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How does Leadership drive the most pressing requirements of our times ... Decarbonization. Listen to a discussion on Impact of Leadership on Decarbonization

Listen to Dr Bruno Pollet on the Hydrogen Revolution and Hydrogen Economy. Will it only help the planet in Decarbonization or will it drive a new global energy equation and impact the Geo political Networks.?

Despite the best efforts, carbon emission reduction is not following the path as envisaged for achieving Net Zero. Instead, it is heading in the wrong direction. Listen to the current trends coming into play in the journey of Decarbonization to Net Zero.

Public opinion towards Climate change and need for control is influenced by several factors. Social structure, Demographics, Value system, Beliefs, Perceptions about climate change and Media coverage quality have major impact. How can Public opinion influence Government policy towards Decarbonization for Net Zero target or vice versa.

Re-Globalization or De-Globalization? Will the countries in the world grow together or slow individually.

Does Globalization have the legs to stand the onslaught of political turbulence, geopolitical fractures, pandemic impacted supply chains, tariff wars and the first land war in Europe in decades? Seems disruptive! Can the interconnectedness between the countries created by the movement of goods and services coupled with capital, people, data, ideas and cross-border innovation keep driving the bonds of Globalization? Information technology has bought the world together and has developed a very strong connection and dependencies where no region is self-sufficient for all its needs. Will the fate of Globalization be decided by Governments or Multinational companies with their impact on economies? The combined Market cap of the top five companies by market cap is almost equal to the GDP of the bottom more than 150 countries. Who will impact the future of Globalization?

Would Capitalism drive the Net Zero initiatives for Climate Change, or it will be in conflict. It has a major role to play in the social cause which is so important for sustenance of our planet. More than 140 countries have signed up to drive the 1.5 Deg C initiative. With such a concerted effort by governments across the globe, Capital markets can magnify the efforts by creating financial models to support the need of the society as well create growth driven by innovation.

Listen to a discussion on Global Order Reshaping in current scenario: As the global economy was managing to slowly recover from the disruption caused by the Pandemic, the world got shocked by the events unfolding in Ukraine with apprehension, dismay, and fear. This conflict has shaken the roots of the global peace and security system and has triggered a massive humanitarian crisis. The crisis in Ukraine is challenging the core principle of UN charter for international peace and security order. Global economy was already battling with high inflation, rising energy costs, supply chain disruptions and other economic impacts from the pandemic, now this conflict further complicates it with possibility of multiple geo political fractures.

Listen to Oxford published author J.R. Klein discuss the threat to Globalization. The war in Ukraine has suddenly changed the quantum of geopolitical risks. The firms will need to respond to the shock by reassessing security-related risks and changes in the structure of supply chains. Since the capital is in place and wage differentials across countries exist, it is possible to absorb the shock and create a gradual change. It will probably affect different product categories and segments differently. This whole process however may not be able to drive a reversal of globalization, which can only happen if it is supported by pronounced government intervention.

Can Fintech circumvent capital markets and help the bottom 50% of the world and lift the very poor. Digital Resilience/Cybersecurity/ Digital literacy. Cyber security and Energy sector! Cybersecurity and disinformation/ Information manipulation! Declaration on freedom of internet signed by 50 countries. Listen to Dr Sredharan talk about his new book 'Disruptive Technologies- Emerging trends in Global Business'

Unprecedented geopolitical situation is threatening the globalized financial markets, creating uncertainities which have the potential of resetting the world order. Listen to the London School of Economics and Oxford Alumni discuss the impact of Ukraine confict on Global Financial Markets.

Dr. Celly from university of Houston in discussion on Transition to Net Zero Economy. The urgent need for Decarbonization. Impact on Economy and jobs. Impact on countries and their role. Source and allocation of Capital. Supply chain and cost complexities.

