To be an effective HR leader takes a balance of head and heart. Intellectually, you need the ability to understand and use data to make business decisions. But employees need to feel seen and heard with requires emotional intelligence. How do you make that happen? That is what our STANDOUT guest Sana Qureshi - Chartered MCIPD is going to talk about during our conversation.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Sana Qureshi: Sana works in the people profession as an HR Manager. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Middlesex University and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD. Her real passion lies in making HR innovative while finding new and creative ways to optimize the HR processes creating a positive experience for the workforce. She believes that to be an effective HR leader it is important to understand and adopt a balanced approach of the head and the heart emphasizing the importance of compassion while being authentic and empathetic. Sana is proud of her achievements and believes that she still has a lot to accomplish for herself and for everyone else around her.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, only if you have the right perspective and are willing to learn! Challenges are not necessarily barriers to success, but a chance for us to learn the perfect opportunity to stretch our limits to embrace and seize new opportunities. Once we get through enough, we realize that even the worst-case scenario can have a positive solution. Our STANDOUT guest, Melane Mullings is going to share her story and how through her cancer journey and miraculous recovery, she gained an understanding of her purpose, faith, and the power of a positive mindset, all of which laid the foundation for her success.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Melane Mullings: she is a successful entrepreneur, cancer survivor, former registered nurse, founder of Aere Management Consulting, and an award-winning, #1 bestselling author. Melane’s cancer journey provided her with a deep understanding of the foundations of success which she extrapolated to her first entrepreneurial venture in the healthcare recruiting space. Thirteen years after establishing and operating her nursing recruitment firm, Melane successfully sold her business and shares her unconventional, yet proven strategies to success in her #1 bestselling book: 'Lemonade! Squeeze Your Challenging Life Experiences Into a Successful Business, and through her Business Management Consulting practice, Aere Management Consulting.

Trying to turn passion into profit is inherently risky. The good news is that you can minimize the risks by starting small and planning carefully. Turning your passion into profit could rapidly close the gap between where you are today and where you'd like to be tomorrow. Our STANDOUT guest, Oumou Samaké is going to share with us how she took advantage of her passion and then turned it into a profitable business to help people.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Oumou Samaké: she is a Bilingual Realtor (REALTOR®) at Remax, a #1 Real Estate Brand brokerage renowned for its quality services and its expertise in the real estate industry. She has more than 5 years of combined experience in the real estate and customer service industry. She combines her passion for real estate, education, project management, and customer service to help home buyers, sellers, investors, and people moving to the GTA to make the most informed real estate decisions.

Many of us want to embark on entrepreneurship and jumpstart our way to success. After you’ve been employed for a few years, you probably have job security, a regular income, benefits, and a bright future. Even so, you may want more out of life, and starting your own business. Our STANDOUT guest, Aditi Soni has launched her very own immigration consulting company and helps people achieve their dream of living in Canada. During our conversation, she is going to share with us how she made her shift from being an employee to becoming a full-time entrepreneur along with some powerful tips that could help you make the jump too.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Aditi Soni: she is the principal director at Trust Cosmic Immigration Consultancy, and a CICC Licensed Immigration Consultant with 12 years of experience in assisting a diversified global clientele. Being a woman in business and being an immigrant herself, she runs a successful immigration business that currently has 15 employees, out of which 90% are female employees. She is an active investor in early-stage start-ups. A strong believer in India's growth story across Tier 2, and 3 cities.

The global economic system has been restructured as a result of the coronavirus, which has also caused a crisis in global health. Most people now are making decisions for themselves and making a change that can bring fulfillment to their careers which they cannot do before the pandemic. With the search for a way to the new normal, change has been most urgent in the sphere of human resources. Our STANDOUT guest, Kim Araman, is a career coach and interview expert and the founder of Nail Your Interview. In this episode, she is going to share about the shift she has been observing and what the new normal looks like.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Kim Araman: Kim is a certified Career & Interview coach that helps clients stand out from the crowd & land their dream job without endlessly applying online. Her aim is to support people in finding fulfillment in their careers and has developed a framework that ensures they get desired results within 90 Days.

Nowadays, many employees feel that empathy is a crucial component of a positive working culture because it fosters an environment where workers truly look forward to bringing their entire selves to work. Leadership requires empathy at all levels. It promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, encourages cooperation and collaboration, and facilitates conflict management. Knowing the importance of empathetic behavior helps them to establish and maintain strong working relationships. Our STANDOUT guest Kimi Sokhi Scott-Smith is going to share the importance of empathy and how to boost empathy in the workplace.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest, Kimi Sokhi Scott-Smith: Kimi is an experienced wellness and employee engagement professional with a demonstrated history of working in health, wellbeing, and human resources. Skilled in Project Management, Nutrition, Business, Adult Education, and Client Management. Strong professional with a Certified Teacher qualification focused on Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence from Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.

