After 6 amazing seasons, this 7th Season of the podcast promises to be the cherry on top. Aptly titled "Game Changers", this is the season where I host  trend-setters across industries who've redefined leadership.

Our first guest today embodies it perfectly: Mr. Amit Malik, the CEO & Managing Director of Aviva.

He was selected as one of the “Top 40 HR Leaders” way back in 2014 & was the trend-setter for CHROs to be elevated to a CEO, along with the likes of Sunder Ramachandran & more recently, Leena Nair.

In the Season 6 finale, where we've interviewed HR stalwarts, I'm very happy to have a seasoned Talent Acquisition expert on the show. 

He's Mr. Aditya Pal Singh, Director & Head of Talent Acquisition at Informatica. 

He’s got over 19 years of experience, spanning the entire gamut of Talent Acquisition, having worked with Accenture as VP, Talent Acquisition before joining Informatica, one of the biggest names in the DWH space.

To wrap up the Women's Day Series, we present the "Leadership Snippets" of one of the strongest women in our podcast. 

She has virtually done it all - changed industries (from Airlines to Hospitality to Career Coach to Author); changed profiles (Training to Sales to Marketing to Communications / PR to Entrepreneur) .. the constant is that she's never shied away from a challenge. 

The Snippets essentially focus on what Leadership means to her & a very interesting take on what free-flowing advice she would give to a much-younger Sonnia. 

Link to the entire episode: https://anchor.fm/kaushik-bose9/episodes/20--Sonnia-Singh-Managing-Director--HSMAI-India-Leadership-Coach--Author-e1ckra8

Today, on Women’s Day, we have the CHRO for iCORE, a global Business line of one of the world’s largest IT organizations - Wipro Limited. 

She’s the home grown Wipro leader -Priti Kataria. 

She is responsible for anchoring and leading “Wipro cares” Mumbai chapter, while passionately leading and partnering in the organisation efforts around inclusion and diversity. While given her various roles and global portfolios - she is also a student on weekends - where she continues to learn and pursue her PhD from IIM indore

This is the second episode of "Leadership Snippets", which is just a 9-minute version of the original podcast. 

This Women's Day, we are proud to present the version where we had a candid chat with Ms. Sheela Nambiar (then Sr. Director with Oracle & now Digital Sales Leader with IBM in North America). 

It highlights how difficult it is (at least was) for women in sales, how an introvert can blossom in a sales role & her key leadership traits.   

While the full podcast is available in the link below, "Leadership Snippets" gives you an upto-9-minute "Leadership Recap" on what is needed to be a better leader. 

Today's episode is the snippet of my first guest on BrainBox & is also my mentor for nearly 2 decades. He's Mr. Ashish Wattal, Managing Director, Cisco for India & SAARC. 

Full episode:  

https://anchor.fm/kaushik-bose9/episodes/06--Leadership-Ashish-Wattal--Managing-Director--Cisco-India-e18iodc

It's the 25th episode today & I have the privilege of having a visionary leader on the show - Mr. Ranjan Ghosh. I've known him for over 2 decades from the time he was Executive Director in GAIL for Corporate Planning & Strategy, but he's also very keen in Quantum computing & grey-space consulting. 

Since we are focused on Leadership, though, this episode is a must-listen - where we discuss the key leadership traits, how to lead in large public sector conglomerates along with his hiring tips.  

Having passed out of one of the premium HR institutes in India, XLRI - Mayank has been with behemoths like Asian Paints & RIL before taking a 'career break'. He finally embarked on his journey to co-found a startup. 

Today we have a very candid chat on the latest topics - The Great Resignation (of course), Career Break & Motivating blue-collared workers!

I really wish I had spoken to him before I ventured into the startup world.. would have saved me a lot of heart-ache.. :)

Everyone has heard the saying “Data is the New Oil”. I have with me a very special guest today who has been at the intersection of both worlds! He used to handle data for one of the largest oil companies & figuring in the Fortune Global 500 list with profits of over $6.1 bn.