Good Business Lab
Lavanya Garg is an accomplished leader with extensive experience in partnerships and people operations, currently serving as the Director of Partnerships & People Operations at Good Business Lab since June 2017. As the first employee of GBL, Lavanya has driven the organization's growth to a global team of over 120 staff members. Lavanya's previous roles include Chief of Staff and Associate Director at GBL, as well as various positions at the United Nations Foundation and UNLEASH, where involvement ranged from mentorship to expert guidance for social entrepreneurs. Lavanya also co-founded India's first sustainable fashion community and holds a master's degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University, along with undergraduate degrees in Economics and Dance.
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Good Business Lab
We design, test, and scale programs using rigorous research methods, that align worker wellbeing with business interests. We work across a worker's employment journey from unlocking female labor to closing the skill gap, improving job quality, and improving health conditions. Businesses, because of their scale, hold immense potential to drive social change, while staying true to their principles. However, narratives that reduce the business of business to business, as seen traditionally, foster conventional rather than innovative ways of doing business. For instance, they seclude investment in worker wellbeing programs as mere philanthropy. And while worker wellbeing programs are plenty, they aren’t achieving the scale they should. This is because there is not enough research backing the return on investment they generate for businesses. We are working to solve such problems. We want to break the limited notion of business and help scale impactful worker wellbeing programs, through rigorous research. Because that, we believe, is the future of business – good business.