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Abhijit Bhaduri

Coach | Speaker | Writer

  • Sports to Business to Coaching
  • Building trust as a Coach
  • Coaching a Team
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  • Having difficult conversations
  • Being an evangelist for courage
  • Receiving feedback as a Coach
  • Enabling good decisions
  • How Bill thought about impact
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Alan Eagle

Leader at Google

  • Triggers and Dopamine Hits
  • Giving away your Legos
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  • Imposter syndrome as a founder
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  • Economics of praise
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Alisa Cohn

Startup Founder Coach

  • Making early career choices
  • Listening as a leader
  • Smoke Signals in a relationship
  • Influencing without authority
  • Building a trusted relationship
  • Trusting the expert
  • Judgment - Balancing head and heart
  • The art of story telling
  • Building a personal Brand
  • CEO connect with end consumer
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Ambi Parameswaran

Author | Brand Coach

  • Where the seeds of transition were sown
  • Writing for self
  • Transitioning from Financial Services to Writing
  • Dealing with failure
  • Harsh realities of Writing
  • What does it take to be an Author
  • Driving Deep Work
  • Marketing innovations around the first book
  • Building culture in a company
  • Three things they do not teach you in B school
  • In Summary – Playing to Potential

Amish Tripathi

Author

  • Early formative years
  • Joining an Indian I-Bank after a US MBA
  • Factors behind the rise at DSP Merrill Lynch
  • Decoding mentorship
  • Transitioning from Banking to PE
  • Apprenticeship - the magic sauce in Private Equity
  • Building better business judgment
  • Institution building - Leading Type As
  • Moving to a 50% model at Bain Capital
  • Being Strategic about Philanthropy
  • In summary - Playing to potential

Amit Chandra

Philanthropist | Investor

  • Nuances of Psychological Safety
  • Implication on Learn-what vs Learn-how
  • Impact on leadership transitions
  • Calculus of silence
  • Traits that drive psychological safety
  • Effective feedback processes
  • Rituals that drive psychological safety
  • Miracle at Fukushima Daini
  • Nuances in application - Google-X vs Walmart
  • The "naïve realism" trap
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Amy Edmondson

Professor at HBS

  • Early formative years
  • Career in Consulting versus Banking
  • The Maternity transition
  • Navigating your career
  • Learning/Unlearning during transition
  • The Future of Work
  • Staying relevant in the future
  • What they don't teach you at IIMA
  • Message to graduating women
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Anu Madgavkar

Leader at McKinsey

  • Art of asking good questions
  • Steering by listening
  • Giving feedback by listening
  • Having deep conversations at scale
  • The art of facilitation
  • Judgment and values
  • Listening & "Thinking fast and slow"
  • Being heard in a noisier world
  • Reinventing oneself at 45
  • Transitioning across contexts
  • Leadership in an open system
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Arun Maira

Author

  • Having career markers at 30 and 45
  • Taking the entrepreneurial plunge
  • What it takes to be a good PE Investor
  • From PE to Philanthropy
  • Potential pathways post ChrysCapital
  • Unanticipated challenges in driving Social Impact
  • Metrics to measure progress
  • Educating ourselves for the future
  • Planting seeds for the future
  • Leading a richer life

Ashish Dhawan

Philanthropist | PE Investor

  • Understanding the notion of time poverty
  • When money stops moving the needle
  • Are you a Taylor or a Morgan?
  • Career choices in the future
  • Consulting causing an adversarial relationship with time
  • Optimizing versus Satisficing mindset
  • Big why, Small why and Time Confetti
  • Changing our relationship with time
  • Relating to time during "Covid times"

Ashley Whillans

Author - Time Smart

  • Transitioning from Engineering to Photography
  • Being tenacious through the transition
  • Marrying passion with pragmatism
  • Staying relevant over the long-term
  • Entrepreneurial pursuits beyond photography
  • Balancing commerce with creativity
  • Enlisting and empowering people in your team
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Atul Kasbekar

Photographer | Producer

  • The mid-life angst
  • Seeds of a career in Stand up
  • Fertilizing a new possibility
  • Riding two horses
  • Finding your voice
  • Passion versus Pragmatism
  • Writing evergreen material
  • Coping with Covid-19

Atul Khatri

Stand-up Comedian

  • Goldman Sachs versus McKinsey
  • Starting Baazee.com
  • Entrepreneurial Resilience
  • Taking stock of life after Bazee sale
  • Venture Investing - Supporting without intruding
  • Misconceptions around Venture Investing
  • Sharpening investing skills
  • Evolving as a leader
  • Backing the best founders
  • Harsh realities of Entrepreneurship
  • What they don't teach you at HBS

