Dr Rashmi Devanath
Learning and Development
Areas of Expertise
Organisational Development
Learning and Development
Rashmi Devanath holds a Ph. D in Psychology. She has over 25 years of work experience. Her first career was in the academia, teaching various Psychology papers to graduate and post graduate students. She had her teaching stints at Jyoti Nivas college, SDM college and Bangalore University.
Dr. Rashmi’s second career was in the IT services Industry and is a certified Learning and Development
professional.
She was involved in large-scale organizational development (OD) interventions encompassing a workforce of two hundred thousand employees. Her key interventions designed at the organizational level are Customer-Facing Readiness, Inclusion and Diversity and Organizational values.
Of the three, Inclusion and Diversity was a game changer. The InD intervention began with one program for women which she designed and delivered. The impact was such that a slew of interventions was designed by Dr. Rashmi- for women at various levels of their career, for male employees to be mindful of their gender beliefs and actions, leadership journey programs for senior women and managing maternity (pre and post pregnancy) for the women and their managers (pre and post pregnancy).
Dr. Rashmi is known for keeping the interventions sharp and elicit unabashed responses from women participants. Here is a glimpse of programs designed and delivered by her The first program for young women focused on Career-oriented behaviors. The program unearthed career-gender beliefs that could either hamper or promote women’s personal growth. Additionally, the workshop participants were provided a framework to charter their career path.
Subsequently, based on the demand by women managers, Women Rise was developed. Women Rise
focused on Confidence, Networking and Negotiation skills. Each of these capabilities highlighted the
subconscious gender nuances that impacts how the skills are learnt and demonstrated. The gap between the experience and expression of women’s needs and ways to minimize the gap was central to the program.Senior women’s programs equipped women with executive presence, coaching and access to leadership meetings | shadowing and drawing collaborative strategic relationships among themselves.
focused on Confidence, Networking and Negotiation skills. Each of these capabilities highlighted the
subconscious gender nuances that impacts how the skills are learnt and demonstrated. The gap between the experience and expression of women’s needs and ways to minimize the gap was central to the program.Senior women’s programs equipped women with executive presence, coaching and access to leadership meetings | shadowing and drawing collaborative strategic relationships among themselves.
Dr. Rashmi has successfully got her team, peers and HR persons onboarded by conducting several Train the trainer. Entrusted with the InD charter for her strong beliefs and program management capabilities, she widened the scope of DEI at organizational level.
Currently, she divides her time between academia and Industry. Rashmi is now extremely directional in students’ projects and looks for opportunities to embed DEI. She is now encouraging young researchers to focus on Women with disabilities.