Come join us on this journey. Share your unique perspective, lend your
expertise to the social sector to create sustained and scalable impact.
Be a part of this unique, experiential 3 month program
jointly designed and delivered by ISDM, Dasra and Governance Counts.
A PROGRAM BY
Being a board member or advisor to an organisation enables individuals to contribute to the sector, leveraging their network, leadership skills and technical knowledge.
There has already been a significant growth of women at senior levels in the corporate sector, but there is still a lack in social impact organisations.
While expanding leadership potential for non-profit organisations, the program looks to provide participants networking opportunities with social impact organisations that align with their skill sets.
An understanding of the self in the context of the social sector
Enable and guide the participant through mentorship, shadowing and observation
Insights into Board roles and responsibilities
Board/ Advisory member placements on social impact organisations
Structures and processes that improve Board governance
The Fee for the first cohort of Women on Boards is INR 40,000 plus taxes.
Minimum 15 years experience in any professional corporate, academic, entrepreneurship sector
Desire to learn, serve and influence social impact organisations
An aspiration towards a Board role
Served in leadership positions and led organisations or built businesses or teams
We understand that this calibre of leaders will appreciate time for reflection, assimilation and application, despite the demands on their time. The program design addresses both these aspects through immersive modules spread over 2 days each.
Board placements that match
Mentorship and support during the first
year to enable a smooth and fulfilling board experience
Equal emphasis on ensuring Founder /CEO readiness
to be able to induct and leverage new board
Curriculum developed by social impact
organisation governance expert, Aarti Madhusudan,
and delivered by sector leaders, practitioners and
academia
This is a blended program (virtual + in-person) comprising 3 modules spread over 3 months (April – June). At the end of the program, participants will be matched with social impact organisations that can leverage the specific skills and expertise that they bring to the table. The participants will be provided with mentorship support during their onboarding phase.
Each module is 2 days long and offers:
Cross-functional curriculum focusing on perspectives, tools and means of engagement on social impact organisation boards
Peer learning and experience-based exercises, case studies, discussions, group work, activities and role play
Interaction with sector leaders and experts
Reflection and self-work
Through the modules you will explore the social impact sector, and good governance in the context of a social impact organisations as below:
Module
1
Social Impact Strategic Perspective & Understanding Self
This module provides a strong understanding of the sector, sectoral challenges, founder’s journey, and strategic imperatives for the organisational leadership.
Participants will also be able to reflect on their own motivations and aspirations that will enable them to be more conscious of their alignment to specific sub-sectors within the social impact space and how their experience and expertise could be well-suited to those.
Module
2
Board Roles and Effectiveness
This module will outline the role of a Board and the responsibilities associated with it both at the Board and the individual member level. It will also provide insights into the various types of Board role engagements aligned to the life stage of organisations.
Module
3
Governance Mechanisms and Best Practices
The module will cover aspects like a rotation policy, the work of Board positions and committees, conflict/ duality of interest policies, and Board development.
| Module | Module Topic | Tentative Module Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Module I | Social Impact Strategic Perspective & Understanding Self | 15 - 16 April 2022 | Virtual |
| Module II | Board Roles and Effectiveness | 13 - 14 May 2022 | Virtual |
| Module III | Governance Mechanisms and Practices | 17 - 19 June 2022 | In-person (Delhi) | Continued Support | Placement and Mentorship | 1 year | Virtual |
Founder and Innovation Artist
Marketing Unplugged
Suman Srivastava is the Founder of Marketing Unplugged. He studied economics in SRCC, Delhi, and management at IIM, Ahmedabad & IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. He spent 24 years in the advertising industry, while his consultancy, Marketing Unplugged, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary.
He has been the CEO of Euro RSCG India for 5 years and also Chief Strategy Officer for Euro RSCG Asia Pacific. He was the Chairman of Euro RSCG's emerging markets planning council and a member of the global management committee. He was Vice Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer of FCB Ulka Group in India.
He loves teaching and has taught at IIMs in Ahmedabad & Bangalore, ISB Hyderabad, IITs at Bombay & Kharagpur, MICA and several other management institutes across the country. He is currently part of the faculty at the Indian School of Development Management (ISDM). He has also run workshops for clients like Microsoft, Intel, Reckitt Benckiser, Max New York Life, Dainik Bhaskar and Bharat Petroleum. And for social sector organisations like UnLtd India, Smile Foundation, India Leaders for the Social Sector (ILSS), United Way Mumbai and Give India.
Brand building is a passion for Suman. He has been closely associated with brands from India’s leading companies including Hindustan Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HDFC Bank, Bharat Petroleum, Reliance, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bajaj Auto and Philips.
