The joys of reading with Brij Sethi

In this episode, Brij Sethi, a Principal Consultant at PM Power, shares

• His growing up days in Pantnagar, near NainiTal
• His passion for reading books
• His liking for mathematics and wanting to be an engineer
• Being bitten by the electronics bug and electronics engineering in college
• Joining a masters in management in systems in IIM Ahmedabad
• Learning Transactional Analysis 
• Getting into a project to make ECG machines as an engineer, forgetting his MBA
• Joining WIPRO in 1993 and working on many challenging projects
• His strong feeling in 1998 to be a facilitator, including facilitating 6 sigma projects
• Taking up the CTO role with HP, and enabling filing a record number of patents across teams
• Wanting to teach and getting back to Wipro
• Creating education related media and starting a company
• How he connects various ideas picked up from books and other sources, by letting go
• Be simple in what he has to share
• Using Obsidian to keep connected points 
• Making conscious efforts to digest what he reads
• Applying TA in business contexts
• Transitions across different ways or states of thinking
• Consciously spending time in capturing his state of mind before switching states
• Being low on J orientation, can accept contradictions and unresolved stuff
• Tip from his mentor: Need to wear a facilitator hat and outcome hat
• His experience of working in a social sector context
• A story on the approach of influencing with PowerPoint slides
• Why, Who and What - three questions for a facilitation session
• Creating an empty space for ownership
• The experience of a father-son founding team
• The trigger and satisfaction on launching his podcast
• His career advice
• Leave yourself open, take some risks

Brij is a Principal Consultant with PM Power. He has worked for Wipro and HP for many years and more recently founded a Media Studio to make educational content. He facilitated deep expertise in HP during his tenure as CTO. The number of patents filed in 1 year went up from 6 to 184.

Brij is a trained in group facilitation. He helps agile practitioners do personal action planning, undo team dysfunctions by themselves and dream a future by tinkering to a customer context. He also talks about career readiness in his podcast - Ready to work - on brijsethi.com.