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Radical Transformational Leadership with Dr. Monica Sharma

The Show invites everyone to engage in creating a new reality that is equitable and prosperous. We learn about new ways to source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values of dignity, compassion and fairness; and at the same time,   transform unworkable systems and norms in order to solve problems. We will deconstruct fallacies that societies continue to promote related to self and the world around us that leads to complacency and non-action. This is a radical new approach to transformational leadership. Using examples from around the world, we will see how everyone has the potential to be a leader–a person who creates a new future through actions in society, at home, and at work. This program is not useful for those who are satisfied with the world as it is today. This program for people who have questions. It encourages us   to question the status quo, ask relevant questions, generate insights and act in order to establish universal equity and dignity. www.radicallytransform.org

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Radical Transformational Leadership: What does this imply? Guest Speaker: Muthu Kumaran

The human aspect in trans-disciplinary approaches for transformative results

We invite you to a discussion with Muthu Kumaran, a person who dons multiple professional hats and works with children, youth and women, fostering their agency with underlying values of dignity, empathy and fairness. Currently he is the Programme Lead for the ‘Girls in STEM’ portfolio at Feminist Approach to Technology and Geo-spatial Consultant with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. He has a B.E. Civil Engineering & M.Tech Remote Sensing and M.A. Globalisation and Labour from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India.

Muthu and I will discuss how transdisciplinary education programs and learning dismantles the artificial boundaries and barriers, professionals and experts may have created, unknowingly or intentionally, by breaking the power politics through technology. What does it mean to democratize science & technology, AND always with a human touch, based on universal values. He integrates technology, eg spatial technologies like Cartography, Geographical Information System, within a social science environment through an universal value-based approach.

Muthu will share examples from different settings— a village in the remote Himalayas, in coastal areas, in Urban Delhi, in rural India–of how he created enabling environments by fostering agency, among children, youth and women. He worked with them to be the change agents who are value based and self reflective. He applied transformational templates and tools such as, the Conscious Full Spectrum Response template where, self; system and solutions are aligned based on universal values, to create, equitable and sustained actions and results.

Muthu says “The current world systems are filled with many challenging issues; and we all have a choice to work to address them in ways that are fully transformational; and we have the principles, templates and tools to do so. What’s important is, that our thoughts, actions and results must be imbued with. the deep human aspects of universal values, at all times and all places”

We emphasize that the solutions to our problems should not be only technology based, but use technologies along with shifting unworkable systems based on universal values. Both experts and community members can together use, science and technology to address issues, when science and technologies are demystified.

Most importantly, Each one of us, have the potential and possibilities to generate equitable change in this world – what matters is our choice to do so.

Bio: Muthu Kumaran, a Civil Engineer by education, a Development Professional by choice, a Cartographer by profession and a Leadership Practitioner Coach by practice. After his Civil Engineering, he earned his M.Tech in Remote Sensing and later, M.A. in Globalisation and Labour from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) where he had first hand professional experience in societal studies and developmental practices. From here, he started working extensively in social and ecological initiatives across India and currently engaged with trans-disciplinary educational practices. He loves working with children and youth especially to foster their agency and leadership and also likes to volunteer with value based initiatives. He designs and delivers initiatives integrating science and technology as well as critical cartography with social sciences; and engages in various projects with multiple stakeholders in the domains of education, ecology, labour and disaster management across India.

He is also a consultant and leadership practitioner coach for the past 7 years for various projects across India in the domains of disaster relief and recovery, education, environment, gender, Geographic Information System and fostering leadership. He is been involved in many aspects of Organisational Development (OD), policy making, Project Planning and Management (PPM) and with multiple stakeholders from the community to the government. Currently, he is a consultant and Lead person for the ‘Girls in STEM portfolio’ for Feminist Approach to Technology, where he supports, mentors and coaches the team of young women with technological and managerial skills and competencies. He is an Asian fellow of Asia Centre, Japan Foundation for creative disaster and environmental education working on inclusive and community centred disaster management. He strongly believes in lifelong learning and always eager to learn, de-learn and relearn as part of the commitment to actions and results for change. He is very passionate in working with the vulnerable and marginalised communities of the society, be it from the remote areas or from conflict environments or those who are disadvantaged based on socio-economic and cultural prejudices. He stands for the universal values of agency, empathy, equity and dignity for himself and all.

