The xMonks Drive

Most of us are in conflict about whether to let our emotions show or not. Leaders face this problem mainly. But emotions are gifts as Dan Newby says. Here is to understanding emotional expression and making our relationship better with emotions. 

Dan Newby is the founder and leader of School of Emotions, working with partners worldwide to elevate emotional literacy, and offering courses for coaches, leaders, and parents to build a foundational understanding of emotions. 
 
Dan is driven by his personal experience of the impact emotional literacy and learning can have as well as its profound importance in professional activities. All human beings are emotional beings which make emotional mastery an essential competence for anyone working to improve services and collaboration. 
 
He is the author of ‘The Unopened Gift: A Primer in Emotional Literacy’ and ‘The Field Guide to Emotions’ as well as co-creator of Emoli™ Emotion Cards, a tool for facilitation and teaching emotional literacy. His background includes training as an educator and twenty years as an ontological coach. He has been CEO of Newfield Network, considered one of the premier coaching schools globally, and has been a business leader for many years.

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Fiona Macaulay works at the intersection of innovation, leadership, and global development.

She’s a serial social entrepreneur, educator, and field-builder committed to helping strong leaders become even stronger, and great organizations become event greater.

Fiona founded WILD - the Women Innovators and Leaders Development Network- to support global development sector leaders to scale their impact, and thrive.

WILD convenes the annual Women in Global Development Leadership Forum. The first its kind, this event is at the hub of a movement to increase women's leadership, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our sector.

In the academic world, Fiona is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she also runs a leadership clinic for MBA students and serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to mentor and coach social innovators and leaders across campus.

Fiona is an active member of the Board of Governors for Junior Achievement Worldwide and past Board Chair for CAMFED USA Foundation.

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Startups are the future of the economy. We realize it now. But years ago Chalinda, the investing genius, visioned the power of funding and brought an entrepreneurial revolution in Sri Lanka and is now reigning globally. 

Chalinda has spent the last 10 years building a startup ecosystem in Sri Lanka. During his tenure, he has mentored over 3,000 aspiring entrepreneurs and helped launch more than 50 startups.

After six years of ecosystem building, he shifted his focus towards entrepreneurial leadership in 2016. More specifically, he helps entrepreneurs fine-tune their business models and formulate execution strategies. As many of them are first-generation entrepreneurs, he coaches them to become investor-ready and support their fundraising journey. As a result, he has helped over 20 startups from multiple domains raise their angel/seed rounds.

His goal for the next five years is to expand the funding landscape in Sri Lanka. He works very closely with angel investors, VCs, and startup organizations around the world. Being an intervention leader, he aims to drive value to investors by connecting them with the most promising startups with regional and global potential. In January 2020, he took over as CEO of the Lankan Angel Network, Sri Lanka’s first alliance of angel investors. Together with his team, he raised the first Angel Fund dedicated to early-stage startups in Sri Lanka. He firmly believes that success breeds success. As such, the Angel Fund brings together 100 of the most successful Sri Lankans from around the world. They represent over 20 industries & disciplines and are from Asia, APAC, Europe & Noth America.

He obtained my bachelor from the University of London in 2009 and began my entrepreneurial crusade. He was one of three finalists in South Asia for the Entrepreneurial Award, awarded by the British Council in 2018. In 2020, he received the Chevening Fellowship(CRISP), hosted by the University of Oxford.

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Who will save you? Is it the Leader who is leading you or the leader inside you? Leaders are not Supermen or Wonder women, the reality lies in acknowledging leaders as humans and addressing the leader's block that takes away the charm of productivity and staying for long.

Ritu Mehrish is a Leadership Troubleshooter and an Executive Leadership Coach who helps you create engagement, professional growth, and personal development for yourself and your people! She comes with the experience of being a former business leader, who has managed a multi-million-dollar business vertical with 1000 people, across 8 countries and 5 continents and also understands the joys and challenges of leading diverse and global teams. With 20 years of corporate experience of working across the globe with companies like Procter & Gamble, GE Capital, and its spin-off Genpact, she has experienced leadership from close quarters. She is also the author of the book 'Leader's Block: How great leaders recover after they stumble’.

Her business and corporate experience enables her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development. It helps her pivot at the moment from executive coach/ facilitator to the corporate sounding board and strategic advisor, and clients view this as a key competitive advantage.

In the last 7 years, she has worked with a slew of first-class organizations, as a Coach and Speaker, which include: Google, PayPal, Seagate, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, AbbVie, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, Becton Dickinson, Medtronic, Deloitte, IKEA, Nordics Business Forum, Asia School of Business and Wharton Executive Education…This adds to the insights into leadership and the paradigms that she brings.

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Explore the different roles that you have laid for yourself in creating your life. Peter Merry talks about how experiences can influence your purposeful living and how it defines your life.

A creative thinker-doer committed to making the biggest possible positive impact with the least possible effort. Peter is co-founding Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity, founder of the Center for Human Emergence (Netherlands), and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multistakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. 

He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. His first book was published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership, 2005) and his second in 2019 (Why Work? on designing work for people and planet - www.whyworkbook.com). His third book Leading from the Field (https://leadingfromthefield.com) is due out at the end of November 2020. . He has an MSc in Human Ecology from Edinburgh University and a PhD from Ubiquity’s Wisdom School on volution theory (see www.volutiontheory.net). His personal website is www.petermerry.org.

