The Guiding Voice

In this episode #123, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Smitha Yadav

With 14 years of rich experience in Human Resources Business Partnering and Total Rewards, Smitha Yadav has been part of the Leadership team responsible for the strategic and operational management of highly successful organizations.

Smitha has steered the workplace and people agenda of globally dynamic organizations like Virtusa, Mindtree, Kony, and CDK global.

In her current role, Smitha is building strong and productive relationships with stakeholders. As part of that, she engages with people and businesses to bring about required behaviors and winning attributes to exceed performance outcomes.

Smitha’s primary focus areas include employing positive psychology and mindful leadership principles for empowering leaders to deliver their best, individually and collectively as a cohesive unit.

Smitha’s Insights:

• Smitha’s HR journey. Key elements that helped in her career journey
• HR role in Agile transformation
• Two interesting transformation initiatives in the industry
• What’s one thing that Smitha wished to know during their career beginning
• Things that have changed in the HR domain in the last 1.5 decade
• One key lesson that she learned that is very relevant and useful
• How HR is adding value to the Industry
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about Ethernet Networking

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In this episode #122, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Anupam Singh

Anupam Singh is an alumnus of XLRI, working as  Corporate HR for Motherson Group.

She is a State Council Member-Women Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI)

Anupam also serves as a Community Volunteer for Woman With Wings

She is a Founding Ambassador of #supportsaturday initiative which is institutionalized to help those who lost their jobs during the pandemic.

Anupam's experience spans a range of industry sectors that include Automotive, Manufacturing and Engineering Services. Throughout a career she managed all key HR functions from strategic to organizational restructuring. 

She is passionate about public speaking .She has been conferred with Women HR Professional Award (2020), Best Employee Engagement (2019), CSR Strategy Award (2019) and many more.

She has multiple years of experience in handling Manpower Budgeting, Talent Management, People Development, Employee Engagement and various other facets of HR.

Anupam’s Insights:

• Why can’t we be happy natural? Why there is a lot of emphasis on Happiness these days?
• Can we induce happiness artificially?
• If happiness is a state of mind, why people are worried so much?
• IS happiness a science or art
• How to influence others around us to be happy so that we can make the overall society happy?
• Awesomeness and what it’s all about?
• Witty answers to rapid-fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about eBay

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In this episode #121, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Suman De

Suman De is a Software Development Specialist with 6 years of work experience at SAP Labs India with an MTech. Degree from BITS Pilani in Software Engineering. 

He is an IEEE member with more than 15 technical research publications including 8 IEEE research papers and book chapters on Cyber Security. 

He has chaired International Research Conferences and is a reviewer for different reputed conferences. 

At this young age, Suman’s journey has seen him win multiple accolades as a Thought Leader, and continues to draw his focus on development and research activities for Industry-Academy collaboration.

Suman’s Insights:

• His passion for research on technologies
• How to related research with technology
• Means of publishing papers for research enthusiasts
• His favorite research paper and its background
• How someone should approach paper writing – where should they start
• Trending topics from research perspective
• Witty answers to rapid fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about AOL

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In this episode #120, the host Naveen Samala interacted with Sqn Ldr Dimple Rawat (Retd)

Dimple Rawat is a retired Squadron leader turned HR Leader with over 21 years of rich experience in developing, managing, and coaching people in contributing to productivity, culture, and cost savings initiatives.

With a focus on overall organizational development, her initiatives in change management, business excellence, and transformation made her a true business partner and employee champion.

In the lockdown, Dimple explored herself and found real passions and dreams. She strives to do anything that benefits the women community at large.

Dimple’s life is a living example of having experience in crisis management under extreme pressure situations and adverse climatic conditions & terrain; 

She participated in two wars-Kargil War & the Operation Parakram War.

Dimple has won many accolades:

• Gold Medalist in Air Force Technical College, Bangalore
• Exceptional award by DASI(Directorate of Air Staff inspection)
• Award winner( HR Excellence and Women Excellence)
• HR Vama Award _ woman of substance 

Dimple’s Tips:

• How did Dimple get into the military?
• How military journey transitioned to corporate HR?
• Learning aspects from the Military that helped her become a strong HR professional
• How is the military different from corporates?
• Commonalities between Military and Corporates
• Motivation for doing more and winning awards
• Observations about today’s workforce
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers & LIVES
• Trivia about Microsoft

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In this episode #119, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Joy Das

Joy Das is a passionate and dedicated programmer and software developer with 2 years of work experience.

Currently working as a Solution Consultant at Apisero. He is an experienced developer with a knack to learn something new every day. 

Joy brings rich experience starting from requirement gathering to production deployment, frontend & backend development, system design, and software architecture concepts.

Anything related to coding fascinates him a lot and drives him to learn more and contribute more

Joy’s Tips:

• His passion for programming
• Why learning data structures is important
• Using data structures in real life
• How to learn data structures effectively
• How important are algorithms in real life
• How to write great algorithms
• How does the knowledge about algorithms help you crack the interviews?
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about Yahoo

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In this episode #118, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Nidhi Belani

Nidhi Belani is the Founder of Success Talks, a coaching academy for candidates who want to improve their interview skills so that they can find their dream job.

