Varsha Agarwal🌐 Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Lenostun provides exceptional services in impact space - POSH, DEIB, CSR, ESG, Accessibility and Volunteer Engagement to corporates and institutions. We also specialize in leadership development interventions and advising start-ups for business expansion.

Advising start-ups that are incubated in IITD and IITM to be business ready including their GTM strategies, investor strategies, pitches, pricing, TAM, market research, customer segments and more. Attvaran, an Assistive Technology (AT) startup accelerator, is a collaborative initiative by the University College London, IIT Delhi, Global Disability Innovation Hub and IIT Madras. Attvaran’s mission is to empower early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs.

Developing leaders for future. Utilizing my 25 years of experience with humble beginning as teacher, trainer to a well established industry leader and now a CEO, I share my struggles, learnings, stories and well tested frameworks which worked for me and many more whom I have mentored to be a leader.AwardsIndia Site Strategy Awardee in VMware for Leadership CXO Award - Top Inspiring Minds

TWC - Together We Can is a consortium of MNCs to collaborate for better, wider and faster impact in overall DEI and disability space. We are working towards 3 pillars of the ecosystem.Empowerment - Make people with disabilities industry ready on time, AT PAR to compete and as per their preference of work. We are making it possible by the Early Intervention - NEEV program.Inclusion - Working towards embedding inclusion in people, processes, policies, products, practices and more.Accessibility - Working towards making the world accessible by design be it physical environment, products, services, digital platforms and more. We are making it happen by continuous learning and working towards all time standard handbook on accessibility.

Bengaluru Area, India

Vision & Strategy• Development and execution of multi-year micro to macro level DEI Strategy encompassing awareness, hiring, retention, policies, employeeengagement, internal and external collaborations, KPIs, audits and regular reporting resulted in a ~20% YoY increase in engagement, 67%increase in mass awareness, 11% YoY increase in DEI hiring, 5+ new global policies and more.• GTM Strategy, planning and actualization of Together We Can - Consortium of MNCs for collaborative impact in Disability Space via industry-wide initiatives. Won India Site Strategy award for the same from VMware.• Envisioned and strategized key reformations in the Talent Lifecycle to promote diverse hiring. Partnered with BU leaders, sourcing, talentacquisition, hiring managers and REW to achieve inclusive job descriptions, structured and globally available DEI candidate pool, job mapping framework for first mover advantage, accessibility quotient consideration etc.Compliance and Policies• Instrumental in DEI policymaking working with executives, HR, Sourcing, Procurement etc. Examples: Self-ID, skill-based hiring, No non-accessible products and vendors, single cost centre for accessible needs, inclusive hiring champion in TA teams and more.• Advocated and key driver in the formalization of a policy mandating self-paced diversity training for mass awareness in VMware.• Partnered with HR to add comprehensive DEI overviews and brief sensitization for all new hires in the New Hire Orientations process.Collaboration & Alliances• Collaborated with customer success teams to cultivate connections with VMware customers in the DEI. Conducted customer briefing sessions focusing on DEI, CSR, and accessibility, sharing insights on best practices, engagement and How-To guides.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Gurgaon, India

• Digital transformation consultant for Forrester, John Deere, Sprint. Helped to carve out a strategy & plan for their ECMS, E-commerce platform evolution. Took care of end-to-end delivery as well as ensuring client success.• Customer experience consultant for hotels.com and Disney (at client location). Strategy for customer data capture, listening, analytics, and insights to eventually optimize the experience. Phase vise planning, outcome analysis, and delivery consultant as well securing customer excellence and satisfaction.• Revamp & optimization strategy for Vertex to provide real-time documents to policyholders, daily reports, and insights to executives. Played planning and delivery consultant role as well for the client to ensure client success.DEI and POSH evangelist to carve out the right strategies for broader awareness.

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Corporate trainer to senior professionals on MS OfficeTraining JAVA to students and professional youth