Turning Problems into Opportunities
Nitin Sisodia
Founder – Sohum Innovation Lab
About Nitin
Nitin Sisodia Founder & CEO of Sohum Innovation Labs. He is also a 2010 Stanford India Bio-design fellow. Nitin is named ‘Top 20 innovators under 35’ 2013 by MIT tech review. He is passionate about ideas at the intersection of technology and user-centered design to serve unmet clinical needs. He has designed several innovative products with national and international companies in India, Germany, and Japan. He has a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, and a master’s in design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Take home these learnings
1) Finding opportunities in the middle of clutter.
2)Turning problems into opportunities.
3) Building sustainable business models with a purpose of the greater good.
4) Living the life of a full circle.
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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.
Aboodi Shabi
Coach Unplugged: You can only Tame it...You can never Kill it
Aboodi Shabi
ICF Professional Certified Coach, faculty at Henley Business School, group facilitator, coach-trainer, and keynote speaker
About Aboodi
Aboodi Shabi is an experienced transformational coach and facilitator, who has worked with thousands of people all over the world as a coach, trainer, mentor, facilitator, and keynote speaker. Today, most of his clients are based in London, although you can also get great results over Skype, Zoom or telephone, wherever you are in the world.
He is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach by the ICF since 2003 along with being a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach. He is on the editorial board of Coaching at Work magazine.
Take home these learnings
2) Coaching clients operating from a space of resentment.
3) Leveraging emotions for the benefit of your client.
4) Creating connection between Being and Identity.
Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Flying in Life while you stay on the ground
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Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Managing Director at Perfetti Van Melle India
About Rajesh
A veteran with 25 years of experience in General Management, Sales, and Marketing, Rajesh Ramakrishnan is the Managing Director at Perfetti Van Melle India, the country’s leading confectionery player. Rajesh is responsible for the overall operations of the company for India and Nepal.
An accomplished business leader and a seasoned marketing professional, Rajesh has worked across categories like Personal Care, Household Care, Foods & Beverages, Confectionery, and Media. Under his leadership, Perfetti Van Melle, Bangladesh delivered sustained growth and achieved market leadership in 2016.
Prior to joining Perfetti Van Melle in 2014, he was the Marketing Head at HT Media Limited. He has also held senior positions in diverse corporations including Pepsico, Marico Industries, and Reckitt Benckiser. Post his graduation in Engineering from BITS Pilani, Rajesh pursued his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Rajesh is an award-winning photographer. His work has been featured at Cannes and has also been published in several publications in India and outside. He is also passionate about traveling and has been on expeditions to Everest Base Camp and Kilimanjaro.
Rajesh along with his wife and teenage daughter started an initiative – My Daughter is Precious [MDIP] in March 2015 to raise awareness about gender equality and support the education of the girl child.
Rajesh is also a champion for gender equality and is a mentor for the past 4 years with BD foundation and is part of the BD Think Tank in Delhi NCR.
Take home these learnings
1) What are the values that drive Leadership?
2) Preparing yourself to raise the bar and increase the challenge.
3) Building an organizational culture to invite great minds among millennials.
4) Creating synergies between work and the rest of life.
5) Turning accidents into serendipity with a leap of faith.
6) Staying settled in the midst of noise and chaos.
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.
Steve Farber & John French
Twisted Business for High-minded Leaders
Steve Farber & John “Jay Jay” French
John “Jay Jay” French - Entrepreneur and Founding Member-Manager of Twister Sister
Steve Farber - Founder of The Extreme Leadership Institute
About Steve
Listed as one of Inc’s global Top 50 Leadership and Management Experts, Steve Farber is a Leadership Pioneer, Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Bestselling Author on Extreme Leadership. His expertise is in creating organizational cultures where leadership is not just an opportunity and obligation for those in authority, but for everyone at all levels.
Steve is the President of Extreme Leadership, Inc, and the founder and chairman of The Extreme Leadership Institute, organizations devoted to the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders around the world. His accessible, deeply inspirational, and eminently practical Radical LEAP framework is widely used across the business, non-profit and education spectrum. Farber has been credited with redefining leadership in deeply personal yet practical terms and re-energizing thousands of people to make a significant difference in their businesses, lives, and the world around them.
About Jay
John "Jay Jay" French is a Keynote and Motivational Speaker, Reinvention Expert, Entrepreneur, and Founding member of the renowned heavy metal band Twisted Sister. He has a unique perspective on business leadership based on my 40+ years of experience with Twisted Sister (as Manager, Guitarist, and Director of Licensing, Publishing & Touring), as well as being a producer/executive producer/manager of rock bands. I’m also the founder of The Pink Burst Project, a nonprofit.
He is a natural storyteller and loves energizing and inspiring audiences through extraordinary tales of success, failure and reinvention through the lens of rock and roll.
He talks about the importance of vision, business transformation, hiring the right people, how to manage challenges, being an authentic leader and developing successful business practices. Everything is based on real-life experiences and he speaks very honestly and openly, with a good dose of humor.
Take home these learnings
1) The story of rising, fall, and the triumphant return of the Twisted Sister star
2) Business lessons that are applicable to every profession and even to life in general
3) Tips to voice your story, redeem yourself and develop your philosophy
4) Collaboration and Love at the core of leadership
Nick Jonsson
Dealing with Executive Loneliness
Nick Jonsson
Co-founder & MD at EGN, Author and A Keynote Speaker
About Nick
Nick Jonsson is the Co-founder & MD at EGN Singapore & Indonesia, Asia's #1 Executive Peer Network, a best-selling author, and is Singapore's top 100 Entrepreneur 2021 Winner. When he won the Entrepreneurs 100 Award 2021: Singapore’s Emerging Entrepreneurs of the year, he felt honoured to achieve this success by living a life that is driven by a mission.
As a global thought leader on the subject of well-being, he began his mission of helping to remove the stigma that surrounds mental health in workplaces worldwide. Since then, as an author of Amazon’s Number 1 International Bestselling book in Mental Health, titled Executive Loneliness, he has been featured in many national newspapers, magazines, and on international television and radio stations. On World Kindness Day 2021, he was named one of Asia Pacific's 50 Leading Lights.
As Founder & Managing Director of EGN (Executives’ Global Network) Singapore, he lead a team that promotes meaningful professional relationships by matching senior executives in confidential peer groups where they can help each other both face personal and professional challenges and identify opportunities for growth.
Take home these learnings
2) Impact of suicide on our lives
3) Running an Iron Man Marathon
4) The Lesson of Just Ask
