The Brand Called You

Building one's own house is a dream of almost everyone. When one actually gets to buy a house, he has some expectations from it. Our guest for today, Pradeep N Lala, turns those expectations into reality. He is into the real estate business and helps people in making their dream house and offices.Pradeep is the CEO and Managing Director of Embassy Services, which is a part of the Embassy Group, one of the largest realtors in India.Embassy Services manages all formats of real estate assets for the Embassy group. They have so far been focussed on Bangalore but with recent acquisition of a portfolio from India Bulls, they will be expanding their services to include Gurugram and Mumbai as well.

Microsoft is one of the top tech companies of the world engaged in developing global products that enable businesses and the general public to do their tasks easily, efficiently, and smartly. IT sector was one of the few in the world that continued innovating with new technologies to help sustain the world carry their business during the pandemic.With digitisation growing exponentially, the future of technology and its impact on human lives become paramount to understand. We discuss the same in today’s episode of The Brand Called You, with Farhana Haque, the Group Director of Devices Sales of Microsoft India.Let’s tune it to learn about India in the global market, digital economy, technology, and future.

Parenting is known to be one of the most difficult yet rewarding jobs in one's life. A child’s early parenting is often the most cherished time. However, it comes with its own set of uncertainties & challenges making one constantly question his/her style.There are judgments from society, a vast amount of contrasting information on parenting, and one’s instincts for the child’s best care.We discuss the same on our today’s episode of The Brand Called You with our guest Sumedha Khoche, who is the founder of KinderPass, a digital child health platform.She brings to you her vast research findings, knowledge, and experiences on parenting and childdevelopment, answering your questions to get more confident with this lifelong job.Tune in to listen to this enriching conversation.

Our guest for today, Anant Kasibhatla, is a Limca World Record holder for Memory. He is a memory expert and a Focus and Memory Coach. Not only can he remember everything, but also make other people remember too. So you can actually train your brain to remember everything.In his opinion, memory needs to be trained in a manner that is very similar to what we may see with any other skill that we would like to possess.

Our today's guest, Mr. James M Kerr helps the business leaders to do exactly the same. Let’s listen to him about what does it take to become indispensable.Mr. Kerr believes in the power of being indispensable as it comes out vividly from his company name “Indispensable Consulting” and the book, “Indispensable: Build and lead a company customers can’t live without.” He helps the businesses to do so by assisting in their vision statement which they try to turn into a compelling story so that the stakeholders and customers can visualize it.

Our guest for today is that courageous woman who decided to step against the patriarchal society of Arab when she realized that working women were being stereotyped. We are talking about Samar Alshorafa, the founder and CEO of She is Arab. It is a platform to increase women's participation in the workforce in Arab countries. She has also been recognized as one of the 50 global leaders driving social impact. She has earlier worked with the World Bank and the European Commission.

S Ramadorai is the former CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services. He is the former Chairman of the National Skill Development Agency and the National Skill Development Corporation. He has been recognized and honored by the President of India with a Padma Bhusan. He was also recognized as the commander of the order of the British Empire.

Anthony lives in Australia and after he completed school he started to work as a navigator in the merchant navy. Anthony tells us that one day he was on a night watch duty when a man came to him and told him that his wife was divorcing him. Anthony just showed him concern and said that it must have been tough. Anthony was powerless and he couldn't help it. He tells us that the fellow did not want any advice, he was just looking for someone to hear him. Anthony tells us that he has found many people telling him tragic and awful stories of their lives. He would just listen to them. Anthony eventually made this behavior his career and now he is called the CEO Whisperer.

Satya N Gupta is an expert in NGN technologies. He is also the chairman of Blockchain for Productivity Forum. ITU expert on All-IP NGN issues, Satya conducts training programs on various aspects of NGN.

People say that whatever happens, happens for good. Our guest for today, Gerhard Flatz, is a textbook example of this. Gerhard was an Austrian who wanted to move out of his house to do something in life. He was all set to go to South Africa but eventually landed in China. He is currently the Managing Director at KTC Group. He is also a member of YPO. He says that moving to China was more of an accident rather than a motivation for him. He tells us that he was going to South Africa in 1997 but his predecessor didn't want it. Gerhard didn't want to stay in Austria so he went to China. However, he says that since the day he arrived in China, he doesn't regret going there. Tune into the episode to listen to the topic in detail.