The xMonks Drive

How can we create a workplace people love? In fact, most of the challenges faced by organizations today, are not technology-related rather they are human problems. So, the question is- How do we organize humans more effectively?

This time on The xMonks Drive, Richard Sheridan co-founder and CEO of Menlo Innovations, joins us to explain how humans impact organizations.

Richard Sheridan is a co-founder, CEO, and "Chief Storyteller" of Menlo Innovations, a software and IT consulting firm that has received multiple awards and news coverage for its innovative and positive working culture.

Richard, the CEO of Menlo Innovations, became disillusioned in the course of his career in the tumultuous technology world. He was consumed by a single thought: things could be better. Much, much better. He had to figure something out. Why can't a workplace be brimming with friendship, human vitality, creativity, and efficiency?

Rich co-founded Menlo Innovations in 2001 with the goal of putting an end to workplace hardship. Rich's passion for building happy workplaces inspired him to write Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, which became a best-selling and generally acclaimed book. His second book, Chief Joy Officer, proves that a pleasant and engaging leadership style is genuinely beneficial to a company's bottom line.

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You just need one person in an entire family to release the past patterns and the reactive tendencies and gift a generative future to the next generation. The question is are you willing to be that person…?

This time on The xMonks Drive, Kathy Caprino, a leadership coach who has dedicated her life to the advancement of women in business, joins us to share her belief and show us the path of purpose.

Kathy Caprino LLC provides a wide range of career and leadership development programmes, seminars, training, products, and coaching services to help professionals "find brave," extend their impact, and illuminate the world through their work and leadership. Kathy's organisation now has a comprehensive Coaching Team of top-level, renowned coaches and advisers who work with professionals ranging from new college graduates to mid- to high-level professionals and C-Suite executives who want to have a long-term positive impact.

Her own experiences inspire her to help women create true breakthroughs in order to attain their most ambitious and exciting objectives and ambitions. She worked as a corporate marketing executive for 18 years, rising through the ranks of publishing, marketing, and product management.

She has been giving professional advancement training for the past 16 years and has become a Senior Forbes writer with her column "Career Bliss," as well as a powerful voice on LinkedIn and Thrive Global. She has spoken at over 200 corporate and leadership conferences and events, and has been featured in over 100 top media outlets as an expert source on women at work, careers, leadership, and more, offering effective strategies for thriving through change and taking control of our lives and careers to make the impact and difference we desire.

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Do you aspire to be the next TEDx speaker? Do you wish to leave your audience with The Aha Moment ? Then this is the episode for you.

This time on The xMonks Drive, Andrea Sampson joins us to share her insights from finding your core idea and structuring your talk, to presenting it to your audience.

Andrea Sampson is a former Strategist and Consultant who worked in marketing and advertising for over 25 years, presenting and building strategies for Fortune 100 companies. Andrea is sought after to help teams and executives build presentations or pitches because she has a natural gift for creating interesting stories and persuasive information. Andrea's passion for ideas brought her to TEDxToronto four years ago, where she first contributed as a Speaker Coach, then as the Director of Programming in 2015, and finally as the Conference Co-Chair in 2016. Talk Boutique, a speaker management, development, and representation company, was founded as a result of this volunteer work. Andrea was the 2017 Singularity University Canada Summit's Co-Director.

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If you can unlock a way for people to continue finding their purpose, how much better would our society be??

Well, the actual question is, Do you live a life from a space of creating an impact, and if you are, what kind of impact are you creating? On this episode of The xMonks Drive, Vanessa Liu joins us to explore what it means to live a life of impact.

Vanessa Liu is a technology innovator, a business builder, and a digital media entrepreneur. She's been creating, launching, and re-launching businesses for a long time. Vanessa has over 23 years of experience as a serial founder, operator, strategist, and investor at SAP, Trigger Media, and McKinsey, and has a proven track record of value creation. She supervises SAP.iO's North American Foundries in New York and San Francisco, including programmes focused to women and diverse-led B2B business IT companies, and has recruited and accelerated 70+ enterprise software startups in her role as Vice President of SAP.iO, SAP's early-stage venture arm. Vanessa was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Trigger Media Group, a $22 million digital media company.

InsideHook (a digital media firm and a men's lifestyle brand) and Fevo (a women's lifestyle brand) are two of Trigger's portfolio companies she co-founded (SaaS technology for group experiences at live events). She began her career as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company's Media and Entertainment Practice, with offices in Amsterdam, London, and New York.

Vanessa is a Non-Executive Director of Appen Ltd. at the moment (ASX: APX). Bounce Exchange (Wunderkind), Crave Global, Grata Data, GroundSignal, Kable AI, and Narrativ are among the start-ups in which she is an advisor or investor.

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Life is a marathon. It has a start, it has an end and in between are the painful parts too.
 
