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Poonam
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Founder Convener
Forum for Women in
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Sangeeta Singh
Executive Director
HR, KPMG |
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The
inspiration for balanced
leadership – is that it
gives space and bandwidth
for creating an eco-system
that promises to produce
quality decisions within an
open and diverse
environment. Balanced
Leadership will be sharply
sensitive to business risk,
strategic innovation, and
harnessing the best talents
within the organization for
responding to future markets
for excellence in business
and stakeholder wealth
creation.
The WILL
Forum initiated the dialogue
and discussion on
“Redefining Balanced
Leadership for Corporate
India” at the 11th WILL
Forum meeting, hosted by GE
India – and it was most
enlightening to find the
high level of maturity
within the senior women on
how they view the concept of
equality in the workplace as
a critical component of good
governance, innovative
leadership, and an open
cultural environment in the
organization –and not as
gender-specific issue.
The women
leader also collectively
felt that the current state
of leadership in corporate
India is in a state of
imbalance, and there is a
critical need to pioneer
ways to improve gender
equity—particularly in
corporate boardrooms and
top-management positions,
for better decision making
and strategic overview of
company performance and
rewards to stakeholders.
This has
led to the WILL-KPMG Report
and survey, which has fully
substantiated – without
doubt – that corporate India
agrees that women will bring
greater strategic vision,
ethics and integrity,
customer orientation,
quality decision making,
talent development, resource
optimization, and risk
management to the
top-management of companies.
The WILL-KPMG Report also
fully dismantles the
stereotypes of women only
being recognized for
bringing greater “softer”
competencies to
organizations – like
collaboration,
team-building, multitasking,
flexibility, and related
lateral areas.
It is
time for corporate India to
show the courage and
fortitude to overcome years
of disregard to the
potential of women
executives, and join the
nation in investing in women
and presenting an equal
opportunity environment for
driving economic change at
corporate decision-making
levels.
Talent is
universal – opportunity is
not. Let us make way for a
smarter, caring and more
progressive planet. |
