As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Dr. Parves Khan on ‘The state of EdTech in 2021: Future Tech and Trends’ as we celebrate international women's day and women's history month.

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought-provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior-level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

This is an independent and self-sponsored series aimed towards enhancing the profiles & importance of thought leaders amongst CXOs.

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With over 20 years under her belt, Parves is an insight leader with a strong track record of transforming research functions into insight powerhouses. With a passion for bringing data to life, delivering high-quality outputs, driving up team performance, and engaging with stakeholders, Parves effectively creates the actionable insights needed to drive business growth.

After two decades developing research teams - she now makes time to "give something back" by mentoring the next generation of female research leaders through 30% Club and Women in Research.

Key takeaways:

1. Is AI now the biggest "in thing" in the EdTech space? Why is the AI trend booming in one of the world’s largest markets for EdTech?

2. What innovations would be propelled by the fact that organizing Information is now golden, as the focus becomes the new currency in the current education landscape?

3. In the drive to be more ‘data-driven, are we overlooking the power of qualitative judgment?

4. A National Education Union (NEU) report in 2018 warned that two in five (40%) teachers are planning to quit the profession by 2024 due to unbearable workloads and poor work-life balance. Now, with all the catch-up necessitated by the pandemic, excessive workload risks becoming a national crisis unless a solution is found. So, the question is – what will this solution look like?

5. People still see higher education as a major driver of personal progress, meaning higher education has a real opportunity to help people get back to work and become more economically resilient. Thus, how can Universities be the recovery engine for our economy?

6. How empowering can be mentoring for women?

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Dr. Madana Kumar on ‘Using servant leadership to drive transformation within an organization.’

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

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Our guest expert for this episode is- Dr. Madana Kumar. Madana is a self-styled servant leadership evangelist, thought leader, and organization builder. With close to four decades of experience. He currently balancing two roles, one incorporates as the vice president, and the Global Head of leadership development at UST Global an American provider of digital technology and transformation, IT services, and solutions.

The second role is in consulting. Spreading the message of servant leadership, and helping organizations, implement, and benefit from this new leadership paradigm.

Key takeaways:

• What is an idea of your central message regarding servant leadership?

• Leadership accountability as a management paradigm?

• What are the set of seven behaviors that make a servant leader and how can they be developed?

• How to evangelize your thought leadership to build trust.

• As an organization gets larger there can be a tendency for the “institution” to dampen the “inspiration.” How do you keep this from happening?

• How can leaders enhance the development of their employees in ways that unlock potential, creativity and sense of purpose? How can servant leadership make a difference in this?

• How do you encourage creative thinking within an organization?

• What hardships thought leaders will face when trying to spread the message of the company.

• What advice would you share to anyone entering the role of evangelist for their organization.

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Jonathan 'Jonty' Slater: on ‘The State of Innovation in 2020s: Reimagining Social Impact and Sustainable Growth'.

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

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Jonathan Slater is a highly experienced #innovation consultant, #keynote speaker and board member, with over 15 years’ experience in the innovation field. With a particular focus on innovation within international development, Jonathan has an in-depth knowledge of both local and #global innovation processes. Jonathan currently advises and supports several large-scale innovation programmes and works to identify best working practices in the open innovation field. Having researched, designed and delivered over 450 innovation programmes, Jonathan is considered an expert in his field, and has spoken at several conferences, including the European Innovation Conference in Brussels in 2016 and Open Innovation in Manufacturing in 2017. Jonathan has been leading the use of innovation in new areas, in social innovation and #decentralisation of energy and adaptation. When not involved in innovation programmes, he mentors several SME businesses, both in the UK and East Africa on sustainable and #ethical business development.

Key takeaways:

1) Could you talk us through the ins and outs of social impact investing, harnessing emerging technologies to unleash your business potential.

2) What does the future look like for the use of innovation in new areas, particularly in social innovation and decentralization of energy and adaptation.

3) What can corporate innovators learn from the world of non-profits.

4) With respect to implementing innovation methodology, what are the common challenges faced in an organization and how to take them on, how to get your employees on board with innovation, and how to use impact to measure goals.

5) Has there been an increase in executive leadership attention on innovation, when it comes to understanding how innovation can affect the organization.