He is active in the voluntary sector where he works on causes that range from schooling for slum children to child sexual abuse to rural tourism to skill development. He is one of the trustees of the NGO, Apnalaya, a director of the social impact consulting firm, Samhita, and a key member of iVolunteer’s Whiteboard initiative.
CEO and Founder
RTLworks
Sudarshan is a development professional with multi-disciplinary backgrounds in disaster management, environmental sciences, environmental economics, policy, and environmental law. Until recently he was Programme Director at Mahatma Gandhi Academy of Human Development (MGAHD) a center of the Tata Institute of social sciences, Mumbai located in Nagaland focusing on Livelihoods and Social Entrepreneurship.
He has since then worked in several locations with a range of civil society groups on inter-disciplinary aspects of natural resource and environmental management. He is passionate about demystifying knowledge, science, and technology and making it work for planetary and people’s well being and always stretches to engage with issues from multiple perspectives and a holistic frame that is ethical and just for both people and planet.
Since 2010 Trained under Dr. Monica Sharma in the Conscious Full-Spectrum Response Approach, a transformational leadership approach based on universal values and ethic developed & created by her based on extensive experience in the application of various methods for tangible results for people’s development worldwide.
Sudarshan also facilitates the workshop on Radical Transformational Leadership at ISDM.
Executive Director
Population Foundation of India
Poonam Muttreja is the Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), a nonprofit organisation that focuses on shifting the current thinking and programmes on family planning to empowering people, especially women and adolescents, to take decisions regarding their health, sexuality and well-being. Poonam has more than 35 years of experience in the socio-development sector. Before joining PFI, she was India Country Director at MacArthur Foundation. Poonam has also co-founded organisations in the areas of social justice (SRUTI) and craft (DASTKAR), and programmes on leadership (Ashoka Foundation, India). She has an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and has been visiting faculty at New Hampshire College in Amherst and Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
Founder
Governance Counts
Aarti Madhusudan is the founder of Governance Counts, an initiative which helps nonprofits build more effective boards. This includes identifying key board related issues and recommending good practice guidelines. She has consulted several Indian and international organisations. Aarti is passionate about volunteering, and runs Whiteboard, an iVolunteer initiative that brings senior corporate professionals together as a group to provide strategic guidance pro bono to nonprofits. She volunteers herself with DaanUtsav. Aarti is an alumna of TISS, Mumbai and NIMHANS, Bangalore.
Author, Entrepreneur, Business Leader
Ex-president FICCI FLO
Archana was the President of FLO, the women’s wing of FICCI, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, in 2015- 2016.
She has been working in the sphere of women’s development for the last two decades. Among other women empowerment initiatives promoted were Swayam, a handholding, mentoring, and consultancy cell nationwide for women, and a number of skilling and employment initiatives under the umbrella WE (Women Empowerment).
Archana Garodia Gupta has been the National Chair of the FICCI MSME Committee. She is a member of the Brics Financial Committee from India, leading the SME Taskforce.
She has been a spokesperson on behalf of FICCI in many national and international forums and for print and Television. She has been a key board member of the Noida Women Entrepreneurs Association for the last 20 years. She helped promote a successful women’s industrial park along with the UP Government, Mahila Udyami Park, in Greater Noida in 1999. She is on the Governing body of the Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur.
She is on the Board of Trustees and Governing Body of I.P. College for Women, Delhi University. Other posts held previously include being a member of the SAARC Committee, FICCI. She is widely traveled, both in her business capacity and as a speaker in international conferences.
Co-Founder and President
Indian School of Development Management
Ravi worked for 24 years in the corporate sector, most of which was at HSBC where he was the Regional Marketing Head for Middle East and Africa, Head of Consumer Products for Asia Pacific, Consumer Banking Head of Indonesia, CEO and President Director of Bank Ekonomi (a local bank in Indonesia that was acquired by HSBC). He quit his corporate career and switched to the social sector in 2011, joining Azim Premji Foundation where he was the Head of Education Leadership & Management. Ravi has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a B. Tech. from IIT-BHU.
Co-Founder
Dasra
Neera leads Dasra’s ecosystem-building initiatives in the areas of Adolescents, Urban Sanitation, and Democracy & Governance and facilitates collaborative platforms by engaging donors, non-profits, government and other stakeholders. In 2016, she initiated the Dasra Adolescents Collaborative, an impact-driven platform that has till date united institutional funders, technical experts, government stakeholders from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and seven social organizations to focus on four key outcomes for adolescent empowerment. She initiated and led the launch of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business Publishing, a first-of-its-kind executive education program for social sector leaders in India.
