From glass ceilings and work-life balance to “leaning in” and office politics, the issues for women leaders continue to stir conversation and controversy. While women are making it to the corner office, the practice still generates headlines. The focus of this unique women’s leadership program is to help women leaders act with power, effectively navigate the workplace and take the lead in driving new strategies and their execution. Do men and women differ in their leadership styles? Are they perceived differently even when they do the same thing? Research shows that the answer is a resounding “yes.” And the implications are significant for women in the workplace, which is exactly why this program for women leaders was created.
This research-driven, career-enhancing experience is designed to provide clarity on style, the way women negotiate and manage teams; it is designed to fundamentally help them challenge assumptions, confront anxiety, and turn obstacles into opportunities. As we facilitate the participants to explore their selves for insights as well as understand how they can leverage their personal and professional networks, we also provide them an opportunity to share experience with other dedicated and influential women leaders who will join as guest speakers. The program brings in perspectives to understand the perceptions, behaviors, stereotypes, and backlash that women uniquely face and then transforms those empirical results into effective workable solutions.
More specifically the program deals with leadership, styles, negotiation, team effectiveness, power and authority relationships, balance, networks, and influence. These are critical, often complex and yet essential — to enhance power, navigate the workplace, and take the lead.
Key Benefits
Transform the way one negotiates and manages teams, and fundamentally transform and enhance the way one leads.
Enhance team effectiveness, leveraging information sharing, and resolving leadership issues.
Understand and interpret the subtle messages of power, recognize and respond for organizational impact despite diverse management styles.
Learn about and leveraging personal authority to influence individuals and groups.
Build a strong personal and professional brand with peers from various industries who face similar challenges and opportunities.
Learn how to challenge assumptions and stereotypes to enable effectiveness at work
Create a winning work – life balance
Who Should Attend
Women leaders with 10 to 20 years of experience in a leadership/managerial role
Executives and functional managers who aspire to positions of greater influence and authority in their organizations.
Women identified as high-potential talent by their organizations
Mid- and senior-level managers who lead teams or have direct reports
Women entrepreneurs and business owners
Women managers who took a career break and would like to return
Program Highlights
Feminine leadership – What does it mean?
Acting with Power | Assumptions and Behavior| Clarity and Confidence | Clarifying your personal style |Developing and managing your personal brand |Building alliances based on trust and reciprocity |Influencing and using personal authority | Managing Conflict and Negotiation| Minimizing gender bias at the workplace |Communication and exemplary leadership |Getting to “yes” collaboratively |Androgynous leadership |Creating a winning balance – Taking care of self-|Leveraging Networks | Taking the lead
Pedagogy- A mix of learning approaches that include experiential exercises, case-based learning, videos, experience sharing by influential industry leaders. In this course, we have the opportunity to step back and think in a big-picture way about our goals, our aspirations, the extent to which we contribute. We would also enable an environment to share and process participant’s unique experiences.
Facilitators – Dr. Mukta Kamplikar, Experts drawn from various industries, influential and successful women entrepreneurs and leaders.
The program is customized and co-created with the client organization and fine-tuned for impact.
We recommend a blended approach – zoom based sessions, face to face sessions interspersed with working group sessions and coaching for women managers.
We recommend a 4–6-month intervention with contact sessions every fortnight , pre and post work for participants for engagement and for the learning to stick.
Program Director – Dr Mukta Kamplikar
Dr Mukta Kamplikar is the Founder and Chief consultant at MUKTA – Liberating Human Potential, a facilitator and a coach working in the areas of Human Capital Development, Organization development, HR Consulting and Talent management.
Prior to starting her own firm in 2017 Mukta has worked for over 20 years in various capacities in Indian and Multinational organizations including Tata Services, Bajaj Auto Ltd., RPG Enterprises, Cummins India Ltd, Tata- Fiat Ltd., and the National Institute of Bank Management. Of her 20 years of work experience, she worked in Marketing and Strategy related roles for about 10 years and then moved to Human resources to follow her passion for unlocking human potential through Recruitment, Leadership and Organization Development, Performance Management and Diversity. Besides a wide range of offerings in the people space (refer to www.muktakamplikar.com), Mukta has created several frameworks and products that could help organizations further their HR and talent agenda.
Mukta holds a master’s degree in business economics, a Ph.D. in Marketing Management (Services marketing) and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship supported by the Commonwealth Nations. Mukta is also an alum of the Wharton School Accelerated Development Program. Being academically inclined and research oriented – Mukta dealt with her operational roles in project focused way and developed several case studies and frameworks (even six sigma projects) during her tenure at Cummins and Bajaj Auto. Mukta headed Business development, Strategy and Marketing for TMTC for 6 years before she moved to head Talent for Tata Fiat the RPG group. She continues to take up sessions at the Indian School of Business and other esteemed B-Schools in the country to ensure engaging with the younger fraternity to gain new perspectives and make a significant contribution to the new breed of leaders. Mukta is certified on several psychometric tools like the MBTI, the FIRO B, the Enneagram, the Saville suite of tools, 360 Profiler, Strong, etc. and has 16 national and international papers to her credit. Mukta is empaneled with Heidrick and Struggles, KPMG as a Leadership Consultant and Coach and partners with Transcend space in the UK and Nasmo in Oman. She is certified on TA 101, the Enneagram, Appreciative Inquiry and is an Associate practitioner of NLP. Mukta is a Great Place to Work Certified Professional as well. She works with multiple clients across India; some salient ones are – Bharat Forge, Exide, Reliance retail, Vistaprint, TACO, Bajaj Finserv, Forbes Marshall, Thermax, Glenmark, Fulflex etc. She also regularly writes on business and leadership related topics for magazines, newsletters and popular dailies that include People Matters, ISABS Here and Now, The Hindu etc. Mukta paints passionately, writes poetry and short stories as well. Her books are available on Amazon Kindle and her art and related merchandise, and hardcovers are available on www.muktakamplikar.net
Academic Credentials
PhD (Marketing Management, Major in Services Marketing) – Thesis title: Study of Customer Satisfaction with regard to telecommunication services of BSNL Devi Ahilya University (DAVV), M.P.
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Association of Management Development Institutions of South Asia – Thesis: Comparative study of service Quality across Public sector banks in 3 SAARC nations. India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka
Accelerated Development Program for Senior Executives, The Wharton School
Master in Business Economics, Major in Marketing Management, Devi Ahilya University (DAVV), Indore, MP, India
Bachelor of Science, Holkar Science College, Indore, MP, India
Certified on psychometric tools and programs – MBTI, FIRO- B, Saville, Strong (CPP), Hogan, The Relationship Management Program based on the New Managerial Grid, Certified Assessor and Centre Manager from Innovative HR Solutions accredited by the British Psychological Society.
Alum of the 10 K Women Entrepreneurs – Goldman Sachs program IIM, Bangalore
Workplace Coaching certification, Singapore – Centre for Creative Leadership
ICF accredited coach – Erickson
Certified on CB5, TA- 101, the Enneagram, Appreciative Inquiry, NLP (Associate Practitioner)
Advanced Certification in Jungian Studies, Jung Centre Ireland
Certified Corporate Director, Institute of Directors – IOD/CCD/2021/5424
Certified Great Place to Work Architect – May 2022
Professional member at ISABS (Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science)
Leadership circle Profile certified
International Exposure and Design Experience
Top 10 Women Leaders from Pune – Women Entrepreneur magazine
