Explore a career path in DEI with Mita Mallick, Head of Inclusion at Carta
Are you looking to break into the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion space? DEI roles are one of today’s fastest-growing roles. This growing sector offers a variety of career options to folks who have diverse experience and can leverage their transferable skills. If you feel like your current role is small, but you still have a lot to offer as a professional, pivoting into DEI may be the disruptive career change you’ve been looking for! Come learn about the many possibilities, roles, and expectations this billion-dollar industry offers.
Join this open conversation as Zeit's CEO, Ambika Nigam, chats with Mita Mallick, Head of Inclusion, Equity, and Impact at Carta, to learn more about her non-linear career path and to get advice on breaking into this role.
We’ll cover:
How to identify and leverage your transferable skills to break into the DEI space
The Do’s and Don’ts of DEI
What skills are required to be successful in the ever changing DEI landscape
About Mita:
Mita Mallick has spent over 15 years as a storyteller, leading iconic brands like AVEENO, AVON Color Cosmetics, Chapstick, Vaseline, Suave and Dove. Throughout her career, she has fought hard for inclusion, ensuring Black and Brown people were represented in campaigns and ensuring products were for all skin tones.
Mita believes that diversity of thought doesn’t happen without diversity of representation.
She says, “When you have all those points of views, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds coming together around a table, colliding, clashing, and collaborating - that’s when magic happens. That’s when we come up with that one break through innovative idea, campaign, innovation- to authentically and purposefully serve customers and communities.”
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