Trained as a physician and epidemiologist, Dr. Monica Sharma worked for the United Nations from 1988 to 2010. As director of Leadership and Capacity Development at the United Nations and in other large-scale programs UNDP and UNICEF, she designed and directed programs for whole systems transformation and leadership development world-wide. Currently, as an international practitioner and expert on leadership development for equitable and sustainable change, she works with universities, management institutions, business, governments, United Nations, non-governmental organizations, business, media, and other organizations.

Dr. Monica Sharma designed and directed large programs globally and lived and worked extensively in both developing and developed countries - in Africa, Asia, Arab States, Eastern Europe, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America. Monica Sharma Published and presented over 250 articles journals and international forums. She have received several honors.

‘Development’ of the individual and the collective is being redefined by her, to include the further reaches of the human and cultural capabilities, to discover a deeper balance between humanity and nature, our intellect and emotion, our inner and outer worlds, and to foster its expression through many programmes world-wide in society as well as organizations.
Monica Sharma created a unique response model based on extensive application –a Conscious Spectrum Response Model- which is designed to, simultaneously in time, solve problems, shift systems and norms and create new patterns sourced from individual inner capacity. This approach has generated equitable and sustainable results worldwide. Her expertise related to realizing Sustainable Development Goals is essential in addressing current, complex problems.

Monica Sharma is the author of the award-winning book “Radical Transformational Leadership; Strategic Action for Change Agents”. Examples from different parts of the world show how we can source our inner capacities and wisdom to manifest change that embodies universal values of dignity, compassion and fairness, and simultaneously transforms unworkable systems and norms in order to solve problems. Monica Sharma MD Author Radical Transformational Leadership Former Director Leadership and Capacity Development, United Nations OHRLLS International Expert and Practitioner on Leadership Development for Equitable and Sustainable change

Srilatha Juvva is a social work educator with a Ph.D. in Psychiatric Social Work. She is currently Professor with the School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. She has about three decades of teaching and clinical practice experience. She cares deeply about manifesting full potential and fairness in self and others. She served on the Board of NGOs, Institute Ethics Committees and on the Academic Board of Studies in universities. Her areas of expertise include mental health, disability, disaster mental health, and therapeutic interventions. She has directed many research projects and has published in peer reviewed national and international journals and in books. She has also co-edited 3 books – Spirituality, Culture and Development: Implications for Social Work; Field Instruction in Social Work Education: The Indian Experience; and The Contemporary Indian Family: Transitions and Diversity. She was awarded the Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in 2006-2007. She has been an enthusiastic volunteer in disaster situations, with expertise in rendering services and building capacity in psychosocial care. She is trained practitioner coach in Radical Transformational Leadership and uses these transformative templates and tools in her everyday practice, both in her personal and professional life – including in her teaching and field work practice with students and NGOs, that she works with.

The 6 modules on self care are based on cutting edge neuroscience, psychology and systems thinking. The aim is to demystify the complex by using simple language and using 7 transformative steps to care for self. They include sourcing one’s inner potential, noticing experiences of invisible, disempowering systems and stressful cultural practices at home or workplace; and interrupting them, co-creating synergistic interventions at home, in the workplace and in society.