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Is "FIRE" an Exit Fantasy

Épisode 33

jeudi 16 juillet 2026 • Durée 26:17

PREVIEW:

Financial Independence, Retire Early - What if FIRE is not really about money - but about the life you’re trying to escape? In this episode of Life Acumen at Work, we look beyond spreadsheets, savings targets, and early retirement dreams to explore the deeper leadership question underneath: what are you postponing until you feel “free”? For senior leaders, founders, and high achievers, the FIRE fantasy can reveal something important about work, identity, ambition, and agency. This is an episode about financial independence, yes - but more importantly, about designing a life and leadership you don’t need to run from.

RESOURCES:

Fulfilment and the FIRE Movement: The Realities of Life After Early Retirement

INSEAD Knowledge: research on FIRE and the reality that financial freedom does not automatically create fulfillment.

Great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours

McKinsey: Great Attrition research on why employees leave, including not feeling valued and lack of belonging.

Korn Ferry Hay Group Executive Survey Reveals Top Job Fulfillments and Frustrations

Korn Ferry: executive survey showing values-aligned culture as a major driver of job feeling and satisfaction.

Employee-wellness-in-the-corporate-workplace

Deloitte with Workplace Intelligence: C-suite wellbeing research, including executives considering quitting for better wellbeing and difficulty disconnecting.

Thriving in an age of continuous reinvention

PwC: 27th Annual Global CEO Survey on inefficient time spent in meetings, admin, email, and decision-making meetings.

Enjoying Work Matters More Than You May Realize

BCG: research on joy at work and its relationship to attrition risk.

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Is Your Career Future-Proof

What Success Quietly Takes from You

PODCAST DESCRIPTION:

On Life Acumen at Work Podcast, Executive Coach Vinod Wadhwani shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they face in their work life.

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Is Your Career Future-Proof

Épisode 32

dimanche 21 juin 2026 • Durée 21:23

Preview:

You did everything right. You studied hard, built a successful career, earned the title, the credibility, and the rewards. But in a world where people live longer, careers last decades longer, and AI is reshaping work, a new question emerges: Is the career you built still enough for the life ahead? In this episode, we explore why the traditional career ladder may no longer be sufficient, and how leaders can redesign their careers as portfolios of relevance, contribution, learning, and renewal for the next 20 to 30 years.

Resources:

THE NEW MAP OF LIFE | Stanford Center on Longevity

28 Apr 2022 — Work. Over the course of 100-year lives, we can expect to extend our working lives to 60 years or more. To be sustainable, even enjoyable ...Read more

AI Will Reshape More Jobs Than It Replaces

3 Apr 2026 — Rather than treating workforce planning as a static forecast, companies will increasingly need to update hiring, upskilling, reskilling, and ...Read more

Satya Nadella at Microsoft: Instilling a Growth Mindset

He adapted the idea to encourage employees to shift from Microsoft's historical “know-it-all” culture to embrace a “learn-it-all” curiosity. The case study ...Read more

A Report from The Stanford Center on Longevity

Why "Effective Feedback" Critical for Leadership Growth

Épisode 23

samedi 28 septembre 2024 • Durée 12:03

Many senior executives struggle to get effective feedback from their team. That’s a pivotal challenge leaders face constantly. When leaders don’t receive clear insights, into their strengths and areas of improvement, it can create a cascading effect, that ultimately impacts team performance.

In Focus

How can leaders effectively break down the barriers that hinder candid feedback from their teams?

How can leaders create an open environment for feedback?

Collaborative and respectful communication a must for effective feedback

Modelling openness and vulnerability

Detachment from personal ego

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Podcast Description:

Vinod Wadhwani is long-time executive coach, who works with corporate leaders to help them in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. On this podcast, he shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

28 September 2024

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Prevent "Burnout" in the Workplace

Épisode 22

jeudi 19 septembre 2024 • Durée 13:30

The World Health Organization has officially recognized burnout as an occupational syndrome. According to some estimates more than a third of employees' experience burnout intermittently, with nearly 25% feeling it recurrently or constantly.

In Focus

What is Burnout?

Does, each one of us experience burnout differently?

Why is burnout so pervasive and what triggers it?

What is Employability?

“Role overload”, “Role conflict” and “Role ambiguity

Burnout in the workplace - Five things stand out for me.

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How do I hone my persuasive communications skills?

Why you must build bridges with your boss?

Is your manager undermining you?

Podcast Description:

Vinod Wadhwani is long-time executive coach, who works with corporate leaders to help them in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. On this podcast, he shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

19 September 2024

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How Do I Hone My Persuasive Communication Skills?

Épisode 21

mardi 23 janvier 2024 • Durée 14:14

Persuasion is not to be seen as tricking or forcing other people to your point of view, it is to be seen as understanding what engages and opens other people up to new ideas and insights.

In Focus

How do you define persuasion?

How does engagement influence persuasion?

