The Cost of Silence in Leadership

Name: The Cost of Silence in Leadership
Start: 2025-09-10T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-10T17:00:00+01:00

When leaders stay silent, projects stall, decisions drag, and teams lose direction. Clear communication isn’t optional—it’s the difference between trust and misalignment.

Silence in leadership comes at a high cost. In today’s complex business environment, hesitation or avoidance can weaken decision-making, lower morale, and block progress. In this live session, guest speaker Anupama Rao Singh, Vice President for Latin America & GCC at Dr. Reddy’s, shares how she found her leadership voice—and how you can, too.

With 20+ years of global experience across pharmaceuticals, oncology, and business transformation, Anupama brings practical tools for navigating difficult conversations, building trust across cultures, and using communication as a driver of performance.

A WeQual Award winner and recognized as one of The Economic Times’ Top Women Leaders in India, she also mentors rising executives worldwide. Expect candid insight, practical strategies, and reassurance that strong leadership doesn’t mean having all the answers—it means speaking up with impact.

Takeaways:

Spot the hidden costs of silence
Tools for leading tough conversations
Build a consistent leadership voice
Use communication to drive alignment
Create trust across teams and cultures

Strong leadership doesn’t mean having all the answers—but it does mean showing up, speaking up, and creating space for others to do the same. If you’re looking to strengthen how you communicate and lead, this session will offer practical tools you can apply immediately.

Anupama Rao Singh

Dr. Reddy’s

Vice President: Latin America & GCC

Is the Vice President: Latin America & GCC and heads the Centre of Excellence: Oncology and Hospital Business at a global biopharmaceutical company, Dr. Reddy’s. Prior to Dr. Reddy’s, she led the oncology business at Pfizer for India and Asia Pacific.

A seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, she has won many accolades, notably being featured among Top Women Leaders in India Inc by Economic Times (one of the leading business newspapers and was a Winner of the WeQual Women Leader award in Asia Pacific.

She leads teams across multiple countries and is responsible as a P&L head to maximize growth, lead new product launches and lead innovation and build future business models. She has extensive experience in building business from the ground up and scaling them to profitable models across multiple regions like Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

She is also a mentor for aspiring and middle management professionals across internal and external forums. She is a fitness enthusiast and recently completed multiple altitude treks, including Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and Everest Base Camp, Nepal among others. She was awarded her B.Pharm and MBA, executive education from IIM-Ahmedabad and Harvard Business School.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships & Programs

Emma is an experienced strategic leader, specializing in professional development at C-suite and senior management levels. With a track record for delivering solutions across a broad range of global sectors and industries, Emma brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for continuing professional development.

Emma is a Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), holds certifications from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Association for Talent Development (ATD), and is a former Education Committee member at the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa).

Outside of WeQual, Emma has a young family (8-year-old Joshua, 6-year-old Jasmine, and a recent ‘furbaby’ addition, Monty the cockapoo), who keep her equally busy, active and above all grateful.

Ovin Mohan

WeQual

Director of Leadership Development

Ovin Mohan has coached over 1000 senior leaders representing the world’s largest companies. As a result, he is recognized as a “Brilliant” (CPO – JustEat), “Exceptional” (CTO – Prologis), and “Amazing” (CFO – Holcim) Executive Coach.

He has created award-winning coaching programs for Apple and received five-star feedback from 360-degree Coaching at Christie’s for leaders C-suite -2. He is a guest lecturer on various MSc programs focusing on strategic leadership development. He advises on a Board that informs the training for the leading coaching training company in the US. Ovin has led large-scale leadership development programs for NATO, the NHS, Barclays, and HSBC and has lived and worked in Chicago, NYC, Valencia, and London.

He was previously Head of Leadership Development, managing the largest CMI centre in the UK, delivering and assessing leadership capabilities up to PhD level. He also designed the curriculum for the Institute of Leadership and Management at L7 (MSc equivalent), which received an “Outstanding” award from ILM.

As a former athlete, in both martial arts and football, his approach to leadership development is driven by teaching deliberate practice of tools, providing feedback to refine those skills, and holding the highest standard of competitive accountability. This is further strengthened by his master’s in occupational psychology.