Pathfinder – Growth Stories for Personal Success

Our guest for today’s episode is Anvesha Poswalia, winner of Economic Times Young Leader 2018, a highly-motivated, dynamic Marketing professional with an experience in building digital marketing strategies for organizations of various sizes, and driving ROI to increase sales & brand presence. Anvesha is currently working as Digital Marketing Lead for L’Oreal and previously she has worked with Asian Paints, Google and Travelyaari in the Digital Marketing space. She has been Featured in the “Top 50 Digital Marketing Leaders in India” by World Marketing Congress and CMO Asia and Placed in Top 40 Under 40 Digital Marketing Leaders by Social Samosa. She has been a frequent speaker in many Marketing Summits and MBA colleges across India. Anvesha has completed her MBA in Marketing from NMIMS. In the part 2 of the conversation Anvesha shares her experience of winning the ET Young Leader Award and tips for Award aspirants and working mothers. Some of her favorite books are, Lean In: Women, Work & the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg Start with Why by Simon Sinek --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Anvesha Poswalia, winner of Economic Times Young Leader 2018, a highly-motivated, dynamic Marketing professional with an experience in building digital marketing strategies for organizations of various sizes, and driving ROI to increase sales & brand presence. Anvesha is currently working as Digital Marketing Lead for L’Oreal and previously she has worked with Asian Paints, Google and Travelyaari in the Digital Marketing space. She has been Featured in the “Top 50 Digital Marketing Leaders in India” by World Marketing Congress and CMO Asia and Placed in Top 40 Under 40 Digital Marketing Leaders by Social Samosa. She has been a frequent speaker in many Marketing Summits and MBA colleges across India. Anvesha has completed her MBA in Marketing from NMIMS. In the Part 1 conversation we will focus on knowing about Anvesha and her educational & professional journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

In the part 2 of the conversation with Chandru, he shares his passion on ESG issues, the team behind ECube and how they are evangelizing ESG issues. Chandru also shares the emergence of insider trading during this conversation and also shars his experiences from Personal finance that will be very useful for all. Our guest for today’s episode is Chandru Badrinarayanan who is Managing Partner at ECube, India’s pioneer investment advisory company dedicated to improving Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the corporate sector. Chandru was Country Head at MSCI where he build the India business for 6 years until early 2019. In his 13 years career at Crisil India, he has built and lead 3 high margin non-regulatory business related to Fixed Income Research, Risk Solutions and SME ratings for Institutions. Chandru has completed INSEAD Leadership Program in 2013 and is a CFA Financial Analysis. https://m.economictimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/former-head-of-msci-india-chandru-badrinarayanan-joins-ecube/articleshow/69221070.cms Chandru’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. You can reach out to Chandru at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandru-badrinarayanan-6b9b954/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

In the first part of this conversation with Chandru, he shares his journey from the early days and key learnings he acquired during his long corporate career. Chandru also shares a fun fact about him during this episode. Our guest for today’s episode is Chandru Badrinarayanan who is Managing Partner at ECube, India’s pioneer investment advisory company dedicated to improving Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the corporate sector. Chandru was Country Head at MSCI where he build the India business for 6 years until early 2019. In his 13 years career at Crisil India, he has built and lead 3 high margin non-regulatory business related to Fixed Income Research, Risk Solutions and SME ratings for Institutions. Chandru has completed INSEAD Leadership Program in 2013 and is a CFA Financial Analysis. Chandru’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. You can reach out to Chandru at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandru-badrinarayanan-6b9b954/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

In this part 2 of the conversation with Mani James, he shares his secrets of CXO Engagements and also Sales Leadership. He also shares some of his great learnings, books he reads and one impactful advice for our listeners. We also have Phil Howard sharing how Mani became one of his best hires at Frost & Sullivan. Our guest for today’s episode is Mani James who is Sr Vice President and Head of Global Sales at Frost & Sullivan, a top Management Consulting company. In his last two decades of career Mani has delivered growth strategies across multiple geographies, functions, industries and worked across the globe. Mani has helped Global CXOs to transform their businesses with growth strategies and he shares his learnings on strategy with his video series called Inside MJ’s Mind that he publishes regularly in LinkedIn. Mani is an alumni of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship and NIT Calicut. Mani’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. You can reach out to Mani James at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manijames/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Mani James who is Sr Vice President and Head of Global Sales at Frost & Sullivan, a top Management Consulting company. In his last two decades of career Mani has delivered growth strategies across multiple geographies, functions, industries and worked across the globe. Mani has helped Global CXOs to transform their businesses with growth strategies and he shares his learnings on strategy with his video series called Inside MJ’s Mind that he publishes regularly in LinkedIn. Mani is an alumni of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship and NIT Calicut. Mani’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. In this first part of the conversation with Mani, he shares his journey from being an Engineer to a Consultant with Frost & Sullivan. He shares some really exciting nuggets and learnings during this conversation. You can reach out to Mani James at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manijames/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

