Gaurav Arora
My encounter with Life
Gaurav Arora
Master Coach, Facilitator and founder of xMonks
About Gaurav Arora
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)The story of Mount Bonell
3)Uncovering the evolution of humans
4)An interaction with hope, faith, and love.
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Gururaj Deshpande
Passing through the Highs and Lows of Life with Joy
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Gururaj Deshpande
Venture Capitalist, Philanthropist, and Entrepreneur
About Gururaj
MIT-trained speaker, author, consultant, and mentor in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Brian has authored four books on A.I. including "Artificial Intelligence: Foundations for Business Leaders and Consultants", releasing his new book in September 2020 titled "Deep Health: Using Artificial Intelligence to Live Longer and Healthier". The new book illustrates the power of AI in analyzing vast amounts of data about one person: you.
He was recently named AI Advisor at Halton Regional Innovation Center in Burlington, Ontario, and at Hamilton's Innovation Factory. Brian is also an AI Instructor with McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Brian's fifth book, Quantum Boost, offers insights into the world of quantum computing and its myriad applications. Quantum Computing Applications is due out in early 2021.
Take home these learnings
1) How childhood shapes your entrepreneurial journey?
2) Truth about an entrepreneur's work-life balance.
3) Advice to entrepreneurs as an Entrepreneur.
4) Advice to entrepreneurs as an Investor.
Alain Hunkins
Cultivating Your Inner Leader
Alain Hunkins
Keynote speaker, facilitator, coach and author
Alain Hunkins
Over his twenty-five-year career, Alain has worked with over 2,000 groups of leaders in 27 countries, including 42 of the Fortune 100 companies. In addition to being a leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach, Alain is the author of the book CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders (published by Wiley, March 2020).
Alain is a faculty member of Duke Corporate Education and serves on the Academic Board of Advisors for the New Delhi Institute of Management. Alain’s work has been featured in Chief Executive, Fast Company, Inc., Training Magazine, Chief Learning Officer, and Business Insider. He’s also a regular leadership strategy contributor to Forbes. Alain was recently named #33 on the Global Power list of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership for 2022 by LeadersHum. A father of two teenagers, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Take home these learnings:
2. What younger workers are looking for—but not getting—from most leaders
3. Why leading with empathy is essential…and the benefits of doing so
4. What gets in the way of leaders communicating well
5. How to identify and acknowledge peak moments to create a positive workplace
Vanessa Liu
How to create an impact from where you are
Vanessa Liu
Entrepreneur, Board director and Investor
About Vanessa
Vanessa Liu is a technology innovator, a business builder, and a digital media entrepreneur. She's been creating, launching, and re-launching businesses for a long time. Vanessa has over 23 years of experience as a serial founder, operator, strategist, and investor at SAP, Trigger Media, and McKinsey, and has a proven track record of value creation. She supervises SAP.iO's North American Foundries in New York and San Francisco, including programmes focused to women and diverse-led B2B business IT companies, and has recruited and accelerated 70+ enterprise software startups in her role as Vice President of SAP.iO, SAP's early-stage venture arm. Vanessa was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Trigger Media Group, a $22 million digital media company.
InsideHook (a digital media firm and a men's lifestyle brand) and Fevo (a women's lifestyle brand) are two of Trigger's portfolio companies she co-founded (SaaS technology for group experiences at live events). She began her career as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company's Media and Entertainment Practice, with offices in Amsterdam, London, and New York.
Vanessa is a Non-Executive Director of Appen Ltd. at the moment (ASX: APX). Bounce Exchange (Wunderkind), Crave Global, Grata Data, GroundSignal, Kable AI, and Narrativ are among the start-ups in which she is an advisor or investor.
Take home these learnings
2) Explaining how business can create an impact.
3) Why investing in aging is important.
4) Explaining the reason for conflict when the heart aches for peace.
Kara Goldin
Being A Credible Leader
Kara Goldin
Founder and CEO at Hint Inc.
About Kara
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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?
Dr. Marilyn Atkinson
Committing to your Own Purpose
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Dr. Marilyn Atkinson
Founder and President of Erickson Coaching International
About Marilyn
Marilyn Atkinson is the founder of Erickson Coaching International and the originator of a well-known, comprehensive, Solution-Focused, and Outcome-Oriented Coaching model. Her model has actively contributed to the emergence and expansion of Solution-Focused Psychology, and the development of Meta Program Analysis for effective hiring and managerial approaches worldwide.
As an Industrial Psychologist, she has honed Solution-Focused methods for multiple kinds of corporate engagements, making the tools effective and easy for managers to use. Marilyn has been a dedicated follower of Milton Erickson for decades and gave his name to Erickson Coaching International in 1985.
For the past ten years, she has been developing highly effective and specialized coach training programs (ICF ACTP-accredited The Art & Science of Coaching) that are currently being taught in 45 countries. A former Registered Organizational Psychologist in Canada, Marilyn is also an NLP Master Trainer and specialist in Ericksonian Communications. She began developing formal business coach training programs in the mid-1990s. Since then she has been helping leading global companies and leaders through Solution-Focused and Outcome-Oriented Coaching transformations. She has authored seven books in the field of psychology and coaching.
Take home these learnings
1) How to become a world-class Coach?
2) How to implement the Happiness Success Model in your life?
3) How to thrive in what you choose to become across all paradigms of life?
4) Real-life stories for transformative personality development.
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Metaverse: What Does It Mean To You?
Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Author, Future Tech Strategist, Digital Speaker
About Dr Mark van Rijmenam
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is a future tech strategist, international keynote speaker, author and expert on disruptive innovation and how we can benefit from emerging technologies such as big data, blockchain, AI and VR/AR.
Dr Mark van Rijmenam is the founder of Datafloq and co-founder of AKVO. Datafloq is the one-stop source for emerging tech, offering C-level Executives information, insights, knowledge and opportunities to drive innovation with data and use technology in ways that benefit employees, customers and citizens. AKVO enables users to immerse themselves and create lasting memories with friends & family by experiencing the virtual worlds together. He recently launched the Between Two Bots podcast with Dan Turchin, covering the cultural, technological and ethical implications of artificial intelligence, technology and the metaverse.
He has a bachelor’s in hospitality management, a Master of Science in Marketing Management, and a PhD in Management from the University of Technology Sydney. His research was on how organisations should deal with big data analytics, Blockchain and AI.
He is a globally recognised speaker on big data, blockchain and AI, a future tech strategist and author of 3 best-selling management books. His last book, The Organisation of Tomorrow, discusses how AI, blockchain and analytics turn every business into a data organisation.
Take home these learnings
2) Paradigm shift required to make digitalisation happen.
3) Is metaverse a boon or a bane?
4) Adding value to humanity in the age of metaverse.
