Episode 22: Culture is Infrastructure, Not a Checkbox!

Description: We treat Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as a compliance exercise—a set of optics to be managed in annual reports and strategy decks. But while the language of inclusion has become familiar, trust in our institutions is at an all-time low.

In this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar, Dr. Tabish Zaman is joined by Sunaina Kohli, a Global Inclusion Strategist who has lived and worked across six countries and four continents. Sunaina challenges the standard DEI narrative, reframing culture not as a benefit, but as the essential infrastructure of any sustainable organization.

Together, they discuss the Zulu philosophy of Ubuntu ("I am because you ...