After the successful completion of Season 1 where we had 10 episodes of great conversations with achievers from entrepreneurs, sales, marketing & technical professionals sharing their journey and key learnings on the way. There are really some great insights and wisdom available from all the guests, I will highly encourage all of you to go ahead and revisit the episodes if you have missed any of them. We had great line of guests in the episode 1 with Sairam Vedam (CMO at Kore.ai), Amit Bharadwaj (Founder 6 Degree), Niladri Dutta (Global Telecom Consulting professional), Subhendu Pattnaik (Phd Scholar & Head of Marketing), Rajee Bhattacharya (Blockchain & Cybersecurity expert, Marathoner), Shwetank Tamer (Global Telecom Expert), Raghav Hunasgi (Serial Entrepreneur, TedX speaker), Dr Karthik Nagendra (Founder & Content Marketing Expert), Yaagneswaran Ganesh (Martech Influencer, Best selling Author) and Ravidra Saini (Ex Defence person & Head HR at L&T). There are great insights and learnings they have shared. Hold on, Season 2 is going to be bigger and better. I am also offering a quick conversation with our guests and if you want to avail the same, write a note or share a voice message to me at anil.m.consulting@gmail.com, or in my social channels Twitter @anilkm108, Instagram handle & facebook page @Pathfinder_anil In season 2, we are making minor changes to the format where I am breaking down the conversations to two parts – Part 1 focused on knowing the guest & his/her background and Part 2 focusing on one specific area or theme where the guest shares his/her experiences, learnings and guidance for the people, I hope this will add more value to listeners, I hope you are excited as well. So stay tuned to this podcast channel every Tuesday to listen each of the upcoming stories and if you haven’t yet please subscribe to this channel so that you don’t miss any episode. Also share this podcast with your loved ones, friends & colleagues as it will add value to them and inspire them as they are writing their pathway to success. Keep learning and keep growing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Ravinder Saini who started his career with the Indian Air Force and worked in Administration and Personnel domain before moving to the Corporates. He led the HRD function in Titagarh Wagons at their Plant in Hind Motors initially and later joined L&T as Regional HR Head in Delhi in 2008 and was responsible for leading HR teams for Northern Region. He moved in Corporate role subsequently and has provided leadership to multiple teams in areas of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation & Benefits, OD Intervention, Performance Management globally. Ravinder has completed Executive Program in Human Resources from IIM Calcutta and HR Leadership Development Program from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He holds his Masters in IR & PM from Nagpur University. He is also a Certified Coach for Life (ACSTH) from International Coaching Federation (ICF).Ravi has won Best HR Executive by L&T Infrastructure and is a recipient of L&T Annual HR Awards. Ravinder’s story will be very helpful for many who aim to grow to a leadership position and pursue their passion and the key is to be continuously learning, better planning and going the extra mile to achieve success. You can reach out to Ravinder at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravinderksaini/ Some of the books that inspired Ravinder, Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Yaagneshwaran Ganesh (often called as "Yaag"), he is among the top 100 global martech influencers, and is responsible for marketing, growth and product adoption at Pramati Technologies. He is also a TEDx speaker, a member of Forbes Council and author of 6 books, with the latest one titled “The Growth Hacking Book”. He has been a speaker across business forums such as CII Young Indians, Chamber of Commerce Netherlands, Kerala Startup Mission (Initiative by Govt of Kerala), and academic institutions such as IITs, Saxion University of Applied Sciences and more. Yaag's recent books include: “The Growth Hacking Book” - released July 2019. "Syncfluence" - released August 2017. "Is your marketing in sync or sinking?" - released January 2016. He is an active member of the startup ecosystem and is part of the Google for Entrepreneurs initiative "Startup Weekend", thus being a sounding board for startups in APAC and Europe. Yaag also writes columns for HuffingtonPost, Forbes, Martech Series, Martech Advisor, dtNEXT, Techstory, ManagementNext and has been a regular blogger on RonSela.com, the thought leader on marketing practices. Listen to his TedX talk on Marketing Personalization at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZ_3kreyzE You can connect with Yaag at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaagneshwarang/ Links to books The Growth Hacking Book https://www.amazon.in/Growth-Hacking-Book-Guarded-Marketing-ebook/dp/B07V5936YT Syncfluence https://www.amazon.in/Syncfluence-Influence-Audience-Without-Burning/dp/1947586866 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest, Dr Karthik