ProventusHR's flagship DEIB intervention. Moves beyond awareness into behavioural change. Addresses India-specific diversity dimensions , caste, creed, region, religion, language, generation , and builds inclusive leadership practice for daily work.
Elephant in the Room earns its name from the conversation most organisations are not having: that India's diversity challenge is specific, structural, and different from the Western DEIB frameworks that dominate most interventions. Caste, creed, region, religion, language, and generation are the live dimensions in the Indian workplace. This programme is designed for them. It moves beyond raising awareness of bias into the specific behavioural practices of inclusive leadership that participants can exercise on the day they return to work.
Duration
1 full day (8 hours).
Format
In-person. Manager or cross-functional cohort.
Customisation
India-specific diversity data, REEL|Life film per audience, bias focus calibration, sector scenarios, Men as Enablers companion programme.
The India Difference
Global DEIB frameworks were not built for caste, region, religion, and language.
The Indian workplace requires an Indian intervention.
01
Bias inventory, belonging audit.
Participants complete a structured bias inventory and belonging audit. The mirror exercise surfaces the dimensions on which they are advantaged and disadvantaged simultaneously, making privilege concrete and non-threatening.
02
India dimensions plus REEL|Life.
India-specific diversity dimensions are named and explored. The REEL|Life session uses a carefully selected film scene to surface bias and belonging dynamics , emotionally engaging and cognitively safe.
03
Micro-inclusion practices plus charter.
Participants build specific inclusive leader practices and commit to a 30-day inclusion experiment charter. The commitment wall ensures the day produces observable commitment, not goodwill.
Part 01
Diagnose
Bias inventory, belonging audit, mirror exercise.
Part 02
Define
India diversity dimensions, inclusion framework.
Part 03
Dialogue
REEL|Life: bias and belonging through a cinematic lens.
Part 04
Design
Inclusive leader traits, micro-inclusion practices.
Part 05
Deploy
30-day inclusion experiment charters, commitment wall.
A 45-minute discovery conversation to understand the challenge and confirm whether this is the right design response.
Start a Discovery ConversationElephant in the Room is ProventusHR flagship DEIB intervention that surfaces what teams know but do not say. It uses ExperienceLearning methodology to create honest structured dialogue about bias, inclusion and belonging.
Designed for leadership teams and intact teams where psychological safety is low or DEIB commitments have not translated into daily behaviour.
One full day standard. Two-day format available for leadership teams requiring deeper work. Always bespoke, never open-cohort.
Elephant in the Room is ProventusHR's flagship DEIB programme. It surfaces the conversations about bias, exclusion, and belonging that most Indian organisations are not having. The programme is built for India's specific diversity reality, not adapted from Western frameworks. It is experiential, cinematic, and designed to produce measurable inclusion behaviour change rather than awareness alone.
Elephant in the Room is designed for mixed-cohort groups across leadership levels - managers, senior managers, and leaders from different demographic backgrounds. It works most powerfully when the cohort reflects the actual demographic reality of the organisation, because the conversations surface in the room rather than in theory.
The programme produces three measurable outcomes: leaders gain specific language for the bias patterns operating in their own teams; they develop a set of concrete inclusive leadership behaviours committed to publicly; and the cohort establishes a shared norm of psychological safety that persists beyond the programme.
Unconscious bias training is a structured learning intervention that helps individuals recognise the automatic, unintentional assumptions they bring to decisions about people. Effective unconscious bias training goes beyond awareness - it builds the habit of checking one's own decisions against specific bias patterns. Elephant in the Room is ProventusHR's unconscious bias and belonging programme, designed for the Indian organisational context.