The Payal Nanjiani Leadership Podcast

MANIKA AWASTHI | Chief People Officer ,Compass Group India

INTRODUCTION :

Manika Awasthi is a seasoned Human Resources professional with a remarkable career spanning

over two decades. Her wealth of experience has traversed various industries and domains, both on a global and local context. Manika has held pivotal leadership roles in HR across diverse businesses, including a prominent stint as the head of HR for a substantial blue-collar enterprise. Her expertise is grounded in recruitment strategies, sourcing methodologies, and retention best practices.

Manika is adept advocate for gender diversity and is experienced in Leading Women Leadership

Networks for a geography with the agenda of driving gender diversity and for ensuring organizations continue to grow and invest in their women workforce.

In addition to her HR accomplishments, Manika is deeply passionate about driving the Mental

Wellbeing agenda within organizations, recognizing the paramount importance of a healthy and supportive workplace environment.

Her achievements include Women’s Leadership Achievement Award, 2016 from the World Women’s

Leadership Congress, as well as the Leadership award for HR at the HR Intellect Conference organized by CE Worldwide.

She is an avid reader, a curious explorer of historic cities, and a dedicated practitioner of Buddhism. She seeks to inspire and guide individuals in their quest to transform their life states for the better.

Kappu Jaykumar | CTO/CDO - Giant Eagle

Kappu Jaykumar is a strategic thinker with a sharp focus on execution, leading large-scale global enterprise agile projects, managing distributed teams across the globe. Result-oriented with a global perspective, have defined strategy, product roadmap, operating plans, business architecture and success metrics for global projects. Excel at executive and stakeholder communications including creating and providing multi-tier dashboard of scorecard metrics and YOY budget presentations. A passionate technologist and an expert in service oriented architecture (SOA), cloud technologies and agile product development methodologies.Highly versatile with a good blend of business, product, technical, management and process engineering skills. 

Sanjay Tripathy | Bollywood Movie Director.

Sanjay started his career as a science writer with India today group magazine “Computers Today” in 1994. He then shifted to Television medium and produced & directed special news features on science, art and culture for Doordarshn prime time news.

He has produced and directed the India’s most celebrated science show “Turning Point” for the National Television

Later he made a switch over to International Tv channels and created top rated shows for 

Discovery Channel , National Geographic channel & various other shows for other International channel like Al-Jazira (English), Network 10 Australia etc.

He has Produced and directed various docu-drama films for some of the biggest corporate and government agencies of India, 

Has created many award winning shows for international channels like Discovery National geographic and  BBC Latest movies which Sanjay Tripathy has directed are Mann Bairagi and Club 60.

Dr Satish Ramaiah | Executive Director of Psychiatry Services, Sukoon Health


Dr Satish Ramaiah is currently the Executive Director of Psychiatric Services and Centre Head for Bangalore Unit of Sukoon Healthcare. He is a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and Sleep Disorders Specialist. Dr Satish Ramaiah graduated from Bangalore Medical College, traveled to the UK to complete his
MRCPsych post-graduation in psychiatry and specialist training in various subspecialties of psychiatry with advanced training / expertise in addiction disorders from University of Leeds and sleep disorders from University of Edinburgh. He has a specialist endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry by Royal College
of Psychiatrists, UK. He has been the Lead Consultant for Neuropsychiatry Services for the Cambian Group (Largest Private Mental Health Services Provider in the UK) and has consultant experience in NHS Sheffield. He previously co-founded and served as a Medical Director of MAARGA (Unit of PEOPLE TREE
Hospitals) psychiatry hospital in Bengaluru. He also served as an Executive Director on the Board of TMI Healthcare Pvt Ltd. He has research publications in the field of addiction, learning disabilities and sleep disorders. He has delivered talks at national and international conferences and featured in several national & local
print media and TV discussions on mental health topics. He is a passionate teacher and served as a Honorary Lecturer at The Hull and York Medical School, UK. He has served as member of Executive Committee, Indian Psychiatric Society - Karnataka Chapter and was the organising secretary of state
psychiatry conference in 2019. He has delivered over 300 mental health awareness workshops and seminars in various prestigious institutes and corporates including IIM Bangalore, Centre for Brain

Research - IISc, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Azim Premji University, Hitachi, Wipro, Toyota, ABB, Amazon, National Public Schools, NAFL, CRPF, Rotary Clubs etc. He has conducted several medical CMEs for mental health professionals. Topic : How your mental health impacts your success