Fighting for a Cause while you transcend as a better version
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Candace Lightner
Award Winning Keynote Speaker, Educator, Activist and Consultant. President at We Save Lives, and CL and Associates
About Candace
Candace Lightner, is a groundbreaking activist, cultural movement maker, mentor, author, producer, and spokesperson, who is widely recognized as one of the most influential American citizens of the twentieth century.
She is the Founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, MADD, and We Save Lives and is credited with saving more than 400,000 lives.
Candace is the subject of an Emmy nominated television movie and is featured in numerous documentaries and books. She co-authored “Giving Sorrow Words: How to Cope with Grief and Get on With Your Life,” which breaks the grieving process down into 3 stages: the beginning the middle and the rest of your life.
She speaks to thousands all over the world on how to turn a protest into a movement and the ABC’s of making a difference. As a successful leader, she offers practical ideas and strategies, based on the techniques that have worked for her. Candace has become the “go-to” expert on how to create a successful movement. She will soon be introducing workshops on how to be a successful activist.
As an ongoing guest lecturer at Columbia University’s Personal Leadership Institute, Candace not only serves as an example of how to start a successful movement that lasts, she also knows about navigating the pitfalls on one’s way to becoming the CEO of a large international corporation.
Candace is also a strong advocate for the Courage to Intervene, a We Save Lives program educating bystanders on the best techniques for keeping anyone who will listen from driving recklessly.
Candace continues to inspire and motivate groups around the country, and believes that when others succeed in a noble cause it helps all of us live better.
Specialties include Strategic Planning, building your grassroots, the nuances of developing an effective non-profit, the necessary steps to pass legislation and coalition building.
Take home these learnings
1) How to retain strength, retain, and grit when you choose a difficult battle?
2) Being practical while not being lost by emotion.
3) How to build camaraderie to support a common cause?
4) How to manage a volunteer ecosystem and build an organization from grassroots?
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Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Metaverse: What Does It Mean To You?
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Author, Future Tech Strategist, Digital Speaker
About Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is a future tech strategist, international keynote speaker, author and expert on disruptive innovation and how we can benefit from emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, AI and VR/AR.
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is the founder of Datafloq and co-founder of AKVO. Datafloq is the one-stop source for emerging tech, offering C-level Executives information, insights, knowledge and opportunities to drive innovation with data and use technology in ways that benefit employees, customers and citizens. AKVO enables users to immerse themselves and create lasting memories with friends & family by experiencing the virtual worlds together. He recently launched the Between Two Bots podcast with Dan Turchin, covering the cultural, technological and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, technology and the metaverse.
He has a bachelor’s in hospitality management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management, and a PhD in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. His research was on how organisations should deal with big data analytics, Blockchain and AI.
He is a globally recognised speaker on big data, blockchain and AI, a future tech strategist and author of 3 best-selling management books. His last book, The Organisation of Tomorrow, discusses how AI, blockchain and analytics turn every business into a data organisation.
Take home these learnings
2) Paradigm shift required to make digitalisation happen.
3) Is metaverse a boon or a bane?
4) Adding value to humanity in the age of metaverse.
Pooja Marwah
Living from a centered identity to create a culture
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Pooja Marwah
CEO - Child Rights and You (CRY)
About Pooja
Puja Marwaha CEO - Child Rights and You (CRY), believes that children are the very foundation of every nation’s growth and development aspirations. It was this belief that fueled her passion for children’s rights and inspired her to become a full-fledged part of the social sector in 1994.
After a liberal arts and Human Resources development education, Puja Marwaha made the transition from the corporate to the social sector early in her career. Having worked earlier with various corporate organizations, she joined CRY in 1994 to set up the organization’s Human Resources function. In 2002 she moved into more general management roles in CRY. Today, Puja is the Chief Executive Officer at CRY, India’s leading child rights organization.
Puja believes that children should be at the heart of all human development work. This belief informs her passionate interest and involvement in children and their potential. Over the course of her work, Puja has been involved in the nurturing of a large number of organizations and people, enabling them to connect at the level of individual belief, to the vision of all rights, for all children.
For the past 25 years, Puja has helped build an organizational framework for CRY that best captures the essence of justice and equity. Her work is focused on creation of an organizational character that attempts to foster a passion for children, a high degree of individual accountability to children and a belief in every person’s potential to bring change for children. She currently also serves on the board for VANI – Voluntary Action Network India – in an endeavor to strengthen public mobilization for social causes.
Take home these learnings
1) What it's like to follow your heart?
2) Switching from corporate to the social sector.
3) How to lead an organization?
4) Why children should be put in center stage for decision making?
Kevin Cottam
What does it take to strike a dialogue with the Universe?
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Kevin Cottam
Life Coach and CEO of Go Nomading Pvt. Ltd.
About Kevin
Kevin Cottam is on a mission. That mission is The Nomadic Mindset. He believes people have become too narrow in their mindsets, and to survive and thrive in Industry 5.0 and the 21st century, organizational expansion is vital. The magic of a coach and a professional keynote speaker encourages this expansion by removing the barriers in the mind so possibilities can emerge, evolve, and flourish.
And these aren’t just empty words or pie-in-the-sky ideas. Kevin has migrated, lived, and worked as a coach, author, and speaker on four continents and in 15 major cities.
From his humble beginnings as a child living in a logging camp of 300 on an isolated lake in Western Canada to the ice rinks of the world as a former elite choreographer of world and Olympic figure-skating champions and director of multimillion-dollar touring skating productions and the 1988 Calgary Olympic Closing Ceremonies, Kevin has learned, lived, and experienced.
From award-winning short dance filmmaker to coaching executives in EU institutions and the private sectors to speaking at conferences, in boardrooms, and in training rooms for multinational enterprises, Kevin has attained cultural insight, awareness, and stories that enrich his inspirational speaking, coaching, and writing.
