The Brand Called You

Maria N Papacosta is a Presence Coach and Researcher, Personal Branding Strategist, and Co-Founder of MSC Marketing Bureau. According to her, personal branding is a strategy and a set of tools. It is how we want to live our lives and who we want to be. We all have a personal brand, whether we know it or not, and it is how we are perceived by those around us. The tricky part is deciding who we want to be and how we want to be perceived without falling into the trap of designing a brand that meets other people's expectations. It is about creating a better version of ourselves and making the impact that we want to make. The set of tools for personal branding includes media, giving interviews, writing articles, social media presence, personal websites, etc. However, the main thing is knowing who we are right now and where we want to go. It is a journey of self-awareness and setting our own personal vision. 00:33- About Maria N Papacosta Maria N Papacosta is a Presence Coach & Researcher, and a Personal Branding Strategist. She is also the Co-founder of the MSC Marketing Bureau. She has been recognized and felicitated several times.

We can influence our destiny to a great extent through what we do today. In any organization, there should be a good integration of the people working at different hierarchies. Making a vision into reality for any organization is largely dependent on the leadership qualities they have instilled in their culture. Today we talk to Vidusha about his views on this topic 00:35 - About Vidusha Nathavitharana I have always been an explorer, a dreamer, and an adventurer. I am rarely content with what has been accomplished and revel in seeking out a challenge. I am ambitious - not for ambition's sake but because pitting myself against a challenge betters me on a daily basis.

In this episode, the host, Ashutosh Garg, interviews Richa Khandelwal Bhat, the CEO of Keshava Productions Private Limited and the managing director of Narayana's ArtNirbhar Bharat Foundation. Richa shares her journey from being an intern reporter to becoming a filmmaker, producer, director, and writer. She talks about her company, Keshava Productions, and how it aims to create original and inspiring stories from India for the global market. She also discusses her approach to filmmaking and her focus on telling real-life stories that can become agents of change. She teases upcoming projects that include mainstream content, web series, feature films, and wacky science fiction stories set in rural India. 00:40- About Richa Khandelwal Bhat Richa is the Chief Executive Officer of Keshava Productions Private Limited. She is the Managing Director of Narayana's ArtNirbhar Bharat Foundation. She has also been elected state president of the Karnataka Animation Entertainment Council, WICCI, (Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry).

Professor MS Rao is known as the “Father of Soft Leadership,” He is the founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He has made the biggest impact on the world with his Soft Leadership which can be applied to companies and countries to achieve excellence. 00:31- About Professor MS Rao and his journey. What makes a good leader? Are leaders born or made educators, authors, speakers, and consultants? He earned a Ph.D. in Soft Skills in 2011. He has 34 years of experience in leadership development and conducts training programs for various corporations and educational institutions. His areas of interest include Leadership, Executive Coaching, and Executive Education. His vision is to build One Million Students as Global Leaders by 2030. He serves on the editorial boards of various prestigious international journals including Development and Learning in Organizations, Industrial and Commercial Training of Emerald, U.K, and The Journal of Values-Based Leadership USA.

In this episode, Marguerite Orane describes her journey from running a family-owned business to working in other businesses, and ultimately starting her own coaching business – a business that allows her the freedom and flexibility to lead with ease, grace, and joy. 00:37- About Marguerite Orane and her journey. My experience managing my family’s 70-employee manufacturing business was painful. After we sold the business, in order to allow my parents to retire financially secure, I spent time during my MBA at Harvard Business School in deep introspection about how we work. I have dedicated my life to changing the way we live and work so that we do so with joy. Having successfully led many businesses and working with hundreds of leaders and their teams, I realize it only takes one person to make the change. When people are tuned into their true selves, they act from a place of presence, grace, joy and authenticity, enriching the lives of others

Niti Nadarajah, a senior in-house lawyer working in Melbourne. But more than being a lawyer, Niti is also a woman, a mother and a human being. 00:37- About Niti Nadarajah and her journey. Niti is a coach, freelance general counsel and DEI advocate with a passion for authentic and inclusive leadership and empowering women to tap into their X factor and use it to propel their careers forward. She advocates for a range of issues such as gender and racial equity and was recently recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Gender Equity. She is the founder of Coaching by Niti and Legal by Niti, an executive coach at Grace Papers, a certified NLP practitioner, a Peerpoint consultant, a founding member and DEI Ambassador of Human Leaders, an angel investor in the US venture studio Nobody Studios, a Peer Support Companion for The Pink Elephants Support Network and a Community Partner for White Ribbon Australia.

The Indian tech industry has improved a lot in the past few years. We are now at a position where we can become the leaders of the future tech industry of the world. Global companies cannot come and challenge us as easily as they could before. We have with us Sirisha to give us an overview of what’s happening in the tech industry and where it's going. About Sirisha Voruganti Sirisha Voruganti is the Managing Director of JC Penny India. She is the First woman MD for J.P. Morgan in Technology in India. She is also a Global Technology leader.

Today’s guest is Vishal Sethi, the Founder of Startupomega.com, a product leader in data and artificial intelligence with Bristlecone.com. He has a master's degree in business and was the first person to complete a master's degree in data science a decade ago when there were no professionally organized academic offerings in data science. Vishal has built innovative products for banking, including an enterprise network analytics platform for Scotiabank, offering unique ways to predict customer lifetime values and detect fraud. He has also founded and grown AI consulting firms for midsize and large organizations in the US. 00:36- About Vishal Sethi Vishal Sethi is the Founder of Startupomega.com. He is a Product Leader, Data and Artificial Intelligence with Bristlecone.com.

Communication has always been the base of our interactions with each other, but it still is one of the most difficult skills to learn. Like any other skill, knowing about the theory of communication will not make us good communicators. We need to practice it every day to become good at it. We have with us Professor Ramesh Rao to help us learn about what effective communication is and how one can become good at it. 00:36- About Prof Ramesh Rao Ramesh Rao is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Columbus State University. He is the author of several books. His latest book is titled "Communicating Across Boundaries: The Indian Way". He is also the Chief Editor of the online portal "India Facts"

A globally-renowned expert in innovating management practice and strategy, and leading the modern workforce, Adam King is an authority on generational paradigms in the workplace, the future of work and capitalism, and fulfilling organizational and personal purposes. 00:30- About Adam Kingl and his journey. Adam Kingl is an authority on generational paradigms in the workplace, the future of work and capitalism, and fulfilling organizational and personal purposes. Adam currently leads and develops executive education at prestigious institutions such as London Business School, Hult International Business School, Imperial College Business School, Moller Institute-Churchill College-University of Cambridge and the UCL School of Management, where he helps boost the careers and businesses of senior executives, and high potential professionals. Adam holds degrees from London Business School, UCLA and Yale University.