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Charity, is it virtue or vice? In its original form, Anshu Gupta has challenged the definition of charity to bring more dignity to those who are earning it rather than someone who is doing it. Explore the mind-bending conversation with this social entrepreneur. 

Anshu Gupta is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Goonj, a non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Delhi.

Gupta is an Ashoka fellow and was conferred with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in 2012. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015. Rewriting many rules of the development sector Anshu made the masses his prime focus – not only as givers and receivers of material but also as the prime source of money, skills, and services. He also structured imaginative solutions with an urban surplus, to some basic but neglected needs outside the radar of the development sector and the civil society.

Over the years as Goonj garnered major awards, including World Bank’s Development Marketplace award and NASA’s Launch award, Anshu also won recognition as an Ashoka and Schwab Fellow while he was also listed as one of India’s top social entrepreneurs by Forbes Magazine and Fast Company.

Now Anshu is focused on the global replication of his model to bridge the massive gap of social and economic inequities between urban prosperity and rural poverty. He speaks extensively on national and international forums to instigate urban and rural masses to engage more deeply with the issues faced by society.

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Did you not know that your assumptions are the ones making you who are? Are you still running behind something? You don't know when this will stop. You have the pause button with you. Explore how you can design your destiny.

A sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, coach, and author, Alain Hunkins helps leaders achieve performance goals, easier.

His work connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. Leaders trust him to help unlock their potential and expand their influence, leading to superior results, increased engagement, higher levels of retention, and greater organizational and personal satisfaction. He has a gift for translating complex concepts from psychology, neuroscience, and organizational behavior into simple, practical tools that can be applied on the job.

With his Master’s in Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theater Training Program and a BA from Amherst College, Alain is on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, ranked #2 worldwide in 2019 by Financial Times on its list of customized Executive Education programs. He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the New Delhi Institute of Management and has lectured at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s business school, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology, UMass-Boston College of Management, and Columbia University. Alain was invited to Den Helder, Netherlands to give a TEDx talk called "The Basic Truth Most Leaders Neglect."

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What does Leadership and Engineering have to do with the human facets? This is a scientifically-driven conversation about how an organization can achieve Self-actualization. Find out how to repeat those peak experiences for yourself.

Timothy Tiryaki Ph.D. (c), MEd., PCC is an executive coach and the founder of Maslow Centre for Executive Leadership, together with master coach Diane Bonneau, MCC.

Maslow is a centre of excellence for coaching. The centre offers ICF accredited coach training programs and large-scale corporate coaching projects. Maslow Centre works with #Fortune500 companies and #BestWorkplaces in North America. Maslow Centre developed North America's first organizational culture coaching certification program exclusively focusing on corporate culture.

Timothy previously worked at large corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Intel, and Index Group and has experience in sales, marketing, and HR roles. His consulting experience includes Great Place to Work, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Consulting, and Bob Proctor Consulting (Managing Partner) where he worked directly with C-level leaders and has taught at Bogazici University Lifelong Learning Center, Global Knowledge Canada, and SFU.

Timothy has an Industrial Engineering degree from Bogazici University, in Istanbul, Turkey, a Master of Education from SFU, and is a Ph.D. Candidate on Philosophy of Education with a focus on leadership development and coach education, also through SFU. He holds 5 coaching certifications and is trained in multiple coaching styles (cognitive-behavioral, behavioral, solution-focused, positive psychology). Timothy has 4 nationally published books in Turkish (one exclusively on Coaching).

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How much does it take to spread a smile? Just one roti! Meet Azad Pandey on the xMonks Drive podcast, and listen to his story about helping people and making lives better.

Azad Pandey is a social service professional and founder of Smile Home is a first-of-its-kind orphanage, shelter home-cum-treatment center for such abandoned, mentally ill persons.
He was inspired to work for the needy since he was a child. Started from the Gorakhpur railway station in 2008, today Smile Roti Bank is running successfully in multiple cities. His team works for those who have lost their paths due to substance abuse and helps them regain control of life.

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Did you listen to your body? It says yes to some food and no to others. Yes, it can talk to you. Alexander Mearns presents the language used by your body in response to the food you eat, thoughts you think, and the workout that you drill with. 

Alexander Mearns is a Holistic Health Practitioner, a Wellness speaker, and the Founder of LEVITISE - Lifestyle, Nutrition, and Fitness Centre.

After 20 years in the finance industry, he left the corporate world in late 2017 to start Levitise, Singapore's only Holistic Lifestyle Centre. He looked for answers to fix his own health problems from the commercial fitness and medical industries so after many years of studying holistic health, fitness, and nutrition in Singapore, Australia, and the United States. He set up Levitise to help people, like him get the answers and make real changes from the ground up.

Levites specialise in working with senior executives in their 40s and 50s by solving problems such as weight gain, anxiety, fatigue and poor sleep. By working on a combination of personal training, nutrition, and lifestyle factors Levitise helps you solve your health concerns and achieve your fitness goals in an exclusive, private, safe, and cozy downtown environment.

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