Host Sharon Richmond revisits her original episode with guest CEO Ajay Varya, adding new insights on servant leadership and cross-functional teams in fast-growing companies. She and Ajay explore your peer team being your first team, cultural challenges, transparency, and prioritizing growth mindset.

This is To Lead Is Human — listen to learn how you can uplevel your leadership and shape cultures of accountability, respect, and candor.

Guest Bio:

Ajay Varia is the Founder and CEO of Growth Nirvana. Growth Nirvana is a no-code growth marketing platform that gets you marketing analytics in minutes, not months. Previously, Ajay was Chief Operating Officer at Emeritus where he led global marketing and sales. Prior to Emeritus, he was Vice President of Engineering at MasterClass. Ajay has a Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo.

Host Bio:

For more than 30 years, Sharon Richmond has partnered with C-level executives from mid-size and small, fast-growing companies who want to up-level their leadership and build companies they are proud of. Clients accelerate their leadership by embracing mindset and behavior changes, building self-awareness and self-management skills, and focusing on the three things all leaders must ensure: focus, energy and delivery.

Sharon’s purpose as an executive coach is to help leaders 10X their impact by leveraging the power afforded by their roles to build organizations that are forces for good, both economically and socially. She also advises CEOs on shaping organization culture and leading change.

Sharon has taught leadership at Stanford GSB, where she now helps leaders increase influence, manage conflict, and prepare to build high-performing teams.

To see a list of Sharon’s clients, please visit LeadingLarge.com.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

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Sharon’s website: LeadingLarge.com
Ajay’s Website: GrowthNirvana.com
Ajay’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-varia-b880812/
Ajay’s Culture Doc: https://www.growthnirvana.com/blog/values-culture-matter/

Credits:

Host: Sharon Richmond
Producer: Andrew Chapman
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Original Episode Producer: Cynthia Lamb
Original Episode Coordinator: Geoff Govertsen
Original Episode Audio Editing: Post Office Sound
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

Music credits:

Track Title: Escaping Light
Artist: Aaron Sprinkle
Writer: Aaron Sprinkle
Publisher: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Bright Future
Artist: Be Still The Earth
Writer: Marshall Usinger
Publisher: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Special effects credits:

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Episode transcript: Make Your Peer Team Your First Team (Special: Ajay Varia Revisited) coming soon.