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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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ENCORE: Shomita Kundu, Building Responsible Businesses through Sustainability Leadership

We invite you to a discussion with Shomita Kundu. Shomita is a Social Impact Strategy and Sustainability Leadership professional. She is committed to fostering Freedom for All through responsible and prosperous entrepreneurial initiatives – free from disempowering cultural norms around race, caste, class, gender, religion and region.

We will share many examples that are relevant world-wide. Shomita brought in Universal Values-based Design and Measurement to distinguish process-oriented social change from a banking or technology product development life cycle – one that accounts for changes in inequitable behaviours and social norms, in addition to regular financial profits and other ‘numbers only’ reporting, quite prevalent in banking ‘CSR funded projects’. In her engagement with social entrepreneurship education and incubation institutes, she uses the templates (such as the conscious full-spectrum response) and tools from Radical transformational Leadership (RTL) methodologies, looking at what individual’s deeply care about, their Stand and “what’s present” instead of starting to create “solutions” using the “problem-solving” or “fixing what’s not working” approach. She creates spaces to inquire deeper into the root factors of the issue of what’s not working, rather than only fixing immediate apparent causes, thereby, creating informed Conscious Full-Spectrum Responses than partial quick-fix techniques.

Shomita will share examples of organizing donor visits differently. Integrating the Universal Values into the core strategy of a large business and actively practicing it across functions and locations is a tangible method of moving towards making silo’ed business operations Responsible that then move towards Stewardship.

While working in entrepreneurship incubation and sustainability leadership, Shomita held conversations with donors and funders, and recognized a growing need to create spaces and examples of how funding and receiving can be an equitable dignified exchange of experiences and learning. Shomita says “Design tools and templates of RTL that help me make routine events transformational, enables me to address hierarchy in the donor/aid processes and foster Agency amongst the recipients of funds: Conscious Reciprocity”.

These easy to use tools address complex issues and enable diverse individuals and groups to design together and simultaneously keeping in perspective the future they wish to create, the inequitable morns and systems they would change and the immediate strategies of engaging to make it all happen.

It is our choice: we have a set of tools and templates a language, tested across cultures and contexts, that brings people together focusing on what they care about to be able to embrace different social, professional and personality profiles like religion, caste, gender, class, and hierarchy, to work towards common goals. Let’s choose to make the difference we have the potential for!

Bio: Shomita is a Social Impact Strategy and Sustainability Leadership professional. She is committed to fostering Freedom for All through responsible and prosperous entrepreneurial initiatives – free from disempowering cultural norms around race, caste, class, gender, religion and region.

She works with government, corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes, consulting firms and nonprofits in designing entrepreneurship incubation and capacity building programmes. Through the principles of RTL like Conscious Reciprocity, she is enabling consulting and philanthropic organisations measure differently and thus engage Equitably and with Dignity with their partner and funded organisations. Using the principles of RTL and entrepreneurial education, she works with socially and economically marginalised communities to practise Agency and Equity in setting up their own entrepreneurial ventures using locally available resources. She has trained and coached enterprises in the areas of sustainable agroforestry, renewable energy access, coastal livelihoods, business education, CSR and non-profit management.

As a Sustainability Leadership Professional, she enables individuals and businesses incorporate Human Rights and Ecological Stewardship explicitly into their organisation’s vision, core strategy and financial decision-making. Thus bringing Integrity in action across their internal and external operations.

Apart from these, Shomita also engages with incubators and academic institutions in streamlining social entrepreneurship education to focus on articulating the deep-rooted systemic socio-economic challenges not just the superficially apparent issues, through practical implementable courses and live projects. And then designing effective entrepreneurial ventures based on hands-on doing, insight and incorporating feedback to refine their design and delivery.

She was formally educated in engineering and social entrepreneurship.
Shomitakundu@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….