How can we bridge the gender gap in leadership? Join us in insightful conversations with leadership and gender equality experts, empowering future leaders across Germany and the Arab world.
In this podcast, we explore the barriers to female leadership and, more importantly, the solutions. Each episode unpacks key insights from research and practical advice from experts, equipping future leaders with the skills they need to succeed.
Your host, AGYA member Dr. Hiba Rajha, guides you on this journey alongside thought leaders in leadership, diversity, and career development. Episodes cover essential topics such as resilience, networking, negotiation skills, and overcoming workplace biases. Through personal stories and evidence-based strategies, QIYADA offers practical guidance for navigating leadership challenges and driving meaningful change.
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How can we bridge the gender gap in leadership? Join us in insightful conversations with leadership and gender equality experts, empowering future leaders across Germany and the Arab world.
In this podcast, we explore the barriers to female leadership and, more importantly, the solutions. Each episode unpacks key insights from research and practical advice from experts, equipping future leaders with the skills they need to succeed.
Your host, AGYA member Dr. Hiba Rajha, guides you on this journey alongside thought leaders in leadership, diversity, and career development. Episodes cover essential topics such as resilience, networking, negotiation skills, and overcoming workplace biases. Through personal stories and evidence-based strategies, QIYADA offers practical guidance for navigating leadership challenges and driving meaningful change.
Masterclass ‘Navigating Challenging Work Environments’
QIYADA
23 minutes
4 weeks ago
Masterclass ‘Navigating Challenging Work Environments’
In this third Masterclass, we explore one of the most complex – and yet crucial – dimensions of contemporary leadership: how to navigate difficult work environments. Led by Guila Clara Kessous, UNESCO Artist for Peace, Harvard-certified executive coach, and expert in ethical and inclusive leadership, this session offers a clear-eyed and powerful perspective on microaggressions, unconscious bias, inappropriate behaviour, and other subtle forms of discrimination that weaken professional dynamics, erode trust, and hold back talent.
With a pedagogical yet deeply human approach, Guila defines what hostile work environments really are – often invisible, but profoundly destructive – and shares practical tools to recognize, deconstruct, and respond to microaggressions and bias, whether one is directly affected or a witness. She explores strategies for minority leaders to assert themselves while cultivating allyship, practical responses to sexist jokes or paternalistic remarks, and a nuanced reading of the psychological tactics linked to harassment. Above all, she shows how leaders can build cultures of safety, respect, and inclusion.
This Masterclass is both uncompromising and constructive, reminding us that inclusive leadership cannot simply be declared, but must be built, step by step, decision by decision, by creating environments that protect, uplift, and give space to everyone. An essential session for anyone seeking to transform their leadership posture and make workplaces more just, safe, and aligned with human values.
Learn more about the project here: https://agya.info/research/research-projects-by-year/inclusive-leadership-a-digital-approach-to-bridging-the-gender-gap
QIYADA
How can we bridge the gender gap in leadership? Join us in insightful conversations with leadership and gender equality experts, empowering future leaders across Germany and the Arab world.
In this podcast, we explore the barriers to female leadership and, more importantly, the solutions. Each episode unpacks key insights from research and practical advice from experts, equipping future leaders with the skills they need to succeed.
Your host, AGYA member Dr. Hiba Rajha, guides you on this journey alongside thought leaders in leadership, diversity, and career development. Episodes cover essential topics such as resilience, networking, negotiation skills, and overcoming workplace biases. Through personal stories and evidence-based strategies, QIYADA offers practical guidance for navigating leadership challenges and driving meaningful change.
