The Brand Called You

Any institution, whether it is society or organization, in the present century cannot function effectively without women’s equal participation in leadership activities. Women create a perspective that brings competition and collaboration to organizations and teams. About Dagmar Symes A results-oriented Senior Executive and specialist in the Luxury Industry with a diverse experience within the Luxury Retail and Hospitality field. A solid track record in driving teams to deliver successful results both in terms of quality and business performance. Extremely high “People” skills, and strong ability to motivate teams to deliver exceptional results regardless of the situation and business environment. Strong emphasis on building and developing Owner Relations, priority on protecting Owners' Assets, and business interests, and achieving budgeted EBITA. Strong ability to build a positive rapport between Owners, Stakeholders, and the Company to meet organizational needs.

The world is aware of India and China's military relations owing to the rights over disputed areas of the territory. With rising clashes between the armies of the two countries, there is always a fear of war. China has managed to make a global name for its military power. But if the war situation arises, does India really lack behind? What are India’s advantages over China, and what are the strategies that China is using to dominate the countries? We have your answers covered in our today’s discussion with Major general Dr. Rajan Kochhar. About Major General Dr. Rajan Kochhar: General Kochhar is the Vice Chairman of the National Council of News and Broadcasting. He is also the author of the book titled, “Breaking the Chinese Myth.” General Kochhar recalls his cadet days and the physical challenges he faced.

An annuity is a long-term investment that is issued by an insurance company and is designed to help protect you from the risk of outliving your income. Through annuitization, your purchase payments (what you contribute) are converted into periodic payments that can last for life. In today’s episode of The Brand Called You, Manish Malhotra talks about finance and annuities. He also touches upon his experience working at CitiBank. He also talks about social security benefits and personal finance.

Journeys With Purpose provides a series of immersive Hosted Experiences with inspirational leaders, truly extraordinary “People With Purpose”, created to inform and catalyse the celebration and advancement of nature conservation projects across the world. These hosted experiences, based on a “Seven Worlds, One Planet” approach, are a global curriculum designed around the recovery and conservation of our natural world, with opportunities to participate and collaborate on restoring vibrant landscapes, biodiversity, wildlife, and livelihoods. They are with the most ambitious, exciting, and successful initiatives to protect and restore the diversity of nature and wildlife across our seven continents. By experiencing these remarkable achievements of harmonizing nature and communities, we can be inspired to protect, conserve and restore our natural world, and safeguard our own future – this is the mission of Journeys With Purpose. About Duncan Grossart Duncan is a zoology graduate, a lifelong conservationist. He is the Former director of The European Nature Trust. More recently he founded ‘Journeys With Purpose’, in order to provide a series of immersive Hosted Experiences with inspirational leaders. ‘People With Purpose’ was created to inform and catalyze the celebration and advancement of nature conservation projects across the world. He is involved in a number of conservation and preservation initiatives Tunza Games – wildlife conservation game app Mint images create the world's finest collection of commercial imagery that relate to the environment, sustainability, and issues of health and well-being.

About Latha Reddy Latha is the Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. She is the former Deputy National Security Adviser of India where she was responsible for cybersecurity Ms. Reddy is involved with several organizations and thinktanks, both globally and in India. She is currently, among other positions, serving as a Distinguished Fellow at the EastWest Institute in the US and the Observer Research Foundation in India. She is the Former Diplomat/ Ambassador. She is also called a “Warrior for Cyber Peace”.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are the important parameters that the businesses are considering to follow, especially in the world post the pandemic. With diverse resources available across the globe, efforts are taken to employ diverse communities and shed off the biases of colour, gender, etc. Another important community that need attention are the disabled people with different challenges. Today, we talk about the challenges of inclusion of disabled people with deaf community in particular. About Meryl K Evans Meryl is a speaker and an accessibility consultant. She is one of 12 people on LinkedIn top voices for disability advocacy. Meryl is also an author of two books. Meryl was born partially deaf and has grown up learning how to speak by lip-reading. She doesn’t know sign language. Her career started with the Federal Government when the American Disabilities Act made it possible for the relay service to be provided nationwide. In 2000, I started writing on the side and never planned to do my own business because I knew it would be harder to bring in clients when you have a disability. But in 2005, I decided to work for myself full-time and transitioned from writing to digital marketing. In 2018, I started making videos which were surprisingly taken very well and in 2019.

Karen assists C-Suite Leaders & LOB Executives of 200+ employee-size corporations with innovative people, processes, and performance by designing the future of how their companies work. In today’s episode of The Brand Called You, what innovation is all about, or what she believes it should all be about and how does each individual show up to make their world a better place, their world, being their family, their community, the organizations they work for.

Branding is what people say about you when you are not in the room. It is not always about the companies we work for, it is also about our branding. The value, the skill set, and the experience we bring to the table in any field. The elevator pitch is not always required to promote our companies, but ourselves too for being in a position we deserve, to sustain in the position we hold, and to grow further to where we want to reach. It starts with the right mindset and thoughts, and today we have a pioneer of branding to talk about its importance, enabling us to become leaders in life. Tune in to listen to this enriching conversation with Kavita Agarwal, Strategic Marketing & Innovation Consultant, and Whisky Marketing Specialist who talks about marketing whisky. About Kavita Agarwal Kavita Agarwal is the Strategic Marketing & Innovation Consultant, and Whisky Marketing Specialist. Kavita is a London-based business strategist, transformation, and change agent who sees the world not as what it is but as what it could become. Kavita helps businesses embrace opportunities for change, make complex decisions with confidence, and constantly challenges and reinvents business as usual to find groundbreaking ways to attain higher goals. She has deep experience in engineering projects from inception to delivery, cutting through ambiguity and leading her businesses into new directions, disrupting the status quo and encouraging teams to experiment. Her entrepreneurial strength, commercial nous, bias for innovation, and flair for marketing drive clarity and help businesses and teams translate strategy into execution milestones, turning ideas into reality.

As Facebook changed its name to Meta, the term metaverse is in trend. With instances of VR and AR experiences, a lot of brands are venturing into the world of the metaverse. But what does the word actually mean? What experience counts as augmented experience? How are brands leveraging the power of the metaverse? What is the future of metaversE? We have your question answered in our today’s discussion with Mr. Tushar Gandotra. About Tushar Gandotra & FiEx Tushar is the CEO of FiEx, which is an ecosystem leveraging the exciting possibility in blockchain, NFT, and the metaverse. FiEx, as would have thought, is not short form for Financial Exchange or Financial Expert. The four-letter word was crafted to have a recall value. FiEx is about enhancing the digital experience of the real world. Metaverse is a 30-year-old word. It got pushed when Facebook changed its name to Meta. It is an immersive word with no one definition. It is a subjective word, with different interpretations. Our concept is toward hybrid reality and a hybrid world.

Starting a Business is one of the biggest challenges any entrepreneur will face. There are many questions to answer at the very beginning when starting a business, but the most difficult one is the question of what exactly you want to do. Dr. Dhruv Nath, Director, Lead Angels Network; Author, The Dream Founder is here to talk about the same. About Dr. Dhruv Nath Dr. Dhruv Nath is the Director of Lead Angels Network. He was earlier the Senior Vice President of NIIT. He has been a professor at the Management Development Institute or MDI Gurgaon. He is the author of The Dream Founder and the Co-Author of Funding Your Startup.