Scale it up
Ishaan Gupta
Global Head of Operations, global executive, and an investor
About Ishaan
Ishan Gupta is the Global Head of Operations at Udacity, He is responsible for driving successful outcomes for customers worldwide (consumer, enterprise and government). Previously, he built Udacity’s India business from the ground up.
Before joining Udacity, he was the Vice President at Paytm, one of Asia’s largest fintech companies. He was also the Founder & CEO of EduKart.com, which became India’s largest ed-tech marketplace in only five years before it was acqui-hired by Paytm. He was also the first growth evangelist for Facebook in India.
While still an undergraduate student, He founded his first company that delivered offline technology trainings across India. He captured the learnings from this journey in a book titled “”Make the Move – Demystifying Entrepreneurship””, which sold few thousand copies.
Take home these learnings
2) What does it take to be an entrepreneur.
3) The blessing of gratification.
4) Three pillars of leadership
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Dr. Neeta Bhushan
Realizing the power of your Story
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Dr. Neeta Bhushan
Emotional health & wellness advocate
Founder of Global GRIT Institute
About Neeta
A doctor specialized as a cosmetic dentist turns into an emotional health advocate championing emotional & mental health and encouraging other entrepreneurs and game changers to do the same. Dr.Neeta Bhushan is a proud mother, a speaker, apart from being a mentor to leaders, startup founders, impact drivers, and wellness-based entrepreneurs. One of her best-selling books is The Emotional Grit. At Global GRIT Institute, as co-founder, she and her co-founder Ajit Nawalkha combine forces to help consult people in their chapter of business and life.
Take home these learnings
1) How to stitch your own story that inspires the world?
2) How to find the inner power and grit?
3) Being vulnerable and sailing through difficult times.
4) How to realize the power of your story?
Adam Markel
How To Be Resilient In The Face of Tragedy?
Adam Markel
Co-Founder, CEO, Resilience Researcher & Leadership Keynote Speaker
About Adam
Adam Markel is a bestselling author, international keynote speaker, and business mentor who inspires organizations to discover the power of resilience. Adam Markel is a recognized expert in professional and personal reinvention. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, transformational leader, and business mentor, he guides individuals and businesses to capitalize on change and magnify their impact.
After building a multi-million dollar law firm, Adam became CEO of one of the largest business and personal development training companies in the world, overseeing more than $100 million in sales.
His unique expertise is in combining practical business tactics with accelerated learning strategies to embrace change, encourage innovation and increase sales for people and organizations worldwide. Adam Markel inspires, empowers, and guides people to achieve massive and lasting personal and professional growth, whether it be as a keynote speaker, facilitating corporate workshops or mentoring individuals.
Take home these learnings
2) Exploring your Relation with Change.
3) Distinction between Balance and Harmony.
4) Challenges Faced by Leaders to Create Resilient Organisation.
Parth Bhatt
Global vision is not a matter of age.
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Parth Bhatt
UN Institution Alumnus
About Parth
Parth Bhatt is a student from India and an alumnus of many prestigious UN institutions like The United Nations Climate Change Learn in Geneva, Switzerland. As a child, he grew with an internal realization that he needs to take part in empowering others in order to make this world a better place to live. He wanted to do more than academics and become a person with practical knowledge and experience. He always followed current issues.
In 2017, Parth was conferred with the coveted AWWA Award of Excellence by wife of Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army for my works in field of Science & Technology and Community Development through Sustainable Development.
I actively participate in Ambassador Series conferences as Official Youth Delegate and have attended many high level diplomatic meetings & conferences with Presidents & Diplomats from many foreign nations in various capacities.
He completed more than 545 courses with organizations like the United Nations, United States Institute of Peace, and Ivy League Universities. In August 2019, he completed Specialized Training in Military Studies from Peace Operations Training Institute USA.
Take home these learnings
1) How to use technology to transform your life for the better?
2) How to approach artificial intelligence and get comfortable with it?
3) Befriending technology for business transformation.
4) Finding ways to bring peace in your life with technology.
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
Chalinda Abeykoon
Entrepreneurship is The New Revolution
Chalinda Abeykoon
CEO - Lankan Angel Network.
About Chalinda
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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
Leon VanderPol
Exploring the Undefinable: Being, Love, and Consciousness
Leon VanderPol
Founder, Center for Transformational Coaching
About Leon
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Leon VanderPol (PCC) is an internationally known coach trainer, transformational coach, coach mentor, and founder of the Center for Transformational Coaching.
He runs the Deep Coaching Intensive, a professional coach training and personal growth journey developed to help coaches learn the art of deep transformational coaching and to facilitate profound inner growth and awakening. He has over a decade of experience as a coach trainer, and mentor.
He is the author of A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching, a new paradigm of coaching which invites people to drop below surface-level engagement, explore the boundaries
of their existence, and tap into their most authentic self.
Take home these learnings
1) Being aware of our authentic presence
2) Bringing shift in our state of Being
3) Understanding consciousness within the matrix of our connectedness
4) Letting go of self-constructing concepts of fear and ego
5) Keeping a watch on the reactive triggers
