16489: Practices for Purposeful Partnerships: A Women’s Wisdom Circle

Sunday, July 27, 2025

11:30 - 13:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall C- C3-m1

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/yKAjPk

Organizer(s)

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Jyoti Bachani

Saint Mary's College of California, United States

Distinguished Speaker(s)

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Neharika Vohra

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
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Vasanthi Srinivasan

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
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Ramya Tarakad Venkateswaran

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
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Tanuja Sharma

MDI, Gurgaon, India, India
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Stacie Chappell

Stacie Chappell Consulting, Canada
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Kathryn Goldman Schuyler

Alliant International University - San Francisco, United States
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Jyoti Bachani

Saint Mary's College of California, United States

This PDW brings together women leaders in academia from different countries to share their personal experiences of navigating their careers in institutions designed mostly by men. In prior Women’s Wisdom circles at AOM and affiliated conferences, we discovered how these systems naturally privilege the masculine within us, and are, inadvertently, oppressive to the feminine. In a healing circle, we uncovered several practices women adopted and invented to thrive and sometimes just to survive, the institutionalized norms. Our goal is to call attention to the dominance based systems and shift these towards more equitable partnership based institution building where power is re-distributed to also enable and promote the feminine within each one of us (Eisler). With brave personal accounts we identify systemic toxic masculinity, such as needless competition or excessive focus on growth and profits—even at the cost of sustainable effectiveness and well-being for all. This PDW is a part of co-creating a shift towards partnership practices with a call to action for collaborative and compassionate systems that care for the feminine, to continue to move away from dominance based systems. The speakers and audience will interact in a dialog about systems change towards more humane ways of organizing the economic, social and cultural lives in different contexts. Our collective aspirations as a community and action plans for it are the desired outcomes. All attendees will learn practices that have helped progress towards equity by resisting and challenging such oppressive systems.