United Kingdom loses upwards of 80 billion GBP per year to a disproportionately monolingual workforce, Switzerland attributes 11% of its GDP to its culture of multilingualism and the policies that sustain it. Listen to Wikitongues cofounder and director Daniel Bögre Udell and programs director Kristen Tcherneshoff on how languages impact our society. Today some 7,000 languages are spoken and signed around the world, but acute challenges facing linguistic communities—from forced assimilation to political exclusion—could make 3,000 of those languages fall silent by the end of this century. Such a loss would take a tragic toll upon our collective spiritual, cultural, and ecological knowledge. In response, Wikitongues is building a “language revitalization accelerator” that gives marginalized people resources to launch mother-tongue projects in their communities. Wikitongues, a nonprofit organization working to safeguard and revitalize endangered languages around the world, has been awarded The 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize.

Listen to Liza Haffenberg on importance of activating purpose and engaging people with Movement Thinking. Movement Thinking is a people-centric approach to create positive change. It uses the power of societal movements to mobilize employees, stakeholders and customers to engage, act and advocate.

Listen to Michelle Tucker, Best-Selling Author of the book “Think & Grow Rich Today”, “Sell Your Business for more than it’s Worth”, and her latest book Exit Rich “, talk about her Proven Strategies to Grow a Scalable and Sellable Business!

Listen to Dr Duane Varan about his unique Leadership style to manage the Pandemic situation in a very scientific environment creating commercial value for customers and building trust in the team.

Listen to a discussion on impact of crisis on Leadership. Post Pandemic would the Leadership revert back to pre pandemic world or would it move forward with learnings and lead the development of a better world and move the human race to next level of development.

Listen to Karl talk about his book The Fairshare Model. The Fairshare Model was conceived to deal with the uncertainty involved in establishing a value for a venture-stage company. There are ways to mitigate the risk of getting it wrong in a private offering, deal terms. But there is no equivalent in an IPO. The Fairshare Model changes that with a deal structure that places no value on future performance. It does that by providing shares for future performance that vote but cannot trade; they convert into the tradable stock based on performance milestones.

Listen to JR Klein on the role of Empathy in Leadership during Pandemic and it's importance in the success of Leaders in the post Pandemic world. He shares from his research on the most desired Leadership trait during crisis.

Laura Kriska on the power of We. There has never been a more important time for leaders to foster connection among people of diverse backgrounds. To thrive in the global marketplace teams must learn to work across differences of age, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status and many other identity factors. Laura talks about how to prevent Us versus Them culture clashes by promoting inclusion in the organizations to increase employee retention and productivity and to prevent misunderstandings that lead to lost time and increased legal risk. Laura offers a practical roadmap at a time when stakeholders at all levels – investors, employees, customers – are demanding action that will lead to lasting change. These timely tools can help any leader successfully navigate Us versus Them dynamics to create cohesive, productive and inclusive teams.

Listen to a practitioner and an academician, Dr Sreedharan talk about his latest book on the importance of International Business Operations for success of Globalization.

Listen to Lance Tyson, the most sought after coach & trainer of sales leaders, who has also authored two best selling books; Igniting sales EQ: Driving Sales Confidence During Uncertainty & Selling is an Away Game: Close Business and Compete in a Complex World, talk about how to motivate sales teams and the enterprise to keep winning business in the uncertain times of Pandemic. Lance addresses the so desired role of EQ in such times.

Howard shore in discussion about his latest book The Leader Launchpad. Howard offers a five-step, clear-cut, actionable plan to help leaders feel in control of their professional destiny. He elaborates the concepts in his book for profit-actualizing and scale-enhancing systems for: • Identifying mindsets essential to creating great companies • Recognizing the crucial steps to increase employee engagement • Developing a strategy that leads to faster growth and higher profitability • Aligning teams with priorities to significantly impact results • Ensuring the right people are in the right seats doing the right thing • Building a culture of accountability

Peabody Award winner, Firdaus Kharas; A Thought Leader, Global Communicator, Author, and Speaker joins us to discuss how to leverage the rapid changes and a world in turmoil around us to transform the professional and personal lives by harnessing the innate creativity.

