The Blind Spot Session
Unseen patterns. Bolder decisions. One story, four voices — a 90-minute live session on the patterns that quietly shape how women lead and decide. Wednesday, 17 June 2026, 12:00–1:30 PM GMT.
Reserve Your Spot on Luma →The Thread Starts in Mumbai. It Ends in Zurich.
One story handed across four cities — each chapter picks up exactly where the last one left off. Tap a face to meet the voice.
One Story. Four Voices. Four Cities.
Dr. Rashmi Hegde
Founder & CEO, ClinMedConnect · 30+ years in pharma · Mumbai
Rashmi walked into GSK after 28 years in the industry believing she knew everything — and discovered how much more there was to learn. Thirty years at the highest levels of a complex industry, and a reinvention that was chosen, not forced. She opens the story where it has to begin: with the moment expertise alone stops being enough.
JiHyun Kim
Founder, JiHyun & Company · Former APAC Director, Abbott · Singapore / Seoul
Having operated across Korea, Singapore, and APAC — first inside large corporates, now as a founder — JiHyun zooms out from the personal to the pattern: the cultural codes that quietly shape how women are expected to lead, how those expectations get internalised without ever being named, and what actually breaks the pattern.
Amanda Bout
CHRO, Al Batha Healthcare · Certified Senior Coach · Dubai
Amanda sits on both sides of the question. She has lived the journey as a woman leader across the Middle East, EMEA, and APAC — through Nestlé, Galderma, and Abbott — and now, from the CHRO seat, designs the systems that shape that journey for others. Her chapter: what organisations are actually doing to close the gap, and what they should be doing. Honestly — not the PR version.
Isabel Küchler
Founder, The Village · Zurich
The youngest voice in the room — and the answer to the question the first three chapters open up. Isabel left a senior career leading $28M+ enterprise migrations to build something of her own. Ten months in, still feeling the decision, she closes the story where a new one begins: what it takes to stop waiting for the system to change.
Where It Hits You Depends on Where You’re Standing.
Every careers talk hands you the polished version — skills, networking, confidence. This is the other 90 minutes: what the room has already decided about you before you say a word, and what 30 years of navigating it actually looks like from the inside.
Start with Chapter 01 — The Weight of the RoomYou’re working hard, reading the room constantly — and still sensing rules nobody wrote down. They exist. JiHyun has watched the same invisible code operate across Korea, Singapore, and all of APAC. In this session it gets named, out loud.
Your chapter: 02 — The Invisible CodeNot the LinkedIn version. What the decision felt like from the inside, what she had to believe about herself to make it, and the thing no one tells you before you jump. If you’re sitting with an idea you haven’t acted on, her chapter ends with a question aimed directly at you.
Your chapter: 04 — The LeapYou’re no longer just walking into the room. You are the room someone else walks into. This is the mirror middle management never gets held up to: how the codes you adapted to quietly become the ones you enforce.
Your chapters: 02 and 03. They’ll sit uncomfortably — that’s the point.Amanda sits where you sit: the institutional power to change the system, and the lived experience of having had to navigate it. Her chapter is the unvarnished view of what organisations actually do for women leaders versus what they say they do.
Your chapter: 03 — The Architecture of SupportWhat Makes This One Different.
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