376: 34.00 Arun Maira - Career Transitions and Insights on Listening
GUEST Arun Maira is a former member of the Planning Commission of India and former Chairman of BCG India. He had a distinguished career in Tata Motors (then called TELCO) and rose to be on the Board of the company. He then had to relocate to the US due to a personal situation and had to reinvent himself at 45. He has written several books, the most recent one being “Listening for well-being: C...
1hr 1m Sep 19, 2018
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363: 33.00 Bombay Jayashri on Importance of mentorship and teamwork in the musical journey
GUEST Bombay Jayashri is one of the leading Carnatic musicians in the country. She is born into a family of musicians with a rich lineage in classical music. She represents the fourth generation of music practitioners in her family. Apart from her contribution to the world of Carnatic music, she has collaborated with artists around the world including Egyptian musician Hisham Abba, Senegalese ...
52m Sep 05, 2018
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353: 32.00 Deepa Malik's inspiring journey of overcoming extreme adversity to winning medals at Paralympics
GUEST Deepa Malik is a Silver Medalist at Paralympic Games (Rio 2016), an Arjuna Awardee (2012) and a Padma Shree Awardee (2017). She has won 58 National and 18 International medals (and counting) in her sporting career that started at the age of 36. She is paraplegic and was compelled to spend the rest of her life on a wheelchair after choosing to undergo a crucial surgery in 1999. This happe...
1hr 4m Aug 08, 2018
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341: 31.00 Neera Nundy on Transitioning from a corporate career to social impact: Journey and challenges as co-founder of Dasra.
GUEST Neera Nundy is Co-Founder at Dasra - India’s leading strategic philanthropic foundation. Dasra actively shapes the process of social change by forming powerful partnerships with funders and social enterprises. Since its inception in 1999, Dasra has accelerated social change by driving collaborative action through powerful partnerships among a trust-based network of stakeholders (corporat...
1hr 1m Jul 13, 2018
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330: 30.00 Vinay Sitapati on leadership under constraints - Lessons from PV Narasimha Rao's journey
GUEST Vinay Sitapati is an Assistant Professor in Political Science and Legal studies at Ashoka University. He has a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, in addition to degrees from National Law School Bangalore and Harvard University. His book - Half Lion: How P.V Narasimha Rao Transformed India (Published by Penguin Randomhouse) - traces P.V. Narasimha Rao’s journey from his modest beg...
1hr 21m Jun 20, 2018
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319: 29.00 Roopa Kudva's journey from CRISIL to Omidyar Network: Insights on exploring diverse career pathways.
GUEST Roopa Kudva is Partner at Omidyar Network and Managing Director of Omidyar Network India Advisors, where she leads overall Investment Strategy, Operations and Portfolio Development. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Roopa spent 23 years with CRISIL, and was its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer from 2007. She led CRISIL’s transformation from India’s premier ratings agency int...
1hr 33m May 31, 2018
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307: 28.00 Chandramouli Venkatesan on Personal Growth and Leadership: Insights from his book - Catalyst
GUEST Chandramouli Venkatesan (Mouli) has a strong corporate track record of over 25 years. He is an alumnus of XLRI, Jamshedpur and spent his initial years in Sales and Marketing in Asian Paints, GE Capital and Onida. He worked with Cadbury’s from 2005 till 2016. Over that time Cadbury metamorphosed to Kraft Foods and Mondelez and his last role there was Managing Director for India. In his de...
1hr 13m May 10, 2018
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294: 27.00 Amit Chandra's journey from Investment Banking to Private Equity and Social Impact
GUEST Amit Chandra heads Bain Capital in India and is a Managing Director in the Financial and Business Services Vertical and a member of the Asia Pacific Private Equity team and a part of its leadership group. Before joining Bain Capital Private Equity, he spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, a leading Investment Bank in India. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 ...
1hr 23m Apr 26, 2018
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282: 26.00 Jay Panda on building a successful political career, resilience, and seizing opportunities
GUEST Baijayant Jay Panda is currently serving in his 4th term in the Parliament of India. He was elected to his second term (2014-2019) in the Lok Sabha from the Kendrapara constituency, Odisha. He graduated from the Michigan Technological University and, with a background in Engineering and Management, worked in the world of Business before joining politics. Jay Panda had helped to form the ...
