The Vividhata Story
Vividhata (which means “diversity” in Sanskrit) was born in 2022 on Gadigal land in Sydney to make diversity meaningful for individuals, businesses and organisations.
We are a boutique, woman led, certified Social Trader Organisation. We are also a People and Planet First Verified Social Enterprise. Working with us, will do good for your business AND your business can do good for society.
The Vividhata Team
Arti Agrawal
Arti Agrawal
Dr Agrawal (she/her/hers) is the CEO and founder of Vividhata Pty Ltd, an organization which epitomizes her vision to globally advance and mainstream diversity and inclusion initiatives in all sectors of society, guided by her lived intersectional experiences of being a female immigrant from India, diversity leader and coach, person of color, Physicist and proud member of the global LGBTQIA+ community.
Dr Agrawal was born and raised in New Delhi, India and earned her PhD in Physics from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in Physics in the year 2005. She is fluent in English and Hindi, with a smattering of Japanese.
Her work experience has spanned the continents of Asia, Europe and Australia. As a first generation immigrant, she worked hard to succeed in the widely different environments and societies of UK and Australia and took on leadership roles in initiating change. This honed her skills in cultural competence, sensitivity training, building and strengthening diverse teams, organizational capacity building, data analysis, training emerging leaders and initiating and supporting dialogues on key, challenging issues in organizations of all size and type.
Dr Agrawal is a visionary. She helped start a chapter in UK’s Gay Women’s Network to give voice to women of color. She continues to champion diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the global photonics and optics community that have led to visible, meaningful changes in increasing the diversity in leadership and membership of scientific bodies and committees in this field. She has helped promote diversity initiatives in the philanthropy sector (Anthony Nolan, blood cancer charity, UK) and in the higher education sector (University of Technology, Sydney) that led to an increase in the recruitment of female undergraduates.
A passionate scientist who finds it exciting to mentor students especially minorities and women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, Dr Agrawal loves meeting people, speaking to diverse audiences, and working towards a more just and equitable society.
Her favourite hobbies are traveling, reading science fiction and fanfiction works, and watching sports.
David Widders
David Widders
David Widders (Dave) (he/his) describes himself as ‘a very proud Anaiwan man from Armidale NSW’. His mission is to educate, empower and make a difference. He has spent over 20 years imparting diversity training to Federal, State, local government, community organizations and businesses in Australia.
Dave has a special passion to make a difference for Aboriginal people. He endeavors towards fostering a positive reconciliation across the wider community. He is a strong believer in the power of education to foster acceptance and change. Dave has worked in Aboriginal communities across Australia from urban, regional and remote areas. He has been well accepted by these communities.
Learning with Dave can help attendees develop greater cultural competence in working with Aboriginal communities and appreciate the value businesses can earn by employing Aboriginal people.
Arif Ongu
Arif Ongu
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Our way of conducting business
- Our values are core to the way we work.
- All our activities, services and offerings are aligned to our core purpose and creating social impact by way of social justice: our Social Business Model Canvas provides a high level overview.
- We look to work with individuals and organisations from under- represented and/or disadvantaged groups, both through our Associates programme and the services we ourselves use. We also try to work with Social Enterprises, BCorps and those providers with whom we share values where possible.
- We give back to society and community by using a proportion of our time, outputs (through free and discounted trainings, tools, consulting) to charities, not for profits, organisations of/from under-represented and disadvantaged groups, in line with the UN SDGs that we work towards.
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