Ramkrishna Sinha (Ram, pronoun He) is the Co-Founder of Pride Circle and has enabled many organizations. On their journey of LGBTI inclusion. His research "In & Out –The Indian LGBT Workplace Climate Survey 2016" co-authored & published by MINGLE and played a crucial role in progressing the conversation in Indian workplaces. Ram has been recognized as Global D&I Hero of the Year 2017 at Intel. He also won the prestigious "Champion of the Year" Award from Out & Equal Workplace Advocates and was featured in the list of 50 LGBT+ Future Leaders Globally by OUTstanding & Financial Times. He is currently compiling stories of LGBTI & allies in the blog titled "101 Coming Out Stories from India" which has reached over five million people.

Pride Circle is India’s premier Diversity & Inclusion consulting, offers a customized suite of expertise and solutions, they enable organizations to foster inclusion. Pride Circle works with over 150 Indian & Multinational companies across India to conduct Audit & Assessments, Training & Sensitization, Industry Roundtables, Job Placement, Research & Publications. With experience & growing roster of national & international partner companies, governments & non-profit organizations, Pride Circle is leading the LGBTI inclusion revolution in India.

In this interview with Deepak Nanda from CSRBOX, he talks about the following points:

1. What is the problem that you intended to solve with Pride Circle?

2. How important are conversations to further the idea of inclusion?

3. What is the ideal narrative that you wish to build? Is it that Skills can’t be defined by gender or that opportunities are there, one just needs to rise to the occasion?

4. You publish a blog about coming out stories from across the country. What are some of the most challenging issues that you have come across when it comes to them not being able to fit into a workplace?

5. Your mission at Pride Circle is to promote and achieve social equity. How do you intend to do that?

6. Apart from events and Meetups, you also publish research papers and publications on the topic. What are some of the shocking facts that you have come across while creating them?

7. Being a for-profit organization in the social domain. What benefits does it bring?

8. What would be your advice to the following:

1. CSR heads (Both new and the ones already in the space)
2. Innovators

Impact-Talk is a series of views and interviews of CSR heads, impact leaders and change-makers, addressing development challenges in India. If you have an impact-maker in your network, please suggest/share details at csr@ngobox.org