Empowering Women in Technology: Innovations Beyond Excellence

Access to technology plays a huge role in giving birth to gender inequality. Women are confined to traditional roles and have limited access to capital, training, and technology that could enhance their lives. Technology always played a variety of roles in supporting the development of women’s capacities and resources. Technology and social media can be powerful tools for women and girls to take part in democracy, civic action, and peacebuilding, as well as to fight for their basic rights and gender equality. Adapting programming and investing in digital literacy for women and girls is the key to ensure that they can meaningfully participate in these newly opened public spheres. With a constant process of innovation Anuj Sehgal, the Vice President of Strategic Accounts at BayOne Solutions has served in empowering women in the field of technology. As the IT workforce is very heavily dominated by men and women are not getting fair representation in the workplace, he invested a lot of effort in working with the customers in educating them through their hiring process to get more diversity and inclusion in their ranks.  

Marking the Beginning of Making the Difference

IT Consulting and Staffing is a very people-heavy industry that focuses on solving real-time problems of hiring key personnel for the customers and delivering value to ensure business continuity for the organizations. But focusing on personnel problems, the industry tends to lose the goal of efficiency and value proposition for all the stakeholders involved. Anuj Sehgal has been instrumental in evolving and innovating the relationship-building process as well as creating a robust environment for key stakeholders, customers, consultants or partners, to share ideas and ensure that the hiring process keeps getting better and more inclusive. As the IT workforce has been very heavily dominated by men and women were not getting fair representation in the workplace, the company invested a lot of effort in working with the customers in educating them through their hiring process to get more diversity and inclusion in their ranks. The company has also put a lot of focus on 360-degree engagement for the workforce. This ensures that a lot of variables are taken into account when deploying personnel with the customers which lead to higher employee satisfaction, and further leads to higher customer satisfaction and retention. All the efforts have led to some fantastic recognition from internal and external partners and stakeholders.  

Modernism that Caters to the Industry Demands

The innovation made in the workforce has enabled the company to have long-term visibility on how the industry evolves and where it is heading in the near, short, and long term. This insight helps the company to invest back in their skills, processes, and employees to get ahead of the curve and continue to create value for their existing and new customers and workforce. For example, the company had foreseen a lot of demand and skill gap for UX Designers and Product Managers 5 years back and had started a Design Lab to help retool and re-skill some of the workforces and also help their customers scale-up their core teams better. Similar efforts have been done by the company for Big Data, Cloud computing technologies, and Data Science. Supporting women in technology, the company has been involved in retooling and helping in re-skilling women and other minority groups who were looking to get into the IT workforce. The company has hosted free boot camps, meetups & webinars in cutting-edge technologies to deploy them faster and to ensure that there is the support that is needed to get fair representation during the hiring process. These efforts have led to greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce where the company operates, with the customers. For example, for the last 3 years, there is an increase in women and minority hiring by 12% to 15% year-on-year. The existence of women in technology is only about 25% of the workforce on average, but the company has been able to increase that number to 44% with their customer base. Since 2016, the company has also trained 1000+ corporate participants under the LevelUp program in the areas of Data Science, DevOps, RPA, Full stack programming, and Cloud computing. Such innovations and investments have helped BayOne Solutions to become one of the leading go-to consulting and staffing partners in North America. The company has been increasing its revenues 300% year-on-year before the pandemic and has been recognized by some prestigious organizations such as INC5000, San Francisco Business Times (SFBT) Fastest growing private companies since 2017. BayOne Solutions has also been recognized by a number of its customers for the efforts that the company has done over the years.  

Adoption: The Key Challenge for Advancements

The biggest challenge for the company is always adoption. Change is never easy for anyone, whether they are an individual or an organization. But change is a requirement. All the efforts of the company are designed to help the stakeholders, customers, or the workforce to overcome those challenges and see the value and the community impact that it brings in. This will only be successful if all the stakeholders are collectively involved in making a difference. The company is changing and the positive impact is being felt on the ground.  

Key Partnerships Driving the Initiative

BayOne is involved with some key partners to ensure that it is able to deliver its promise. The company is working closely with the procurement and diversity offices of all of its key customers to drive the change. BayOne also has internal stakeholders who are industry leaders in their own right and have been investing their time and efforts in leading boot camps to ensure that the process with the workforce is a smooth one. The company has partnered up with one of the premier schools in the world for Data Science efforts. It has access to 100+ Ph.D. mentors that are helping some of its customers to level up their core teams and executives to continue to innovate and be a leader in their industry. Along with this, the company is also partnered with Automation Anywhere for RPA work that it needs to deploy to help the customers engineer.  

The leader leading the charge & change

Anuj Sehgal, the Vice President of Strategic Accounts, has been working with BayOne Solutions since 2013 and in the industry since 2004. He plays a key role in scaling up the company’s customer base, leading and building a team of Business Development Executives and Account Managers, ensuring that the company’s cutting-edge processes and tools are in place to execute on plans and focusing on building brand value with the existing and new customers. He started his career with a start-up, back in 2004 in the IT consulting and staffing industry after graduating from the University of West Georgia with an MBA in Marketing and Finance. He realized that the consulting and staffing industry was a fast-paced and evolving beast with new technologies and opportunities coming up almost every year. He continued to work on his craft, his relationships, and his knowledge over the years. This led him in scaling up start-ups to mid-sized and large enterprises. Anuj understood the need to build relationships, build personal brands and provide high value to the customers. He spent a lot of his early career working on the same. This helped him work over the years with some prestigious customers (large and small) from Fortune 10 companies such as Apple, Google, and CISCO to unicorns such as Zoom Video, Pinterest, Palantir, and many more.