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This is the second part of our conversation with Tirupathi Karthik, CEO at Napier Healthcare. We delve into Karthik’s varied interests comprising running, playing squash, practicing yoga and meditation. Karthik is a WSF certified Level 1 coach and spends his Saturdays coaching kids to play squash – an interesting way, we think, to stay connected to a sport if an injury robs you the opportunity to play a sport as ardently as you used to. Happy listening.

This 20-minute episode contains the highlights of the 2nd part of our conversation with Tirupathi Karthik, CEO at Napier Healthcare. We delve into Karthik’s varied interests comprising running, playing squash, practicing yoga and meditation. 

Karthik is a WSF certified Level 1 coach and spends his Saturdays coaching kids to play squash – an interesting way, we think, to stay connected to a sport if an injury robs you the opportunity to play a sport as ardently as you used to. 

Karthik is also a passionate advocate for dementia care and believes the mind is the strongest organ. Let’s listen  to this leader share how pursuing any sport is about how you got to do what you got to do before you get what you get and how Sports gives you friends for life. Happy listening.

This is the second part of our conversation with Tirupathi Karthik, CEO at Napier Healthcare. We delve into Karthik’s varied interests comprising running, playing squash, practicing yoga and meditation among others. But do you know what we find really fascinating? It is how this business leader spends his weekends. Karthik is a (World Squash Federation) WSF-certified Level 1 coach and spends his Saturdays coaching kids to play squash – an interesting way, we think, to stay connected to a sport if an injury robs you the opportunity to play a sport as ardently as you used to. 

Karthik is also a passionate advocate for dementia care and believes the mind is the strongest organ. Let’s listen to this leader share how pursuing any sport is about how you got to do what you got to do before you get what you are supposed to get and how Sports gives you friends for life! Happy listening.

This is the highlights of our conversation with the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Once an astute banking professional with nearly two decades of working with several Multinational banks, Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. Now of course, Furtados is synonymous with western classical music in India and is inarguably the leaders in supplying of musical instruments across the country.

Under the leadership of Tanuja and her business partner Dharini Upadhyaya, FSM grew from strength to strength and is acknowledged for the music curriculum it provides to top-notch K-12 schools and some colleges across the country. It also has programmes for corporates and has worked in the past with corporates such as Tata Consultancy Services to provide instrumental training to its professionals in-house. Tanuja shares with us her vision of imparting the best music curriculum across the country, how it is never late to begin to learn music through an instrument or vocal-training, how a fun, learner-centric curriculum can help bolster that creativity, why there should be no excuses in following that passion and how setting objectives to achieve a level of proficiency is the key to master an instrument as long as you are committed to it.

 Let’s hit it!

Hi. This is Sunayana and you are listening to.. We have with us the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. 

This is a Quick Listen segment and part 4/4 of our conversation with Tanuja in which she shares with us her love for traveling, trekking and mentoring women entrepreneurs, what she would love to keep alive within her and why there should be no excuses in following that passion.

We have with us the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. FSM has programmes for corporates and has worked in the past with corporates such as Tata Consultancy Services to provide instrumental training to its professionals in-house. 

This is a Quick Listen segment and part 3/4 of our conversation with Tanuja in which she shares with us the benefits of joining FSM, how setting objectives to achieve a level of proficiency is the key to master an instrument as long as you are committed to it.

We have with us the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. FSM has programmes for corporates and has worked in the past with corporates such as Tata Consultancy Services to provide instrumental training to its professionals in-house. Tanuja shares with us how it is never late to begin to learn music through an instrument or vocal-training.

We have with us the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. 

This is a Quick Listen segment and part 1/4 of our conversation with Tanuja in which she shares with us her vision of imparting the best music curriculum across the country through FSM.

This is our full conversation with the effervescent Tanuja Gomes, Co-founder of Furtados School of Music (FSM). Once an astute banking professional with nearly two decades of working with several Multinational banks, Tanuja began FSM in 2011 with a vision to make quality music education accessible to people across age groups while making the entire learning process fun-filled and joyous. Now of course, Furtados is synonymous with western classical music in India and is inarguably the leaders in supplying of musical instruments across the country.

Under the leadership of Tanuja and her business partner Dharini Upadhyaya, FSM grew from strength to strength and is acknowledged for the music curriculum it provides to top-notch K-12 schools and some colleges across the country. It also has programmes for corporates and has worked in the past with corporates such as Tata Consultancy Services to provide instrumental training to its professionals in-house. Tanuja shares with us her vision of imparting the best music curriculum across the country, how it is never late to begin to learn music through an instrument or vocal-training, how a fun, learner-centric curriculum can help bolster that creativity, why there should be no excuses in following that passion and how setting objectives to achieve a level of proficiency is the key to master an instrument as long as you are committed to it.

The beauty of learning an instrument is the very personal relationship one fosters with it which is what makes it so unique. It was Igor Stravinksy one of the most influential composers of the 20th century who said – I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it! Itching to befriend an instrument already? Now is the time! Let’s hit it!

In this edition we have with us the erudite and calm, Tirupathi Karthik, CEO at Napier Healthcare Solutions. Karthik is an erstwhile entrepreneur and a management leader with over two decades of experience in Singapore’s IT industry having worked with companies such as HP and SAP and also nearly a decade experience in healthcare.

Karthik is a level 1 WSF (World Squash Federation) certified squash coach, has been an avid runner and squash player, practices yoga and meditation and is an active advocate for dementia care. In this first part of the conversation we introduce you to Karthik and let you into his world comprising key personal and professional milestones, his childhood, briefly touching upon his current interests, his views on success and on finding that elusive happiness. We have also the bonus CXO funfacts session right at the end! 

So, ready for it? Pay attention for this one is packed with pearls of wisdom!