Being A Credible Leader
Kara Goldin
Founder and CEO at Hint Inc.
About Kara
Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She has been named one of InStyle’s Badass 50, Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fortune’s Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Kara has successfully navigated the world of large companies and startups in many industries including media, tech, and consumer products. In addition, she understands retail and direct to consumer well. She is an active speaker & writer and hosts the podcast The Kara Goldin Show where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and other disruptors across various industries. Kara’s first book, Undaunted, published by Harper Leadership, was released in October 2020. She lives in the Bay Area.
Take home these learnings
1. Understanding where fear comes from
2. The journey of an entrepreneur as a seeker
3. What does it mean by being Undaunted?
4. How can a leader demonstrate kindness on a day-to-day basis?
Episode Transcript:
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MR Rangaswami
Inspiring Generations to build communities for the Greater Good
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MR Rangaswami
Founder Indiaspora Forum
About MR
M.R. (Madhavan) Rangaswami is a software executive, investor, entrepreneur, corporate eco-strategy expert, community builder, and philanthropist. Recognized as a software business expert, M.R. participated in the rapid expansion of the Silicon Valley software industry during his tenure as an executive at both large and small software companies. In 1997, M.R. co-founded Sand Hill Group, an investment and consulting group which made several notable investments, produced the Enterprise and Software conference series, and launched SandHill.com, an online resource for software business strategy. In 2007, M.R. founded the Corporate Eco Forum, an organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness of eco-strategies at Global 500 companies. In 2012 he founded Indiaspora to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage.
Take home these learnings
1) Small steps to get started with Philanthropy, right away
2) Ways to inspire your next generations for the greater good.
3) Nuances of network-driven community building
4) Building a professional team to support your community's vision
5) Using your network to fundraise for the greater good.
Francisco Palao Reinés
Scaling Above Stakes and Mistakes
Francisco Palao Reinés
Founder and Doer at Purpose Alliance
About Francisco
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Francisco Palao (PhD, MBA) is an award-winning innovator and a purpose-driven entrepreneur and his purpose is to evolve humanity through technology, social change, and love.
Francisco has founded several companies, including: Cognocare (an award-winning AI-based assistant to personalize cancer treatments), LeanMonitor (a cloud-based platform acquired by Gust.com in 2014 and aimed at helping big organizations and startups to implement lean startup principles and to improve their innovation techniques/strategies), Nativoo (an AI-based platform for personalized tourism, acquired by SBTUR in 2012) and IActive (a high-tech company focused on AI and named Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2012).
In addition, Francisco collaborates with leading business schools and universities, such as Singularity University and IE Business School teaching on entrepreneurship, disruptive innovation and exponential technologies.
Francisco has been honored with several prestigious international recognitions, such as the TR35 award given by the MIT to innovators under 35 all over the world.
Take home these learnings
1) Creating impact by leading a purpose-driven life.
2) The meaning of being a real entrepreneur
3) Mindset as key to make conscious decisions
4) How to be comfortable with uncertainty
Kathy Caprino
In the Life of a Woman...
Kathy Caprino
Career & Leadership Coach
About Kathy
You just need one person in an entire family to release the past patterns and the reactive tendencies and gift a generative future to the next generation. The question is are you willing to be that person…?
This time on The xMonks Drive, Kathy a leadership coach who has dedicated her life to the advancement of women in business, joins us to share her belief and show us the path of purpose.
Take home these learnings
2) How to recognize and deal with a narcissist?
3) How can we bring forgiveness for self and others?
4) How can we face the cage of fear?
Will Sullivan
A Peep In the Heart & Soul Of A Kindness Advocate Who Happens To Be Gay
Will Sullivan
Purpose-driven Leader, Kindness Advocate and Founder
About Will
Will Sullivan is a purpose-driven leader, kindness advocate, communicator, community builder, and the founder of aspiring better human. He has 25+ years of experience building successful large front-of-house teams. He is also a key member of the task force that successfully reopened NYC Cultural Institutions without issue.
Being a leader in an ecosystem which ultimately welcomed over 150,000,000 guests has taught Will much about leadership, hospitality, service, and most importantly, human kindness. Having the honor and privilege to lead thousands of colleagues is an amazing gift and one he truly cherishes. He is the leader who makes the impossible POSSIBLE, the insanity of high-pressure environments SANE and the team UNDERSTAND what they do matters!
Take home these learnings
2) Challenges while facing the society
3) Gifts of life
4) Ways we can spread kindness
Shayamal Vallabhjee
5-step model to help adults shift from childhood trauma
Shayamal Vallabhjee
High Performance Coach
About Shayamal
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For two decades, Shayamal Vallabhjee has worked at the forefront of cutting-edge professional sport. Combining academic knowledge and practical, on-ground experience in Sports Science, Psychology, and Ancient Spiritual Wisdom, he helps athletes and executives tap into their infinite Human Potential.
His approach to High-Performance is called a Balance Model which comprises of four components: Body (Training, Nutrition, Sleep), Mind (Meditation, Mindfulness & Subconscious Programs), Relationships (Family & Friends) & Environment (Everything you can see, smell, touch, taste and hear).
As an academic, he has been lecturing at colleges, universities, and institutes for more than 15 years. He authored four books in Sports Science, Motivation, and Self Help. A 4x TEDx Speaker, INK Fellow, Australia India Youth Fellow, Men's Health Trainer of the Year, Global Spa Wellness Guru of the Year, and Global Advisory Board Member to Herbalife Nutrition.
He was the Founder of HEAL Institute, a healthcare startup in physical rehab based in Mumbai India. He is currently the Founder of QSV Inspiration Media, a digital media startup that creates non-fiction content, tv shows, and documentary dramas backed by evidence-based science.
Take home these learnings
1) A mindset to deal with racism and apartheid
2) What goes into childhood trauma and help people come out of it?
3) Creating trusted relationships in the middle of vulnerability
4) Using spirituality to build performance
Dr. Pat Williams
Learning Coaching from the Original Gangster of Coaching
Dr. Pat Williams
Executive Coach, MCC
About Pat
One of the early pioneers of coaching, Pat is often called the ambassador of life coaching. Pat is a Master Certified Coach (International Coach Federation) and a Board Certified Coach (Center for Credentialing and Education). He has been a licensed psychologist since 1980, and began executive coaching in 1990 with Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kodak and other companies along with the front range of Colorado.
He is a graduate of Kansas University in 1972. He completed his masters in Humanistic Psychology in 1975 (University of West Georgia) and doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology in 1977, (University of Northern Colorado). His dissertation was Transpersonal Psychology and the Evolution of Consciousness.
Pat joined Coach U in 1996, closed his 16-year therapy practice, and six months later and became a full-time coach. Pat was a senior trainer with Coach U from 1997-1998.
He then started his own coach training school, the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) which specializes in training those with a human services orientation. ILCT has trained thousands worldwide since 1998.
Pat was department chair of the Coaching Psychology program at the International University of Professional Studies, and has taught graduate coaching classes at Colorado State University and Denver University, Fielding University, Loyola University, City University of London and many others. He was also a curriculum consultant for the Coaching Certificate program at Fielding International University.
Pat is a past board member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), and co-chaired the ICF regulatory committee. He is past president of ACTO, the Association of Coach Training Organizations and an honorary VP of the Association of Coaching Psychology and a Founding member of Harvard University’s Institute of Coaching.
Take home these learnings
2) How is coaching different from other modalities of human development.
3) Importance of emotional stability for a coach.
4) Transformation: From the lens of a coach.
