Research Lab
The Sacred Corridor For LeadershipTM
Perspectives of senior women leaders who Arrived, Strived and Thrived in their leadership journey.

Do you have a plan for your star performing women leaders and aspiring women leaders from leaning out?
Most research on women leaders predominantly focus on their climb up the ladder. But what are the delights and dilemmas faced by women in senior leadership roles? We wanted to build empirical evidence through strong narratives with a focus on identifying competencies that helped women ARRIVE, STRIVE and THRIVE.
Our research led us to a unique trademarked framework to engage and promote women leaders in every critical interface in their careers. We proudly call this research The Leadership Geometry™ and the framework is called The Sacred Corridor for Leadership™, for women professionals.
The research and its findings have helped us devise a practical and highly experiential learning journey to help organisations and women professionals to connect the dots between their profession, passion and purpose.
Our highly experienced team of global mentors and coaches are committed to creating meaningful transformations for women at work and the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategies and policies for organisations. Our exclusive solutions for promoting women leadership include curated mentoring journeys, powerful coaching engagements and uniquely crafted vital programmes in the space of Women Leadership Development.
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This is a powerful three-step framework that helps women leaders deeply reflect and practically devise strategies across Portals of Entry, Rituals of Passages and the Sanctum of Possibilities.

Women of the World in Leadership (WOW Factors)
Facts, Perspectives and Stories
WOW FACTORS is a qualitative study drawing narratives from 26 women across 17 geographies and a myriad of industries. In-depth interviews were conducted with the study participants that ranged from 75 to 120 minutes, which were recorded and later transcribed. With over 2600 minutes of live interaction, the narratives that emerged are enriching and inspiring.
While interacting with senior women leaders, we discovered three key milestones in their journey – Arrive, Strive and Thrive. Each of these inflection points represent a diverse set of priorities and challenges in their leadership journey.

Arrive
Represents the key differentiators aspiring women leaders focus on to attain leadership roles.
Strive
Focuses on mechanisms to
navigate the web of expectations women leaders deal with while leading.
Thrive
Delves on ways to remain inspired both on the personal front and the organizational context. Building on the skills and capabilities that would help them and others, to step up to the next rung of their leadership potential.
What women leaders say about WOW Factors

Thank you for sharing! WOW 😊
This is amazing. So many insights and I love the practical nature as well with the “placemat,” questions and next steps so readers can both reflect and act.
Congratulations. I bet this will be well received by all.
While I would like to read this again (and probably again), at first read, I found the crystalization of thoughts for all the people you may have spoken to, added with your critical insights, to provide formulaic set of guiding principles that women and those around them should read and internalize.Some material is net new in its representation, something I haven’t come across before in other leadership related research.

I really loved the report.
It was amazing to see how through stories you had come up with so many data points which was very interesting.
WOW! What a report – and so very different from any other report I have ever read!
Kudos to the team for bringing this out, and in your usual intellectually incisive and incredibly engaging style. This is worth many reads.
Thanks for the wonderful opportunity to be part of this insightful research.
As much or more than what I have contributed to your research, I have gained many perspectives from this detailed report which needs to be read, re-read many times to go deeper into what makes us successful and what are the challenges in the road ahead.
Thankyou for sharing this.
It’s a very interesting read indeed and timely for IWD2022.
WOW! Indeed, this is an excellent research report.
I will take some proper time to review – and thank you for capturing who is I am in such a positive way! #bebold 😊

Download the WOW factors Report & figure out how to reach the Sanctum of Possibilities.
Our ‘WOW’ Women in Leadership.

Vidhya Ganesan
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Cathy Ward
COO, APJ, SAP

Anna Gong
CEO & Founder, Perx Technologies

Petula Thomas
CEO, Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce

Tatiana Ohm
Managing Director Global Accounts, EMEA, Randstad Sourceright

Deepshikha Dharmaraj
Chief Executive Officer, BCW India

Rupinder Malik
Partner, J. Sagar Associates

Neelam Dhawan
Board Member, Royal Philips Netherlands, ICICI Bank Ltd, Yatra Online Inc, Skylo Technologies Inc, IIIT Delhi

Jacqui Miranda
Head of Asia Specialist Sales, Microsoft

Roopa Sampath Kumar
Chief Financial Officer, Five-Star Business Finance Limited

Marzida Mohd Noor
Independent Non-Executive Director, Affin Bank Berhad & Heriot-Watt, University Malaysia

Shikha Murali
Vice President, Teleperformance

Gina McNamara
Regional CFO, APJ, SAP

Hiroo Mirchandani
Independent Director, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), Nilkamal & MedPlus Health

Michelle Simmons
CMO, Central & Eastern Europe, Microsoft

Neha Monga
Area Business Group Leader, APAC, Microsoft

Ajanta Chatterjee
Sr. VP HR – Talent Management, OD, D&I JSW Group

Babita Baruah
Executive Director, VMLYR & Regional Client Lead, WPP

Priya Vivek
Managing Partner – Revenue, Qoruz

Jo Tyrer
President Strategic Solutions, Sitecore

Ramya Venkataraman
Founder & CEO, CENTA

Mary Elizabeth Porray
Global Deputy Vice Chair, Client Technology EY

Anitha Scaria George
Vice President India COE and Country Leader Celonis

Dr. Vimala Sreenivasan
Senior Regional Sales Director, Agilent Technologies

Mamta C.
GDS Business Consulting Leader EY

Qamar Wan Noor
Head, Operational Strategy Sime Darby Oils