1hr 13m Mar 29, 2018
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269: 25.00 Devdutt Pattanaik on Transitioning from Medicine to Mythology and perspectives on Leadership
GUEST Devdutt Pattanaik writes on relevance of mythology in modern times, especially in areas of management, governance and leadership. Trained in medicine, he worked for 15 years in the healthcare and pharma industries before he focussed on his passion full time. He is author of 30 books and 600 columns, with bestsellers such as My Gita, Jaya, Sita, Business Sutra and the 7 Secret Series. He ...
1hr 14m Mar 16, 2018
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257: 24.00 Suresh Narayanan on Nestle India's turnaround and building a resilient culture
GUEST Suresh Narayanan is the Chairman and MD of Nestle India Limited (which recently crossed INR 10,000 Crores for the first time after about a century of operating in India). Suresh is often dubbed as a turnaround leader given what he has accomplished in various markets - Handling the operations in Singapore during the 2008 financial crisis, Leadership in Egypt, Libya and Sudan during the Ar...
1hr 6m Feb 16, 2018
1hr 6m
247: 23.00 KV Sridhar on overcoming dyslexia, finding his voice, and adapting to the changing advertising landscape.
GUEST KV Sridhar (Pops) is one of the most respected creative leaders in the Indian Advertising World and has been the driving force behind several international awards including 22 Cannes Lions. He currently runs Hypercollective - a cross-disciplinary platform for leading independent companies in strategy, communication, content, design, technology and data to collaborate and solve real world...
1hr 41m Jan 25, 2018
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239: 22.00 Meher Pudumjee on Leadership Transitions, Resilience and leading a full Life
GUEST Meher Pudumjee is the Chairperson of Thermax Limited, one of India’s leading energy and environmental engineering companies. She is also an active Philanthropist with a passion for making a difference in Education. She is the Chairperson of Akanksha Foundation and is a Trustee of Teach to Lead, Mumbai. She is also on the Board of Imperial College India Foundation, Shakti Sustainable Solu...
43m Jan 11, 2018
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Play to Potential Podcast - Highlights from 2017
As we approach the end of 2017, we at the Play to Potential Podcast decided to step back and reflect on the year that has gone by and the incredible learnings from the various conversations at the podcast. It is hard to distil 20 plus hours of content into a few minutes but we wanted to share some key themes that stood out for us across the various interviews we had. We are excited to share tha...
26m Dec 21, 2017
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230: 21.00 Viswanathan Anand - Unlocking the potential of the human mind and perspectives on Excellence
GUEST Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former World Chess Champion, considered as one of the greatest chess players of all time. Anand was the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991–92, India's highest sporting honour. In 2007, he was the first sportsman to receive India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan. Harnessing the fu...
1hr 41m Nov 17, 2017
1hr 41m
218: 20.00 Anu Madgavkar on Career Transitions and Future of Work
GUEST Anu is a Partner with McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the economics and business research arm of McKinsey & Company. She is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and worked for a few years in Banking before joining Consulting at McKinsey. Subsequently, she moved from the Consulting track at McKinsey to her current role at MGI through some experiments along the way. In our conversation, Anu spoke...
1hr 1m Oct 27, 2017
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207: 19.00 Dheeraj Pandey on Leadership in a Scale up
GUEST Dheeraj Pandey is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Nutanix, Inc. (Market Cap of ~USD 3.5 Billion) that had an IPO in September 2016. Nutanix is a cloud computing software company that sells what it calls hyper-converged infrastructure appliances and software-defined storage. He grew up in Patna and is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and UT Austin. In our conversation, Dheeraj spoke about his ea...
59m Oct 13, 2017
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196: 18.00 Rama Bijapurkar on Choosing your Playground, Staying Relevant and Board Leadership
GUEST Rama Bijapurkar is India’s most respected thought leader on market strategy and India’s consumer economy. She has an independent consulting practice and works across sectors and organization types, describing her mission as “bringing market and customer focus to business strategy”. In addition to her consulting practice, she is on Boards of several blue-chip companies. She is a regular v...
