Shakti Leadership for a VUCA World

NILIMA BHAT 

In order to navigate the disruptive business scenario and not just survive but thrive, leaders soon realize that they are going to have to make a journey. A journey that requires deep reserves of resilience and inspiring energy. This can only come from tapping into Shakti, the infinite source of power within us that makes us fully present, fuels our creativity and drives change.   Not given freely, it has to be earned, by the heroic capacity in us. 

Shakti-based  Leadership is a coming-of-age quest from one’s untested innocence to masterful maturity. While the ‘heroic journey’ is experienced as deeply personal, the process is completely universal and surprisingly little-known.  Using language and ideas that awaken, inspire and move us, individually and together, Nilima will draw from Joseph Campbell and Maureen Murdock’s work around the mythic Hero/ Heroine’s journey and apply it to modern leadership, business and life. Reframed as a ‘call to adventure’, you will see these testing times as an opportunity for exponential transformation. And receive the road-map, discern the milestones, the destination; and uncover its grand empowering ‘elixirs’, for you as well as your company.

Nilima Bhat, Visionary|Author|Speaker|Facilitator|Coach Conscious Leadership and Integral Health expert, Nilima Bhat is co-author of Shakti Leadership - Embracing Feminine & Masculine Power in Business, with Raj Sisodia (best-selling co-author of Conscious Capitalism) and ‘My Cancer is Me – The journey from Illness to Wholeness’, with Vijay Bhat.    As the founder-director of Roots & Wings, a Leadership Consultancy and Sampurnah, The Wholeness Practice, she facilitates personal transformation, gender reconciliation and diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She has 30 years of global corporate experience and consciousness-based health and growth training.   

Nilima headed Corporate Communications for an ITC Hotel, Philips and ESPN STAR Sports before certifying as a Sivananda yoga teacher and taking up the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. She is also a dancer and choreographer, co-founding a dance company (Sri Shakti) to de-mystify Indian dance and spiritual sciences for international audiences.    She has lived in Germany, Singapore, UK and Hong Kong and has spent the last couple of years between India and the US, serving as guest faculty at the Whole Foods Academy, Austin, Bentley University and Babson College, Boston and Esalen, Big Sur. She is also actively involved with supporting the Conscious Capitalism Movement, WIN (Women’s International Network) and is on the board of Peace Through Commerce and MixR.
Her client base includes multinational organizations like Tata Consultancy Services, Etsy, Societe Generale Bank, Microsoft, Vodafone and YPO groups.  
Nilima is currently focused on building the Shakti Fellowship jointly certified with University of San Diego’s Conscious Leadership Academy; a 9-month Program developing a global network of conscious women leaders and entrepreneurs who collaborate to create peace, prosperity, and beauty through the exchange of multiple