IMPACT AND INFLUENCE

Our today's guest Sandhya Reddy is an Executive Coach and Leadership Coach with Coaching certifications from the International coach academy. She has a PCC accreditation from ICF and a Hogan Assessor and Coach. 

She is the  Founder and Principal Coach at Chapter Two Coaching. Chapter Two is a coaching consultancy that specializes in leadership development. They help leaders in middle levels and senior levels engage better with their teams, peers, and senior stakeholders. They also help teams develop a growth and performance mindset, align better with the organizational culture and values, and function more cohesively. 

Very passionate about women’s leadership development and have developed a practice around it. 

They enable leadership development through 1:1 coaching interventions and through a set of curated leadership and personal transformational workshops.

She has over 750+ hours of experience coaching senior professionals and has enabled personal transformation for more than 1500+ persons through coaching interventions, workshops, webinars, and mentoring.

Let's Listen  to the last episode of the Season 1 of Impact and Influence

Dr. Sudha Srikanth has a Doctorate in Human Development. She is a certified, emotional intelligence trainer. Her passion and commitment to the area of EI provided her a chance to co-present a paper at Nexus EQ Conference, Harvard University, Boston, the US in June 2013. She has helped children in their emotional wellness at Sigma Tennis Academy for 5 years. She has been involved in providing guidance in the field of Early Childhood Education for over two decades.

Delivered the Keynote address on ‘Impact of Emotional Intelligence Awareness and Development in Parents’ at the conference titled ‘Progressive Academic Excellence-India’ by Evolve Excellence. Also conducted multiple workshops in organizations

Let's listen to her entrepreneurial journey 

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Senthil S Nair is a senior audio engineer at Mathrubhumi media for the past 14 years. and also the producer of the first kind of audio-visual drive show on FM radio. He loves traveling and has an appetite for delicious food and his love for cars is expanding exponentially year on year.

Let's just dive in and listen to his story on what it took for him to follow his passion

1:51 Who is Senthil Nair

2:17 How did he got introduced to sound engineering?

3: 41 Different career and business options in the sound engineering domain

8: 20 How he is able to follow his two passions

14:19 Message for the people who want to follow their passion

Nitasha is the Founder and communication director at WeeTalk - a global online public speaking program for children. She is also the founder Vice President of Smedley Speakers society, and Rural Toastmasters club, affiliates of the public speaking and leadership organization, Toastmasters International. She has designed and delivered public speaking workshops for young teens at public schools in New York, USA. 

Nitasha is a graduate of the Faculty of Design, CEPT University. Her career, spanning over 18 years involves design and management expertise of over 50 Raymond retail stores, all over India and some large corporate projects including a 200,000sft production plant for GlaxoSmithKline.  

A successful serial entrepreneur, she is also the principal designer and owner of New York-based "KidsArtbyNitasha" and "WeePaint", a sensory art program for children. 

She believes when equipped with the right tools and skills we can change FEAR to FUN!

You can reach her @ tps://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=weetalk

2:15  WeeTalk's birth

7:35 Challenges faced

8:55 Importance of self-education

9: 45 About We talk

11:39 Importance of Public speaking

14:24 Top 3 silks an entrepreneur should have

Dr.A.Dhanalakshmi is the founder of W2W Enterprises and is a postgraduate in Commerce, Business Administration, and Women’s Studies. She has been awarded a Ph.D. in Business Administration by Madurai Kamaraj University for her thesis in Entrepreneurship. She has more than 20 years of work experience in different sectors such as NGOs, Training Institutions, and Academic Institutions. She has worked in the International Research projects on “Women Health issues” conducted by New Jersey State University, USA, and on “Empowering the Marginalized Sections of the Society through Entrepreneurship” sponsored by Melinda Gates Foundation VHS – TAI, Chennai.

Also, we have Mr.Magesh Kumar who is a senior sales and marketing professional who strongly believes in contributing back to society. Currently, he is mentoring W2W social enterprise. It is Social Start-up Venture considering challenges with the intent of providing solutions through plastic waste management. W2W has come out blatantly that segregation at the source of plastic waste is the key. W2W has designed and developed a plastic shredding machine – AIRAVATH. This machine to be placed at the strategic location, high footfall areas.

Let's Just Dive in and listen to their journey

2:04- How did the idea of starting W2W sprout?

4:38- About W2W Enterprise

6:21- Product developed

11:11- The first sale

17:44- Final Message

Our today's guest Kaushal Sovani is the founder of Zolizabla who is a design thinker and believes in making parenting fun and easy

She is committed to making a difference in the way babies are dressed, carried, and cared for. She is a double degree holder - majors in Human Development & a degree in Special Education. Her experience working with children as a Special Educator and a Remedial Therapist has helped her in understanding the needs of children, understanding the designs & trendy clothes which will be comfortable and suit them. 

You can always expect something new on her design table

2:55- The birth of ZoliZabla

8:31- Challenges faced during the first year

17:40 - Process of hiring of vendors

22:02- Proud moments

27: 46- Final Message

Let's just dive in and listen to her story

What it took for the transition from being a successful cloud architect to a lifestyle coach is what our today's guest Mr. Dhaval Bhadeshiya is going to share .He followed his passion to the fullest .He believes in consistent learning. He invested on himself to upskill and he also shares how many years he did followed his passion as a side hustle before he could quit his high paying corporate job. He not only coaches on fitness and nutrition but he also emphasizes on the emotions attached to our habits towards our lifestyle.

Much more insights  in this episode. Let's just dive in and listen

2:04 Transition from a technical cloud architect to a Lifestyle coach

4:32 His side hustle journey for 5 years

11:09 His way of coaching

15:36 Your emotions and your food

17:46 How to address the craving?

20:17 Final Message

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Surbhi is the co-founder of LearnBuddy (www.learnbuddy.in) - an online learning platform for kids in the age group 6-14 years. LearnBuddy provides a child-friendly and trustworthy environment for interest-based learning for kids. With the aim to encourage inquisitive minds, nurture their curiosity and nudge their eagerness to learn, Surbhi is the torch bearer of the learning framework, content and strategy. Her zeal to make the learning programs fun, engaging and interactive comes from her strong background as a Learning & Development professional.

Surbhi has more than 21 years of rich experience in the Learning domain. After working with large global organizations such as Accenture, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, ANZ, Akamai, she took the entrepreneurial path with LearnBuddy in 2018. While she shifted her focus from adult learning to the kids education space with LearnBuddy, her passion to make learning experiences meaningful remains at the core of her heart. Transitioning from a much-loved and highly paying corporate job to the uncertain world of entrepreneurship wasn’t a cake walk for her and it still isn't, but it’s the fulfilling and enriching journey that continuously drives her.

Surbhi is also the National President for the WICCI Homepreneurs council. In this role, she is leading a council of 20+ strong women working together to create an environment and ecosystem to empower women to be successful homepreneurs.

2:40 Why she started her venture?

7:00 Idea validation Phase

12:40 Challenges faced

23:50 About LearnBuddy

34:06 Her role as the National President for the WICCI Homeprenuers

38:01 Final Message

Our today's guest Mr Vishal Singhal is the co-founder of CS Smartkids. He is also an Author, Industry Leader and Evangelist in Artificial Intelligence, IOT / Connected Devices, Emerging Industries etc. He is an experienced executive specializing in marketing and business development in industries such as Technology, Retail and Edu-tech.

He is an MBA graduate from University of Western Sydney

In this Episode he is going to share his entrepreneurial journey.

2:21 : His journey of different ventures before CS Smartkids

17:47: The birth of CS Smartkids 

26: 18: How AI can help Kids?

32:44 : Final Message