Avnish Bajaj

Venture Capitalist

  • Goal setting - a Goldilocks balance
  • Goals and the long game
  • Parenting and Psychological reactance
  • Choices post financial independence
  • Connecting with our future self
  • Glass half full or half empty
  • Motivating ourselves during the long middle
  • Mining the silent graveyard
  • Identity and Optimizing vs Satisficing
  • Marie Curie and power of joint goals

Ayelet Fishbach

Author | Professor

  • Journey to becoming a Life Designer
  • Nelson Mandela - a Master Life Designer
  • Deconstruction and Reconstruction - The 4 step process
  • Life Design vs Product Design
  • Getting playful about Life Design
  • Life Redesign - How long does it take?
  • The Power of Metaphors
  • Helping Children Design their life
  • Bringing ideas to life

Ayse Birsel

Designer | Author

  • Politics as a career option
  • Markers of Long term Potential
  • Resilience
  • Staying relevant and leveraging technology
  • Generating options amidst political constraints
  • Balancing the macro and micro views
  • Three pieces of advice that stand out
  • Perspectives on Prioritization
  • Lessons for business from politics
  • Influencing an ecosystem
  • Perspectives on Excellence
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Baijayant Jay Panda

Politician

  • Learnable elements from Jeff Bezos's leadership
  • Bringing 14 leadership principles to life
  • Raising the bar on recruitment
  • Recognizing and developing good judgment
  • Disagree yet commit - bringing it to life
  • Written communication - a competitive advantage
  • Building a culture of learning from failure
  • "What" decisions versus "Who" decisions

Bill Carr

Co-Author

  • The ABC of tiny habits
  • The MAP of behaviour change
  • Prompts - the low hanging fruit of change
  • Action versus Context Prompt
  • Build ability to beat motivation cycles
  • Celebrating to wire in a habit
  • Tiny habits to big change
  • Untangle (not break) bad habits
  • Getting out of screen addiction
  • The knowing-doing gap

BJ Fogg

Author - Tiny Habits

  • Committing to a career in Music
  • Characteristics of great coaches
  • Deliberate practice
  • Team work in a concert
  • Making Directional Choices
  • Music and Technology
  • Sir Ang Lee and Excellence
  • Balancing work and life
  • In summary - Playing to Potential

Bombay Jayashri

Carnatic Musician

  • The Power of stories
  • Happy Families and Agile Development
  • What is the shape of your story
  • Disruptors and Lifequakes
  • Midlife to Whenever life transition
  • Make sense from scars (not wounds)
  • Shape-shifting instead of resilience
  • Three phases of a transition
  • Taking a leap of faith
  • Role of money in transitions
  • Role of a Sounding Board/Coach
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Bruce Feiler

Author | Transition Researcher

  • Armed Forces as a career option
  • How Army looks for Potential
  • Transitioning across Cultures
  • Transitioning from the Army to the Corporate world
  • Establishing a common language in the Army
  • Z-KITBAG: Communication lessons from the Army
  • Transmitting intent down the chain
  • Building culture - Lessons from the Army
  • Building Grit
  • Driving Mindfulness and Deep Work
  • In Summary

Capt. Raghu Raman

Ex Army officer

  • Genesis of the book - CATALYST
  • Turbocharging your growth -TMRR
  • Raising the game when it matters
  • Playing the 1st half of career to win the 2nd half
  • Picking mentors thoughtfully
  • Decoupling quitting & joining decisions
  • Evolving views on the notion of success
  • Impact of Life on Work
  • Cultivating "Lodestar" values
  • Overemphasizing fit in a career choice
  • Winning the Second half of career
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Chandramouli Venkatesan

Author | FMCG Leader

  • Cancer and life-choices
  • Crowd-sourcing your highlights reel
  • Eulogy delay
  • Visualization and peak-performance
  • Developing directional clarity
  • Emotional Labour
  • Providing thoughtful feedback
  • Highlights - Big bang vs Drip feed
  • Engaging different parts of our brain
  • When strengths become derailers
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Dan Cable

Professor | Author - Exceptional

  • Lawyer to Leadership Thinker
  • Regret - The photographic negative
  • Four Core Regrets
  • Regrets and Choice
  • Counterfactual thinking
  • Goldilocks balance in handling regret
  • Inward Outward Forward
  • Regrets and Transitions
  • Rifts and Drifts

