Growth and Learning: My Journey In The Swedish Institute's Leader Lab Program
Over the years, I have realised that my patience for small talk has been dwindling quite rapidly. While I do not wish to socialise as much as I used to 7 or 8 years ago, I do enjoy meaningful conversations. It becomes all the more engaging when such conversations revolve around the work that I do which I am passionate about. That is exactly what I was able to do for about 3 months, thanks to the SI (Swedish Institute) Leader Lab. The Leader Lab is a program that I had been selected for, where young leaders from across different countries working towards gender advocacy could get together to learn from each other's experiences, explore the different cultural contexts we all worked in, and learn from experts in the field. One of the things I am most grateful for in my life is to have wonderfully kind and generous people around me. One such friend told me about this program which she had been a part of and thought I might be interested. Some reading up later, I filled out the applica