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July 2, 2026
Akamai Technologies, India and Navgati have been partnering on a learning intervention for women in leadership at Akamai Technologies, India, called Stand Tall, for the last 8 years. It’s been an absolute pleasure evolving this together and because both organisations care deeply about having more women at senior roles, we decided to convert all our learnings (successes and mistakes both) into a paper that could serve as a useful, practical guide for any company that is interested in the area.
This paper is intended for organisations at different points in their women’s enablement journey — those taking their first steps as well as those looking to deepen, strengthen, or sustain work already underway.
We hope you find it useful – if you have questions or comments, you can find us at Charusmitha.rao@gmail.com and sunitha@navgati.in
Women’s Leadership Development is a topic that all of us at Navgati are passionate about – we believe that the world needs more women in leadership roles and over the years, we have designed a range of creative learning interventions focused on helping women become as potent as they could be.
You may be wondering why this special focus on women – don’t all leaders need to focus on personal growth? Absolutely they do but the reality is that women face a unique set of external and internal challenges. External challenges like unconscious bias, social conditioning and gender role expectations; internal challenges like discomfort with ambition; talking about their work; focusing overly on their jobs vs their careers…
If you’d like to discuss more on how we can support you design and deliver an impactful leadership development program for your women leaders, do write to us at deepa@navgati.in
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