Is it Zoom & Bloom or Zoom & Doom for you while working remotely. Gaurav Rastogi in discussion on how to keep your creativity, efficiency and productivity alive when working remote . Remote working by itself, has shown to improve productivity and employee satisfaction. Now it is Pandemic forced work remotely to isolate employees for Health reasons. It is Health crisis compounded with social & economic crisis. The real danger in current situation is lack of a physical separation between work and the rest of life. People may not stop working, causing burnouts, which is a huge cost for employees as well as the organizations. Two weeks into Pandemic driven remote work in USA, triggered an all-time high Google search Traffic for Symptoms of anxiety. There is a relationship between remote set-ups & mental-health challenges which must be addressed. If this shift leads to widespread remote work in the future, will that make our brains healthier, or will we all feel more alone more often?

John Vespian presents his 11th book, Assymmetry. Knowledge is the only valid response to stress, the only formula that can make you more effective, Vespasian argues.

Is the pandemic a wake-up call to the manufacturing sector, bringing the Industry 4.0 technologies to the fore front for survival in the marketplace which requires agile and flexible production systems and supply chains. Will 3D printing, the internet of things (IoT), advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and big data bring the benefits of applying a digitization mindset to a physical business. The need for remote interaction and asset management during the pandemic has highlighted the requirement of advanced manufacturing technologies, cloudbased services and 5G solutions.

Listen to the author of the book; 2040, The battle for life. A story for tomorrow. The author shares the insight into future of humanity and role of technology, possible scenarios of Geopolitics and technology.

We are discussing Responsible Investing and how to do it with Ian Robertson, Director and Vice President of Odlum Brown. He explains how ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) has gained importance in the last decade and is providing a moral compass, an analytical tool for investors, and how the power of proxy voting can be used to influence Responsible Investing.

In January 2020 US president Donald Trump congratulated the oil industry for having made the country 'energy independent' American production crossed 12 Million barrels per day at the end of 2019. What would be the impact of Pandemic on Shale oil in USA.

WTI Oil prices plunged to the lowest level ever in the largest single day drop. What the future holds for Oil under the current circumstances. We discuss the possible scenarios with the expert from Oil industry, Mr Santosh Mathilakath

Listen to the President of APICS Houston, Mr David Cabello on the resetting of Global Supply chains due to the Pandemic.

How should extraordinary leaders keep sane in insane times? We discuss ways to be centered, energetic and focused, even while the world outside seems to be in Chaos?

With the pandemic, the discussions about the future of work are no longer hypothetical, we all seem to have Zoomed into the future of work all at once. Our expert, and host for multiple sessions on the Future of Work, Mr. Gaurav Rastogi from Silicon Valley, discusses this sudden arrival of the future, and how it is impacting our lifestyle. We review all our past predictions and see how they stack up with the present.

Listen to Brandon Busteed President, University Partners and Global Head, Learn-Work Innovation Kaplan North America on the role of higher education in enhancing the work readiness. Would the merger of work and education be the answer? What would be recognized in future? Degree, skillset or industry recognized credentials. Need for getting Credegree (Credential’s and Degree).

Personal ReInvention is Critical in the Future of Work (which is already here). The future of work isn’t about what you used to be. It’s about what you are. And “what you are” is always evolving. Problem is, most of us don’t know how to reinvent ourselves. In this talk, our guest is Gaurav Rastogi, who discusses the need to shed old identities to survive and thrive in the new workplace. Sticking to past successes is a guarantee of future lack of success.