He leverages his more than forty years of a diverse and expansive life and his real-life research to build, grow, and encourage leaders to evolve and lead masterfully with a deeper whole awareness of themselves and their organization and sustainable planet-care.
Kevin’s colorful and insightful journey researching the ancient nomadic wisdom in Mongolia, the Maasai in Southern Kenya, and the Berbers of the Sahara in Southern Morocco and Namibia and his extensive interviews with over 100 executives is the focal point of his fresh story- and image-driven leadership book, The Nomadic Mindset: Never Settle … for Too Long.
Take home these learnings
1) How to align your inner dharma to the dharma outside?
2) What does it take to talk to the universe?
3) What do you call the invisible? God or your transcended self?
4) Being awake to the clues left by the universe to find your inner calling
Ravi Kalra
Building a Selfless and Sustained Profitable Community Service
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Ravi Kalra
Social Activist and Founder of The Earth Saviours Foundation
About Ravi
Ravi Kalra is referred to as Karma Yogi who chose the path of serving humanity. In order to heal the wounds of Mother Earth, God chooses few people to protect our planet and it's environment. Ravi Kalra is one of them and is putting his entire being and life to tackling the challenges. He is a well know Karma Yogi, a social activist and an environmentalist.
He regularly goes on roads in search of abandoned senior citizens and mentally disabled people. He immediately brings them to his shelter home. Where he provides them with free of charge, accommodation, food and medical care. Presently more than five hundred such less privileged people are living permanently at his shelter home.
In year 2008 he founded The Earth Saviours Foundation. It is recognized by Government of India. He receives no financial support from the Govt but receives tremendous moral support from Govt. Recently Vice President of India Sh. Venkaiah Naidu Ji had facilitated him with National Award 2019 for his selfless outstanding services for the welfare of abandoned and disabled people. His name has also been listed in World Books of Record, London, United Kingdom for his beyond compared services for less privileged people.
Ravi Kalra is also known as the “No Honking Man of India”. He is the first person in India to launch the "Do Not Honk" campaign in order to control noise pollution caused by un-necessarily vehicular honking. He holds the world record for pasting more than one lakh, Do Not Honk on the back bumpers of vehicle. According to the Sadhus and Saints, Karma Yogi Ravi Kalra is the only non-priest man in the world, by cremated more than 8000 unclaimed and unidentified dead bodies at the electric crematoriums.
In the year 2012 Ravi Kalra was conferred with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Prestigious Award for Excellence in selfless humanitarian services. Karma Yogi Ravi Kalra urges everyone around the world by stating that the self service to serve less privileged is the most precious service in God's eyes.
Take home these learnings
1) How to step out of your comfort zone?
2) Explore a selfless journey towards humanity.
3) How to embrace a community and cause, despite lack of support?
4) Working as an NGO and sticking to your purpose.
Gaurav Arora
3 Lessons From 3 Important Women (Mother's Day Special)
Gaurav Arora
Master Coach, Facilitator and founder of xMonks
About Gaurav
Gaurav has a decade of rich experience in the professional services industry as a Facilitator, Coach and Speaker, with a strong track record of building high-performing leadership teams. As a facilitator, he has been recognized for creating stimulating and interactive learning environments, encouraging participation and individual creativity. As an Executive Coach, he works to dismantle barriers that come up in the workplace for leaders and help them in fulfilling their intent. A storyteller by heart, he leverages various methodologies and technique to put his point across and create the breakthrough.
He founded Inspire Coaching Systems in 2009, now known as xMonks and started a social development initiative “iOwn” in 2016, which is a platform to connect coaches with Social Development Sector to create possibilities and transformation for the change makers and bringing coaching to the grass root level.
Gaurav is an Engineer and a Management Graduate in Marketing. He is a recipient of the “Young HR Professional of the Year 2009-10” by Employer Branding Institute and has been awarded as the 100 top Leadership Coach in 2017. Recently, Gaurav has been honored with the 2019 ICF Young Leader Award. Gaurav is a voracious reader and loves adventure sports. In his free time, he does calligraphy, painting, and reads books.
Take home these learnings
2) Message from my teacher, Dr.Marilyn Atkinson
3) Lesson from my sister.
Steve Farber & John French
Twisted Business for High-minded Leaders
Steve Farber & John “Jay Jay” French
John “Jay Jay” French - Entrepreneur and Founding Member-Manager of Twister Sister
Steve Farber - Founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute
About Steve
Listed as one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Steve Farber is a Leadership Pioneer, Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author on Extreme Leadership. His expertise is in creating organizational cultures where leadership is not just an opportunity and obligation for those in authority, but for everyone at all levels.
Steve is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder and chairman of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them.
About Jay
John "Jay Jay" French is a Keynote and Motivational Speaker, Reinvention Expert, Entrepreneur, and Founding member of the renowned heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He has a unique perspective on business leadership based on my 40+ years of experience with Twisted Sister (as Manager, Guitarist, and Director of Licensing, Publishing & Touring), as well as being a producer/executive producer/manager of rock bands. I’m also the founder of The Pink Burst Project, a nonprofit.
He is a natural storyteller and loves energizing and inspiring audiences through extraordinary tales of success, failure and reinvention through the lens of rock and roll.
He talks about the importance of vision, business transformation, hiring the right people, how to manage challenges, being an authentic leader and developing successful business practices. Everything is based on real-life experiences and he speaks very honestly and openly, with a good dose of humor.
Take home these learnings
1) The story of rising, fall, and the triumphant return of the Twisted Sister star
2) Business lessons that are applicable to every profession and even to life in general
3) Tips to voice your story, redeem yourself and develop your philosophy
4) Collaboration and Love at the core of leadership
