skills and opportunities and given them comprehensive training and support — enhancing Capability Capital and Achievement Capital, so that they can break barriers in this Direct to Customer (D2C) Sales role traditionally associated with men."

- Anish Kumar Roy, Head of Business - Home

• The Jio Point (JP) Store Manager initiative has empowered over 200 women managers at Jio Point stores.
• The Jio Customer Associate (JCA) programme is an open-sourced, platform-based model that provides technical, product, and training models to women freelancers. It has covered 100+ weekly JCA engagement events over the past 30 months.
• Jio Fiber Shakti is a diversity hiring and development programme for women Home Sales Officers in the JioFiber Business.
• SHEroes spotlights contact centre women employees who are the first line of customer care, ensuring customer satisfaction and building trust.

RELIANCE FOUNDATION

“Everyone has a role in building an enabling environment so that women and girls can thrive and achieve their potential. Recently, Reliance Foundation Founder- Chairperson Nita Ambani put it quite simply, saying 'Let girls choose'. She was speaking during WPL (Women's Premier League), of girls who show spirited talent through sports, but this simple statement captures the vision behind what we are trying to do at Reliance Foundation for women across India. Our range of initiatives aim to give women and girls the power of choice, enhance their quality of life and ensure that they are enabled on a journey of equality. We work to strengthen the rural landscape focusing on women's livelihoods, their entrepreneurship capabilities and knowledge of enabling technologies to empower them.

By enhancing capabilities of women social sector leaders across different domains, too, we aim to in turn, catalyse transformational social change.

By encouraging and enabling girls in sports, from the grassroots level to the global level we are rooting for an ecosystem of sporting aspiration and excellence. Our educational initiatives find and bridge a range of barriers from access to educational facilities to aspirational innovative mentoring. Most of all, as women are increasingly shaping our nation in a multitude of ways, every single day, Reliance Foundation believes this to be an absolutely integral part of the Community Engagement Capital."

- Jayashree Balasubramanian, Head - Communication, Reliance Foundation