1hr 1m Sep 29, 2017
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184: 17.00 Zia Mody on Exploring Law as a Career and Building a Legacy as a Trusted Advisor
GUEST Zia Mody is an Indian legal consultant and considered an authority on Corporate Merger and Acquisition Law, Securities Law, Private Equity and Project Finance. She is an alumnus of Harvard Law School and worked for 5 years in the US with Baker and Mackenzie in New York City before returning to India. She started her own practice in Mumbai in 1984 and over the years, she has built AZB & P...
39m Aug 31, 2017
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174: 16.00 Vinita Bali on a Global Career, Transitions and Staying Relevant
GUEST Vinita Bali is a distinguished leader who has held leadership roles in 6 countries (UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Chile, USA and India) across 5 continents across organizations including Cadbury’s, Coca Cola Company and Britannia. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). In addition to this, she also sits on multiple Indian B...
1hr 27m Aug 11, 2017
1hr 27m
163: 15.00 Vedika Bhandarkar on Career Perspectives: Investment Banking, Senior Transitions, and Navigating Careers
GUEST Vedika Bhandarkar is the MD in India of Water.org, an organization that empowers families with access to safe water and sanitation through affordable financing. Water.org pioneers innovative, community-driven and market based initiatives to achieve the above objective. It is a global organization that operates on the belief that access to safe water can turn problems into potential: unlo...
1hr 16m Jul 28, 2017
1hr 16m
153: 14.00 Pramath Sinha on Consulting Careers, Leadership Development, and Education
GUEST Dr. Pramath Sinha has worked in diverse fields spanning business and strategy, consulting, leadership and academia. He spent 12 years with McKinsey & Company in North America and India, heading leadership and media practices. Passionate about education, he forayed into the field as the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business (ISB) and was instrumental in building ISB into a world-...
1hr 33m Jul 14, 2017
1hr 33m
141: 13.00 Karthik Reddy on Venture Investing: Pathways and Strategies for Success
GUEST Karthik Reddy (based in Mumbai) is a Founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, one of India’s leading tech-focused early stage VCs that was set up in 2010. Karthik is the architect of the Blume business model and investment hypothesis framework that he constantly iterates with his team members. Karthik is arguably one of the best sounding boards in the early stages of a business on...
1hr 32m Jun 29, 2017
1hr 32m
129: 12.00 Atul Kasbekar - From Engineering to Photography: Navigating Transitions and Reinvention
GUEST Atul Kasbekar is an award winning photographer (first Indian to win the prestigious International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence awards 2005, held in London for his work on Kingfisher Calendar), Film producer (His film Neerja won the National Award for the Best Feature Film in Hindi in 2017) and works with the who’s who of the Corporate World and Bollywood through Bling! Entertain...
1hr 5m Jun 16, 2017
1hr 5m
120: 11.00 Nandan Nilekani on Leadership and Transitioning across Infosys, UIDAI, Politics and more
GUEST Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur, bureaucrat and politician. He was part of the founding team at Infosys and held several leadership roles with the company including being the CEO and Co-Chairman. In 2009, he moved from Infosys to serve as the Chairman of UIDAI and in the five years there, enrolled about two thirds of the country. He subsequently contested the 2014 Lok Sabha ele...
52m Jun 02, 2017
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110: 10.0 Avnish Bajaj on his journey as an Entrepreneur and as an Investor
GUEST Avnish Bajaj is the co-founder and Managing Director at Matrix Partners – a Venture Investing firm, a firm that he set up around 11 years back. He did this at the back of a successful exit from Baazee.com when he sold it to eBay for USD 55 Million. In his own words, he has been a serial brand collector before he took the plunge and started eBay. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, Harvard Bu...
54m May 15, 2017
54m
98: 9.0 Prakash Iyer on Storytelling, Personal Brand and flourishing in the Gig Economy
GUEST Prakash Iyer is a best-selling author, motivational speaker and a leadership coach. Before he officially became a member of the “Gig economy”, he was the Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark Lever. Prior to that he the Managing Director and CEO of Infomedia India Limited (formerly Tata Infomedia). Prior to that, Prakash was Executive Director at PepsiCo, responsible for the company’s oper...
