Aparna Mittal is a leading Equality, Diversity & Inclusion  Advisor, and corporate lawyer with over 17 years of experience. She is the Founder of Samāna Centre for Gender, Policy and Law, India’s leading consultancy, focused on equality and inclusion for all segments of diversity, and with a specialization on gender and LGBTQ inclusion; and brings a unique perspective of multi themed advisory work spanning across impact investing and ESG; entrepreneurship development; financial empowerment; workplace diversity, equity and inclusion; gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in projects and policy; gender mainstreaming in philanthropy & CSR; and anti discrimination and anti harassment (including anti sexual harassment) frameworks. Prior to setting up Samāna in 2018, she was Partner – Corporate Law/ Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Joint Ventures, with India’s leading Tier I corporate law firms, where she worked for over 13 years, and has been recognized by international publications as a recommended advisor in these areas. In this Podcast we covered Aparna's experience at NLSIU (BALLB Hons graduate 2005), decade plus experience at Tier 1 law firms where she was a Partner, and her entrepreneurship journey with Samāna . We also learnt Aparna's views on handling peer pressure, multiple skills lawyers need for today's world especially to be multi faceted professionals, and the important of using the law school experience to forge your unique identity as a professional.