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Geoff Meyer, MD - Ironman, Asia - Full Conversation - Ironman COVID - 19 EDITION

Hey! you are listening to TalkCXOLife. We bring to you a brand new conversation with Geoff Meyer, MD - Ironman, Asia. Happy Listening!

Oct 12, 2020•50 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Full Conversation - Chairman, MD & Director HR, Bharat Petroleum (BPCL)

Hey! you are listening to TalkCXOLife. Enjoy our Full Conversation with Padmakar Kappagantula. Chairman, MD & Director HR, Bharat Petroleum (BPCL). Happy Listening!

Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 22 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 7/7: CXO Fun Facts

Chances are you wouldn’t but did you know that – Padmakar’s greatest fear if of being lost in a room without any openings. Well, not surprising for the man who loves his light and his colors. Listen to some more fun facts on Padmakar in this unmissable CXO Fun Facts segment!

Sep 02, 2020•14 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 6/7: Willingness to Receive

So, what is success? In this segment Padmakar shares how for him, it is about sleeping well without regrets and helping at least a few understand themselves better. He also shares how he moved past his difficulty of receiving, why that is important and his gratitude to God for his imperfections.

Aug 29, 2020•7 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 5/7: Play of Light & Darkness

In this brief segment, we step into the play of light and darkness as we explore Padmakar’s love for photography, especially black and white stills. A passion inherited from his uncles, Padmakar shares how one’s hands need to be strong to capture shots and how he still doesn’t feel the need to use tripods. Street photography and nature, enthuse him the most. So let’s click away.

Aug 26, 2020•11 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 4/7: An Artist’s Quest

In continuation with my conversation with Padmakar on art and his love for painting, we touch upon, in this segment, an artist’s quest, influence of art on professional sphere, pearls of wisdom he received from an art connoisseur decades ago which he still abides by when painting, his post-retirement plans of traveling the world and perhaps setting up a studio.

Aug 24, 2020•17 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 3/7: Into the World of an Artist

In this segment, we unravel the mind of an artist. Padmakar speaks on how painting helps to process one’s experiences and the world around. How art bridges the gap between pragmatism and the utopian world one lives within as an artist. A self-taught painter, Padmakar speaks about the brief but significant training he received some years ago from Kashinath Salve, retired dean of JJ School of Art and how it helped him learn some technical rules, which he is prone to disregard. While Padmakar has p...

Aug 22, 2020•20 min

Padmakar Kappagantula Part 2/7 – From Studying Plants to People

In the second segment, we briefly delve into Padmakar’s academic and career trajectory: from graduating in an unusual and interesting discipline - agriculture – to studying human resources in the renowned TISS (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) to working with Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) for over three decades. He reflects how one mustn’t typecast people and the importance of recognising the passions and interests of employees and encouraging them. BTW, if you haven’t yet already, do check our earl...

Aug 19, 2020•13 min

21: Salil Murthy MD - India and SE Asia, General Mills - HIGHLIGHTS

This is the Highlights segment of our full conversation with Salil Murthy. Visit www.cxolife.com to catch the full conversation. Happy Listening!

Aug 06, 2020•29 min

20: Padmakar Kappagantula Part 1/7 : Growing Up in a World of Imagination

In this first segment, we delve into Padmakar’s childhood – a wonderful world of imagination as he puts it, surrounded by his favourite books and illustrations which provided a painfully shy boy a cocoon to discover and nourish his artistic skills as a young child. He speaks of his growing years in Secunderabad & Chennai, his first painting of a blue elephant as a young kid, the role of his immediate and extended family in influencing his perspectives and rooting his artistic frame of mind. ...

Aug 03, 2020•11 min

19: Salil Murthy Part 6/6: CXO Fun Facts

Is Salil superstitious before a run? What is his favourite comfort food? Did you know that Salil had interviewed Sir Arthur C Clarke as a journalist?! Find out more such interesting titbits on Salil through this CXO FunFacts segment!

Jul 31, 2020•13 min

18: Salil Murthy Part 5/6: Fanning the Flames of Curiosity

Listen to Salil share how his biggest commitment is to keep alive the curiosity within him and his son. It's this that led him to understand what he loves to do and presented to him a myriad opportunities. Even though Salil applied this simple and diligent approach with the intent of only ‘achieving certain local maxima’, he amazed himself at the way it magically led him to constantly reinvent his own potential, without planning or obsessing over any particular outcome.

Jul 27, 2020•9 min

17: Salil Murthy Part 4/6: Leadership & the Fine Act of Balancing Work and Life

In this segment, Salil shares the importance of having a positive work culture that promotes bringing one’s most ‘authentic self’ to work, the tone for which, Salil ascertains, is set at the top. He shares numerous initiatives undertaken at General Mills to encourage and empower its 500 employees, whom Salil feels most accountable towards. Happy Listening!

Jul 22, 2020•10 min

16: Salil Murthy Part 3/6: 'Putting' Glory - Winning Amateur Golf Tournaments

This segment is about Salil’s love for golf. He had won quite a few corporate tournaments in Singapore before winning the Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup for Bombay in 2016. He has represented India at the World Amateur finals in Turkey. More recently, in 2018, he also won the Indo American Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament at ITC Classic, Delhi. Salil shares how what began as hitting a grounder a decade ago, became a joy for Salil that now comes close only to him spending time with his family...

Jul 06, 2020•10 min

15: Salil Murthy Part 2/6: From Struggling on a Treadmill to Running World Major Marathons

In this segment, we discuss running. Salil is an avid runner, having participated in numerous marathons across the globe, including four Abbot World Majors. He ran his fourth world major in Berlin in September 2018 (a few months before the interview). From struggling to complete a kilometer on a treadmill to running races around the world, backed by his competitive spirit, discover how Salil surprised people around him including himself with his self-driven, feisty flight.

