December 23, 2024 • 13 mins
As workplace structures change and AI advances, author and social scientist Dr. Jacqueline Kucera believes now is the time for female leadership. Her book is Wake Up Woman, It’s Your Time to Lead: Ten steps to become a transformational leader and achieve personal and professional growth. Based in Switzerland, Dr. Kucera’s work focuses on gender inequalities in education, income, politics, and leadership.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly
conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
one oh six point seven Light FM.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome and thank you for listening to Get Connected. I imagine
you have noticed it feels like we're on the brink
of a new era at work and at home. Most
of us are working from home and there are more
challenges to traditional leaderships, traditions and structure. We have a
vast access to choices and AI, of course, will soon
be ubiquitous. Our guest believes that with this new era,
(00:34):
this is the time for women to rise. Jacqueline Casea
is an author, social scientist, and transformational leader. Her book
is Wake Up Woman, It's your time to lead. Ten
steps to become a transformational leader and achieve personal and
professional growth. Jacqueline Caserra, thank you for being on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you so much for having me here. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Jacqueline Caserra is a social scientist and dedicated transformational leader
based in Switzerland. She started her career as a pharmaceutical
sales assistant and then earned her doctorate in social science.
Her work focuses on gender inequalities, and education, income, politics,
and leadership. So this book, Jacqueline challenges the status quo
about female roles in the workplace and personally through a
(01:19):
lens of innovation and growth. That's a lot to unpack.
Can you talk a bit more about that premise?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, indeed, wake up women. It's a call to action.
You know, it's a crime for women everywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Its message is both simple and deeply transformative. It's time
for women to rise, not only as leaders in their
workplaces and communities.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But as leaders on their own lives.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There have been both excellent and awful women in power.
So what do women bring to the table that makes
you think, on balance we'd be better humans at the job?
Why is there an urgency to it as well?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Why would woman brings just in this very specific time
the competencies which are needed because we are in a new.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Work culture has completely reshaped how we have to eat.
Flexibility and remote work have given many women, particularly those
chuggling personal professional responsibilities, a chance to go back to work.
(02:41):
But it also demands a different kind of leadership all
these changes, one that values trust, empathy, and clear compunication
over rich It structures Because AI today it adds another
layer complexity, but also opportunity. We are in a vold
(03:06):
where everythings is volatile, which means change.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is the normal of every day.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Tasks which were once mundane are being automated more and more,
which means leaders need to focus on human skills. Creativity, intuition,
and relationship building becomes more and more important. This is
an opportunity to redefine what leadership looks like. Because they
(03:40):
have different skill sets, they bring them with them, especially
while having at home families as well and shuggling between
like family life and work life, which makes them really
having specific skills sets of don't have.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's very interesting I think that that younger people, let's
say people under thirty, have a far different perspective about
women's roles. I think over a certain age, we grew
up on traditional roles at work, at home. Those experiences
of younger people, they have a different set of expectations.
(04:22):
What would you say about that age group and how
perhaps they have impacted or are impacting generations immediately older
than them, say yours and mine?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I would say the younger generations of women how I
perceived them.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They are already having.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
This imagination to have to travel between you know, family life.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And working life.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
However, as they have seen their manners for all the
generations that it's been quite difficult. You know, they already
adapted to a very changing role and they have mostly
in particular generation set to work less in at least
in Europe, so they try to combine these different skill sets,
(05:12):
and they have also very often you know, their partner
or father of their children also working together with them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How does safety you write about safety in the book,
How does a sense for a need of protection or guidance,
particularly for women not only influence our beliefs but gives
us an advantage? Perhaps does it give us an advantage
as we look forward?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Safety in my life has been very important for me.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Safety needs that.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I have always a job, that I always have enough
money so I can't actually look after myself but also
provide for my children, which meant for me then that
I actually when I got the job, you know, I needed.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Absolutely to have a job, which made.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Me also accept certain conditions at the workplaces which weren't
always safe and made me sometimes really accept working conditions
in particular in a very male dominated environment which actually
went totally and completely against my own values.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You actually talk about something that was very similar to
my mother's experience as a young woman. You write about
your father finding you an apprenticeship in a pharmacy. You
hated it, but he thought it was in your best interests.
