As we begin along the road to recovery Lesh Prasad, General Manager of HELP Employment and Training, wants to help retailers look more towards creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Inclusivity can act as a growth strategy and improve your bottom line, and can deliver you quality candidates. Lesh will be delivering a free webinar covering the following topics:
- Employment with an ‘Inclusion lens’ in a retail world post-Coronavirus
- What did COVID-19 do for inclusion and what is workforce reprofiling
- How diverse hiring practices can increase retail engagement by up to 20%
- How to attract, retain and develop and Inclusive workforce
- General Employment Service overview COVID-19 – JobSeeker, JobKeeper, JobMaker.
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm
About our host Lesh Prasad:
HELP Enterprises a progressive social enterprise, with a balance of commercial and social initiatives. HELP delivers market-leading products and services that add value for our customers, while creating vital employment opportunities and support for people with disability, and other disadvantaged groups. We are an organisation committed to enhancing people’s lives.
Lesh Prasad an executive within HELP Enterprises is responsible for the relationship crafting portfolio through building Employer networks, Community groups and is a key Government Liaise. Lesh is focused on Inclusion through education, awareness and practical championship.
Lesh has previously run and owned successful businesses including Edge Personnel (Edge). Edge of which Lesh owned 50% is the only Labour Hire Business to ever have won the prestigious “BRW” Fast 100 SME three years in a row. Throughout his time with “Edge” Lesh was able to introduce flexible inclusion workforce practices to Super Retail Group, Priceline Pharmacies, Sandvik Mining and The Colorado Group. Lesh has also sat in numerous board’s including ‘Aspersers Services Australia’ & ‘The Second Chance Foundation’.
A passionate ‘Believer” of Success through Inclusion Lesh is regarded as a Subject Matter Expert for Inclusion Employment. Lesh currently provides this intelligence to numerous councils, Top 5 Labour hire companies nationally and is regularly called upon to panel with Diversity Council of Australia, National Retail Association and Departments both State & Federally.