Sunita has 25 years of rich working experience with the Tata Group. She started her career as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and joined Tata Steel in 1988 where she worked in various capacities. In 2004, she successfully took up the challenging task of setting up the legal department of Jamshedpur Utilities and Companies Ltd (Jusco) a Tata Enterprise and 100% subsidiary of Tata Steel where she headed the legal function as DGM (Legal), for ten years.

She was chairperson of Internal Complaints Committee of Jusco for Prevention of Sexual Harassment for ten years and brought several cases to successful conclusion.

She conducts statutorily mandatory workshops on awareness of Sexual Harassment for employees including senior management and orientation program for Internal Complaints Committee members on the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. In these highly interactive workshops, she combines her unique combination of legal knowledge, deep interest in gender issues with practical experience.

She has conducted more than 370 such workshops among others for World Bank, XISS Ranchi , XLRI Jamshedpur, Confederation of Indian Industries(CII), Delhi Management Association, Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Delhi University, National Skill Development Corporation, Vistara Airlines, Tata Consultancy Services , Tata Motors, Tata international, Tata Power, Tata Technologies, Tata Sponge, Tata Blue Scope, Tata Robins Fraser, Tata Metaliks, Tata Steel Processing and Distribution Ltd , mjunction, Jamipol, , Rockman (A Hero Group Company), Essel Group, ICRA Online, The Union, Population Services of India, Dupont, Jindal Stainless Ltd, Jayaswal Neco, Vista Print, Cummins India, Balco Medical Center( Vedanta Group), Transformance business media, Orient Cement (A CK Birla Group Company), BMW Ventures Patna, ICRA Management Consulting Solutions, Care India, International Mineral Resources, Orient Craft, Steel Authority of India Bokaro Steel Plant, Government of Jharkhand Welfare Department, Naropa Foundation, Vedica Scholars Academy, Brookings India, Sembcorp renewable energy, Jaipuria schools, Deepak Fertilizers, Indian Oil Corporation, AppDirect, TMILL, Reliance Industries, Cyient Technologies etc. In her public workshops several industries from public and private sectors, law firms, hospitals, academic institutions, Defense services etc have been participating. She is regularly invited to conduct MDP programs for IIM Lucknow Noida Campus.

Under Sunita’s leadership, Full Circle has been selected for Empanelment by Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India to provide Training on the Law of Sexual Harassment at Workplace. She also does gender sensitization in the organizations across levels. She is advising several Tata, non -Tata organizations. She was also invited by the Government of India to give suggestions on how the law on Prevention of Sexual Harassment can be made stronger. She was invited to read a paper on ‘How to prevent Sexual Harassment at workplaces in India’ in the World Women Congress 2014 at Hyderabad.

She is passionately committed to the cause of Inclusion of Gender Inclusivity and Women Leadership and has taken several sessions in schools, clubs and Corporate India. She has been researching, speaking and writing in this space for last several years. Her contributions in this area among others are:

She is Founder chair-person of juscowomen@work where women officers are groomed for leadership roles through individual and group mentoring. 

She has been awarded India Achievers award 2021-22, one of the most coveted awards recognizing achievements since 2000, in recognition of her outstanding professional achievement and contribution in nation building She is also recipient of the Woman of the Year National award 2017 for her extraordinary contribution in the area of changing the mindsets through her work on Prevention of Sexual Harassment, Women Leadership, Second career and Gender sensitization. She has been a member of the Mentoring Council and the Governing Board of WILL Forum and is recipient of the “WILL Women Choice National award” 2010.

She has been personally mentoring a number of senior women in and out of Tata Group. She is also encouraging CEO’s of different companies to mentor women and introduce best practices in their companies to create an ecosystem where all employees can work with respect for each other resulting into better productivity through gender sensitization talks. Sunita is also part of Industrial Mentorship Program of New Delhi Institute of Management and is mentoring several students there to get them ready for the corporate world.

Sunita was Invited by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the 50 most influential management Gurus in the world, to become Senior Research Advisor and India Director for the “Center for Talent Innovation’s Task Force- “Hidden Brain Drain” New York consisting of more than 80 companies” across the world.

Her story has been published by Harvard Business Press in the book, “Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets” authored by Sylvia and Ripa Rashid.

She has been a Guest faculty at XLRI , Jamshedpur for their Management Development Program on “Diversity Inclusion”. She has addressed global MBA students on XLRI’s invitation on the Women in Corporate world- An Indian Perspective.

She has published a Case study for IIM Ahemadabad’s book called “New Paradigms For Gender Inclusivity: Theory And Best Practices,”on Tata Group’s Second Career Internship program (SCIP).

As a role model for women looking for a second career opportunity, her story as an inspiring woman leader has been put up by Tata Group on the SCIP’s Facebook page for making a successful comeback to the professional corporate world after a long break of 12 years.

Sunita is also a certified Corporate Director by Institute of Directors.

On professional and Academic front, she has served as a Director on the Board of Tata Construction and Projects Ltd and has been a visiting faculty for business laws of IMT Ghaziabad MBA students. She led new initiatives in Tata Steel like founding the Brand Protection Task Force. She was a member of CII – national committee of Intellectual Property Owners for nine years.

She has recently been appointed as an independent Director on the board of Earthhood Services Ltd, specialist in carbon verification for environment management.

Sunita is also a TEDx speaker.She was invited to speak at TEDx Bistupur event to speak on “𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞,”

Sunita’s work can be viewed at fullcircle.net.in