Description
Estimated Time: 1 hour
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Discover key leadership lessons from Jaya’s 30+ year tenure at Tata Steel, exploring the transition from individual performance to collective impact, generational learnability, and proactive inclusion backed by active male allyship.
In this fourth session of the World Women in Steel Fireside Chat Series, Jaya reflects on an exceptional three-decade career journey at Tata Steel, tracing her path from graduate engineering trainee to executive leader across heavy manufacturing and human resources. She examines how early instincts around individual control evolved into a collaborative mindset focused on empowering teams, achieving shared success, and leveraging broader organizational ecosystems.
Drawing on extensive cross-domain experience, Jaya discusses the vital importance of continuous learning agility, humility, and reverse mentorship to remain relevant alongside younger generations in an industry shaped by digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and green transitions. She addresses critical retention challenges, distinguishing between well-intentioned benevolence and genuine equity, while urging leaders to build psychological safety, provide transparent development paths, and eliminate systemic biases without compromising merit. Finally, she highlights the essential role of male allyship in advancing workplace inclusion and emphasizes why underrepresented professionals must actively step forward to take on challenging, high-impact operational roles.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize how continuous learning, adaptability, and openness to new experiences support long-term career development.
- Identify the role of collaboration, inclusion, and supportive workplace relationships in individual and organizational success.
- Describe factors that help attract, develop, and retain diverse talent in the steel industry.
Course includes
- 1 Lesson
