A CEO's Perspective, Followership with Priya Narasimhan

This week, in the continuation of the CEO followership series, Jeanie is joined by CEO, Priya Narasimhan, the founder and CEO of Yinzcam. Priya shares her perspective of followership as not only an executive within her organization, but she also shares how she integrates the idea of followership in the classroom with her students at Carnegie Mellon University. Priya’s energy and conviction around followership is one that is sure to inspire anyone who listens to this episode.

Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests lie in the fields of dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology. She serves as the academic lead of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing (ISTC-EC) that comprises Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, UIUC, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech. Priya Narasimhan is the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, Inc., a company focused on mobile live streaming and scalable video technologies to provide the ultimate mobile fan experience to 40+ professional sports teams/venues.

Enjoy today’s episode!



3:12 Introduction to Priya

3:48 How Priya describes herself as a CEO and a professor

5:44 Priya shares what it looks like for her to operate at her best as a CEO and a professor

7:12 Priya defines followership

10:21 The concept of silent coaching

12:05 Generational differences around followership

13:55 How having the awareness of what you love and what you’re good at can change the trajectory of your future.

15:43 Priya shares the impact the pandemic has had on her organization

21:46 Attributes that fueled Priya’s motivation to keep her business alive during its most difficult times

24:57 An executive leadership perspective on the future of work during the pandemic

27:39 The importance of supporting employees who want to pivot and evolve as the company evolves

29:15 Priya shares her experience of teaching and implementing followership within the classroom

32:28 How Priya’s students describe her teaching style

33:59 Grading by the size of ambition vs perfecting solutions

38:00 Priya talks about how she creates a culture of ambition at Yinzcam

40:14 Who Priya is following and why



Connect with Priya Narasimhan:
https://priyanarasimhan.com/about-me-new/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanarasimhan/


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