Jul 02, 2020•20 min

14: Salil Murthy, Managing Director – India and South East Asia, General Mills Part 1/6: Key Milestones, Work-Life Balance, Life’s Purpose

In this segment, Listen to Salil share key life milestones encircling the roles he identifies himself with primarily - of a husband and father, a leader at work, a runner and a golfer. Want to crack the code on work-life balance? Salil, simply boils it down to gaining clarity about what one likes to do, is good at doing and what gives one satisfaction and well.. then focusing on those aspects.

Jun 27, 2020•12 min

13: Nishant Parashar - Highlights - Founder, Engage4more

Hey! you are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

May 28, 2020•26 min

12: Nishant Parashar - Full Converstation - Founder, Engage4more

Hey! you are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

May 20, 2020•1 hr 15 min

11: Nishant Parashar - Part 8/8 : Few of My Fav Things - Beatboxing, Running, Stand-up Routines

Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young. In the concluding segment of our conversation with Nishant Parashar we speak of his love for beatboxing, stand up routines and running. Nishant also ...

May 15, 2020•16 min

10: Nishant parashar - Part 7/8 : Formative Years & Life Milestones

Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young. The seventh segment is all about taking a trip down the memory lanes. We speak about Nishant’s formative years and his personal milestones. Nishant r...

May 13, 2020•9 min

9: Nishant Parashar - Part 6/8 : Building an Authentic Indian Story on Engagement

In this segment, Nishant shares how employee engagement is relevant and important across industries, regardless of the organisation’s size. He associates this with the changes in corporate culture marked by open workplaces, relaxed work attire and even the startup era. We also speak about the underestimated power of a genuine conversation within the context of engagement and Nishant’s future plans of expanding his services to a million offices across India and of building an authentic Indian bra...

May 05, 2020•10 min

8: Nishant Parashar - Part 5/8 – Role of Technology in Facilitating Remote Employee Engagement

Meet Nishant Parashar, Founder of engage4more, a leading employee engagement firm in Mumbai. Nishant who was also awarded the Business World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2010, within about a year of setting up engage4more, shares how engaging with people and eliciting a response from them through events, activities have driven him since young. As I revisit the fifth part of my conversation with Nishant on the role of technology and how it will change the ways companies engage with their emp...

Apr 27, 2020•8 min

7: Nishant Parashar - Part 4/8 – Engagement Value Validators : Attrition Drop & Continuity

Hey! You are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

Apr 21, 2020•12 min

6: Nishant Parashar - Part 3/8 – CTC Lockdown edition : Corporate Talent Reality Show Now Online!

Hey! You are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

Apr 16, 2020•13 min

5: Nishant Parashar - Part 2/8: Fixing the Corporate ‘Bandwidth-Idea-Budget’ Paucity for FREE!

Hey! You are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

Apr 10, 2020•14 min

4: Nishant Parashar - Part 1/8 – Unlocking the Employee Engagement code : More Fun for Better Response

Hey! You are listening to the KIA series by TalkCXOLife and before I introduce our next guest, I hope and pray you and your loved ones are healthy, safe and sound and continue to be so during these very trying times! We are in this together and so may our commitment to ensure the wellbeing of ourselves and the society at large prevail! Alright, no preaching now coz it isn’t fun at all is it. But you know what is? Imagine playing the drums or snakes and ladders or cuddling a pet or whipping up a ...

Apr 07, 2020•14 min

3: Rajesh Saluja - Bonus Segment : Till Impatience Do Us Part – The Investor-Wealth Dynamic

This is a bonus segment of our conversation with Rajesh Saluja, CEO & Managing Partner, ASK Wealth Advisors. Now, if you have listened to the full conversation we had with Rajesh so far, you will know that this veteran financial advisor consulting several HNIs, is a rare mix of eternal optimism and solid pragmatism, which is why we think you ought to listen to this bonus segment which is on a matter of universal interest – wealth, better yet, on how to increase it. Rajesh shares basic, simpl...

Mar 20, 2020•12 min

2: Rajesh Saluja - Highlights - CEO & Managing Partner, ASK Wealth Advisors

Rajesh Saluja, CEO & Managing Partner, ASK Wealth Advisors, has over two decades of experience in the consumer banking, wealth management and private wealth advisory verticals and is well known for his love for golf which he took to in 1999 when he was heading the Priority Banking & Deposits India arm for Standard Chartered Bank. He is also an avid cricketer and represents his son’s school at prominent inter-school-league tournaments, putting in several hours of dedicated practice during...

Mar 13, 2020•24 min

1: Women Leaders : Work, Play and Heart(h) - Special Feature - Sky is Pink

The International Women’s Day – celebrated worldwide every year on March 8th has come a long way over the century – from women demanding the right to vote to women currently excelling in every field, shattering glass ceilings, leading some of the largest conglomerates to being the epitome of balancing and managing it all – home, career, personal interests. But how do they really do it? How far do we still need to go? Is it even possible to have an added dimension personally and excel at it? We t...

Mar 10, 2020•34 min

25: Rajesh Saluja - Full Conversation - CEO & Managing Partner, ASK Wealth Advisors

Rajesh Saluja, CEO & Managing Partner, ASK Wealth Advisors, has over two decades of experience in the consumer banking, wealth management and private wealth advisory verticals and is well known for his love for golf which he took to in 1999 when he was heading the Priority Banking & Deposits India arm for Standard Chartered Bank. He is also an avid cricketer and represents his son’s school at prominent inter-school-league tournaments, putting in several hours of dedicated practice during...

Mar 06, 2020•59 min

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