What is physical and temporal proximity?

What are some techniques for increasing engagement?

What are some of the behaviors which come in the way of engaging persuasively with your stakeholders?

How to enhance a person’s sense of certainty?

What were the three key takeaways for KD in his coaching conversation?

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Why you must build bridges with your boss?

Is your manager undermining you?

Podcast Description:

Vinod Wadhwani is long-time executive coach, who works with corporate leaders to help them in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. On this podcast, he shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

23 January 2024

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Why you must build bridges with your boss?

Épisode 20

jeudi 9 février 2023 • Durée 11:01

Many middle managers make the mistake of relying too much on their job performance, consequently leave too much to chance and fail to effectively manage their careers.

In Focus

Are modesty and quiet work not virtues in the corporate world?

But doesn’t good performance help you secure your job?

Is there a weak link between job performance and promotion?

Great job performance by itself is insufficient and may not even be necessary for getting and holding positions in the c-suite?

it is imperative to manage and have a good equation with your boss. But why is It often an uneasy relationship?

Boss as a supporter and evaluator

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KC’s manager is denting his confidence!

Podcast Description:

Vinod Wadhwani is long-time executive coach, who works with corporate leaders to help them in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. On this show, he shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

9 February 2023

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Why do you feel dissonance despite having career success?

Épisode 19

jeudi 26 janvier 2023 • Durée 11:31

Recent research on people’s life satisfaction by social scientists suggests, that in general, life satisfaction follows a “U” shape. It starts at the upper range in youth, bottoms out in 40s, and then picks up again in older age.

In Focus

Why do you feel anxious despite being successful?

What are some of those specific things that start to get in our heads when we hit the 40’s?

What does your definition of success look like?

Related episode:

My manager is denting my confidence!

Host:

Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. Vinod founded Life Acumen LLP with a mission to help corporate executives with purposeful integration of work & life; and help build high performance culture in organizations. Vinod leverages over three decades of leadership experience in investment banking, management consulting and merchant navy to help corporate leaders in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization.

Podcast:
On this podcast, Vinod shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

26 January 2023

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Is your manager undermining you?

Épisode 18

mercredi 11 janvier 2023 • Durée 11:39

Bad managers are the top cause of unhappiness in the workplace. According to a survey by an HR consulting firm, more than 50% employees leave their jobs to get away from a bad boss. Everyone who’s had a bad manager knows what it can do to your stress levels and job satisfaction.

In Focus

Keeping you in an off-balance state

Passing along second-hand criticism

Intimidation – turning a simple request in to a threat

Shoring your sense of control

Looking to your past achievements

Host:

Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. Vinod founded Life Acumen LLP with a mission to help corporate executives with purposeful integration of work & life; and help build high performance culture in organizations. Vinod leverages over three decades of leadership experience in investment banking, management consulting and merchant navy to help corporate leaders in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization.

Podcast:
On this podcast, Vinod shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

11 January 2023

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How to overcome distraction and regain focus at work?

Épisode 17

jeudi 29 décembre 2022 • Durée 10:11

Is multitasking a strength? Are human beings good at it? Or is this a delusion that majority of us have fallen for?

In Focus:

Where do we start in this distracted world to regain focus?

How can you slow down in a world which takes pride in speed?

What are the costs attached to constant switching?

Does constant switching makes us slower?

How do we fix this urge to constantly switch?

What damage can Internet addiction do to us?

How do we develop the skill of sustained attention?

Is focus related to our happiness?

What is a flow state?

Related episode:

Why do we get distracted?

Host:

Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. Vinod founded Life Acumen LLP with a mission to help corporate executives with purposeful integration of work & life; and help build high performance culture in organizations. Vinod leverages over three decades of leadership experience in investment banking, management consulting and merchant navy to help corporate leaders in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization.

Podcast:
On this podcast, Vinod shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

Making and keeping new year's resolutions!

Épisode 16

vendredi 16 décembre 2022 • Durée 11:53

There is usually a lot of optimism this time of the year as the world slows down and people get time to reflect about what actually matters. Amid this hope what resolutions are people making for the new year and how to keep them.

In Focus:

Many people set personal and professional goals this time of year. Why choose new year to set resolutions?
New years resolutions can be as fleeting as fireworks, one study found that about 25% give up after 2 weeks and only about 12% actually achieve their goal. Why is that most of us fail at sticking to new year’s resolutions?
How do we get our new year resolutions become a reality?

Related Episode:
Why do we get distracted?

Host:

Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. Vinod founded Life Acumen LLP with a mission to help corporate executives with purposeful integration of work & life; and help build high performance culture in organizations. Vinod leverages over three decades of leadership experience in investment banking, management consulting and merchant navy to help corporate leaders in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization.

Podcast:
On this podcast, Vinod shares perspectives from the coaching conversations he has had with corporate leaders focusing on the specific leadership challenges they faced in their work life.

Published:

16 December 2022

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