Pinky Lilani, CBE shares her squiggly career story, highlighting the power of kindness in leadership, launching awards in Southeast Asia, the seven cues of leadership, the power of relationships and community, and the significance of giving and gratitude.
Kindness and courage are important traits in navigating a squiggly career.
Asking for help and building relationships can lead to valuable opportunities for growth and learning in a career.
Deep dives
Good360: Closing the Need Gap
Good360 is an organization that partners with socially responsible companies to address the critical need for basic goods like clothing, hygiene products, and home goods. By donating these items, they are able to help communities in need while also aligning with companies' business, social impact, and sustainability goals.
Squiggly Careers: Embracing Curiosity, Resilience, and Kindness
The Squiggly Careers podcast explores the stories of individuals with unconventional career paths. In a conversation with Pinky Lalani, CBE, they discuss the importance of kindness in leadership and the power of self-belief. Pinky shares her personal journey, highlighting her diversity of roles and the unexpected career opportunities that emerged. She emphasizes the significance of having curiosity, courage, and passion in overcoming obstacles and finding success.
Strengths in Asking for Help and Building Relationships
Pinky emphasizes the value of asking for help and building relationships when facing challenges or pursuing entrepreneurial ventures. She encourages people to reach out to others, seek advice, and leverage networks. Pinky shares personal experiences of connecting diverse individuals, promoting cross-sector collaboration, and creating opportunities for shared learning and growth.
The Seven Cues of Success
Pinky introduces the concept of the seven cues of success, including IQ, EQ, LQ (likability), MQ (meaning), AQ (attitude), communication, curiosity, and courage. She explains how these cues play important roles in personal and professional growth, emphasizing the significance of being likable, having a sense of meaning and purpose, maintaining a positive attitude, and continuously learning and adapting.
In this weeks episode Sarah talks to Pinky Lilani, CBE about her squiggly career story. Pinky shares how kindness, courage and people helping people have helped her to navigate her squiggly career so far.