ETPWLA 2023: Ashwini Bhide wins ETPrime Women Leadership Awards in Governance category
Ashwini Bhide, IAS, Additional Municipal Commissioner, BMC and Managing Director, Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, was recognised as the winner of the Woman Leader of the Year — Governance category. Keynote speaker Mithali Raj, Former Captain — Indian Women's Cricket Team, and jury member Abha Singh felicitated the award winner of the Woman Leader of the Year — Governance category at the Grand Felicitation Ceremony, which marked the culmination of the six-month-long ETPWLA 2023 programme, with 19 winners felicitated across 15 award categories.
When asked what it takes to get things done in administrative roles that require multiple stakeholder management, Bhide cited transparency and straightforward-ness as key strategies while sharing her playbook. “I think the strategy is very simple.
It is all about being transparent and straightforward. It is being firm without being rigid and inflexible.
It is about being accommodating without basically being compromising. So, the formula is to be open-minded, to be having dialogues with all the stakeholders, all the time, being consistent in it but at the same time having the courage to say no to those demands which are beyond law and logic,” said Bhide, while accepting the award.Watch the highlights here The ETPWLA awards recognise excellence in women leadership.
It celebrates their individual demonstration of resilience, innovation and adaptability, and their collective impact in shattering the glass ceiling, achieving significant milestones and paving the way for women-led transformation in their respective industries and spheres of work. “Thank you so much ETPrime and members of the jury for creating this category and selecting me as the awardee,” added Bhide, referring to one of
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