In her previous life, Nidhi was a Cabin Crew with Singapore Airlines for over 10 years and during this time, she has picked up relevant and powerful skills.

Nidhi was also assigned the role of a trainer to train the best candidates & also was involved in the recruitment process to pick amongst the hundreds that apply to be a part of Singapore Airlines

Nidhi’s Tips:

• From Cabin crew to creating own venture Your Success Talks
• Why do people fail in the interviews?
• Instances where the candidates impressed the interviewer
• Handling peer pressure during mass drives
• Witty answers to rapid-fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about QWERTY

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Connect with Nidhi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhibelani-interviewandpeopleskillsspecialist/

Website: https://nidhi-belani.com/

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

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In this episode #117, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Sabyasachi Dutta

Currently, Sabyasachi Dutta is heading the Indian operation of a Scotland HQ company - Vidatec. 

Armed with wide experience in various leadership roles spanning more than two decades, Sabyasachi has successfully led diverse Indian and global organizations multi-million dollar businesses in the past. 

Synonym to his name, Sabyasachi is extremely adept on both big-size MNCs and startups. In fact, he led two global companies entry in India and Turning-around ailing businesses. 

A National Merit Scholar, Sabyasachi is BE & MBA and has been honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of his institute. 

A doer and challenge seeker, he is adept in people management skills and a die-hard optimist. He successfully made a name for himself in multiple industries he has worked in before. 

A much sought-after ‘Guest Lecturer’ he cherishes interacting with the younger generation and sharing thoughts. He is also a mentor and has helped many under severe depression traverse difficult times both in the corporate and social milieu

Sabyasachi’s Insights:

• The need for rising together in corporate journeys
• How corporations can collaborate to rise together?
• What to anticipate about Industry in the near future?

• How you helped the startups & ailing businesses turn around? 

• Highlights of mentoring experiences
• How Early career experiences helped him in his leadership roles
• Witty answers to rapid-fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about YouTube

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In this episode #116, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Krishnapriya

Krishnapriya is a global Organizational Development(OD)/HR professional with a passion to help organizations excel through and with people.

She has extensive experience in entire Employee Life Cycle Management - Learning & Development, Talent Development, Rewards Operations, Recruitment, Comp & Ben, and Social Media Strategics. 

Krishnapriya gained this experience working with start-ups, multinational firms, and nonprofit organizations.

In 2016, Krishna was chosen as one among the Top 100 #PowerWomanAtWork by People Matters magazine.

Krishna is also a proud alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and was also the recipient of the Institute Medal for "Being the best student scoring the highest CGPA".

She pens down her thoughts on organizations and management in her blog The Ardent HR and has also contributed to many other websites.

Krishna’s Insights:

• Krishna’s career journey
• Working in MNCs vs Startup
• Experience Working for NGOs
• How master’s degree can help someone in their career?
• Importance of communication in sales conversation
• Passion for writing and motivation
• How should someone work in this era of diverse workforce
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about Search Engine

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In this episode #115, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Roshni Baronia

Roshni Baronia is a Sales consultant and coach for women entrepreneurs. 

She helps small business owners and solopreneurs streamline their sales process, plan, and productivity to increase their income and impact.

She is the founder of boutique firm RB Consulting which provides bespoke Sales and Strategic Planning advisory services that help the entrepreneurs and sales team develop the strategy, system, and skill to open new client relationships by closing more deals.

Roshni is also a TEDx speaker, author, host of Podcast Ace the Sales and featured as Top 20 women consultants in India for 2020 by Consultant review magazine

Roshni’s Insights:

• Roshni’s career journey and how she became an influential sales coach?
• Why people hesitate to ask help from others?
• Tough situations/conversations that you had in your initial career
• Overcoming the limiting beliefs or hesitation
• Importance of communication in sales conversation
• Witty answers to Rapid-fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about Candy Crush Saga

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Connect with Roshni on LinkedIn: Roshni Baronia | LinkedIn

Roshni’s Website: Roshni Baronia-Business Consultant and Strategic Sales Expert for women

Ace the Sales podcast: Ace the Sales - Roshni Baronia

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In this episode #114, the hosts Naveen Samala & Sudhakar Nagandla interacted with Narasimha Rao Vadde

Narasimha Rao Vadde is currently heading multiple startups from IT Services, IT Staffing, IT Products and Ecommerce platform. He has been instrumental in scaling up these entities from scratch to decent size with in short time of 2 to 3 years.Prior to these, he was part of senior leadership roles in Wipro, VIT, Capgemini and Kanbay. This interaction is all about his journey and experiences that translated him to be an entrepreneur

He is driven by a passion for people and performance and particularly interested in Organisation Efficiency and Customer delight. 

Besides work, he is very passionate about travel, exploring places, local dishes, interacting with local people. He loves to be involved in nature and activities related

Narasimha’s Insights:

• Narasimha’s career journey and how he became a serial entrepreneur
• Why he quit Sr. leadership position in a corporate to start on his own?
• Pros and Cons of Entrepreneurship journey
• Experience of being a serial entrepreneur
• Two important initiatives led by Narasimha in the recent past
• Witty answers to Rapid-fire questions
• 1 piece of advice to those aspiring to make BIG in their careers and LIVES
• Trivia about Apple’s iPod test

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