Reputable workplace cultures aren't created by chance. The design, creation, and fostering of an environment where people feel valued, are productive, and like coming to work are deliberate actions taken by organizations with healthy, winning cultures. Almost often, a company's success can be attributed to its people and the dynamics of the culture that surrounds them. When the workforce and culture are strong, teams are more productive, employees are aligned on purpose, vision, and strategy, and the company is more likely to achieve its goals. In this episode, our STANDOUT guest Lydia Bowser is going to share her own experience and insights on how to create a culture of respect and integrity, leading with empathy and compassion and leading by example SO you can build an award-winning workplace culture.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest: Lydia Bowser has a passion for fostering strong relationships and contributing to a workplace that enhances team members' overall quality of life while contributing to positive business results. Treating team members at all levels with respect and with the highest integrity is of the utmost importance to her and so by leading with empathy and compassion, giving direct feedback, and leading by example. She has demonstrated success in building award-winning workplaces and HR teams, having won a place on the Top 50 Best Workplaces™ in Canada every year since 2018 and making the Best Workplaces™ in Canada list for Women & Mental Health, and most recently winning the Innovative HR Team Award.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a community where you can interact with your audience and can be the best place to build trust? A community or a workplace culture thrives when the leaders are able to create and communicate a clear guiding purpose that reflects their personal beliefs and embodies those values. Same with their online community. LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage when it comes to making yourself and/or your company visible, and keeping your employees/team members engaged. Our STANDOUT guest, Swish Goswami credits overcommunication - especially on LinkedIn - for his company’s growth and success. During our conversation, he is going to share his own experience and insights on how to best (over)communicate on LinkedIn, not to bother people but to amplify your impact.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Swish Goswami: he is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands with a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data. Surf’s revolutionary browser extension passively rewards people for their everyday browsing and helps them save when shopping with their favorite brands. Surf’s brand division provides zero-party data and commerce enablement opportunities to some of the world’s biggest brands like Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, etc. Surf’s vision is to build an equitable data economy and the company has made two acquisitions and raised over $5M to date (from several NBA players, unicorn founders, and venture firms). Swish has given three TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. Through his angel fund AGEX, Swish is an investor/advisor in popular social companies like FaZe Clan, Wombo, and Upstream.

You can never achieve success, you can only feel it. But feelings are hard to tangibly measure, so people tie success to things like money, fame, and influence. I used to have a nagging feeling that I haven’t done enough. And it took me time to understand how and what success feels. And most importantly to ensure that my external goals were aligned with my internal goals. When I come to think of it, many of us go through this and we need to properly address it and fix it. Our STANDOUT guest Christen N. James, helps women to heal and feel their own business success and then quit their 9-to-5 jobs. During our conversation, she is going to share how to get out of the employee mindset, what that is, and how to start presenting as the person you truly are instead of the one that corporate has molded you into.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Christen N. James: also known as CJ, she is a Side Biz Coach and Host of The Shine to FIVE™ Method for Side Hustlers Podcast. She is a Certified Life Skills Coach and Certified Master Mindset Coach with BA in Psychology and Certification in Solution-Focused Therapy. She created The Shine to FIVE™ Method Coaching system to help women-identified professionals push past mediocrity and challenge the status quo so they can SHINE in their OWN Businesses. With her 3D Exit Strategy™ (Decide, Dedicate, Depart), CJ helps her demotivated clients heal and feel successful in their OWN Businesses so they can break up with their Employee Mindset and confidently walk away from their unfulfilling 9 to 5.

Oftentimes, the armor you wear is so ingrained in who you are that you can not even recognize it because it has been with you for such a long time. Our armor protects us and yet it can get in the way of our growth, especially during times of change and uncertainty. The truth is, we can all use some help and support to remove our armor one layer at a time. Our STANDOUT guest, Natalie Schrogl, is the Branch Manager at TargoBank and Founder of Interface Leadership. Natalie helps C-Suite leaders focus on fostering enduring leadership cultures to enhance productivity and staff retention. During our conversation, she is going to share with us about the Amour of Leadership and how to access the human side of leadership and support the success of our teams and organizations.

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Learn more about our STANDOUT guest Natalie Schrogl: she has worked as an underrepresented executive for over a decade and has a proven track record of successfully leading teams in big corporates such as Targobank AG. She witnessed effective and poor leadership throughout this time. After conducting a comparative market analysis and speaking with numerous CEOs and decision-makers in her network, she learned that many organizations struggle due to a lack of diverse, influential, and inclusive leaders when it comes to effectively leading teams.