Neera holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and is an Indian Leadership Fellow with Anantha-Aspen Institute. She is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Medallion for her dedication to addressing India’s critical development challenges, and the Forbes Philanthropy Award in the Crossover Leaders.
Founding Dean -
Indian School of Business,
Founder and Trustee -
Ashoka University
Founding Dean - Indian School of Business, Founder and Trustee - Ashoka University
Pramath spent 13 years with McKinsey as a partner and is also the Founding Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB). He is a Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University and heads the India operations of Albright Stonebridge Group, a US-based commercial diplomacy firm. He is the founder of 9.9 Media, and prior to that, he was the MD and CEO of the ABP Media Group. Pramath has an M.S.E and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B. Tech. from IIT Kanpur.
Publisher, writer and
co-founder of
Kali for Women
Urvashi started her career working with Oxford University Press in Delhi. She worked for a year at their Oxford headquarters, before moving briefly to London-based Zed Books as an editor in 1982. She then returned to India and, along with Ritu Menon, set up a feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, in 1984.
Urvashi engages herself in teaching at the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University through her course on women, society and changing India.
Her main areas of interest are the Partition and oral histories from a feminist and left-wing perspective. She has written on gender, communalism, fundamentalism and media. Her writings have appeared in several newspapers and magazines publications, including The Guardian, the New Internationalist, The Statesman, The Times of India, Outlook and India Today. She has been a regular columnist for the left-wing Tehelka and for Indian Printer and Publisher, a B2B publication dealing with the print and publishing industry.
Urvashi is a consultant for Oxfam India and holds the position of Reader at the College of Vocational Studies at the University of Delhi
Philanthropist, ex-banker professional
A former chairman of ICICI Bank Limited, the second largest Commercial bank in the country, Mr. Vaghul is widely recognised in India for his role in pioneering the Universal Banking Model concept that laid the foundation for a new era in Indian Banking. He served ICICI Bank as the Chairman & CEO, for 24 long years. Starting the first Venture Capital Company in India that is today among the industry leaders, Mr. Vaghul was also instrumental in setting up ICICI Securities, an Investment Banking company. He also pioneered the concept of Credit Rating in India by setting up CRISIL. He was the founder Chairman of CRISIL for close to ten years and helped in developing the best credit rating practices in the country.
A recipient of numerous awards and honours. Mr. Vaghul was chosen as the Businessman of the Year by Business India in 1992, received a Lifetime Achievement Award, by Economic Times in 2006, and by Ernst & Young in 2009 and by the Bombay Management Association in March 2013. Recognised for his contribution to Corporate Governance by the Institute of Company Secretaries, Mr. Vaghul was also awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India, in 2009.
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PROGRAM PARTNERS
ISDM is an institution founded to create, strengthen and establish Development Management, a domain that transcends the exclusive silos of ‘development perspectives’ and ‘management principles’. ISDM recognises the need to 'professionalise’ the Leading and Managing of Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs). The institution sees the development space as requiring the application of management disciplines that are unique and tailored to the scale of the sector. Management that doesn’t merely retrofit Business Management to development projects, but one that is born specifically from the coming together of the two crucial domains.
We have audacious ambitions to be an iconic, internationally renowned, praxis driven, autonomous institution that will be a fountainhead of knowledge for the domain of Development Management, with an objective to change the way SPOs are led and managed resulting in far greater and sustained impact of the billions of dollars and millions of people working in development.
Dasra is catalyzing India's strategic philanthropy movement to transform a billion lives with dignity and equity. In 1999, Dasra was founded on the simple premise that supporting non-profits in their growth will scale their impact on the vulnerable lives they serve. Beginning with incubating NGOs like Magic Bus and Villgro and enabling them to scale, two decades later this theory of change continues to thrive at Dasra. It now encompasses strengthening leading NGOs, magnifying philanthropists’ impact and enabling the government to serve communities better. A team of a 100+ individuals, Dasra acts as a catalyst in India’s vibrant philanthropic sector by driving collaborative action to accelerate social change.
Dasra has shaped the philanthropic movement, with 70+ research reports, and actively worked with 500 corporates, foundations and philanthropists, and has hand-held over 700 leading nonprofits through their scaling journeys towards maximization of their impact to achieve audacious outcomes.
Governance Counts is a consulting initiative. Over nearly two decades, Aarti the founder has worked with more than 150 organisations across various Board related issues that SPOs and their founder CEOs or Board members have faced. From creating Board strategy to troubleshooting governance related issues , this initiative has also assisted in finding and placing Board members, whether on the legal or Advisory Boards. Through Governance Counts, many organisations have been trained on good practice relevant to their life stage and the contexts where they work.
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