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Redefining Power For Women of Color At Work

Rha Goddess, Deepa Purushothaman
September 14, 2021 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
Redefining Power For Women of Color At Work

About this session

Part of the Corporate Circles: Inclusive Conversations series

With authors, entrepreneurial coaches and co-founders of NFormation, Deepa Purushothaman and Rha Goddess

What is Redefining Power: Women of Color at Work?

This is a special moment for women of color. As we grow in our power as WOC, each of us is being called to reconsider our views on what power and success really mean. Many of us are coming to terms with the real challenges and costs of corporate systems and what can be done to make workplaces truly inclusive for all.

We’re being challenged to look at our organizations and institutions and who has been set up to achieve versus who hasn’t. We are being invited to revisit what we thought was “true” about things we’ve taken for granted and what needs to change. And we are more challenged, and more called, to look deep inside ourselves—who we are versus who we want to be.

WOC are being asked to defy the odds and push against the status quo in honor of a more authentic and powerful existence. But do we really have permission?

This session provides a safe space to engage in these difficult but meaningful questions and conversations.

In this session you will:

  • Be invited into the provocative discussion of the idea of power and what it means for WOC in this moment.
  • Analyse the indoctrination that exists in the structures around us, the messages we receive as WOC and discover how we give ourselves permission to rewrite these narratives
  • Identify how we can create more power in our roles, especially at work

Meet the speakers

Rha Goddess

Rha Goddess

Author, Founder & CEO, Move The Crowd, Co-CEO & Founder, nFormation

Rha Goddess is the entrepreneurial soul coach behind hundreds of breakthrough changemakers, cultural visionaries and social entrepreneurs, from New York Times bestsellers to multi-million dollar social enterprises. As CEO of Move The Crowd, Rha is galvanizing a movement of three million entrepreneurs dedicated to re-imagining “work” as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom and societal transformation. She’s passionate about creating a “whole self” approach to entrepreneurship, and her unique methodology has empowered a new generation of conscious entrepreneurs to stay true, get paid, anddo good.

Deepa Purushothaman

Deepa Purushothaman

Author & Co-Founder, nFormation

Deepa is an author, speaker, and co-founder of nFormation, a company for women of color by women of color. nFormation provides brave, safe, new space for professional women of color. Deepa is also a Women and Public Policy Program Leader in Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. Deepa’s book The First, The Few, The Only. How Women of Color Redefine Power in Corporate America will be published by HarperBusiness in March 2022.

Prior to this, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was “a first” Indian American woman to make partner in the company’s history. She served as a National Managing Partner of Inclusion and was also the US Managing Partner of WIN (Women’s Initiative), Deloitte’s renowned program to recruit, retain, and advance women.

Deepa has degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard Kennedy School, and the London School of Economics. She is an Aspen Fellow. Deepa speaks extensively on women and leadership.

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