Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

Location

Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, 102

Free

Join us for an author talk and conversation with Nilima Bhat on her new book Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business. Bhat is the founder-director of Sampurnah and coauthor of My Cancer Is Me: The Journey from Illness to Wholeness. She writes Shakti Speaks, a column on women’s concerns and gender relations initiated by DNA, a national daily in India. Her work is centered on conscious leadership, women’s empowerment, integral yoga, and spiritual guidance.

Shakti Leadership: Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business

Too many people, men and women alike, have bought into a notion of leadership that exclusively emphasizes traditionally “masculine” qualities: hierarchical, militaristic, win-at-all-costs. The result has been corruption, environmental degradation, social breakdown, stress, depression, and a host of other serious problems. Nilima Bhat and Raj Sisodia show us a more balanced way, an archetype of leadership that is generative, cooperative, creative, inclusive, and empathetic. While these are traditionally regarded as “feminine” qualities, we all have them. In the Indian yogic tradition they're symbolized by Shakti, the source that powers all life.

Through exercises and inspirational examples, Bhat and Sisodia show how to access this infinite energy and lead with your whole self. Male or female, leaders who understand and practice Shakti Leadership act from a consciousness of life-giving caring, creativity, and sustainability to achieve self-mastery internally and be of selfless service to the world.
“As transformative as it is simple, mapping out a new definition of leadership that elevates qualities and abilities traditionally considered feminine—with benefits for women and men alike.”
—Arianna Huffington, President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group

“This book will help liberate the heroic entrepreneurial drive innate to men and women of every culture.”
—John Mackey, cofounder and Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market