Dan Pink

Leadership Thinker | Author

  • Relationships in a 2D world
  • Driving Accountability virtually
  • Communicating thoughtfully
  • Office of the future
  • Remote leadership with Boards
  • Remote apprenticeship
  • Transitioning remotely
  • Remote Leadership hiring
  • Managing your energy

Darleen DeRosa

Leadership Consultant | Co-Author

  • Markers of an "exceptional" relationship
  • Healthy feedback - not crossing the net
  • Idea to behavioural change
  • Building an emotional vocabulary
  • Deepening the trust in a relationship
  • Nuances in giving good feedback
  • Leaning into the messiness to move forward
  • Repair and restoration of relationships
  • Personality vs Behaviour - Understanding change
  • Helping kids learn interpersonal skills
  • Displaying the right kind of vulnerability

David Bradford

Senior Lecturer at Stanford GSB

  • Early formative years
  • Dealing with two possible fatalities
  • Rebounding from a near-death event
  • Getting people comfortable with the context
  • Picking the first "mountain" to climb
  • Training for the Olympics
  • Perspectives on Excellence
  • Picking an effective Coach
  • Building resilience
  • About "Wheeling Happiness" Foundation
  • In summary - Playing to Potential

Deepa Malik

Para-athlete

  • Early formative years
  • Transitioning from Healthcare to Mythology
  • Being effective in the Gig Economy
  • Dealing with various life transitions
  • Effective coaching process
  • Focus vs Perspective
  • Building Habits vs Enhancing Awareness
  • Understanding fear to decipher beliefs
  • Building perspective and judgment
  • Building story telling capability
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Devdutt Pattanaik

Author | Mythologist

  • Early formative years (including re-attempting IIT-JEE)
  • Building optionality during early career
  • Relationship between Co-founders and Company
  • Evolving as a leader with the company
  • Building an anti-fragile culture
  • Perspectives around career choice
  • Hiring senior leaders into Nutanix
  • Work, life and success
  • Leadership Development in a turbo-charged environment
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Dheeraj Pandey

Entrepreneur

  • Winding journey to entrepreneurship
  • Prioritizing sharply
  • Beyond retailing time
  • Riding an S curve
  • Infinite horizon networking
  • Value based pricing
  • Metrics to measure green shoots
  • Experimenting on the sides
  • Extending the horizon
  • Being a Lesbian

Dorie Clark

Author | Coach

  • Understanding the 4 default conflict habits
  • Why some conflict patterns are common
  • Listening to understand the nuances
  • Engaging our senses
  • Reactive and a Proactive pause
  • Down side of too much empathy and collaboration
  • Role of ideal and shadow values in conflict
  • Real meaning of "take a walk"
  • Pattern breaking behaviour and Camp David

Dr. Jennifer Goldman Wetzler

Conflict Researcher | Author

  • Current portfolio of initiatives
  • Consulting (McKinsey) as a career option
  • Transitioning out of Consulting (including views on entrepreneurship)
  • Authentic Leadership
  • What Consulting doesn't prepare you for
  • Vedica Scholars Programme - Nurturing Women leaders
  • Educating ourselves (and link with leadership of the future)
  • Building leadership capability in entrepreneurs
  • Personal Board of Advisors
  • Reflecting on the past and the future
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Dr. Pramath Sinha

Institution Builder

  • Path to becoming a Historian
  • Being a historian - what it takes
  • Key career choices
  • Multiple identities of Gandhiji
  • Settling into a new context
  • Gandhiji's personal life
  • Being vulnerable
  • How Gandhiji made decisions
  • Inner journey
  • In Summary Playing to potential

Dr. Ramachandra Guha

Historian | Author

  • Self-awareness: Meta-skill of 21st century
  • Self-awareness Unicorns
  • Self-delusion Vs Self-awareness
  • Limitations of introspection
  • Mindfulness beyond meditation
  • Feedback as a prism vs a mirror
  • Role of a coach in enhancing self-awareness
  • Self-awareness during career transitions
  • Catch 22 of Self-awareness

Dr. Tasha Eurich

Organizational Psychologist

  • Going 'inside' as a child
  • Defining Chatter
  • Rafael Nadal and Rituals
  • Inner voice vs Inner chatter
  • Time travel, Distancing and Awe
  • Inner voice - Zooming feature of our minds
  • Journaling and Chatter
  • Allowing Venting Vs Coaching

