Rewriting the rules: How Tristar champions women in leadership

Recognising the many strengths that women bring to the workplace and actively promoting their headship will result in robust debate, reduced groupthink, broader impact, a wider range of solutions, and more effective outcomes.

- BY BALAJI NAGABHUSHAN Special to Gulf News

Dubai-headquartered Tristar Group sees this as an essential factor for resilience, longevity, and success, and continues to build on the creed to bring corporate and societal change in countries where they operate.

The last decade has seen a dramatic shift from the passive diversity action of including women on staff or training them, to value-driven inclusion and grooming of female leadership. It stands to reason that merely recognising feminine strengths is meaningless when it is not accompanied by supportive action in the workplace.

However, the conscious act of combining recognition with validation can be transformative as it leverages the full spectrum of human potential within the workforce and creates a more successful and sustainable company.

In parallel, the importance of hiring women, and grooming them for leadership roles, has become starkly evident in sectors like oil and gas, construction, manufacturing, heavy industry, and supply chain.

Redefining pigeonholes