VDart : Teamwork to make the sustainability dream work
VDart reveals how its Accenture partnership helped align its sustainability vision with a roadmap featuring gender parity and sustainable office design
No matter where you go or what you do , it ’ s impossible to escape the term ‘ sustainability ’. With climate change advancing at a rate more rapid than had been anticipated , ensuring that we work together to restrict and reduce the planet ’ s warming is paramount .
Helping organisations to digitally transform in the face of such drastic circumstances is VDart . Based out of Atlanta , Georgia in the US , VDart is , in the words of its Executive Vice President Rohit Bardaiyar , a “ leader in digital transformation and technology talent management services ”.
“ VDart group as a whole is a 3,700-employee company , and we ’ ve been in business for about 14 years , specialising in talent
management and enterprise modernization services ,” establishes Bardaiyar .
Being a company focused on digital transformation , possessing a clear and actionable sustainability framework is essential . Luckily , 2021 was the year that , under Bardaiyar ’ s leadership , VDart successfully graduated from Accenture ’ s Diverse Supplier Development Program on Sustainability . A five-year pilot programme , it focused on the adoption of “ five major United Nations ’ Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs )”. Following this programme , VDart was in a position to develop its sustainability roadmap and form a framework for ESG adoption .
“ Accenture played a pivotal role in not just helping us establish our sustainability vision , but also in creating a strategic roadmap for the next five years ,” Bardaiyar says . “ They were instrumental in helping us adopt the UN SDGs , even helping us design our newest green offices in India , per Accenture sustainability standards .”
The partnership between VDart and Accenture has included an expansive remit , with focus also being placed on other elements of Environmental , Social , and Governance ( ESG ) considerations , of which diversity , inclusion and equity ( DE & I ) is a core part .
“ Diversity and inclusion is in VDart ’ s DNA ,” Bardaiyar states . “ At the moment , I ’ m proud to say that VDart 52 % of our workforce is made up of women , while 38 % of workers in our company are first generation workers , and 32 % of our spend is with small , diverse companies . That ’ s how we think .”. “ To us ESG is not a nice to have feature , but a critical business imperative ”, he quotes .