Ethan Kross

Author - Chatter

  • Early formative years
  • Choices post IIMA
  • Women and intense careers
  • Taking the entrepreneurial plunge
  • Rewiring the leadership approach
  • Start up to scale up
  • Aligning horizons with investors
  • Setting the goalpost when you are an industry leader

Falguni Nayar

Founder - Nykaa.com

  • Key choices along the way
  • Perspectives on Navigating Career
  • Taking a pause
  • Art of storytelling
  • Profits with purpose
  • Identification with Labour and Capital
  • Shaping culture through stories
  • Competing with a collaborative spirit
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Harish Bhat

Author - #Tatastories

  • Formative years
  • Tactful separation
  • Remove Escape Buttons
  • Breaking the Catch-22 of mediocre talent
  • Growing through feedback
  • Unlocking the power of the collective
  • Markers of good talent
  • Thinking about Next Gen
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Harsh Mariwala

Founder - Marico

  • Acting your way to new thinking
  • Experimenting with different pathways
  • Portfolio approach versus Full-time role
  • Pausing to reinvent
  • Operational, Personal and Strategic networks
  • Identity play versus Identity work
  • The perils of foreclosure
  • Role of the spouse
  • Transitioning from well-paying time-greedy careers

Herminia Ibarra

Professor at LBS

  • Transitioning to solo-preneurship
  • Demystifying Business storytelling
  • Contextual applications
  • Curse of Knowledge
  • Story listening
  • Building deeper relationships
  • Deliberate practice
  • Building a storytelling culture
  • Story tellers that stand out

Indranil Chakraborty

Business Storyteller

  • Journey to studying habits
  • Building habits in the right areas
  • Keeping the identity small
  • Plateau of latent potential
  • Systems versus Goals
  • Building habits with awareness
  • Environment and habits
  • 2 minute rule - the gateway habit

James Clear

Author - Atomic Habits

  • Autonomy vs Power
  • Power and Value Neutrality
  • Implication of being judgmental
  • Projecting Power vs Humility
  • Higher Power and Poorer Signals
  • Vulnerability and Power
  • True to which Self?
  • Warmth Vs Competence
  • IKEA effect and Escalation of Commitment

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Professor at Stanford GSB

  • Stages of human development
  • Transitions in mid-life
  • Humans - an outdated OS
  • 5 traps that leaders fall into
  • Trap1 - Looking for simple stories
  • Trap 2 - Feeling right does not mean it is right
  • Trap 3 - Desire to agree
  • Trap 4 - Controlling instead of influencing
  • Trap 5 - Shackled by the past
  • Actively listening to your body
  • Leadership in a post COVID world

Jennifer Garvey Berger

Executive Coach | Author

  • The case for double-primary careers
  • The 3 big transitions that couples go through
  • The first transition - How do we make this work?
  • Watchouts during the first transition
  • The second transition - What do we want to become?
  • Securing the base for the other to explore
  • The third transition - Who are we now?

Jennifer Petriglieri

Author - Couples That Work

  • IIMB, Wharton & path to Venture Investing
  • Articulating culture and hiring for it
  • Pie chart of time in Venture Investing
  • Venture Investing - What does it take
  • Transition pitfalls - Banking/Consulting to VC
  • Settling effectively into Venture Investing
  • Picking Founders effectively
  • Dealing with hyper-growth and scale-up
  • Scaling up the leadership muscle
  • What they don't teach you at B-School
  • In Summary - Playing to potential

Karthik Reddy

Venture Capitalist

  • Academics as a career
  • Highs and Lows in Academics
  • Surprises in the Academic path
  • Impact of technology
  • Backing an entrepreneur
  • Leadership inflection points
  • Building the leadership muscle
  • Building an entrepreneurial culture
  • In Summary – Playing to Potential

Kartik Hosanagar EP1

Professor at Wharton

  • Staying relevant as machines get smarter
  • Predictability Resilience paradox
  • Convenience versus Privacy
  • Diversity of thought in the drawing room
  • Unanticipated consequences and "Cobra effect"
  • Exercising consumer choice - balancing efficiency and diversity
  • Machines - Decision Makers or Enablers?
  • Jobs at risk and new avenues
  • Re-skilling ourselves to stay relevant

Kartik Hosanagar EP2

Professor at Wharton

  • Agassi and Behaviour change
  • The power of a fresh start
  • Temptation bundling
  • Entering the magic circle
  • Benefits of Commitment
  • Boosting morale instead of Unsolicited advice
  • Building a robust habit
  • One goal at a time

