"Shades of Blue" – Revitalizing Culture with Inclusion of Women in Leadership

Most diversity programs run like this: A task force hires the consultant to collect and analyze data, conduct a series of workshops to share data and educate others on the problem. Next step define the business case on why it is important to have women, design and implement policies. Then compare baseline data with improvements and communicate the positive results of the initiative. After all that well benchmarked initiatives, where are the women? As long as discussion is not taking place in companies looking into the context of historical, socio-political, economic and cultural and organizational context, women will continue to be underrepresented in top management. This workshop aims to identify the cultural dominators and paradoxes and how experiments should be made to revitalize systematic problems. There will be quantitative information presented and individuals will have a chance to discuss and work out solutions. This workshop aims to move the focus away from currently available solutions and look into a combination of factors which could help an organization revitalize its culture driven by the goal that we need women in leadership“.