The Shero Diaries with Riju Vashisht

Welcome to the podcast – “Story-Pod with Nischala.” As part of this exclusive podcast, you can tune into stories with amazing people across the world. Through these stories, you will listen to ideas that matter, real-world insights and positive inspiration.

As part of the series “The Shero Diaries,” our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Nischala Murthy Kaushik talks with influential and powerful women leaders from across the world. In each episode, we profile a corporate shero and you will hear about their personal life and career journey, choices and decisions which influenced them and reflections from these experiences.

Our featured shero in this podcast Riju Vashisht

Riju Vashisht serves as Genpact’s Chief Transformation Officer responsible the company’s overall integrated transformation services. Previously, Riju served as Genpact’s Digital Solutioning and Automation leader, where she focused on driving cutting edge digital solutions and expanding the company’s RPA business. Prior to that, she was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Genpact’s Consumer Goods, Retail, Life Sciences, and Healthcare businesses. In that capacity, she led global operations, digital transformation and employee engagement for these verticals and drove continuous improvement, productivity, and learning and development efforts to help clients with their business transformations.

In addition to two stints at Genpact, Riju has also worked at Walmart, Whirlpool and Unilever in her career which spans more than 2 decades. A Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Riju earned an MBA from the Xavier School of Management (XLRI), Jamshedpur and a BS in engineering at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology.

This podcast has 3 sections

1. Know your shero – in which we talk about backstories around the influence of family, upbringing, education and her career journey. We also look at forward-looking stories on where our shero is headed
2. Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, Skills – in which we talk unfiltered about leadership, making choices and skills to lead in today’s era. We also dwell into ideas on how to build diverse and inclusive organizations
3. Rapid Fire – in which we hear quick and quirky responses from our guests

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