Katy Milkman

Author - How to change

  • Convergence of Strategy, Creative, Tech and Data
  • Early Childhood and Dyslexia
  • Early career choices - Medical Rep/Painting/Advertising
  • Rejecting 3 jobs and painting in Goa
  • Transitioning from Advertising to the Tech world
  • Advertising as a career option
  • Evolving perspectives on success and impact
  • Developing as a leader
  • Settling effectively in a new organization
  • Secret sauce behind great ads and film-makers
  • Building story telling skills
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

KV Sridhar (Pops)

Ad industry veteran

  • Being a Chief Life Officer
  • Pausing after success
  • Deploying Time, Talent and Treasure
  • Measuring what Matters
  • From Interest to Identity
  • Position in the team
  • Low Centre of Gravity
  • Maintaining a Margin
  • Success or Significance or Satisfaction?

Lloyd Reeb

Founding Partner - Halftime Institute

  • 100 - year life
  • Mid-life: a double whammy
  • From 3 stages to multiple stages
  • Specialization versus Generalization (T to Pi)
  • Cathedrals vs Shopping malls
  • Independent producers vs Entrepreneurs
  • Choosing the intensity of work
  • The Power of Options

Lynda Gratton

Professor at London Business School

  • Leaving the past behind
  • Raising an independent girl child
  • The art of investigation
  • Dealing with grey
  • Staying positive
  • Managing dual careers
  • Taking charge in a new role
  • Driving human transformation
  • Finding your style as a woman

Manjari Jaruhar

Former IPS Officer

  • Staying relevant over the long term
  • Choosing Coachees and link with ROI
  • The path to excellence
  • Getting behaviours and habits to stick
  • Art of asking good questions
  • What matters in the end

Marshall Goldsmith

Executive Educator | Coach | Author

  • Coaching CEOs and Elite Athletes
  • Coach Coachee relationship
  • Athlete to Coach to Entrepreneur
  • Forced growth - plugging the weaknesses
  • Toughness is not a differentiator
  • Expanding the mental reservoir
  • Visualization as a technique
  • Dealing with the "wall"
  • Rest, Sleep and recharge

Matt Dixon

Triathlon Coach

  • Sleep - The Swiss army knife of wellness
  • Morning Larks and Night Owls - a hard wiring
  • Dealing effectively with Jet-lag
  • How much sleep do we REALLY need?
  • REM and Non-REM sleep and criticality of each
  • Sleep, Music and the Beatles
  • Deleterious impact of Devices on sleep
  • Getting back to sleep when wide awake

Matthew Walker

Author - Why We Sleep

  • Early formative years
  • Transitioning effectively across generations
  • Dealing with shocks
  • Music and Leadership
  • Perspectives on Philanthropy
  • Business continuity across generations
  • Grooming more women leaders
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Meher Pudumjee

Philanthropist

  • ROI of transition support
  • Creating the mind-space
  • The Transition timeline
  • Fit for purpose feedback loop
  • CXO to CEO transition
  • Warrior to diplomat
  • Leading former peers
  • When a promotion may not make sense
  • Mapping the influence landscape
  • Onboarding a leader
  • Entrepreneur bringing in an experienced CEO

Michael Watkins

Professor at IMD

  • Current portfolio of time spent
  • Early childhood wiring
  • Selecting the right co-founder(s)
  • Scale-up and transitions at Infosys
  • Infosys to UIDAI - a 3D transition
  • Setting a goalpost at UIDAI
  • Running a start-up inside the Govt.
  • Reflections on Politics as a career
  • Re-inventing self and playing to potential

Nandan Nilekani

Infosys | UIDAI

  • Early formative years
  • Changing orbit - HBS, Wall-Street and Dasra
  • Thinking about levers of Impact
  • Role clarity with co-founders
  • Evolving the goal-post at Dasra
  • Transitioning roles within Dasra
  • Leadership Development in Social Impact space
  • Transitioning to the Social Impact world
  • Distinctive leaders in the Social Impact space
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Neera Nundy

Co-Founder - Dasra

  • Transitioning to becoming a Board Member
  • Being an effective Chairperson
  • Making good Board decisions
  • Chairperson versus CEO - Leadership nuances
  • Ensuring Board members add value
  • Seeking and giving feedback
  • Attitudes that have driven his career
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

OP Bhatt

Board Member

  • Physical trainer to Leadership Coach
  • Going on an inner journey
  • Building trust with the Indian Cricket team
  • Setting goal-posts with the Indian Cricket team
  • Sachin Tendulkar and personal mastery
  • Gautam Gambhir and the straight drive
  • Dealing with failure
  • Zooming in and out
  • Link between mentally tough and psychopaths

