It has been quoted that nearly half of millennials (47%) actively look for diversity and inclusion programs in their prospective employers before finalizing a job decision. Once hired, studies show that diverse management teams see 19% higher revenue due to innovation.
We are excited to host female founders Lisa Skeete Tatum of Landit, Shivani Siroya of Tala, and Frida Polli of Pymetrics to share the ways companies today are creating objective views around candidates and hiring at scale, as well as steps to incorporate into your hiring strategy to build more diverse teams.
Lisa Skeete Tatum is founder and CEO of Landit, a technology platform created to increase the success and engagement of women in the workplace, and to enable enterprises to attract, develop and retain high-potential diverse talent. The platform offers a turn-key "one size fits one" solution that enables companies to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Before starting Landit, Lisa was a General Partner for over a decade with Cardinal Partners, a $350M+ early stage healthcare venture capital firm. Lisa also worked for Procter & Gamble, GE Capital, and founded her own consulting practice.
Shivani Siroya is the founder and CEO of Tala, a mobile technology and data science company that is opening up financial access for underserved people globally. Tala’s smartphone app uses alternative data to deliver instant credit and help customers build their financial identities. Tala has disbursed more than $150M in credit throughout East Africa and the Philippines is rapidly expanding throughout Latin America and Southeast Asia. Prior to Tala, Shivani worked at the United Nations Population Fund, helping to develop costing models throughout Africa and Asia.
Frida Polli PhD is an award-winning Harvard and MIT trained neuroscientist turned AI-startup founder an CEO. She is the CEO of pymetrics, a future of work platform that uses behavioral science and AI to helps companies like Unilever, Accenture, and LinkedIn to match external and internal talent with their ideal jobs in the most predictive and bias-free way. While an academic, Frida was a NARSAD Young Investigator, an NIH fellow, an MIT 100K winner, and a Life Science Fellow at Harvard Business School (where she earned an MBA).
Anu Duggal is the Founding Partner of Female Founders Fund, an early-stage fund investing in technology companies started by women. Anu began her tech career as a co-founder of Exclusively.in, a private sale e-commerce company backed by Accel & Tiger which was acquired by Myntra. Prior to launching the fund, Anu was CEO of Doonya for two years where she scaled the business nationally, raised an initial round of growth capital and created a business development strategy.
Moira Forbes is the Executive Vice President of Forbes Media where she is responsible for driving new business initiatives across the company's diverse media platforms and branding Forbes events worldwide. She is also the President and Publisher of ForbesWoman, a multi-media platform dedicated to successful women in business and leadership. Moira is currently the host of "Success with Moira Forbes," a video series on the Forbes Video Network featuring candid, one-on-one interviews with today's top women leaders and writes a dedicated leadership column for Forbes.com profiling today’s most dynamic business leaders.