6) How will advanced imaging technology, drones, data modeling, AR, and VR as technologies impact the organization’s work in the future.

7)What are the biggest disruptors for innovation.

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Karl Smith on ‘Agile Transformation 101: Faster, Smarter and Responsive.’

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

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Karl Smith works as leader and consultant, CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO or CXO to deliver the change clients are seeking. He has established both new businesses and core competencies in existing businesses that directly impact efficiency, market capability and value creation.

Working with legacy or greenfield contexts he turns them into successful ecosystems, engagements, revenue generating offerings though a Business Agility, Organizational Design (Agility), Lean-Agile Leadership and Human Centered (UX and CX strategy) Design.

Key Takeaways

• What Agile marketing is all about, and why it is so important in helping you gain a competitive advantage in your marketing operations.

• What are the short and long-term benefits of a genuine Agile transformation?

• With the onset of groundbreaking technological innovations in AI and AR/VR, how technology could evolve human experience?

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Harvey Kraft: on ‘Future Thinking and Change Making as an Organizational Futurist.’

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

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Harvey Kraft is a writer, artist, historian (spiritual archeologist) and futurist, strategist, storyteller and thought leader, and the multiple award-winning author of the epic history "The Buddha from Babylon" available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. He strongly believes that the lessons of history are inexorably linked with the potentials of our future because both arise from mind.

He also is a founder of the group Digitalism dedicated to the application of high-minded values as a framework for guiding the march of technological innovations for the benefit of humanity.

Key Takeaways:

• Are historians' ideal futurists? Would it be right to say that history is future studies in reverse and HOW DO YOU see what is to COME?

• How historians can be relevant in today’s policy debates, and how historical methods and skills can be applied to analyze probable futures and help create preferred outcomes.

• What do you recommend for startups and small businesses then, as opposed to large companies, to thrive in this rapidly changing TECHNOLOGICAL environment?

• There is a skeptic outlook and a pessimistic approach towards global future. How much of this pessimism about the global future can be attributed to SYSTEMIC STRUCTURES, such as the 24-hour news cycle, bad news traveling fast over the Internet and a general media and DIGITAL MARKETING overload.

• Three categories are proposed for how we can think about spending our time on futures work within the organization:

  • Process work -approaches and tools for interacting with futures work.

  • Content work- generating knowledge and insights about the future.

  • Culture/mindset change- influencing mental models, aka changing minds, regarding the future.

  What would be your strategy for allocating time for these processes?

• What frameworks out of the strategic, creative and a general educational role would you recommend undertaking as an organizational futurist? Would you recommend laying emphasis on strategic planning, scenarios, forecasting or a fresh thinking approach with new ideas and a host of creative thinking tools.

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Aijaz Hussain: on ‘Emerging trends in Market research: Thought leadership, evolution of survey and agile research’.

In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.

Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.

This is an independent and self-sponsored series aimed towards enhancing profiles & importance of thought leaders amongst CXOs.

Join the conversation to access actionable advice shared in an incredibly insightful way. Aijaz Hussain is a research and insights leader serving the manufacturing and energy industries. He leads the aerospace and defense, engineering and construction, and chemicals sector research for Deloitte and serves as the principal advisor to national sector leadership and the practice leaders in these markets. He is the U.S. firm’s key point of contact on market trends, issues, drivers, and major market developments.

Aijaz has over 18 years of experience in research, Thoughtware development, business strategy, market/competitive intelligence, and financial analysis. He has authored numerous compelling, high-impact thought leadership studies in the areas of business strategy, advanced technologies, digital transformation, innovation, sustainability, and the future of work. Aijaz has developed and managed large-scale research projects and eminence campaigns end-to-end, both independently as well as in teams across geographies.

Key takeaways:

1. Dramatic changes in the market can sometimes shift an organization's business objectives and as result its marketing strategy. Large thought leadership programs can then become misaligned. What steps are required in your opinion to re-align and make sure they marry up with business needs?

1. If comprehensive changes are made to your thought leadership campaign, such as hypothesis, research scope or content activation, this can alter the overall outcomes. These adjustments may no longer align with what was agreed initially with the management team. How to best circumvent this?

1. What role does data visualization play in making complex business trends easy to understand and advising solutions to clients?