Paddy Upton

Sports Coach | Author

  • Why "Naked"?
  • Oxford MBA-Consulting-Stand-up
  • Plunging into Stand-Up
  • Stand-Up: Unknown Unknowns
  • Stand-Up: What it takes
  • Lessons from a journey in Stand-Up
  • Role of Vulnerability in building Trust
  • What Corporates could learn from Stand-Up
  • 3 things they don’t teach you in B-school

Papa CJ

Stand up comedian

  • How Kings and Queens were groomed
  • Council of Advisors
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji and strategic patience
  • Journaling
  • Jahanara and her political savviness
  • Serfoji and Social Development
  • Content Marketing in the olden days
  • Decline of the Mughal Empire and Corporate Office

Pradeep Chakravarthy

Author | Behaviourist

  • Playing in the gig economy
  • The art of story telling
  • Building a Personal Brand
  • Selecting a Coach effectively
  • Picking the first job after IIM
  • Career in Consumer Goods
  • Shifting your goal post over time
  • Unlocking the potential
  • What they don’t teach you at IIMA
  • In Summary – Playing to Potential

Prakash Iyer

Speaker | Coach

  • Running your career like a marathon
  • Making robust hiring decisions
  • Settling in - Rock climbing versus Running
  • Discerning the pecking order of stakeholders
  • Solving for efficiency versus effectiveness
  • Having the right relationship with the Board
  • Clementine Mirror - the role of spouses
  • Bringing in adequate porosity
  • Getting cross-industry transitions right

R Gopalakrishnan

Author | Advisor | Board Member | Speaker | Teacher

  • Listening to stories as a child
  • Key choices in the journey
  • Being Dharmic
  • Five Pandava archetypes
  • Counterpoints to each archetypes
  • Resolving Dharmasankatas
  • Karna and Krishna - the conversation that never happened
  • Accessing Equanimity
  • Evolving Leadership Paradigms
  • Doing versus Being
  • Creating the emotional infrastructure
  • Balam and Shakti - External and Internal forces
  • Journey as an action researcher

Raghu Ananthanarayanan

Author

  • The journey till date
  • Defining happiness
  • Achievement and happiness
  • Abundance mindset and happiness
  • Time scarcity and generosity burnout
  • Why we lose the plot with happiness
  • Navigating mid-life
  • Dealing with negative outcomes
  • Pursuing flow than chasing superiority
  • Raising happy kids - love versus discipline
  • Coping with COVID-19

Raj Raghunathan

Happiness expert | Author

  • Taking stock of the journey ahead
  • Provoking reflection through osmosis
  • Vivekananda versus Napoleon
  • Leadership at McKinsey across 3 terms
  • Settling into Scandinavia
  • Transitioning across cultures
  • Evolution as a leader
  • Choices during the McKinsey journey
  • Key choices that stand out

Rajat Gupta

Ex McKinsey

  • Stepping off the corporate track
  • Attitude towards Money
  • Key choices as a Coach
  • Working with the leader as a whole
  • Building the Spiritual Quotient
  • Self-acceptance before Self Improvement
  • Delegating thoughtfully
  • Decoding Executive Presence
  • Multiple levels of listening
  • Being, not just doing
  • Staying open to possibilities
  • Coachee selection
  • Unlocking our potential

Rajiv Vij

Executive Coach | Author

  • Pie chart of time today
  • Early formative years
  • Career in Market Research
  • Becoming a solo-advisor
  • Careers - Paradox of choice
  • Shaping your playground
  • Becoming a trusted advisor
  • Women and Leadership
  • Transitioning from Executive to NED
  • What they don't teach at IIMA
  • In summary - Playing to Potential

Rama Bijapurkar

Author | Consultant

  • Leadership challenges during Covid-19
  • Discerning the "mandate"
  • Being versus Doing
  • Evolution of the Consulting model
  • Reinventing self within McKinsey
  • Personal Board of Advisors
  • Dealing with lifequakes
  • Contributing to Education

Ramesh Srinivasan

Senior Partner - McKinsey & Co.

