Conscious Leadership for Women: Making Clear Decisions in a Complex World
Date
Thursday April 23, 202610:00 am - 11:30 am
Location
VirtualIn today’s fast-changing world, leaders are facing new and complex challenges. Old leadership approaches aren’t enough anymore. Making good decisions now requires more than just thinking harder. Our minds are easily distracted, influenced by bias, and prone to mental shortcuts that can lead us off course.
In this session, WE-CAN client will guide us as we explore how to quiet mental noise, become more present, and bring together clear thinking, intuition, and emotional awareness. When these elements are aligned, leaders can see situations more clearly and make better, more grounded decisions.
Join us for an online session focused on conscious decision-making and leadership. You’ll learn how to step back from automatic reactions, become more aware of internal and external influences, and use heart intelligence as part of your decision process.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- What “consciousness” really means in a practical, everyday sense
- The basics of conscious leadership and its five key pillars
- Common mental traps that affect decision-making
- The role of emotions and intuition in leadership
- How heart intelligence can support stronger decisions
This session is designed for female leaders at all levels. You’ll leave with clear insights and practical tools you can apply right away to improve decisions in both your professional and personal life.
NOTE: Live Zoom transcription is available during this event. Should you require other accessibility supports, please email kerry.ramsay@queensu.ca as soon as possible since advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Seema Dhanoa is a transformational leadership coach, advisor, and the author of The Path to Conscious Leadership, a guide for integrating awareness, presence, and purpose into your everyday leadership.
She works with executives, teams, and impact-driven organizations to help unlock their highest potential from within. With over two decades of experience as an accomplished business leader, Seema’s career spans strategic innovation, business and technology transformation, values-based banking, and change enablement.
In the Canadian financial services sector, she led the creation of Canada’s first social impact bank, championing a model that pursues profit alongside social and environmental outcomes.
Seema’s work is rooted in helping people return to themselves and lead from a place of inner truth. She emphasizes empathy and interconnectedness by harnessing all parts of ourselves. Her "Five Steps of Conscious Leadership" framework blends ancient wisdom and science with modern challenges, offering leaders a roadmap to enhance decision-making and create meaningful impact in light of a new future. In her book, The Path to Conscious Leadership, she guides leaders to look beyond traditional metrics and recognize their ability to uplift both people and the planet.
ABOUT THE WE-CAN PROJECT:
The WE-CAN Project is led by Queen’s University with a mission to inspire and empower existing and aspiring women entrepreneurs by providing them with tools, resources, expert mentors, networks and community building to expand existing businesses and to launch new ventures. Since launching in 2020, the WE-CAN Project has supported more than 1,600 women entrepreneurs in launching, growing and scaling their business in the greater Kingston region.
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