Sudesh Thevasenabathy is the Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Asia at Manulife based in Hong Kong. He is a true believer and advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and with customers, and has been actively works and speaks in supporting inclusion of all forms be it disability, race, gender, sexuality and multigenerational employees.
In 2019 he won the Hong Kong LGBT+ Ally Award and then was named as part of the 2019 Global Top 50 OUTstanding Ally Executive Role Models and he only started working in a diversity and inclusion role 6 months ago.
While diversity and inclusion roles have been around for a while, particularly in the United States, there hasn’t been a massive number of people doing these roles in Asia. Now in the wake of Black Lives Matter, George Floyd’s death and Covid-19 we have seen a massive shift towards organisations realising they haven’t done enough and scrambling to employ leadership roles in this space.
Sudesh is a great example of how you can take the leadership and other skills you have learnt throughout your career and apply them to something new that has purpose and meaning. If you too are thinking you would like to work in Diversity and Inclusion, you will learn lots from my conversation with Sudesh.
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