Podcast Series by IIM-K PGPBL Insights Circle (Dheer & Akshat)

About Shreyas Shevade:

Shreyas is the Head of Creative & Content Marketing at South Asia's largest higher edtech company, upGrad. An international award-winning creative professional with over 11 years of experience, he has worked across integrated advertising, digital marketing, PR, and relationship marketing, at top multi-national and network agencies like MRM//McCann, Edelman, Contract, Rediffusion Y&R, and Grey Worldwide. Shreyas has crafted clutter-breaking marketing campaigns for Volkswagen, Durex, Surf Excel, Dove, Bajaj Allianz, and IndiaFirst Life Insurance, that have been conferred coveted metals at the Effies (APAC & India), In2SABRE (APAC), Webby, Abby, Campaign Digital Crest, Economic Times Best Brands, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), and Asian Customer Engagement Forum (ACEF). Outside of the office, Shreyas takes guest lectures at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, and has been on the jury for their CCC PG Certificate Programme. He also works with homegrown businesses within his personal networks, to guide and mentor them in their marketing initiatives.

Website: www.shreyasshevade.com/

BL-Insights Circle:

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership.

A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

Insights Circle Podcast series: The Podcast Series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader. How can one learn leadership and, most importantly, try to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill.

Timestamp:

4:50 Journey to Entrepreneurship and managing two jobs at the same time

7:46 Digital Advertising Changing

10:30 Digital channel to digital world

11:18 Adapting to changes to external environment

13:13 Influencer Marketing

14:50 IIM Kozhikode’s PGP-Business Leadership

19:15 The point is not to make people like you, but make people BE LIKE YOU!

19:30 Leadership as a skill

20:30 Advice to MBA students

22:35 Being a people manager

24:40 Ed-Tech and education in India

Introduction Song Credits: Compassion by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license.

#Podcast #upgrad #edtech #IIMKozhikode #PGPBL #Insights #InsightsCircle #IIMK #creative #marketing #lifelonglearning #kaamkidegree #PodcastSeries

About Kanika Goyal:

Kanika has had an exciting journey from the University of Manchester to IIM Kozhikode and then moving on to Management Consulting at PwC to VP Trade Finance Product Manager at Citi Bank to Executive coach at The Positivity Company. Some of the key positions held by her include:

The amount of experience in her profile and transition from core consulting to finance to leadership coach is filled with challenges and learnings for MBA graduates, from identifying one's strengths to navigating and choosing between the difficult choices.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanika-goyal-18b9761/

BL-Insights Circle:

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership.

A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatb02

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The Podcast Series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader. How can one learn leadership and, most importantly, try to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill?

Timestamp:

6:00 to 8.00 IIMK Journey

8.00 to 9.15 Financial Independence and right out of IIMK

9.15 to 11:20 Networking to Landing CitiBank NYC

11:20 to 13:00 Understanding limitations and understanding oneself

13:00 to 13:48 Upskilling

13:48 to 16:06 Switch from corporate to leadership coach

16:06 to 19:45 Career and Life Evolves

19:45 to 24:00 Choices and selection between them

24:00 to 28:00 Showing up and power of compounding

28:00 to 30:00 Identifying core values

30:00 Identifying a dead end

#Podcast #PodcastSeries #LeadershipCoach #IIMKozhikode #PGPBL

#Insights #InsightsCircle #MindsetCoach #ThePositivityCompany

About Munjal Savla:

Mr Munjal Savla has an exciting transition from racing to senior performance driving instructor to entrepreneurship to the energy sector and managing a project which involved installing upwards of 30,000 solar-powered irrigation pumps across various states. His work requires process re-engineering, process automation, data management and analysis. He is enthusiastic about electric vehicles, hydrogen economy and clean energy.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/munjalsavla/

BL-Insights Circle:

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership. A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The Podcast Series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader. How can one learn leadership and, most importantly tries to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill.

Timestamp:

1:33-5:30 About the Speaker

6:30 How to become a professional race driver:

10:55 Entry to entrepreneurial journey:

16:04 Preparation in changes due to government changes

23:20 Data Analytics in Irrigation Industry

About Vikram Poddar:

Vikram is India’s Number 1 Corporate Comedian. A transition from Consulting to Investment Banking to Standup Comedy to Corporate comedy is an FMS graduate and HR’s Humor Resource Manager at BoredRoom comedy. Providing services such as HR consulting, Marketing Consulting, Advertising and Brand Consulting.

Website: https://boredroomcomedy.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VikramPoddarComedian/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vikrampoddarcomedian

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikrampoddar/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BoredRoomComedy

BL-Insights Circle

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership. A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The podcast series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader? How can one learn leadership and, most importantly, try to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill?

Timestamp:

01:30-2:15: Switch to comedy

3:35-4:05: Big 4 calling out

11:55-12:05: Conclusion on the switch to comedy

17:28-18:14 Friends v Strangers

22:15-23:07 Valuation and its implementation

25:00-27:00 Introversion and comedy

27:58-28:55 Networking

31:07-31:52 Experience in consulting

About Vikram Poddar:

Vikram is India’s Number 1 Corporate Comedian. A transition from Consulting to Investment Banking to Standup Comedy to Corporate comedy,  is an FMS graduate HR’s Humor Resource Manager at BoredRoom comedy. Providing services such as HR consulting, Marketing Consulting, Advertising and Brand Consulting.

BL-Insights Circle

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership. A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer Dedhia: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat Bansal: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The podcast series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader? How can one learn leadership and, most importantly tries to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill?

About Kuntal Joisher:

Kuntal is currently a Vegan Mountaineer, Nutrition coach, Body Builder, @SavetheDuck Athlete. From a software engineering consultant turned mountaineer to a socially conscious citizen advocating for animal rights, removing the stigma about mental health disorder, Mr Kuntal Joisher has done all. The first Vegan to summit Mt Everest in the world and now a bodybuilder in the making, the goal to prove muscle can be built with a vegan diet. The motivated transition from a next-door IT guy to a mountaineer, with a weight from 100kgs+ to attain current fitness levels, scale the Everest twice and chase the state of peace. The story has it all. BL-Insights Circle presents to you Mr Kuntal Joisher.

Website: https://www.kuntaljoisher.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kuntalj

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuntalj/

BL-Insights Circle

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership. A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

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

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The podcast series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader? How can one learn leadership and, most importantly tries to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill?

Timestamp:

1:30 Why Mountaineering

5:20 What clicked? Identifying the call

10:30 Finding your Everest

22:15 Motivation - How to stay motivated in challenging environment

24:00 Overcoming self doubts

29:45 Decision Making

37:45 Effective teams parallels in mountaineering and corporate world

46:05 What drives Kuntal to support the social causes of Dementia & Veganism.

51:33 Giving back to society