This time on The xMonks Drive, Nathan Farrugia, an ultra-marathon runner, joins us to bring light on how every marathon leaves us to become a better version of ourselves.

Nathan Farrugia is an endurance athlete, business performance coach and entrepreneur, and has led organisations in technology, education, healthcare and hospitality. He is also the owner and representative of Vistage in Malta, a TEDx and Motivational speaker and philanthropist. Nathan has completed some of the world’s toughest extreme challenges, raising thousands of euros for charity. In 2011, he ran a million steps to complete a world first marathon by running 27 consecutive marathons in 27 days in each of the 27 European union countries. He is married to Deirdre and has two children, Robyn and Keira and lives in Malta.

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Do you live your life from a space of survival mode? Do you even need this survival lens? Have you wondered?

We'll, this time on The xMonks Drive, we have with us Malti Bhojwani, to break the surviving lens and will let us know how living a joyful life equals living a purposeful life. 

Malti Bhojwani is a professional coach, self awareness author and facilitator of transformation. She applies her years of experience in the personal development business to a wide range of individuals, corporate teams, and entrepreneurs all over the world as they navigate change.
Malti is a trained and certified professional PCC coach with the ICF (International Coach Federation). She has completed courses in NLP and Ontological Coaching (Newfield), Barrett's Cultural Transformation Tools, Facilitating Through Values with Corporate Evolutions, Foundations in Neuroscience, and is a graduate of GBA – Gita Bellin & Associates as a lead facilitator of transformation. She is also trained in Yoga and Somatic work, which teaches people how to modify their ideas and emotions by changing how they hold their bodies.

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What is the living soul of coaching? The Models? Well, think again!
What happens when you are there with the person? What does your instinct tell you to do? What does your body tell you to do? What are your emotions telling you?
This time on the 50th episode of The xMonks Drive, Aboodi Shabi brings you Coach Unplugged: You can Tame it.... You can never Kill it, unraveling the Physical, mental and the emotional space of coaching.

Aboodi Shabi is an experienced transformational coach and facilitator, who has worked with thousands of people all over the world as a coach, trainer, mentor, facilitator, and keynote speaker. Today, most of his clients are based in London, although you can also get great results over Skype, Zoom or telephone, wherever you are in the world.
He is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach by the ICF since 2003 along with being a Newfield Certified Ontological Coach. He is on the editorial board of Coaching at Work magazine.

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Humans always have the tendency to make the first move and just go ahead, but do we actually scale it up?
Well, in reality, there is a huge gap between scaling it up and just moving ahead. Find out in this podcast, with Ishan Gupta, what does it mean to scale it up.

Ishan Gupta is the Global Head of Operations at Udacity, He is responsible for driving successful outcomes for customers worldwide (consumer, enterprise and government). Previously, he built Udacity’s India business from the ground up.

Before joining Udacity, he was the Vice President at Paytm, one of Asia's largest fintech companies. He was also the Founder & CEO of EduKart.com, which became India's largest ed-tech marketplace in only five years before it was acqui-hired by Paytm. He was also the first growth evangelist for Facebook in India.
 
While still an undergraduate student, He founded his first company that delivered offline technology trainings across India. He captured the learnings from this journey in a book titled "Make the Move - Demystifying Entrepreneurship", which sold few thousand copies. 

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What is your body of work?
Have you ever wondered with all the gifts and talents you posses, how are you sharing your message with the world?
This time on The xMonks Drive, Pamela Slim joins us to reveal the secret of Transformation: A state of connection.

Pamela Slim is an author, community builder, consultant, and former Barclays Global Investors corporate director of training and development. Her first ten years in business were spent developing and delivering training programmes for major corporations including HP, Charles Schwab, 3Com, Chevron, and Cisco Systems.

Pam has coached thousands of entrepreneurs as well as small company service providers such as Infusionsoft, Progressive Insurance, and Prezi since 2005. Pam co-founded and launched the Quiet Revolution and the Quiet Leadership Institute with author Susan Cain.

Pam is well known for her books Escape from Cubicle Nation (called Best Small Business and Entrepreneur Book of 2009 by 800 CEO Read) and Body of Work (designated Best Small Business and Entrepreneur Book of 2010 by 800 CEO.

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What are your boundaries in life? And how do you define them?
Life just happens and comes by when you focus on the impact that you can create for the world around you. On this episode of The xMonks Drive Podcast, explore how can you create anything from a space of Shunya with Deepa Natarajan.

Deepa is a PCC and a change leader who understands how to put a strategic and purposeful leadership style into action on a daily basis. "Rethink Leadership Methodology" is her creation. She provides an end-to-end online coaching programme based on the Rethink Leadership Methodology that helps people achieve their vision of success by altering unhelpful behavioural habits. assisting people in becoming the leaders they desire with ease and peace of mind.

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