Balaji Ganapathy serves as the Chief Social Responsibility Officer and Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a Global Top 3 information technology leader.

His mission is to harness the power of purpose, people and technology to advance access, equity and inclusion across society. He is stewarding TCS’ global efforts to empower people and communities with a mission to connect people with opportunities in the digital economy, by creating equitable, inclusive pathways for women, youth and marginalized groups. Since 2015, TCS has invested over $350M on its community initiatives and empowered millions of underserved students, minorities, youth, women and elders to be literate, healthy, educated, digitally skilled, mentored, become rural entrepreneurs and gain employment, enabling societal uplift and generational improvement.

As Head of Workforce Effectiveness, he previously led the Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion, New Business Growth, Employee Experience and Culture Transformation efforts for North America, TCS’ largest market. His stewardship has resulted in TCS being recognized as America’s most community-minded technology company by Civic 50, a Top 50 Company for Diversity across sectors by DiversityInc, and a Top Employer in North America.

Balaji brings over two decades of business leadership, social innovation, talent transformation and technology evangelization experience, across geographies and scale of business. As a purpose leader, he has passionately led and supported cross-sector initiatives that have impacted millions of women, minorities and underserved students in CS/STEM. A change champion with an entrepreneurial background, he has envisioned and implemented numerous organizational programs on trust, culture, personalization, purpose, inclusion, engagement, analytics, innovation, agile, digitalization and leadership development.

A mission-driven leader, he served as Chair of STEMconnector’s STEM Innovation Task Force and NPower’s TCC Advisory Council. He serves on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Board and Education, Employment & Training Committee, World Economic Forum’s Steering Committee, Vice-Chair of Million Women Mentors (MWM), IMPACT 2030’s Advisory Council, Here2Here’s Business Council and Board of Women’s Business Collaborative.

He was awarded the 2017 Charlie H. Moore Award for Leadership in Corporate Community Engagement by CECP, a CEO-led coalition creating a better world through business, and presented with the Million Women Mentors Male Champion of Change Award.

Balaji is a regular speaker at national forums, presenting a range of topics relating to business, human resources, corporate social responsibility, and the information technology industry. His paradigm ‘Purpose is the New Tech’ has been featured in Purpose 360, Purpose Inc, Common Impact. He is a Postgraduate in Human Resources Management and has a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering.