Culture, Leadership, Empowerment, Agility and Evolution of HR
Rajeev Dubey in conversation with Dr. Sunil SIngh and Dr. Arup Roy Chodhury on Culture, Leadership, Empowerment, Agility and Evolution...
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HR TODAY
September - October 2025
Volume 2, Issue 5
From the Editor’s
Leadership in a Disrupting World
By Dr. Sunil Singh, Editor-in-Chief, HR TODAY
I curated this September–October issue to examine leadership at the very moment it is being remade—by technology, shifting workforce expectations, and relentless volatility. Our 18 articles map this terrain with rigor and heart. Ed Cohen opens by reframing how a global mindset equips leaders to navigate interdependence. Ruchi Mago explores evolving leadership for a changing world, while Ram Ramanathan argues for spiritually intelligent consciousness to elevate intent beyond ego. Sankalp Shakunt distills the power of ambidexterity—holding innovation and execution in productive tension.
From the people systems vantage point, JEREMY CARPENTER shows how culture and evidence-based hiring strengthen retention. Thilan Perera advances e-leadership for hybrid, trust-rich teams. Gopalji Mehrotra and Swastik Mitra deepen ambidexterity—balancing exploration with operational excellence in disruption. Stuti Bajaj introduces AI agentics to humanize decisions, while Preeti Ahuja centers empathy, agility, and innovation as the new leadership triad. Santosh Rudrawar connects leadership and organizational performance in VUCA contexts; Jayamalini Ramaratnam translates behaviors into business results; Dr Kiranpreet Kaur clarifies the dual demands leaders must master; Babu Thomas cautions against leadership anger that corrodes culture.
Rounding out the portfolio, Dr. Uttam Sahay advances leadership development and practices (LPDR); S. A. Praveen reimagines leadership in the AI era as thought partnership rather than command; Nadia Sawaya Gauckler, CDE frames the ethics and HR stewardship of ethical AI leadership; and M. G. Govardhanan articulates agentic leadership—using AI to amplify empathy, purpose, and autonomy.
Taken together, these voices argue that the future belongs to leaders who are globally aware, digitally fluent, ethically grounded, and profoundly human. I invite you to read, reflect, and apply—so your leadership not only endures disruption, but transforms it into advantage.
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