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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Karen Craggs
Why Did An Assault Survivor Choose To Forgive?
Karen Craggs
Thought Leader & Advisor on Corp Purpose
Karen Craggs
Growing up in Kenya in a multi-racial home, Karen was always sensitive to inequality and injustice around her.
Impacted by childhood rape, Karen decided, at the young age of 13, that she was not going to be trapped in life as a victim, living in shame and being angry at the world.
Coaching helped her find healing and freedom. She transformed her pain into an even deeper love, compassion and commitment to elevate humanity.
Karen is now a global Coach and Advisor, working with leaders in governments, corporations and NGOs to learn how to recognize and effectively address unconscious bias and discrimination within their organizations and in the communities they serve. Working with clients like the UN, Government of Canada, Adidas and Reebok, the MasterCard Foundation, Karen has shaped more than half a billion dollars worth of international programs and social justice initiatives, bringing hope, healing and a better life for millions of women, men, children and marginalized groups all over the world.
Mindful Content Warning - This episode includes some discussion about Karen's experience of sexual violence that may be distressing or triggering.
Please take care of yourself and feel free to reach out to Karen directly or seek local resources, if you need support.
Take home these learnings:
2. How society shames victims
3. The impact of trauma on young Karen
4. Voicing the pain and breaking the silence
5. Heal men to heal women
6. Imbibing self-love as a survivor
7. Breaking generational and corporate bias
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.
Matt Tenney
Lessons from 5.5 years of Prison Confinement
Matt Tenney
CEO at The Generous Group and author
About Matt
Matt Tenney works to develop highly effective leaders who achieve extraordinary, long-term business outcomes – and live more fulfilling lives – as a result of realizing high levels of self-mastery and more effectively serving and inspiring greatness in the people around them.
Matt is a social entrepreneur and the author of "The Mindfulness Edge: How to Rewire Your Brain for Leadership and Personal Excellence Without Adding to Your Schedule" and "Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom". He has been teaching mindfulness in various capacities since 2002. He is also an international keynote speaker, a corporate trainer, and a consultant with the prestigious Perth Leadership Institute. Matt’s clients include Wells Fargo, Marriott, Keller Williams, The Four Seasons, and many other companies, associations, and universities.
Take home these learnings
2) How does mindfulness show up in a business setup?
3) What is the most significant skill for a leader.
4) The connection between serving others and business outcomes.
Raj De Datta
Humanity and Digital Experience
Raj De Datta
CEO and Founder, Bloomreach
About Raj
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Raj De Datta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomreach, the leading digital experience platform for e-commerce that powers 25% of retail e-commerce in the United States and the United Kingdom. Before creating Bloomreach, he worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, as Cisco's head of product marketing, and as a member of the founding team of telecom business FirstMark Communications. He also worked at Lazard Freres in technology investment banking. Raj is a Founder Partner at seed-stage venture capital firm Founder Collective and an individual investor in over 20 Silicon Valley startups. He also serves on the US Tennis Association's Council for Player Development.
Raj is the author of the upcoming book from Columbia University Press, “The Digital Seeker” which is a guide for digital teams to build winning experiences. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Public Policy and International affairs from Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Take home these learnings
1. A new perspective on entrepreneurship
2. Understanding the entanglement between digital and real worlds
3. Hacks to strengthen your entrepreneurial game
4. An understanding of the culture of commitment
Malti Bhojwani
Live in Joy; Die with Dignity
Malti Bhojwani
Coach, facilitator, author
About Malti
Malti Bhojwani is a professional coach, self awareness author and facilitator of transformation. She applies her years of experience in the personal development business to a wide range of individuals, corporate teams, and entrepreneurs all over the world as they navigate change. Malti is a trained and certified professional PCC coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation).
She has completed courses in NLP and Ontological Coaching (Newfield), Barrett's Cultural Transformation Tools, Facilitating Through Values with Corporate Evolutions, Foundations in Neuroscience, and is a graduate of GBA – Gita Bellin & Associates as a lead facilitator of transformation. She is also trained in Yoga and Somatic work, which teaches people how to modify their ideas and emotions by changing how they hold their bodies.
Take home these learnings
2) Understanding how to give up blame, shame, and guilt to reach compassion.
3) Exploring the the birth child of your intuition.
4) Tapping into the space of courage and purpose.
Blaine Bartlett
What Does It Mean To Foster Connections?
Blaine Bartlett
Executive & Leadership Coach, Keynote Speaker, Author
About Blaine
Blaine Bartlett is globally recognized as a leadership development master. As a speaker and the author of 5 books including the international best-seller Compassionate Capitalism: A Journey to the Soul of Business, he has personally delivered programs to more than 300,00 individuals directly impacting more than one million people worldwide.
He’s been featured in the TV series World’s Greatest Motivators; the movie and book Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy as well as three TEDx talks and numerous podcasts. As CEO of Avatar Resources, a global leadership consultancy he founded in 1987, he’s worked with entrepreneurs and leaders in many of the largest companies and organizations on the planet to change the way leadership is used to foster Compassionate Capitalism.
Take home these learnings
2) How can we create the essence of oneness?
3) Exploring rational self-interest and enlightened self-interest.
4) Identifying the absolute nature.