Muthu Kumaran T consmuthu@gmail.com

Learn more about Dr. Monica here: www.radicallytransform.org

BIO: Monica Sharma ‘Development’ of the individual and the collective is being redefined by her, to include the further reaches of the human and cultural capabilities,  to discover a deeper balance between humanity and nature, our intellect and emotion, our inner and outer worlds, and to foster its expression through many programmes world-wide in society as well as organizations.

Monica Sharma, trained as a physician and epidemiologist, worked for the United Nations since 1988 for 22 years. She is the author of the book “Radical Transformational Leadership” which has been describes as a path-breaking classic by eminent scholars. Currently, she engages worldwide as an International Expert and Practitioner on Leadership Development for sustainable and equitable change.  She works with United Nations, Universities, Management Institutions, governments, business, media and civil society organizations. She is the Tata Chair Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.

As a practitioner, her proven track record of generating measurable results at scale, as well as enhancing leadership on every continent, is unique. She brings this experience and capability to all her work. She designs and facilitates programmes for whole systems transformation and leadership development in both developed and developing countries. Using cutting–edge transformational approaches and methodologies,   the purpose is to achieve measurable and sustainable change in development, business and peace. She fosters results-oriented partnerships with governments, civil society, business, media and United Nations. She also designs and implements workshops – “learning –in-action programmes” – with both business and non-profit organizations on different aspects of Leadership Development for Equitable and Sustainable Change. She engages with over 20 organizations, mostly global.

Formerly, as Director of Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations, she designed and facilitated programmes for whole systems transformation and leadership development around the world with a focus on the 50 least developed countries, with measurable results.

Monica Sharma designed and directed large programmes globally, and lived and worked extensively in both developing and developed countries – in Africa, Asia, Arab States, Eastern Europe, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America. For example, she developed and implemented transformational leadership programmes in 40 countries generating multiple innovations and large-scale results impacting 4.5 million directly and another 130 million in the context of HIV AIDS as the global Director of the HIV/AIDS programme of United Nations Development Programme. She pioneered the strategy for “whole systems transformation” for reducing maternal mortality in South Asia, addressing women’s rights and leadership at all levels. She led teams for policy formulation, strategic direction and programme development in 60 countries, building multi-stakeholders partnerships with governments, media, civil society and business.

She has published and presented over 250 articles in journals and international forums.

Monica Sharma created and uses a unique response model based on extensive application –a conscious full-spectrum model- which simultaneously in time solves problems, shifts systems and creates new patterns sourced from individual inner capacity and transformational leadership.  This model has generated sustainable results worldwide. In her recent book ‘Radical Transformational Leadership ‘ she describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness and courage. Everyone has the potential to be a leader–a person who creates a new future–through action in society, at home and at work. This book lays out a detailed plan for unleashing our human potential to create a new future through strategic action.

She fosters emerging leaders world-wide – proactively seeking out potential leaders, unleashing their power of effective creativity, enabling them to manifest their full potential. These leaders recognize the invisible, multiple patterns and systems that shape societal and planetary situations and actions; they distinguish, design and deliver actions sourced from self-awareness and empathy; manifest sustainable and equitable change, creating new patterns as they solve problems.

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Winner of the Gold Nautilus Book Award 2017 for ‘Business and Leadership!

Monica Sharma describes how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values such as dignity, compassion, fairness, and courage. Drawing on more than twenty years of work for the United Nations and elsewhere, she presents a radical new approach to transformational leadership, one that creates systems of change where everyone can engage—not just analysts and policy-makers. Demonstrating that we all can be architects of a new humanity, Monica demystifies policy-making, planning, and implementation so that everyone can play an informed and strategic part in eradicating the world’s most intractable problems….