This article is part of our series showcasing Leaders with Grit and Grace “To me, leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge, or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there.” What picture comes to mind if you were asked to imagine the person who is running for the title of the Most Effective Leader on the planet today? I bet the image is definitely not that of a young forty-year ol

This article is part of our series showcasing Leaders with Grit and Grace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who the world remembers as a U.S. Supreme Court justice and the second woman ever to be appointed to the position, was so much more. A judge, an academician, an author, an influencer, a mother – are just some of the many hats she wore. At just over 5 feet tall, Ms. Ginsburg was considered a giant in the legal world. RBG earned her bachelor’s degree at Cornell University and started

TalentNomics India’s 5th Annual Leadership Conference, themed “Leading with Grit and Grace” was held on November 5th and 6th, 2020. This was our first virtual conference and we hosted this jointly with our partner Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). There were more than 20 speakers from around the World and the event was attended by 500 Indian and International participants. We at TalentNomics India are overwhelmed at the outstanding response to our Conference The conference has

Ipsita Kathuria, Founder and CEO, TalentNomics India shares a heartfelt account of her personal and professional journey to this day I am 5 years into leaving my well-paying, respected, and comfortable job in the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, and starting a not for profit across many oceans – in India. That’s the same year I became a grandmother and my attraction to spend time with the little one who lived in the US was very strong. So, I travelled between co

Cathy Cardona has over 30 years of corporate human resources management and consulting experience, working in multi-cultural environments with global clients from over 188 countries at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank and the African Development Bank. She has advised senior leaders of these organizations on a broad range of issues, including the design and implementation of organizational change management initiatives, lead

Radha Mukherji is the Founder and CEO of Shero Consulting. She is a CFI certified CEO Coach and offers coaching and mentoring services to senior professionals and entrepreneurs to help transform effective managers to inspirational leaders. Radha has a special interest in coaching and mentoring women professionals to help them in turn, become role models for other women. Radha taps into lessons learnt over her own rich corporate experience of 40 years, most of it in advertisin

A key part of TalentNomics India’s CruciBOLD program is giving forward, what we call CruciBOLD Ripple. The program is conducted in partnership with the Professional Language School run by VFF-RDT in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. In this module, high potential women leaders get to mentor a young professional from the RDT school. We spoke to Ripple participant Nikita Singla, the first volunteer of TalentNomics India since its inception and now Associate Director at BRIEF (Bureau o

Smita Mohanty Co-Leads the Human Resource Development Unit at Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN). PRADAN is a Civil Society Organisation that focuses on grassroots development with disadvantaged communities, specifically women. PRADAN has initiated exemplary diversity and inclusion policies, and they also recently conducted TalentNomics India’s Perception Survey of Employees to Understand How Women Friendly is their Workplace. Following is an excerpt of

“Visionary men have long been public champions and behind the scenes dealmakers for the cause of women’s inclusion. Today we need them more than ever.” Ambassador Melanne Verveer The concept of “Men as Allies” has become a new “mantra” in gender diversity initiatives in corporate and societal contexts. The necessity of garnering the support of men is now rightly seen as a vital component of solving the diversity challenges of organisations and in facilitating the growth of w

What Leadership styles are working and what would be required during and post Covid19 to successfully navigate ourselves, our families, our teams and our organizations? Women leaders have proven to be the better crisis managers than their male counterparts during the global Corona virus outbreak. The actions of female leaders in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Germany and Taiwan are showing the way for a better and sustainable world.