Entrepreneurship is The New Revolution
Chalinda Abeykoon
CEO – Lankan Angel Network.
About Chalinda
Chalinda has spent the last 10 years building a startup ecosystem in Sri Lanka. During his tenure, he has mentored over 3,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and helped launch more than 50 startups.
After six years of ecosystem building, he shifted his focus towards entrepreneurial leadership in 2016. More specifically, he helps entrepreneurs fine-tune their business models and formulate execution strategies. As many of them are first-generation entrepreneurs, he coaches them to become investor-ready and support their fundraising journey. As a result, he has helped over 20 startups from multiple domains raise their angel/seed rounds.
His goal for the next five years is to expand the funding landscape in Sri Lanka. He works very closely with angel investors, VCs, and startup organizations around the world. Being an intervention leader, he aims to drive value to investors by connecting them with the most promising startups with regional and global potential. In January 2020, he took over as CEO of the Lankan Angel Network, Sri Lanka’s first alliance of angel investors. Together with his team, he raised the first Angel Fund dedicated to early-stage startups in Sri Lanka. He firmly believes that success breeds success. As such, the Angel Fund brings together 100 of the most successful Sri Lankans from around the world. They represent over 20 industries & disciplines and are from Asia, APAC, Europe & Noth America.
He obtained my bachelor’s from the University of London in 2009 and began my entrepreneurial crusade. He was one of three finalists in South Asia for the Entrepreneurial Award, awarded by the British Council in 2018. In 2020, he received the Chevening Fellowship(CRISP), hosted by the University of Oxford.
Take home these learnings
1) How can innovation help start a company
2) The full cycle of entrepreneurship
3) Converting ideas into business
4) Identifying an Entrepreneur
5) Challenges of the entrepreneurial journey
Episode Transcript:
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Peter Merry
Being a Human: Designing Synapses that shape Experiences
Peter Merry
Chief Innovation Officer, Ubiquity University
About Peter
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A creative thinker-doer committed to making the biggest possible positive impact with the least possible effort. Peter is co-founding Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity, founder of the Center for Human Emergence (Netherlands), and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organizations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multistakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders.
He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognized expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. His first book was published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership, 2005) and his second in 2019 (Why Work? on designing work for people and planet - www.whyworkbook.com). His third book Leading from the Field (https://leadingfromthefield.com) is due out at the end of November 2020. . He has an MSc in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University and a Ph.D. from Ubiquity’s Wisdom School on volution theory (see www.volutiontheory.net). His personal website is www.petermerry.org.
Take home these learnings
1) Designing your life aligning with your purpose
2) Leading a purposeful life
3) Implementing Evolutionary Leadership
4) Acknowledging diversity within yourself
Brett Hill
How to Practice Mindfulness In Everyday Life
Brett Hill
Professional speaker, trainer, coach, author, and specializes in mindful communications
Brett Hill
Brett is the host of the Language of Mindfulness and Organizational Mindfulness podcast. He is a professional speaker, trainer, coach, an author, and specializes in mindful communications. Brett has distilled a lifetime of deep study and practice into mindful communications in his training, lectures, and writings. He has a degree in interpersonal communications, has taught meditation to many hundreds of people, and has studied the mindful presence and communications for many years in such schools as Hakomi (somatic, mindful psychotherapy), The META institute (Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches), The Mindfulness Coaching School, and others. He founded the Quest Insitute mediation center in Dallas Texas.
In addition, Brett has launched several businesses and is deeply technical having worked for Microsoft as a Sr. Technical Evangelist and Worldwide Technical Readiness Manager for Microsoft Online Services. Before and after joining Microsoft, he was named by Microsoft as "most valuable professional" and wrote software for organizations like Fresh Produce Sportswear and the Texas Rangers baseball team. He was CTO for a startup that went on to get several rounds of funding. In addition, he developed and taught classes on-site for organizations like Citibank, Ford, State Farm, Progressive, and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Now he focuses on helping professionals learn the power of conscious, mindful communication. In all of his work, he's concluded the key skill any person can study to improve their professional and personal lives - is mindful communication. He says "the limits of what we can achieve personally, professionally, and even as a people - is bounded by our ability to effectively communicate".