48m Apr 28, 2017
48m
87: 8.0 Viren Rasquinha on Olympic Gold Quest and Unlocking Potential of Olympic Athletes
GUEST Viren Rasquinha is a former captain of India’s national field hockey team. He quit international hockey to pursue an MBA at ISB and since 2009, he has been the CEO of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) - a Not for Profit company dedicated towards helping Indian athletes win Olympic Gold medals. They have played a key role in 5 out of the 8 medals India won in 2012 and 2016 Olympics. We spoke about...
53m Apr 13, 2017
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77: 7.0 Abhijit Bhaduri on staying relevant in a rapidly Digitizing World
GUEST My seventh guest at the Play to Potential Podcast is Abhijit Bhaduri. Abhijit is an Author, Columnist, Keynote speaker and a Digital Transformation coach to Leaders and Organizations. Abhijit writes regularly for Indian and International publications including The Wall Street Journal. Abhijit is the author of The Digital Tsunami (Published by Rupa Publications India in Oct 2016), where h...
1hr 3m Mar 31, 2017
1hr 3m
66: 6.0 Ravi Venkatesan on Transitioning from Cummins to Microsoft to driving Social Impact
GUEST My sixth guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Ravi Venkatesan. He is the Chairman of Bank of Baroda and on the Board of Infosys and Rockefeller Foundation. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Social Venture Partners India, a network of engaged leaders attempting to address complex social issues through venture philanthropy. He invests in young organizations through Unitus Se...
1hr 8m Mar 18, 2017
1hr 8m
46: 5.0 Prof. Kartik Hosanagar on Life in Academia
GUEST My fifth guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Professor Kartik Hosanagar. Kartik is a Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Kartik's research work focuses on the digital economy, in particular Internet media, Internet marketing and e-commerce. Kartik has been recognized as one of the world's top 40 business professors under 40. He has received se...
43m Feb 10, 2017
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38: 4.0 Papa CJ on Transitioning to and thriving in the world of Stand Up
GUEST My fourth guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Papa CJ. Papa CJ is a world-renowned stand-up comedian. He has won awards for both Asia’s and India’s Best Stand-up Comedian. Forbes Magazine called him ‘the global face of Indian stand-up’ and Toastmaster International called him one of the most influential comedians around the world. He has performed over 2000 shows across fiv...
43m Jan 25, 2017
43m
24: 3.0 Capt. Raghu Raman on Leadership Lessons from the Armed Forces
GUEST My third guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Captain Raghu Raman. Raghu Raman has possibly one of the most unique career profiles spanning over 25 years. He spent eleven years as an officer in the Indian Armed Forces, followed by another eleven years in the corporate sector before joining the Government as CEO of the National Intelligence Grid. Raghu started his career with...
1hr 30m Jan 10, 2017
1hr 30m
12: 2.0 Amish Tripathi on Transitioning from the Financial Services World to Writing
GUEST My second guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Amish Tripathi, a celebrated author who has written the Shiva Trilogy (The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras) and the first of the Ram Chandra Series (Scion of Ishvaku). He is an alumnus of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and IIM - Kolkata. We spoke about a range of topics including how he got...
42m Dec 21, 2016
42m
10: 1.0 Vijay Amritraj on Excellence in Sport and Broadcasting
GUEST My first guest on the Play to Potential Podcast series is Vijay Amritraj, a Padma Shri awardee, who has been successful in multiple avatars - Asia's No. 1 tennis player for several years, Successful Commentator and Broadcaster and United Nations ambassador of peace just to name a few. We spoke about a range of topics around low odds careers, transitioning from play to commentating, role...
1hr 7m Dec 06, 2016
1hr 7m
1: Introduction to Play to Potential Podcast Series
Welcome to the Play to Potential Podcast Series. I am Deepak Jayaraman (CEO, Transition Insight)and I am the creator and curator of this podcast series where I talk to people from different walks of life and distil insights around leadership, transitions and careers. I am an Executive Coach and a Leadership Advisor. This is my effort to learn from journeys that others have been through and sha...
3m Dec 06, 2016
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