When I think of empowered women, I think of my maternal grandmother. She herself, as many of her generation, had minimum education (she had only passed the 5th standard). However, she encouraged her daughters to get a solid education. My Mom was a lawyer who quit practicing after a few years of her marriage. My […]

According to Joan C. Williams, Distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law and co-author of “What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know” it will take 250 years at the present rate of change to have an equal no of male and female CEO […]

I recently conducted an informal survey asking my friends and colleagues both men and women if they had experienced or witnessed someone experiencing gender bias…most people said no. When probed further most of the women and men (after being explained the 4 patterns of gender bias) could come up with so many examples. Some of […]

“Women Lead – Leadership Workshop for Young Women Leaders” was conceptualised to provide young women leaders with strategies that work for women in leadership. As a team, when we conceptualised this workshop it was because we realised that most workshops we conducted on leadership which we thought were gender neutral were actually not gender neutral. […]

At lot is being said about the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) environment and it is clear that the winners in such environments are those who are extremely agile and can anticipate key trends and ride them. This is true for organisations as well as individuals. At the Individual level, #learning agility and continuous […]

Today I once again witnessed “Whatsapp drama” in a professional group I am part of…Interestingly a group of L&D professionals because that it my community. Someone posted a post that was deemed frivolous… it was followed by public censure…followed by some members quitting and some being asked to leave. The rest of the members were […]

A conclave on #change management, “Parivartan Ek Nayi Disha”. A confluence of ideas, perspectives and experiences and many luminaries & the unenviable role of giving a vote of thanks. My first thought was, “OMG! I will have to really listen.” The fact is that many conclaves have nothing really exciting to listen to. But then […]

Personal branding is a mantra we hear so much off these days so we decided to get the inside story of how senior professionals manage the vexing activity of branding themselves. Lovely Kumar, Director Larks Learning & Co-Founder WomenLead It truly is the age of branding. And I imbibed that early in my career (I […]