“Companies need to foster psychological safety. Psychological safety is a concept where women, or anybody else, feel that they could voice their own opinions without any backlash from their superiors.”

Today’s episode of The Shape of Work podcast features Aditi Arora, Country Director at Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation which is a girl-centred leadership development initiative, focusing on equity for girls and women in spaces where they are unheard or under-represented. She has an overall work experience of over eight years. She did her B.A in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College For Women, and a Master’s Degree from Geneva Graduate Institute. She previously worked at Just A Girl Inc. as Inclusivity Advisory Board Member.

In this episode, Aditi sheds light on supporting women in the workplace and the difference between men’s and women's approaches in leadership.

Episode Highlights

• How to support more women in the workplace?
• The difference between men’s and women’s approaches to leadership
• How will technology shape the future of work?
• How to use technology to mitigate unconscious bias in hiring?
• Importance of having a strong work culture

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

About Springworks:

Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:

SpringVerify— B2B verification platform

EngageWith— employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company culture

Trivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-building

SpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, and

SpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system.

Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture, leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.