1. With respect to the evolution of surveys, with the mobile adoption, et cetera. Have you seen any trends at a macro level on survey design?

1. What is the role of insights in a modern brand and how has that changed in the last five years?

1. How do qualitative and quantitative research work together?

1. What are the ways in which agile market research is revolutionizing how companies get insights today?

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Bill Jensen: on ‘Future of Work: Revolution in Remote Work and AI” These are testing times for CEO’s & leaders as they steer their organizations through to calmer waters amidst the global healthcare & economic crisis.

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As ‘Mr. Simplicity’, Bill makes it EASIER for organisations and their teams to do great work — doubling their productivity. As a global thought leader on the future of work, he makes it EASIER for businesses to leap into tomorrow.

His clientele includes the likes of American Express, Bank of America, BBC, Chevron, GE, Genentech, Gulfstream, IBM, Philips Lighting, SAP, Shell, US Navy SEALS, Walt Disney World, World Bank and more.

Bill has spent the past 30 years studying how work gets done. Over 1,000,000 interviewed and surveyed. He has his ears to the ground, listening to the hum of daily To Dos, and his eyes to the future, watching for what comes next.

He’s an IBM Futurist, and has conducted high-impact ‘future of work’ research for multiple technology giants.

Key takeaways:

• How simplicity can help us achieve better results, and how it creates and transfers value throughout our organization.

• What is the impact of the revolution of automation and remote work on leaders, employees, customers, and companies — and what organizations can do now to stay in front of this revolution?

• How will automation define the future of work with the rise of automation and intelligent technologies such as robots, AI, machine learning and others?

• How will the change come in waves, waves that include currently unrealized technologies?

• One of the questions you want people to ask themselves, if there is one question is, or statement is I am accountable for ‘... fill in the blank’. What should people be thinking of to get to their answer to that question of how to ‘fill in the blank’ I am accountable for? Is there any one particular answer for that?

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series we are thrilled to be in a conversation with David Burkus: Author, Organizational Psychologist, Thinkers50 Ranked Thought Leader on ‘Decoding leadership, management and creativity.

These are testing times for CMO’s & leaders as they steer their organizations through to calmer waters amidst the global healthcare & economic crisis.

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One of the world’s leading business thinkers, David Burkus’ forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. He is the best-selling author of five books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and CBS This Morning. Since 2017, Burkus has been ranked as one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50. As a sought-after international speaker, his TED Talk has been viewed over 2 million times. He’s worked with leaders from organizations across all industries including Google, Stryker, Fidelity, Viacom, and even the US Naval Academy.

Key takeaways:

1) Is business all about change and keeping up with the latest trends. Has the time come to re-examine some of the most fundamental concepts in management today. What kind of management changes organizations should focus on?

2) What makes someone more or less creative than his or her peers? Where do our flashes of creative insight come from, and how can we generate more of them?

3) What are some common myths prevalent in the management styles that need to be challenged and debunked?

4) How leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive.

5) What are some of the companies that are experimenting with new and different models and policies for leading teams and managing people. The kind of companies who have developed a new set of best practices that may look counter-intuitive but have become an integral part of what makes them so high-performing.

As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Dr. Oleg Konovalov: Global Thought Leader, Trusted Advisor, Author on ‘Using thought leadership to evangelize your brand vision and diagnose and treat organizational diseases.

These are testing times for CMO’s & leaders as they steer their organizations through to calmer waters amidst the global healthcare & economic crisis.

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Having been named as “the da Vinci of Visionary Leadership” by many leading authorities of our time, Oleg Konovalov is helping companies to create and execute their vision, diagnose and treat organizational diseases, maintain a strong productive corporate culture, and achieve superior business performance.

Oleg is the author of LEADEROLOGY, CORPORATE SUPERPOWER, ORGANISATIONAL ANATOMY, and HIDDEN RUSSIA. His latest book, THE VISION CODE is expected to be published in January by Wiley.

Oleg sees every organization as unique and strongly believes that most of his clients’ problems can be solved by shifting patterned paradigms and applying tailor-made solutions.

Oleg is on the Thinkers50 Radar, has been recognized as #1 Global Thought Leader on Culture by Thinkers 360, and is #1 Global Leading Coach (Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50).