Day 3

Ms. Katrien Beeckman
Head of the Fundamental Principles and Humanitarian Values Department of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva

Two Tools for ethical leadership are honesty and transparency.

Braema Mathiaparanam
Social Activist, Singapore

The motivation to do your duty is not governed by anyone but yourself.

Dr. Pritika Chary
Neurophysician and Neurosurgeon, India

Leadership should guarantee dignity.

Ms. Latika Ramakissan
The Art of Living Foundation, Africa

May we take the responsibility of practicing ethical leadership and encourage our leadership to do so.

Ms. Sucharita Eashwar 
Regional Director, NASSCOM, Karnataka, India

A good leader has the power to create a system that translates the vision into reality and unleashes the potential of the people who are part of the organization.

Ms. Jan Schakowsky
Congress woman, Illinois

I congratulate the Art of Living and International Association for Human Values(IAHV) for bringing together so many women leaders from so many countries to bring positive change to our communities.

Ms. Elizabeth Coffey
Founder, Spark Leadership

It is critical that as women, we stand up for ourselves, own the strength that we have, believe in ourselves and have self confidence.

Mr. TN Seshan
Former Chief Election Commissioner, India Faculty, Great Lakes Institute of Management

Do not worry to establish that women are a good alternative, women are the thing to be.

Ms. Jija Harisingh
Director, IPS, Karnataka, India

Either you are a person of integrity or you are not.

Ms. Dia Mirza
Miss Asia Pacific 2000, Actress, Model, India

The best thing God has given women is the ability to feel for herself and others. This is a gift we need to celebrate, be grateful for and use.

Ms. Hema Hari
Conceptualizer, Bharat Gyan & Associate Director, Strategic Technology Services and office of Innovation, CSC India

The propery obtained by a woman through inheritance, through purchase, partition, seizure and finding is her law maker, her law giver for Indian civilization.

Dr. Chitra Phadnis
CEO, Madhura Pharma & Research Laboratories, India

Women need to posses sustainability in crisis; humility and the Knowledge to sustain in the face of any adversity whatsoever.

Rajita Kulkarni Bagga
Trustee, Ved Vignan Maha Vidya Peeth

I am not a writer or a poet. I am a grateful survivor. That fateful night of 26/11/2008, our life, like that of so many others came under brutal attack. My husband Ajay and I were trapped in the Taj, Mumbai for 13 hours before we were rescued the next morning. A harmless intention of dining with a German friends staying at the Taj, had turned into a full blown traumatic event.

Sister Jeanne Devos
Children’s rights activist, Founder National Domestic Worker’s Movement, Mumbai, India

Spirituality is open to the divine and this reality allows us to be connected in compassion and peace.

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