In our latest Open House Talk, Carla Goldstein, CEO of Omega Institute, and co-founder of the Omega Women’s leadership Center, discusses “Doing Power Differently” – a new way of looking at gender-based power dynamics. In conversation with our founder, Edit Schlaffer, they argue for an end to women adapting to our current-day power structures, and instead for creating their own conditions conducive to life. Goldstein offers positive and hopeful insight into strategies to bring about an era of healing in gender relations.

Carla Goldstein, JD, is President & CEO of Omega Institute, and the co-founder of the Omega Women’s Leadership Center, dedicated to helping women #DoPowerDifferently for which she earned a Helen Gurly Brown Genius Grant Award. She has extensive experience in lifelong learning, public policy, and movement building, and is an innovator in women’s leadership. Carla advises several organisations including Women without Borders, Connected Women Leaders, Feminist.com, and Living Room Conversations, supporting an emerging global network of change-leaders.

Edit Schlaffer is the Founder and Chair of Women without Borders. A social scientist, Edit founded WwB in 2001 with a view to building up the competence and confidence of women to effect positive social change in countries of crisis and transition around the world. Schlaffer focuses on gender-based peacebuilding strategies that harness the strength of civil society in building a new security architecture from the bottom up.