Dr Savi's Media Watch

Our episode features Dr Kuldip Sandhu - Director of Innovative Quality Solutions. We chat about how companies have had to rapidly adapt due to the global pandemic. Essentially, how corporate leadership have empowered their employees  to both deliver and govern effective change. 

Dr Sandhu has also developed a global unique change simulator that is blended, combining online learning with facilitated collaborative learning. The simulator uses the principles of gamification. Gamification techniques are intended to leverage people's natural desires for socializing, learning, mastery, competition, achievement, status, self-expression, altruism,  closure or simply their response to the framing of a situation as game or play.

Our episode welcomes a leading youth activist. We consider the variance in how countries are prioritising vaccination roll outs, suspicion of the vaccine among ethnic minorities - particularly the BAME community and post Covid-19 world optimism.

We start our new season discussing a video recently circulated widely on social media, a young Sikh boy is seen being assaulted by two others in school uniform as he was walking back home from class. He was pushed to the ground and pinned down. This is very disturbing behaviour and saddening to see.

We focused on what clearly appears as a racially charged incident. Together we explored the need for better education for all levels of society, including schools, parents and children. Showing leadership with effective knowledge tools is one of the methods discussed.

This week, an archive episode, bringing back an interview with managing director of, The Rothschild Group - Dr Jogishwar Singh.

We discover inspired him to move from being a scientist to international banker and the way media portrays this market sector.  I had an opportunity to ask Dr Jogishwar Singh about tips can he provide for those wishing to join/start and progress in the investment banking sector.

Dr Jogishwar Singh is the first Sikh to have been selected by the world renowned Rothschild Group in Switzerland as a Managing Director. Born at Khanna (India) in 1951, Dr Singh served in the IPS and IAS before leaving India in 1984, a year of cataclysmic events for Sikhs in India. He restarted his professional career from scratch in Switzerland where his previous experience as an IAS officer had no resonance at all. With an M.Sc (Hons School) in Physics, M.A. in History from Panjab University Chandigarh, Dr Singh did his D.E.S.S. at Sorbonne in Paris, followed by a PhD from Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany. Dr Singh is fluent in eight languages and has basic knowledge of two others.

A wonderful opportunity to meet Sardarni Navleen Kaur, Chair of Khalsa Fostering - working with the community to help support children and families in critical areas of Foster care, for example: finding families to best suit placements, educational needs and mentoring through big brother and sister roles. A long term aim is to also develop a foster centre.

A truly inspiring interview

In this week's episode we discuss the outcome of the 2020 US election. Just like the Star Wars movie title is there now a 'New Hope'? Will the new president bring about a new era of optimism, less protectionism, technological innovation to facilitate a greener economy - all amongst a backdrop for coming through a time of the Pandemic.

I hope you enjoyed the conversation. I'm grateful to my guests Entrepreneur: Dr Preet, Economic Commentator: Gia and President - The Khalsa Jatha British Isles and Gen Sec of The Sikh Council: Gurpreet Singh) for their time, expertise and inspirational thought leadership.

My Thanks to our production partner www.Castlab.co.uk and background music rights from www.soundotcom.com

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Remember, change comes from within and Example is leadership.

Cheerio, Bye

This week we met the CEO of Multicultural Richmond (UK) - Ravi Arora. The charity promotes a thriving, integrated and inclusive multicultural community in Richmond upon Thames and surrounding boroughs. Projects include: #health, #wellbeing, developing #digitalskills, enjoying the great outdoors and tackling inequality. We spoke about the challenge of our current Covid times as many members enjoy face-to-face meet-ups et al.  

New challenges are now being managed, for example: connecting online with members that have varied digital skills. In addition, we discussed the power of data to help campaign for better opportunities for the next generation of students. 

 It was great to hear about the CEO and his team that are developing and supporting people from all walks of life. Their mission says it all, 'to be the leading charity working to secure racial equality and inclusion in, and celebrate and strengthen the multicultural nature of, the Richmond upon Thames community and communities in surrounding London boroughs'.

This time Dr Savi was effectively in the 'interviewee chair'!

Actually, I appeared as a joint host earlier in the year (recorded pre-Covid 19:) on 'Stefan Daily morning show' 'live' on the Hayes FM radio. Together we discussed a range of topics from management techniques to new innovations -