Founding Membership

Help shape what inclusion can become.

Founding Membership is a deeper relationship with CIC—an opportunity for established organisations to influence the community, its conversations and its collective impact from the beginning.

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Built with leaders

Not simply a higher level of membership.

Founding Membership is for organisations that have demonstrated sustained commitment to inclusion and are ready to help define the future of inclusive workplace culture in India.

Members contribute experience, perspective and leadership as the Circle takes shape—actively influencing its development, research and collective agenda.

Your founding role

Five ways to help build the Circle.

Each contribution strengthens the community while creating lasting value for your organisation and its leaders.

Build together

Co-create CIC

Help shape the community model, collaborative framework and research agenda.

Share what works

Contribute experience

Bring practical experience and hard-won lessons into trusted peer exchange.

Create connection

Host the community

Open organisational spaces for CIC events, Circles and meaningful conversations.

Lead the dialogue

Shape the conversation

Contribute insight to research, policy dialogue and thought leadership.

Make lasting impact

Build legacy

Be recognised as an organisation that helped build the Circle from its beginning.

The founding proposition

What you give.
What you gain.

The relationship is reciprocal: your contribution builds the community, and the community amplifies your contribution.

Senior inclusion leaders exchanging perspectives
You give
  • AccessHost Circle sessions, roundtables and gatherings.
  • ExperienceMentor peers and share practical frameworks.
  • InsightInform CIC research and collective thinking.
  • AdvocacyRepresent and strengthen the community externally.
You gain
  • VisibilityPosition your organisation within India’s senior inclusion community.
  • LeadershipBuild recognition for advancing inclusive practice.
  • InfluenceHelp shape the research and collective agenda.
  • NetworkBuild trusted relationships with accomplished peers.
This is not just membership

This is co-creation.

Join the organisations helping build a stronger, more connected future for inclusive workplace culture in India.

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