  • Driving social impact
  • Early childhood wiring
  • Career planning 2.0 for graduates
  • Leading in India versus other markets
  • Transitioning from Cummins to Microsoft
  • Listening intently during Transitions
  • Picking leaders to invest behind
  • Hyper-development of a leader in a Start-Up
  • Executive to Non-Executive Transition
  • Gig economy and careers

Ravi Venkatesan

Philanthropist | Writer

  • Key choices post the Corporate path
  • Punctuated Equilibrium
  • Three roles in the future of work
  • Being intentional about life
  • Cultivating an abundance mindset
  • Different forms of Capital
  • Specialization vs Generalization
  • Unlocking Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership next door
  • How will you measure your life
  • Develop your voice not your brand

Ravi Venkatesan

Author | Philanthropist

  • Leadership Development in the Digital economy
  • Origins of SIY
  • Attention and Meta-Attention
  • Developing the meditation habit
  • Benefits of Journaling
  • Meta-distress and Response-flexibility
  • 3 levels of resilience
  • Positivity and Psychological Safety

Rich Fernandez

CEO - SIYLI

  • Omidyar Network and innovating for next Half Billion
  • Early formative years
  • Growing through the ranks at CRISIL
  • Transitioning to a General Management role
  • Choosing career direction post CRISIL
  • Flexing leadership style at Omidyar Network
  • Developing a sense of judgment
  • Women Leadership - The barrier no one speaks about as much
  • Perspectives on Success
  • What they don’t teach you at IIMA but should
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Roopa Kudva

Impact Investor

  • How women often respond to feedback
  • How women often think about ambition
  • Reluctance in accepting credit
  • Downsides of pursuing mastery
  • Leveraging relationships to move forward
  • Delivering performance vs unlocking potential
  • Impact of COVID on Women vs Men
  • Executive presence
  • Leakage in the leadership pipeline near the very top
  • Changing the game vs playing by "club rules"
  • Insights for parents as they bring up boys and girls

Sally Helgesen

Women’s Leadership Coach | Author

  • Journey and transitions till date
  • Three rhythms of a scale up
  • Being deliberate about culture building
  • Getting senior leader transitions right
  • Intellect and clarity of thought - correlated?
  • Founder development and role of coaching
  • Founder CEO or Professional CEO?

Sanjeev and Hari

Co-Authors

  • Defining and measuring Judgment
  • Listen attentively; learn critically
  • Seek diversity, not validation
  • Keeping track of judgment run-rate
  • Identify, then challenge, biases
  • Question the solution set offered
  • Judgment during COVID times

Sir Andrew Likierman

Professor - London Business School

  • 4 porous domains - Self, Work, Home & Community
  • Positive spillovers across domains
  • Role of Authenticity, Integrity & Creativity
  • Tradeoffs by stage - post B-school, mid life, end career
  • Technology and psychological interference
  • Managing stakeholder expectations
  • Role of a coach in Work-life integration
  • Flex the current context or reboot

Stewart Friedman

Professor at Wharton

  • Getting the problem definition right
  • Choosing to stay in HUL
  • HR - a department with teeth
  • Entrepreneurial Professionalism
  • Identifying and nurturing potential
  • Building a personal brand
  • Specialization versus Generalization
  • Core Competence versus Competitive Advantage
  • Mavericks, Company men and Rogues
  • Secret sauce behind the culture
  • Coping with uncertainty

Sudhir Sitapati

Author - The CEO Factory

  • Myth of the single choice
  • Embracing risk as a discovery process
  • Managing work and life
  • Decade long coaching journey
  • Working with Bill Campbell
  • Moving from a Large Org to a Start up
  • Discerning what is a good fit
  • Stepping into a white space
  • Inside out or Outside In
  • Going Deep Vs Broad

Sukhinder Cassidy

Author - Choose Possibility

  • Early formative years
  • Career - getting off to a good start
  • Transitioning effectively to a new context
  • Maggi crisis and decoding resilience
  • Building good business judgment
  • Rebuilding trust
  • Increasing productivity
  • Marketing 2.0
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Suresh Narayanan

Turnaround leader

  • Strategy and Careers
  • Managing time and attention
  • Creating the conditions to create
  • Leadership in Emerging Markets
  • Business model choices
  • Framing the Strategy question
  • Measuring Trust

Tarun Khanna

Professor at HBS

  • Leaders that build to last
  • Playing the long game
  • Passing the Baton
  • Driving self-discovery with Next-gen
  • Professional CEOs in Family Businesses
  • Compassionate Capitalism
  • Growing thoughtfully
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Tarun Khanna EP2

Professor at HBS

  • Notion of identitylessness
  • Limitations of the rational mind
  • Shaping one's journey
  • Mindfulness is not a hack
  • Deliberate practice of Spirituality
  • Opening the aperture of learning
  • Pursuing self-awareness
  • Covid-19 - a time-out for humans