My mother the exact same thing. What kept driving you
to recreate the path that would set out for you.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I actually was very triggered when I was a young child.
You know, when I was six years old, we lived
on the country side.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We were five children.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My mom really didn't have time to look after me,
so she just let me outside, and I was like,
I was very confident young girl. I did everything very well.
You know, it's I just had my own life. I
was very solitary. However, when I actually I had like
still a quite a free life, you know, until I
(07:24):
got thirteen. That's when my dad like realized, oh, she's
growing into a women. I think I have to look
after her. I have to find her first job so
she can't like make an apprenticeship, and then she gets
surely also a husband.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And this was.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Very difficult because it took all my independence away. On
that moment was this decision, I knew men they're gonna
dominate my life. I didn't accept that, and that made
my life so difficult because of all the values actually
built up all in my young life, and I got
(08:12):
very rebellious. However, my father wouldn't tolerate that, and I
found my base somehow to adjust my beliefs, which was
very very difficult for me, and that took me a
very very long time to go to actually to rEFInd
my waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Our guest is Jacqueline Chrissera. Her book is Wake Up Woman,
It's your Time to lead. Ten steps to become a
transformational leader and achieve personal and professional growth. She is
based in Switzerland as a social scientist and dedicated transformational leader.
You're listening to get connected on one of six point
seven light FM. I'mina del Rio. So jumping forward for
(08:51):
you transformational leadership. What does that mean in practice? I
think your role with the Swiss Parliament might give some
idea of what that is.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Transformation leader is for me, a person who actually brings.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
People forward is empowering.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So empowerment is really transforming people because if you empower people,
you give them their.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Own way to do things. You know, and today, if
you actually want to.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Transform a team you have to.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Start to give them the whole power and.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Asking them how would you like to do your work,
not just dictating whatever they have been doing for the
last thirty years, but in particular so like reflecting on
their own behavior, reflecting on their own work. So that's
actually challenging the teams of today, so we actually bring
(09:51):
them forward for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And if we're specifically talking about women, how does that
or does that offer opportunity these again specifically for women
within that framework, one of I.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Think one of the deficits of women is that very
often they think they're not enough, and so they.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Actually go with wood they're told.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
However, this means also they're actually very collaborative in their being.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They're often very respectful.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You know, because they know they shouldn't you shouldn't leave
anyone behind. And that makes them far better leaders in
a world where actually you need to be resilient. You're
very collaborative, you actually include everyone also in a team,
and so you're not so competitive and so harsh and
(10:52):
not having a behavior of a top down person. That's
why in this changing role, women are far better leaders.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Just to wrap up something you said at the very
beginning of this conversation, you have a very hopeful perspective
on AI and the future of work. What is that
based around?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This is really based around that for the first time
in my life, I have a possibility to use any
tool to do anything unlike I mean, if a person
is like weak in writing, I mean, this person just
asks chachipit.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
If a person is very slow, you can ask.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Chachipity for all the translations. I mean, you're getting so
much information, you know, with all the generative AI tools.
There is so many automatications as well. And the big
advantage for the first time, you have access to any
kind of information and you don't have to ask, you know.
(12:00):
For it was like like men bosses, they would keep
behind their information behind locked doors. They wouldn't give you
the information you needed to work because they thought, oh,
she's not going to succeed anyway. You know, I'm not
going to open this door for her. But nowadays, you know,
I can get access any kind of information on when
(12:22):
that makes us very very powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
What to you does it mean to be an authentic leader?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, authentical reader means that actually I am confident and
I lead as I am. I don't have to be
hiding myself. I don't have to be a certain person.
I just do it my way, undergo about although I
may have resistance, although other people think I'm a big
(12:49):
person because I'm not more people in my behavior that's
authentic when actually go out and I'm not a Fraida
how I eat people. But I just go about and
I trust my innerself on my institution.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Our guest is Jacqueline Causera so much more in the
book Wake Up Woman, It's Your Time to Lead. Thank
you for being on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This has been Get Connected with Nina del Rio on
one oh six point seven light Fm. The views and
opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the views
of the station. If you missed any part of our
show or want to share it, visit our website for
downloads and podcasts at one o six to seven lightfm
dot com. Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly
conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on
one oh six point seven Light FM.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome and thank you for listening to Get Connected. I imagine
you have noticed it feels like we're on the brink
of a new era at work and at home. Most
of us are working from home and there are more
challenges to traditional leaderships, traditions and structure. We have a
vast access to choices and AI, of course, will soon
be ubiquitous. Our guest believes that with this new era,
(00:34):
this is the time for women to rise. Jacqueline Casea
is an author, social scientist, and transformational leader. Her book
is Wake Up Woman, It's your time to lead. Ten
steps to become a transformational leader and achieve personal and
professional growth. Jacqueline Caserra, thank you for being on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you so much for having me here. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Jacqueline Caserra is a social scientist and dedicated transformational leader
based in Switzerland. She started her career as a pharmaceutical
sales assistant and then earned her doctorate in social science.
Her work focuses on gender inequalities, and education, income, politics,
and leadership. So this book, Jacqueline challenges the status quo
about female roles in the workplace and personally through a
(01:19):
lens of innovation and growth. That's a lot to unpack.
Can you talk a bit more about that premise?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yes, indeed, wake up women. It's a call to action.
You know, it's a crime for women everywhere in the world.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Its message is both simple and deeply transformative. It's time
for women to rise, not only as leaders in their
workplaces and communities.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
But as leaders on their own lives.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
There have been both excellent and awful women in power.
So what do women bring to the table that makes
you think, on balance we'd be better humans at the job?
Why is there an urgency to it as well?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Why would woman brings just in this very specific time
the competencies which are needed because we are in a new.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Work culture has completely reshaped how we have to eat.
Flexibility and remote work have given many women, particularly those
chuggling personal professional responsibilities, a chance to go back to work.
(02:41):
But it also demands a different kind of leadership all
these changes, one that values trust, empathy, and clear compunication
over rich It structures Because AI today it adds another
layer complexity, but also opportunity. We are in a vold
(03:06):
where everythings is volatile, which means change.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Is the normal of every day.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Tasks which were once mundane are being automated more and more,
which means leaders need to focus on human skills. Creativity, intuition,
and relationship building becomes more and more important. This is
an opportunity to redefine what leadership looks like. Because they
(03:40):
have different skill sets, they bring them with them, especially
while having at home families as well and shuggling between
like family life and work life, which makes them really
having specific skills sets of don't have.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's very interesting I think that that younger people, let's
say people under thirty, have a far different perspective about
women's roles. I think over a certain age, we grew
up on traditional roles at work, at home. Those experiences
of younger people, they have a different set of expectations.
(04:22):
What would you say about that age group and how
perhaps they have impacted or are impacting generations immediately older
than them, say yours and mine?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
I would say the younger generations of women how I
perceived them.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
They are already having.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
This imagination to have to travel between you know, family life.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
And working life.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
However, as they have seen their manners for all the
generations that it's been quite difficult. You know, they already
adapted to a very changing role and they have mostly
in particular generation set to work less in at least
in Europe, so they try to combine these different skill sets,
(05:12):
and they have also very often you know, their partner
or father of their children also working together with them.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
How does safety you write about safety in the book,
How does a sense for a need of protection or guidance,
particularly for women not only influence our beliefs but gives
us an advantage? Perhaps does it give us an advantage
as we look forward?
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Safety in my life has been very important for me.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Safety needs that.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I have always a job, that I always have enough
money so I can't actually look after myself but also
provide for my children, which meant for me then that
I actually when I got the job, you know, I needed.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Absolutely to have a job, which made.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Me also accept certain conditions at the workplaces which weren't
always safe and made me sometimes really accept working conditions
in particular in a very male dominated environment which actually
went totally and completely against my own values.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You actually talk about something that was very similar to
my mother's experience as a young woman. You write about
your father finding you an apprenticeship in a pharmacy. You
hated it, but he thought it was in your best interests.
My mother the exact same thing. What kept driving you
to recreate the path that would set out for you.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I actually was very triggered when I was a young child.