As someone committed to your career and your industry, you should worry if your company doesn’t look like it’s trying to bite its own tail, with investments into technology and taking business risks. If your company is not investing in eating itself fast enough, you can be sure that a tech or hyphen-tech company will have your company as a snack. Your company is not a safe haven. It will either eat itself, or be eaten by technology. Because the technology treadmill runs very fast, the new jobs are not safe from obsolescence. So as an individual with a few decades of work left inside you, you have to learn to eat and reinvent yourself perpetually, like the ouroboros. In this fascinating talk, our frequent guest, Gaurav Rastogi, tells us why the ancient image of a snake biting its own tail will be the defining portrayal of careers in the decade to come.

Many of the world’s economies are struggling. The global economic system which is currently impacted by over consumption in west, tariffs and other unfair globalization issues coupled with under regulation of some large financial institutions. It has a room for improvement. Who can take a position to help the system as well as gain a prominent position in Global economy. Middle East could be the one.The region has rare combination of its enormous oil and gas reserves, large and skillable labor force, along with the large sovereign wealth funds in some of the countries.The prosperous Middle East governments also have an opportunity to play major roles within the World Bank and the IMF for the ongoing reform efforts.

Understand how and why there is so much interest in Big Data among enterprises. We will be talking to Amandeep Khurana, Co-Founder of Okera; a big data access management company, about the current state of data technologies and data privacy. We will discuss data privacy and many new regulations like GDPR and CCPA and its impact on enterprises and what they are doing to protect the data of their consumers.

Listen to K. Ganesh, the Man with the Midas touch talking about the growth story of start ups in India. The journey so far and what the future holds.

Continuing on the theme of Blockchain we covered in the last 2 episodes, this week we will tackle one of the most important developments in the cryptocurrency called Facebook Libra. We will discuss in detail what is Facebook Libra, who are the other companies involved in this effort and what does this mean for other cryptocurrencies and the ecosystem in general. Listen to founders of Sapien Network; a company in the social news space using Etherium based coin. Ankit and Robert; the two founders of Sapien are graduates of UC Berkeley and YCombinator

Listen to Paul in discussions with Jorden and Radhika on what everything one must know about Blockchain. Part 2

Listen to Paul in discussions with Jorden and Radhika on what everything one must know about Blockchain.

Has USA claimed world’s oil crown in an uncertain oil market which is going through a major disruption and reshaping. U.S. oil production has hit record levels.Combined U.S. exports of petroleum products and crude oil have perched the U.S. to net exporter status. As per the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports Growth in oil production in Texas and the Permian and Bakken geological regions have put total U.S. oil production ahead of Russia’s for the first time since February 1999 which makes it the world leader in oil production. Technological Innovation, Availability of capital and ingenuity of drillers have contributed to the growth. What does it does mean to the industry, Geopolitics and global trade

Listen to Dr Arthur Ciaramicoli author of 8 books on how leaders can use ground-breaking AIE (authenticity, integrity and empathy) leadership platform to lead effectively and successfully optimize the potential of employees. His pioneering approach offers new promise to society struggling with fear and doubt about those in powerful positions. The best part of AIE leadership is that it produces an environment for staff members to grow to respect each other while producing at the highest possible level.

Listen to Dr Kristen Sosulski about the data visualization, an essential skill required in today’s information-rich world. Importance of linear process to develop data visualization literacy and exploratory, inquiry-based approaches to visualization issues and developing expertise to use data. It is so important for practitioners in almost every field to have a coherent way to share findings from research, big data, learning analytics, and more.

Do Entrepreneurs get paid to Think or Act? There is always this debate and so got the author of You get paid to think to debate this topic with us in this episode.

What do you remember - not the long messages and numbers - we only remember stories. Stories are a way to build brands. Paul Singh talks with Rajesh Setty; who has written 16 books and has been teaching this skill to entrepreneurs for the last 10 years.

Listen to our guest Alexandra Sasha Johnson, who is an entrepreneur, investor and thought leader in entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe and Russia in discussions with our co-host Paul Singh about the issues of entrepreneurship in general and the specific challenges faced by founders of tech companies from Eastern Europe and Russia.