Tenzin Priyadarshi

Tibetan Buddhist Monk

  • Elevator problem and reframing
  • Myth of the false binary
  • Framing existential questions
  • Presented vs Open-ended problems
  • Focusing on the underlying
  • Teaching Reframing to kids
  • Eliciting authentic responses
  • Labeling emotions
  • Problem framing and Coaching

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg

Author | Problem Framing Expert

  • Learning 5 completely new skills
  • How learning works
  • Misplaced pursuit of Mastery
  • Real meaning of baby steps
  • How unlearning works
  • Learning Approach across the Learning curve
  • Role of feedback loops
  • Observing things the way they are
  • Friction in the learning process
  • Depth of learning
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Tom Vanderbilt

Author - Beginners

  • Water.org - Introduction and how you can contribute
  • Early childhood wiring
  • Investment Banking as a career and key transitions
  • Women and careers
  • Effective Leadership transitions across companies
  • Executive to NED transition
  • Women and Board roles
  • Transitioning to the Social Impact world
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Vedika Bhandarkar

MD - India at Water.org

  • Formative years
  • The IIMA years
  • Early career choices
  • Setting up Eklavya
  • Eklavya to GiveIndia
  • Misconceptions around giving
  • Giving time versus Giving money
  • Our relationship with money
  • Raising “Giving children”
  • Giving over the long term
  • Dreaming big
  • Givers that inspire
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Venkat Krishnan

Philanthropist | Founder - GiveIndia

  • Recalibrating The Notion Of Success
  • Perspectives on Resilience
  • Transitioning from playing sport to commentating
  • Attributes Of A Great Commentator
  • Framing Good Questions
  • Spotting Long Term Potential
  • Role Of Coaching In Development
  • Achievement Orientation to a Giving Mindset
  • In Summary

Vijay Amritraj

Former tennis champion

  • Early career choices - Law, Journalism, Teaching and Writing
  • Delivering good judgments
  • The reflection habit - decoding signal from the noise
  • Managing time, unfettered curiosity and resilience
  • Leadership under extreme constraints - Lion, Fox and Mouse
  • Staying relevant through transitions
  • Assembling an effective team
  • Making/Not making key decisions
  • Driving change when there is short term pain and long term gain
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Vinay Sitapati

Author - Half Lion

  • The uniqueness of the Advani-Vajpayee relationship
  • Managing transitions when power flips
  • What binds the RSS together
  • RSS and McKinsey
  • Managing diversity and handling disagreements
  • Getting comfortable with contradictions
  • The dynamics of Jugalbandi
  • Making sense of complexity
  • Managing hierarchy and merit

Vinay Sitapati - Jugalbandhi

Political Scientist | Author

  • About Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
  • Early childhood wiring
  • Navigating the sea of career options
  • Consumer Goods (FMCG) as a career option
  • Transitioning roles in a large MNC
  • Navigating the first 3-6 months
  • Functional Leadership to General Management
  • Transitioning back to India in a leadership role
  • Being an effective Board member
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential
  • Coping with Covid-19

Vinita Bali

Board Member

  • OGQ and how you can contribute
  • Committing to sports as a career
  • Transitioning from Playing to Captaining
  • Spotting potential
  • Playing hockey to [email protected]
  • Joining OGQ's Role of serendipity
  • Building the Grit muscle
  • Picking a coach - Learning from Mary Kom's example
  • In Summary

Viren Rasquinha

CEO - OGQ

  • Committing to Chess as a career
  • Early formative years
  • Growing as a player and inflection points
  • What it takes to compete at the top
  • Understanding the processor inside
  • Staying relevant in the world of machines
  • Performing at the top and being grounded
  • Dealing with losses
  • Identifying and unlocking potential
  • Parallels between Chess and Business
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Viswanathan Anand

Chess Legend

  • The S curve of personal disruption
  • Picking the right S curve
  • Discovering our distinctiveness
  • Leaning into constraints
  • Cutting our losses
  • Rethinking our metrics
  • Handling our identity
  • Discovery driven career planning

Whitney Johnson

Author | Executive Coach

  • Early childhood wiring
  • Law as a career choice
  • Women Leaders - a leaky pipeline
  • Role of a spouse around maternity
  • Tough work-life trade-offs
  • Becoming a Trusted Advisor
  • Building good judgment
  • Successful Lawyer to Successful Entrepreneur
  • In Summary - Playing to Potential

Zia Mody

Managing Partner at AZB

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