Feminine Leadership in
a Changing World
~ Gwilda Wiyaka ~
Women have been put into a position of either
accepting “traditional” roles in the workplace, such as admin assistant, medical
assistant, and so on (the key word being “assistant”), or donning a “power suit”
and competing in the masculine work place.
This is not to indicate there is anything wrong with
either approach, but the times are changing. Both men and women are being surplused
at an alarming rate by algorhythms and computers that can do the good o’l left
brain functions much better than a human –
without the paycheck, health insurance, retirement, paid vacation and
overtime compensation.
What are we overlooking when we limit the true
feminine expression in the workplace? Can empowering women to bring heart
centered, feminine leadership into the current landscape of rapid and
disruptive change offer heretofore overlooked solutions? What is true feminine
leadership?
Our guest this hour, Heather McGowan, may have some innovative
ideas on the topic. Heather is an innovation strategist, internationally known
speaker, thought leader and author of “Disrupt Together: How
Teams Consistently Innovate.” McGowan prepares leaders to most-effectively
react to rapid and disruptive changes in education, work, and society.
Recognizing that business innovation begins with education, specifically
learning faster than your competition, she has worked with university
presidents and corporations to prepare their people for jobs that do not yet
exist. She was the strategic architect of the Kanbar College of Design,
Engineering, and Commerce at Philadelphia University, the first undergraduate
college explicitly focused on innovation. At Becker College, she crafted the
Agile Mindset learning framework, used to prepare students to work in an
uncertain future.
Her website: future-is-learning.com
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