Take home these learnings
2. The impact of mindfulness on interpersonal relationship
3. How organizations are adopting mindfulness during the great resignation
4. Hurdles of practicing mindfulness
Bob Anderson
Transforming into your Extraordinary Self
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Bob Anderson
Executive Coach, Author & Founder of The Leadership Circle
About Bob
Robert (Bob) J. Anderson has been a pacesetter and thought leader in the field of Leadership Development for over 30 years. He is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle and Full Circle Group.
Bob has completed his second co-authored book "Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most." "Scaling Leadership" is an essential guide that offers senior leaders the information needed to develop conscious leadership at scale with their organization.
His first book, co-authored with William A. Adams, "Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results," has been described as the next seminal work in the leadership field. Mastering Leadership is a comprehensive look at what makes for extraordinary leadership and how to develop it.
Bob created The Leadership Circle Profile, a 360° assessment used by organizations the world over to measure the effectiveness of their leaders. In 2005, the Stayer Center for Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business awarded Bob the Partner in Innovation Award. The MEECO Leadership Institute awarded him the International Thought Leader of Distinction in 2018.
Take home these learnings
1) How to achieve positive transformation under pressure?
2) How to transform into your Extraordinary Self despite complexities, challenges, and limitations?
3) How to develop your inner game and how to focus on it?
4) What is the process of identifying your true purpose?
Kevin Monroe
Hope Grows in Gratitude
Kevin Monroe
Gratitude Ambassador
About Kevin Monroe
During a bout of depression in early 2018 when Kevin began to discover the true power of gratitude and embrace gratitude as a lifestyle. He realized that his early expressions of gratitude were anemic and bordered on robotic. As such, they failed to tap into the power of gratitude that neuroscientists and positive psychologists talk about.
As he adopted gratitude as a lifestyle, he began incorporating gratitude into his work. Whether that was speaking engagements, training or coaching sessions, or his podcast, he started sessions by asking people to pause and express gratitude for something.
Then, in June 2019, he was inspired to host a gratitude challenge. So he did. At first, it was in conjunction with his podcast. He hosted a 10-Day Gratitude Challenge to celebrate the 100th episode milestone. It was a tremendous success with almost 300 participants, and by the second day, a 100-person waitlist.
So, he launched a second session of the challenge. And it grew—organically and globally. By the fifth session, more than 1,000 people from 40-plus countries had participated, and by the 10th session, that number grew to over 2,000 people from more than 50 countries. Somehow, Kevin had tapped into the power of gratitude and people’s hunger for it.
He also co-created The Gratitude Challenge Card Deck, a resource that shares 52 of the creative prompts from The Gratitude Challenge for people to use to grow and guide gratitude in their life, work, or family.
His latest endeavor is 30 Days IN the Power of Gratitude, an app-based journey helping people explore and embrace the power of gratitude in a 30-day journey.
He is the founder and host of This Extraordinary Life Global Community and Podcast.
Kevin is a graduate of Gonzaga University with a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership. He has an undergraduate degree in theology from Mercer University. He is a Fellow with Creating the Future and The Colson Center. He lives in Woodstock, Georgia, where he enjoys being a husband, father, grandfather, friend, creator, and gratitude guide.
Take home these learnings
2) How living from a space of gratitude changes life?
3) How to practice gratitude during the dark times of your life?
4) Discovering rituals of gathering those gratitude moments on a day to day basis.
Pamela Slim
How to build your influence and build Communities?
Pamela Slim
Author, community builder, small business strategist and a former corporate director
About Pamela
Pamela Slim is an author, community builder, consultant, and former Barclays Global Investors corporate director of training and development. Her first ten years in business were spent developing and delivering training programmes for major corporations including HP, Charles Schwab, 3Com, Chevron, and Cisco Systems.
Pam has coached thousands of entrepreneurs as well as small company service providers such as Infusionsoft, Progressive Insurance, and Prezi since 2005. Pam co-founded and launched the Quiet Revolution and the Quiet Leadership Institute with author Susan Cain.
Pam is well known for her books Escape from Cubicle Nation (called Best Small Business and Entrepreneur Book of 2009 by 800 CEO Read) and Body of Work (designated Best Small Business and Entrepreneur Book of 2010 by 800 CEO
Take home these learnings
2) Partnering with the world to curate our transformation.
3) Building your influence in the world.
4) The concept of Maven, connector, and sales.
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?
