An electric motor with reduced cogging torque and related method of determining a stator pole geometry are disclosed. The electric motor includes a rotor (80, 91, 96) and a stator (50A, 50B, 50C, 50D, 60A, 60B, 60C, 60D, 70A, 90B, 94B, 98) having a stator pole geometry incorporating non-magnetic body segments (110) and magnetic body segments (100) as magnetic reluctance equalizing elements to provide an equalized magnetic body distribution along a circumferential periphery of the stator. The method comprises defining a first group of stator poles skewed at an electric angle of 360/(2S), defining a second group of stator poles deviated from the first group of stator poles by an electric angle of 180 degrees, and synthesizing the first and second groups of stator poles pieces to provide a stator including a plurality of stator poles defined in the stator pole geometry to have an equalized magnetic flux distribution pattern along a circumferential periphery of the stator.