Women Are The Perfect Leaders for Today - Building Gender Balanced Business

“No matter what we do, we are heading to a new world. Strong social and technological drivers are undeniable and unstoppable. Let’s take advantage of the situation…”

We need to replace the old paradigms with new ones.

The New Ideas

• Interdependence: When our identity is based on who we are, we tap into our true potential. Subsequently we become interdependent, we are able to give and accept help. Then the community of trust starts to thrive.
• Cyclical view: The world is more chaotic than stable. Order is a temporary holding pattern. Chaos cannot be controlled or eliminated. To accept chaos is empowering. It is like accepting the wind. Once we do that, we can sail. We need to read the moment and adapt to it.
• Art of possibility: When we stop seeing life as a competition, tremendous abundance emerges. When we play for joy, competition is dead while creativity and uniqueness are born.

How we will get there?
To adopt these new paradigms, we need to move to a world of personal responsibility, in which we are all choosing for ourselves what is right, not what is convenient. In order to make this transition we need guidance and support. We need leaders who build interdependency, acknowledge the value of self and the value of others, promote trust, respect, collaboration and differences, build the cyclical view, accept chaos as the rule, promote an organic and long-term view, stop competing and start playing, and promote joy and creativity.

Why Women Are Natural Leaders for These Times
Some of the traits that make women the perfect leaders in this transition era are:

• Good at improvising
• Network thinkers
• Appreciate and use intuition
• Can cope with uncertainty
• Empower others
• Understand and develop relationships

There are millions of people who are beginning to do what they know is right. But in order to build critical mass we need more and more female leadership all over the world.

Blanca L. Vergara MBA is an executive and life coach and business consultant. Blanca helps companies to re-energize high-potential women and empower them further into management, top management and executive levels. Her service model synthesizes broad material mainly from Positive Psychology theory and Executive Coaching best practices. Her practical knowledge of business is supported with an MBA from Rotterdam’s School of Management and a coaching certificate from the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, California. She is a frequent speaker on personal and professional development, on women, on leadership, on living purposeful careers and lives. For more information go to Blanca’s website Your Looking Glass