Mastering Paradoxes: Reimagining and Reframing Inclusive Leadership
This session takes you beyond policies, compliance, quotas and metrics to a place where we can reimagine and reframe inclusion and how to truly develop inclusive leaders. Leveraging research on great leaders, the science of human nature, and his research from Columbia University, Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa will show how the breakthrough in inclusion comes when we can open leaders’ hearts and inspire them to bring out the full potential in themselves and their people. The journey will move beyond conventional approaches to diversity and inclusion that tend to limit personal and organizational growth and share insights on how to resolve five key paradoxes of Inclusion that every organization faces.
Learning Objectives:
- Can inclusion help both to dissolve boundaries and affirm individual differences?
- Can we practice inclusion without compromising speed, quality, and ownership?
- Can we be inclusive while still nurturing our high potentials?
- Can we create a comfortable environment to discuss uncomfortable topics?
- Can a business stay exclusive while becoming inclusive?
Hitendra Wadhwa
Hitendra Wadhwa is Professor of Practice at Columbia Business School, where he teaches the most popular MBA leadership elective, Personal Leadership & Success. He is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the MAC Award for the Most Dynamic and Engaging Professor.
Hitendra’s mission is to codify and teach scientific principles of success in life and leadership. With a Ph.D. in Management Science from MIT and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, Hitendra brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, human potential, and more. His widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership have been covered by Inc., Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal.
Hitendra is the founder of Mentora Institute, which is at the forefront of creating a new model of leadership for the 21st century where executives achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through ever- deepening Inner Mastery. Through its digital learning platform, Mentora has created a pocket “flight simulator” for leadership that helps learners gain mastery in a wide range of leadership skills through MicroPracticeTM. His clients include Accenture, SAP, Pfizer, Tata Group, Ericsson, GE, Kraft Heinz, Siemens, a Big-4 Accounting Firm and Morgan Stanley.
In the past, Hitendra was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up, Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire.