1. Understanding and Developing Your Leader Identity
Mandeep Rupra-Daine
NUS Equality & Diversity
Consultant

2. In this session, you will:
Recognise the need to develop a leader identity
Explore the values that are fundamental to yourself as a leader
Consider your leadership purpose
Begin to become clearer about your leader identity
Aspire

3. Do you see yourself as a leader?

4. Seeing yourself as a leader
Seeing yourself as a leader

5. stereotypes that are associated with men’s leadership and behaviour
gender stereotypes = leadership styles
Frank Flynn 2003 – ‘Although they think she’s just as competent and effective as Howard, they don’t like her, they wouldn’t hire her, and they wouldn’t want to work with her. They disliked Heidi’s aggressive personality. The more assertive they thought Heidi was, the more harshly they judged her - but the same was not true for those who rated Howard’.

6. Aspiring women leaders therefore should recognise themselves as a leader by understanding and creating a leader identity that is both authentic, accessible and founded on their values and purpose.  

7. What is leader identity?
Being a leader involves more than being given a leadership role or job title
Sexism and lack of women in leadership roles perpetuate men as leaders
INSEAD 2012 research: Me, a Women & a Leader
Women experience identity conflict which prevents them from feeling authentic
Women question their leadership
Identity conflict is associated with more stress and lower life satisfaction
Identity conflict undermines women’s affective motivation to lead

8. Leadership is:
‘about bringing out the best in ourselves and others. It is not position; it is a state of mind or attitude about how we choose to live that inspires others to follow and helps them achieve their full potential.’

9. See yourself as a leader How will developing a leadership
identity benefit you?

10. Leader Identity Your values Your beliefs Your purpose Your strengths
who you uniquely are
essential -brings you alive
a strong belief we carry everyday
operating principle
help decisions and priorities
Your beliefs
Your purpose
Your strengths

11. Values

12. Purpose What difference you want to make Founded on your values =
authentic leadership
Knowing why you do what you do
This could mean doing things
you don’t like!
Inspiring purpose helps you to
keep going when things get
tough

13. NUS Equality & Diversity Consultant
Thank You
Mandeep Rupra-Daine
NUS Equality & Diversity Consultant