You know, when I was six years old, we lived
on the country side.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We were five children.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
My mom really didn't have time to look after me,
so she just let me outside, and I was like,
I was very confident young girl. I did everything very well.
You know, it's I just had my own life. I
was very solitary. However, when I actually I had like
still a quite a free life, you know, until I
(07:24):
got thirteen. That's when my dad like realized, oh, she's
growing into a women. I think I have to look
after her. I have to find her first job so
she can't like make an apprenticeship, and then she gets
surely also a husband.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
And this was.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Very difficult because it took all my independence away. On
that moment was this decision, I knew men they're gonna
dominate my life. I didn't accept that, and that made
my life so difficult because of all the values actually
built up all in my young life, and I got
(08:12):
very rebellious. However, my father wouldn't tolerate that, and I
found my base somehow to adjust my beliefs, which was
very very difficult for me, and that took me a
very very long time to go to actually to rEFInd
my waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Our guest is Jacqueline Chrissera. Her book is Wake Up Woman,
It's your Time to lead. Ten steps to become a
transformational leader and achieve personal and professional growth. She is
based in Switzerland as a social scientist and dedicated transformational leader.
You're listening to get connected on one of six point
seven light FM. I'mina del Rio. So jumping forward for
(08:51):
you transformational leadership. What does that mean in practice? I
think your role with the Swiss Parliament might give some
idea of what that is.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Transformation leader is for me, a person who actually brings.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
People forward is empowering.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So empowerment is really transforming people because if you empower people,
you give them their.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Own way to do things. You know, and today, if
you actually want to.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Transform a team you have to.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Start to give them the whole power and.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Asking them how would you like to do your work,
not just dictating whatever they have been doing for the
last thirty years, but in particular so like reflecting on
their own behavior, reflecting on their own work. So that's
actually challenging the teams of today, so we actually bring
(09:51):
them forward for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And if we're specifically talking about women, how does that
or does that offer opportunity these again specifically for women
within that framework, one of I.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Think one of the deficits of women is that very
often they think they're not enough, and so they.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Actually go with wood they're told.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
However, this means also they're actually very collaborative in their being.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
They're often very respectful.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
You know, because they know they shouldn't you shouldn't leave
anyone behind. And that makes them far better leaders in
a world where actually you need to be resilient. You're
very collaborative, you actually include everyone also in a team,
and so you're not so competitive and so harsh and
(10:52):
not having a behavior of a top down person. That's
why in this changing role, women are far better leaders.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Just to wrap up something you said at the very
beginning of this conversation, you have a very hopeful perspective
on AI and the future of work. What is that
based around?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
This is really based around that for the first time
in my life, I have a possibility to use any
tool to do anything unlike I mean, if a person
is like weak in writing, I mean, this person just
asks chachipit.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
If a person is very slow, you can ask.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Chachipity for all the translations. I mean, you're getting so
much information, you know, with all the generative AI tools.
There is so many automatications as well. And the big
advantage for the first time, you have access to any
kind of information and you don't have to ask, you know.
(12:00):
For it was like like men bosses, they would keep
behind their information behind locked doors. They wouldn't give you
the information you needed to work because they thought, oh,
she's not going to succeed anyway. You know, I'm not
going to open this door for her. But nowadays, you know,
I can get access any kind of information on when
(12:22):
that makes us very very powerful.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
What to you does it mean to be an authentic leader?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
No, authentical reader means that actually I am confident and
I lead as I am. I don't have to be
hiding myself. I don't have to be a certain person.
I just do it my way, undergo about although I
may have resistance, although other people think I'm a big
(12:49):
person because I'm not more people in my behavior that's
authentic when actually go out and I'm not a Fraida
how I eat people. But I just go about and
I trust my innerself on my institution.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Our guest is Jacqueline Causera so much more in the
book Wake Up Woman, It's Your Time to Lead. Thank
you for being on Get Connected.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Thank you so much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This has been Get Connected with Nina del Rio on
one oh six point seven light Fm. The views and
opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the views
of the station. If you missed any part of our
show or want to share it, visit our website for
downloads and podcasts at one o six to seven lightfm
dot com. Thanks for listening.
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