Flying in Life while you stay on the ground
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.
Episode Transcript:
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Jeremiah:
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Meet your hosts:
Andrew Jackson
Creative Strategist
Andrew Johnson
Creative Strategist
Andrew Watson
Creative Strategist
Dave Ulrich
Thriving in Uncertainty: A Discussion on Abundance, Certainty, and Identity with Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich
Speaker, Author, Professor, Thought Partner on Human Capability
Dave Ulrich
Dave Ulrich is a renowned author, speaker, and management expert who has made significant contributions to the field of human resources and leadership development. He is a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a partner at The RBL Group, a consulting firm that helps organizations create value through leadership, talent, and HR. Dave has authored over 30 books and published hundreds of articles in prestigious journals, and he is known for his research on human resource management, leadership, and organization design. He has been named as the "#1 Management Educator & Guru" by BusinessWeek and one of the "Top 10 Influential Business Thinkers in the World" by Thinkers50. Dave has also received numerous awards for his contributions to the field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Federation of People Management Associations.
Take home these learnings:
2. How can your commitment to learning create value for others?
3. How can you prepare for the future by anticipating settings where your identity and values can be played out?
4. How can you focus on caring, nurturing, and compassion in your interactions with others?
5. How can you validate and reinforce your brand and identity?
6. How do you balance the liability of success?
Rajesh Setty
Identifying Superpowers in Others
Rajesh Setty
16x Author, Teacher & Speaker and Co-founder of Audvisor.com
About Rajesh
Rajesh Setty is a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur and business alchemist. He has co-founded more than a half-dozen technology and publishing companies. He has been a member of the founding teams of various technology and publishing companies (10x) since 2000. A few have gotten out, a few have made it to the startup graveyard, and the remainder are making progress. Audvisor is the company's newest initiative, a mobile audio streaming app with micro-podcasts from over 125 world-class specialists.
He has written and published various novels (18x) since 1983, with his first book being published when I was thirteen years old. Four murder mysteries, a collection of poems, a book on mathematics, six business books, and two books on how to get people to think are among the books available and has around 2,000 blog articles.
Since 2016, he has produced over 2500 Napkinsights (a napkinsight is an insight that fits on a paper napkin). Rajesh has also produced a package of 101 thank you cards with distinctive designs, two decks of playing cards with mini sagas (stories of exactly 50 words each), and more.
He's been training first-time entrepreneurs (1400x) various parts of how to bring their ideas to life since 2010. He's also lectured in front of audiences ranging from a small group of CEOs to several hundred conference attendees in the United States, India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Mexico.
Finally, Rajesh considers himself to be a "work in progress," which translates to "He guarantee his work, but leave the progress to God."
Take home these learnings
2) What are your superpowers?
3) From where do you pick up your philosophies of life?
4) Why is it important to look at possibilities in situations in life?
Chris Palmore
Gratitude is a choice and so is happiness
Chris Palmore
Gratitude Conductor, Consultant, Coach, and Creator
About Chris
Chris Palmore is a gratitude conductor, coach, creator, and author. He is the founder of GratitudeSpace and a host on GratitudeSpace Radio. He has a Media And Performing Arts Degree and a minor in Video and Broadcasting from Savannah College of Art and Design and is a proud member of The International Alliance of Theater and Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.). He lives with his wife, Rocío, in Louisville, KY.
Chris traveled to different states and countries looking for people who were willing to share what they were grateful for. He interviewed many, young and old, rich and poor, sick and healthy, male and female, from all walks of life and posted the videos of these interviews on his website and on different social media platforms. He met a lot of interesting people in the process, and the more he got involved in his quest for gratitude stories, the more determined he became to share these experiences with others.
Take home these learnings
1) The Five Steps Towards a Grateful Living
2) Being Present is the Key to being grateful
3) Gratitude Hacks from Chris's Handbook
4) Using the gratitude lens during triggering moments
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.
Grayson James
Being Attentive To Your Awareness
Grayson James
CEO, Grayson James Consultant
Grayson James
Grayson James is the esteemed CEO and Founder of Grayson James Consultants, LLC, a world-renowned leadership collaboration and performance firm. With over three decades of experience in coaching senior executives and their teams, Grayson is a trusted advisor for organizations seeking true organizational transformation.
Grayson's expertise and thought leadership have been instrumental in designing and delivering highly acclaimed Full Contact® Leadership and Collaboration workshops that help executives and their teams in diverse industries and cultures improve their leadership and business performance. Additionally, Grayson is a Certified Ontological Coach and holds a 6th Dan (degree) Black Belt in Aikido. The cutting-edge approach to language, action and performance he draws upon has been practised at leading universities and Fortune 100 companies around the world.
With deep expertise in mind-body integration, linguistic action, martial arts, conflict resolution, and adult learning, Grayson draws upon a cutting-edge approach to language, action, and performance that has been practised at leading universities and Fortune 100 companies around the world.
Under Grayson's leadership, Grayson James Consultants, LLC has become a leading force in the field of leadership collaboration and performance. Through individual and team coaching, workshops, and in-depth courses, Grayson James Consultants, LLC has helped executives and their teams achieve their full potential, delivering real-world results that have transformed organizations and their leaders.
Take home these learnings:
2. What is Full-Contact Performance?
3. How to introduce Mindfulness to leaders?
4. How we change our Awareness without attention?
5. If not vulnerable, then what?
Dr. Jim Garrison
Embracing Diversity in inclusive Humanity
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Dr. Jim Garrison
Founder and President of Ubiquity University
About Jim
Dr. James Garrison is the founder and president of Ubiquity University. He came to this having served as president of Wisdom University, based in California, which he led from 2005 – 2012, after which he led its transition into Ubiquity University, established in 2012. He has spent his entire professional life in executive leadership, including as co-founder and president of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA (1992 – 1995) and State of the World Forum (1995 – 2004) with Mikhail Gorbachev serving as convening chairman. He received his B.A in History from the University of Santa Clara, an MA in History of Religion from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge. He has written numerous books, including The Plutonium Culture, America as Empire, The Darkness of God: Theology after Hiroshima, and Civilization and the Transformation of Power. He lectures regularly on comparative philosophy and religion, world history and politics, and the philosophical implications of global warming.
Take home these learnings
1) What is being human mean to you?
2) Why do you need meditation for mindfulness?
3) How to respect your body and what to do about it?
4) Learn about the principle of Gaia to the oneness of humanity and motherhood to practical life.
