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About WILL Forum

The "Forum for Women in Leadership", WILL Forum India-- is a unique and deeply committed mandate that will bring together senior women executives in leadership positions from across corporate India for an open dialogue on their aspirations, opportunities, nurturing mind-sets, mentoring and harnessing the rewards of collective thinking for improving the workplace in the coming years.

The WILL Forum will set the tone and a strong agenda for women executives across industry and lateral segments of Indian business and society including private sector, public sector, and multinational corporations-to make an important case for leveraging the vast talent pool of women in the workplace and creating opportunities for them that will share the rewards of best business practices, and make a contribution to business and society.

Since inception in 2007, WILL Forum has successfully

  • Conducted more than 200 meetings across cities in India.
  • Brought together more than 6000 Women and Men Executives for collective thinking.
  • Produced and certified 500 WILL Mentees across various industries
  • Published 14 distinguished Reports and Research Surveys on issues impacting women in workplace.

"Creating high quality programs to drive stakeholders for building balanced leadership, inclusive growth, advancement of women."

Poonam Barua, Founder Chairman, WILL Forum India


WILL Distinguished Advisory Board Members 2023

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WILL Distinguished Founding Members

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WILL Distinguished Advisory Board 2010 to 2020

Dr Mukund G Rajan
Dr Mukund G Rajan

Tata Brand Custodian and Chief Ethics Officer

Tata Sons

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Poonam Barua

Founder Chairman,

WILL Forum India

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Richard Rekhy

Co-Chair

Chief Executive Officer KPMG

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Dr. Santrupt B. Misra,

CEO, Carbon Black Business & Director, Group H.R. Aditya Birla Management Corporation

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Dr. Ritu Anand

Vice President & Deputy Head - Global HR

Tata Consultancy Services

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Dr. Shubhro Sen

Director

Tata Management Training Center

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Raj Raghavan

Director-Human Resources, India

Amazon India

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Gayathri Ramamurthy

Diversity Lead

Capgemini

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Alka Mittal

Director- Human Resources

ONGC Ltd



WILL Participating Companies (Partial Listing)

Johanson and Johanson Sutherland Global Services Western Digital
Aditya Birla Group Amazon India L&T Financial Services
Barclays Shared Services Caprihans India Ltd Firstsource Solutions Limited
BP Castrol India Bain & Co. Capgemini India
Cargill India Deloitte U.S. Offices in India Eaton Technologies
GE India Genpact Indian Oil Corporation
India FirstLife Insurance Co Infosys Technologies Limited Sutherland
Willis Towers Watson Pricewaterhouse Coopers Glaxo-Smith Kline
KPMG Metlife Global Operations Microsoft India
Monsanto India MSD Pharmaceuticals Novartis Ltd
Murugappa Group Robert Bosch Engineering Sodexo India
Ashok Leyland TAFE Ltd Tata Capital
Tata Consultancy Services Tata Management Training Centre Tata Steel
Indian Hotels Company Tata Power IFC- World Bank
Thomson Reuters Total Oil Space Matrix
Zensar Technologies Experian India ONGC Ltd.
Expleo Solutions Mavenir Nivea
Appliead Materials Cognizant Cummins India
VFS Global Goavega Sabre Technologies