Why do women feel a slump in their confidence whilst storytelling and what can they do about it? In 2019, I walked into a boardroom meeting with three men waiting for me to take them through what I had planned to solve their team's communication challenge. As soon as I saw the dynamics in the room, I knew that I am going to face some challenges today and that awareness really helped me navigate...
Storytelling for women in a boardroom is a hard, we all know that already but what is the solution? We share a strategy to overcome this challenge in this blog. Mita Mallick, who is now the Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta shared an opinion during an online meeting but her voice was drowned out. "I'm interrupted, like, three times and then I try to speak again and then two other...
Today, if you host a panel discussion and not have women on the panel, be sure that you will be trolled for that. The deeper understanding of how this pressure is not really helping can be understood with the story of a leaders from a large MNCs. In 2019, I asked a client of mine why, when most of their competitors were talking about smart initiatives, they were talking about gender diversity...
In my upcoming book Storied, I have written a little bit about communication challenges specific to women in workforce . In this short read I share one of them, a self inflicted issue which secretively transforms itself in to a roadblock to women's stories being told. Despite being aware of this issue, I am a victim too. Let's begin with me. August 2019, Japan, I was starting a new project. I was...
Knowledge is useless, the problem is that knowledge is not understanding. Storytelling is a great tool to shift knowledge in to understanding. In this blog I share how despite having access to so much knowledge we are unable to retain women in workforce. Knowledge is something that you accumulate through learning. Understanding is something that you know because you have lived through it, direct...
The theme for this year's International Women's Day, is "Women in leadership, achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world." Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and UN Women's Executive Director Phumsile Mlambo-Ngcuka's statement called out the sobering reality that COVID-19 has taken a disproportionate toll on women world-wide, from poverty to violence to a disproportionate share of...