10817: Gandhi’s Legacy: Ethical Leadership to Address Indignity

Unethical behavior in business, resulting in loss of dignity for employees and teams, increasingly calls for higher levels of consciousness, reflection and action. Furthermore, to satisfy the search for lasting solutions to our society’s current problems, we see growing interest in alternative philosophies and ethical systems (Marques, 2012). From this standpoint, this workshop, developing since 2020, seeks to discover and explore a model of singular consciousness (Gautier, Voynnet-Fourboul, 2019) that provides the means to decrypt one’s singularity scenario (Mathieu & Monneyron, 2015). After modeling the leadership of a world-renowned entrepreneur in the 2021 PDW, examine the element of consciousness from a Buddhist perspective in the 2022 PDW. In 2024 the edition sought to deepen the spiritual component of individuals’ singularity process dealing with discrimination and the refusal of otherness, by using Nelson Mandela’s model. The 2025 edition leverages Gandhi's model to address situations of injustice where individuals' dignity is denied. It focuses on contexts where people are demeaned, ignored, or rendered invisible, lacking opportunities to express themselves or contribute (e.g., absence of recognition at work, rigid hierarchies) (Graeber, 2018). This workshop can be useful for students, teachers, researchers, consultants and practitioners who are considering a transdisciplinary approach to human well-being in personal and professional environments.