Talk CXO Life

In this conversation with Manoj Aravindakshan, Pratap shares his insights he has gained through his 11-year experience in Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching comprising the essence of leadership, time-stress management, work-life harmony, role of leaders and organizations in facilitating employee growth and potential. 

This segment comprises the Highlights of the conversation with Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs.

Welcome to the second edition of Masters in Motion, featuring 10 prominent global leaders ardently pursuing a passion beyond their work spheres! 

In this edition, we profile N. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons who is also known for his obsessive running streaks! Listen to Sunayana Nair, Editor CXO Life & Host of the #TalkCXOLife podcast series, present fascinating facts & insights curated about N. Chandrasekaran through his interactions with media. We not only delve into his journey of running which he began as an attempt to combat the onset of diabetes but also his role in setting in motion a spectacular corporate wellness culture in TCS, the Tata group and the community at large.

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This marks a beginning of a special series of conversations we will be having with leaders in the people’s domain, constituting HR Leaders, Leadership Coaches, HR Strategists and Senior Consultants who will help us understand various facets of leadership and people management, its challenges primarily with respect to employee engagement, work-life harmony, and maximising human potential.

 

Our first such conversation is with Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs. Pratap is a corporate veteran with over 35 years of experience across geographies and products/services and has been into the executive coaching space for 11 years now. Pratap has contributed to several Thought Leadership Publications and is also a Member of the KPMG Asia Pacific Management Committee, as well as the Global Markets Steering Group.

In this conversation with Manoj Aravindakshan, Pratap shares his insights he has gained through his 11-year experience in Leadership Mentoring and Executive Coaching comprising the essence of leadership, time-stress management, work-life harmony, role of leaders and organizations in facilitating employee growth and potential. 

Towards the end, Pratap delves into his love for poetry and sports. Pratap loves playing tennis and has also been the Ex-Vice President of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association. The Writer’s Workshop, Calcutta, had published his first collection of verses called “Over the Years”. Recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry (1997) from The National Library of Poetry, USA, his latest book “Straight from the Heart” was launched by Ethos Books and National Art Council Singapore.

Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs. Pratap is a corporate veteran with over 35 years of experience across geographies and products/services and has been into the executive coaching space for 11 years now. Pratap has contributed to several Thought Leadership Publications and is also a Member of the KPMG Asia Pacific Management Committee, as well as the Global Markets Steering Group.

In this segment, Pratap delves into his love for poetry and for sports. Pratap is an avid sportsman, playing tennis, squash, golf, cricket, etc and has also been the Ex-Vice President of the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association. He shares his love for cricket which he used to play at the university level sharing some of the key life lessons he has derived from cricket. He loves to play tennis which he says is life, and also reads out a short poem on Happiness from his book Straight from the Heart.

Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs. Pratap is a corporate veteran with over 35 years of experience across geographies and products/services and has been into the executive coaching space for 11 years now. Pratap has contributed to several Thought Leadership Publications and is also a Member of the KPMG Asia Pacific Management Committee, as well as the Global Markets Steering Group.

Pratap Nambiar mentions in this segment that while the role of a leader is to best understand and facilitate the growth of every employee reach his/her fullest potential how very few organizations have succeeded in doing so due to their focus on the horizontal growth of the employees, completely overlooking the vertical growth of employees.

Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs. Pratap is a corporate veteran with over 35 years of experience across geographies and products/services and has been into the executive coaching space for 11 years now. Pratap has contributed to several Thought Leadership Publications and is also a Member of the KPMG Asia Pacific Management Committee, as well as the Global Markets Steering Group.

In this segment, Pratap Nambiar sheds some interesting insights on managing stress & time, and how it’s a challenge that almost every business leader grapples with. He also mentions how work-life balance is more about maintaining harmony and how a leader is likely to influence his peers and subordinates at the workplace through his passion.

Pratap Nambiar, Founder & Chairman, Thought Perfect, a Singapore based firm providing coaching and mentoring services to CEOs. Pratap is a corporate veteran with over 35 years of experience across geographies and products/services and has been into the executive coaching space since 11 years now. Pratap has contributed to several Thought Leadership Publications and is also Member of the KPMG Asia Pacific Management Committee, as well as the Global Markets Steering Group.

In this segment, Pratap Nambiar converses with Manoj Aravindakshan on his eleven-year journey into executive coaching, mentoring primarily Asian business leaders. He speaks on leadership - its essence and some common blind spots.

This episode comprises the Highlights of the amazing journey of the cool and persistent Rajen Prabhu, aka Sumo – as known to his friends and family.  Rajen is Sr. Director at a large fintech MNC in Singapore and speaks about his journey from a fat to a fit man to an Ironman! 

 

Rajen recently completed his first Ironman-equivalent triathlon, Challenge Roth in Bavaria this July within 8 years of embarking upon his fitness journey. He also discusses about his first love for quizzing and his long-cherished dream of being a comedian-quizmaster. 

 

This conversation is inspiring in that it encapsulates the impermanence of the labels we attach to ourselves, be it self-construed or given by others – if we are willing to extend ourselves beyond those familiar terrains and give a chance to rediscover ourselves daily!

 

So ready to listen to this refreshingly candid talk with Rajen? Strap it on!

In this segment Rajen shares some fun trivia about himself including how he got nicknamed Sumo, the advantage of having a fat man live inside a fit man, how he holds qualifying for Mardi Gras Quiz finals in college close to his heart, his ritual before the races, his favourite pair of shoes, and fondness for Japanese cuisine and how reading Lord of the Rings transformed him when he was growing up, some funny incidents of his life also earning huge brownie points when he admits to relish everything cooked by his talented wife Sowmiya Venkatesan, who was a Masterchef Singapore finalist! And we delightfully concur after being treated to a lovely generous meal prepared by Sowmiya when we landed up at Rajen’s residence in the evening, weary after two consecutive shoots done earlier in the day! We hope you enjoy listening to this one!

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Hey! you are listening to TalkCXOLIfe and this time we are presenting this amazing journey of the cool and persistent Rajen Prabhu, aka Sumo – as known to his friends and family.  While the moniker Sumo was bestowed upon Rajen decades ago at the IIT Madras campus by a senior as campus tradition demands it, Rajen, who is Sr. Director at a large fintech MNC in Singapore, is anything but the huge 120-kg guy that he had been for a major part of his life!

 

Well, physically at least!

In his conversation with Sunayana Nair, Editor CXO Life, Rajen confesses to still having a fat man living inside of him – an intricate part of him in which has shaped his perspectives, his attitude of keeping it light and simple and his hunger for testing his limits which he isn’t ready to part with as yet. And quite understandably so!  For a guy to have just completed his first Ironman-equivalent triathlon, Challenge Roth in Bavaria this July within 8 years of embarking upon his fitness journey, Rajen is remarkably casual about his form and believes that preparation is the key to ace any challenge. Interestingly enough Rajen believes his journey has been laced with humor and it had inspired him enough to combine it with his love for quizzing and invent a unique standup routine act crossing comedy and quizzing – an experiment which had its fair share of audience in the rotary clubs in Chennai though he is yet to position it successfully in Singapore.

 

This conversation is inspiring in that it encapsulates the impermanence of the labels we attach to ourselves, be it self-construed or given by others – if we are willing to extend ourselves beyond those familiar terrains and give a chance to rediscover ourselves daily!

 

So ready to listen to this refreshingly candid talk with Rajen? Strap it on!

 

 

Happy listening!