Radical Transformational Leadership with Dr Monica Sharma

Radical Transformational Leadership: What does this imply? Guest Speaker: Srilatha Juvva Transforming higher education to respond to today’s challenges There is a big difference between talking about values and embodying the values we talk about in order to transform unworkable realities. Similarly, there is a difference between ‘teaching’ universal values and ‘embodying’ them. We will discuss the profound humility of BEING open, self-aware, in practice, on a path of life-long learning for everyone, including academicians and others who excel in the subject matter of what they teach. In our workplaces, including academia, we often let our differences rule us rather than our individual and collective greatness. Sourcing our universal values truly binds us deeply -- our inner capacities and universal values is one place where all can connect. This enhances respect for each other and diversity, shaping the way we think and what we do. We will explore how teaching in higher education institutions can apply the conscious full-spectrum approach to enhance theoretical courses as well as field work. Students learn how to design strategies based on universal values such as dignity, equity and compassion in order to make the invisible and subtle patterns of stigma and discrimination, visible; they can make complex systems simple for the service users; they can design initiatives for change. Making this way of learning- and-serving the norm generates measurable change.