Balancing Conflict and the Art of Leadership
Manoj Kohli
Country Head, Softbank India
About Manoj
Manoj Kohli started his career in HR with the DCM Shriram Group, held business leadership positions in Foods, Chemicals, Refrigeration, and Automobile. Honda JV, Airtel, SB Energy were some organizations that he contributed to.
After 16 years in the manufacturing sector, he led a mobile startup Escotel to achieve market leadership in 3 important markets in India. Meet the passionate leader, Manoj Kohli who is the Country Head – SoftBank India responsible for supporting SoftBank Group, SoftBank Vision Fund, and their over 20 portfolio companies in India.
You will also know him as the “Telecom Man of the Year” in 2000, “Best Alumni” by SRCC Delhi University, and “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2020. Tune into this conversation for a masterclass in leadership”.
Take home these learnings
1) How to find balance during times of conflict?
2) What does it take and mean to master the art of corporate leadership?
3) What does it mean to get comfortable with uncomfortable?
4) How to encourage and co-exist with conflict while you emerge as a leader?
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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?
Kara Goldin
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?
Alexander Mearns
Tune in and listen to your body
Alexander Mearns
Holistic Health Practitioner & Wellness Coach | Founder of LEVITISE
About Alexander
Alexander Mearns is a Holistic Health Practitioner, a Wellness speaker, and the Founder of LEVITISE - Lifestyle, Nutrition, and Fitness Centre.
After 20 years in the finance industry, he left the corporate world in late 2017 to start Levitise, Singapore's only Holistic Lifestyle Centre. He looked for answers to fix his own health problems from the commercial fitness and medical industries so after many years of studying holistic health, fitness, and nutrition in Singapore, Australia, and the United States. He set up Levitise to help people, like him get the answers and make real changes from the ground up.
Levitise specializes in working with senior executives in their 40s and 50s by solving problems such as weight gain, anxiety, fatigue, and poor sleep. By working on a combination of personal training, nutrition, and lifestyle factors Levitise helps you solve your health concerns and achieve your fitness goals in an exclusive, private, safe, and cozy downtown environment.
Take home these learnings
1) How to give what your body needs?
2) Connection between food, nutrition, mind, and body.
3) Looking good or staying fit? Exploring the relationship
4) Finding happiness with the right diet.
5) Understanding the association of genetics with cuisine.
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?
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.
D. K. Shivakumar
Surf through Change without bruises
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D. K. Shivakumar
Group Executive President at Aditya Birla Group
About Shivakumar
D. Shivakumar, or Shiv as he is popularly known, is a Bangalore born leader and a management thinker.
He is currently the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Group. Previously, Shiv was the Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer at PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India. Prior to that, he was CEO for emerging markets at Nokia.
Shiv started his career as a management trainee in the Consumer Products Division at Hindustan Ciba Geigy before shifting to Hindustan Unilever Limited where he spent 19 years in sales, marketing and general management positions. He moved to Philips, India as Chief Executive Officer of the consumer electronics division in 2003.
Shiv joined Nokia in 2006 as the Managing Director, India. Under his management, Nokia built its entire services portfolio, including Nokia Life Tools. He was also instrumental in pushing low-cost mobile devices across rural India; making Nokia a dominant brand in India. He is credited for driving Nokia’s brand from No. 71 to No. 1 in the country. He was instrumental in making Nokia one of the top most trusted brands. Shiv moved as Sr. Vice President, Emerging Markets (India, Middle East, Africa) in 2011. This market accounts for 40% of Nokia’s global business and comprises around 90 countries. His contribution during this time has become case studies at Harvard University, ISB, and other Ivy League Institutes.
In 2013, Shivakumar was appointed as the Chairperson & CEO of PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India where he managed brand portfolios across beverages, snacks and nutrition. He has been the driving force in bringing PepsiCo’s nutrition portfolio to the forefront with new launches under the Quaker and Tropicana brands. He is known for being the key driver for portfolio transformation and deepens consumer engagement with flagship brands. Apart from overseeing India operations, he also managed PepsiCo’s franchise business across Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.
As of January 2018, Shivakumar has joined Aditya Birla Group as the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy. Aditya Birla Group is one of the largest Indian conglomerates with businesses spread across telecommunications, cement, chemicals, mining, textiles, financial services, retail, and e-commerce, among others, in 36 countries.
Take home these learnings
1) What does it take for the leadership to remain honest?
2) How to traverse through the rough patches of global backlashes?
3) Career decisions that can help you talk to the ecosystem
4) As a leader, how to remain relevant for tomorrow?
