Encouraging and supporting more women to take on leadership roles can result in more resilient, innovative and equitable societies, said Mr Shiv Shivakumar, Past President, AIMA, Operating Partner, Advent, International Private Equity & Former Chairman, PepsiCo India at AIMA’s ‘LeadHERship Retreat’.
This topic is a very important topic. And I have personally tried to do my bit when I was a CEO or a senior manager. So, when I was in Nokia as well as PepsiCo, 40% of my management team was women. Till today, no SMCG company has 40% women.
In the Aditya Birla Group, I led a strategy team apart from other businesses, which had 25 people and 60% were women. So, this notion that women do traditional roles, doctors, teachers etc, and can’t do other roles is completely wrong in my book.