Nagendra has been instrumental in creating many award winning content marketing programs for leading brands like MeritTrac-India’s largest Skills Assessment Company, Wipro Technologies and Accenture in his earlier stints. He has worked closely with leading universities, industry bodies, analysts and research firms globally and acted as a catalyst in providing best practices and insights to customers across sectors. He has also authored papers & articles on marketing, strategy in international journals & has been a guest speaker at many Ivy League Universities globally. Apart from being published, he has also been featured among the Top 30 marketing Consultants in India by CEO Magazine & has been awarded as Top Content Marketing Professional in JAPAC by CMS Asia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University, an MBA in Marketing & Finance from IMI Belgium and Doctorate of Excellence in Marketing Management from UET, America. Karthik’s story is quite inspiring with great learnings and depicts the possibilities of creating success. Hold on till the end as Karthik talks about his upcoming Content Marketing Masterclass in Bangalore on 25 September 2019, that is selling fast and there is special surprise offer for my listeners, that I will reveal in the end.   You can reach out to Karthik at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-karthik-nagendra-ba874b7/ Karthik's hack to build your Personal Brand. A - Win Awards B - Publish a Book C - Work with Colleges to create curriculum in your expertise area D - Work to get a Doctorate Content Marketing Masterclass - 25 Sept 2019, 9AM to 4PM, Bangalore Book your seat at the masterclass at an exclusive discounted price by registering using this link - https://tinyurl.com/yy7sro86 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Raghav Hunasgi, A Harvard Business School alumni, social media influencer, author, marketing Leader and successful serial entrepreneur. Expert in branding, marketing, product launch and digital transformation. Raghav founded and ran H&B Consulting to fulfill a vision to transform enterprises through digital marketing and sales enablement. After successfully selling it to a valley based VC for $1.2M, he has co-founded ThoughtFolks Group. He is also active in the non-profit and political worlds as well with organizations like UN, CRY, and iCanvas.org. His TedX talk at CMRTC on Life Lessons from his education, engineering and entrepreneurship is very popular and inspring, it is available in Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwPfv9qdk4 Raghav has worked with HP, Google, Infosys, Cigniti across Product Marketing and Branding roles. He has been Board Member and Advisor in addition to running his successful businesses. Some of the accolades he has received on the way are: · Economic Times Young Leader · Forbes top Social Media Influencer · Best Selling Author. He has authored – “Brandopedia” on branding strategies available on Amazon and “Dusk to Dawn” on personal finance. · Digital Transformation (mover and shaker) · Winner of multiple national and international awards for Marketing and Branding Campaigns · Regular keynote speaker at various global events This story is of determination, hard work, passion and making some difficult choices on the way to achieve one’s dreams. You can reach out to Raghav https://www.linkedin.com/in/hraghavendra/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Shwetank Tamer, a seasoned Telecom professional with rich experience in Sales, Presales, Project Management, Delivery, Operations and Product Monetization. Shwetank with his 15 years experience working with OnMobile Global across Europe, North & South America region, has managed multi-cultural teams spread across various geographies. Onmobile is a world leader in digital content products and services, with a reach of 1.5Billion people, present in 75 countries and 115 customer. To just share the scale of this, they manage similar paid users as Spotify. He is an expert in the areas of digital transformation in telecom operators, data Monetization, new digital product, marketing strategy and most important skill he has is solution sales with customer centric approach. He has a MBA in Marketing from SITM Pune. Shwetank has received the Outstanding Contributor in Europe and Icon Award at OnMobile. He was also responsible for doing many 1st for Onmobile that is launch of first customer in Europe, first solution sales service to expand Onmobile's traditional product set, first D2C product launch in North America etc etc. He has been representing OnMobile at Mobile World Congress, the biggest & largest Telecom event in the world. He has lived in many countries where his work has taken him and is now based in UK. Recently he was invited to shared his views on a live TV panel discussion at India Ahead News on the topic of “5G launch in India and the commercial & innovation opportunities that it brings. I will include the link to this discussion in the description where You can watch the full coverage at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=84&v=7GcKjqj0q0c Shwetank’s story will be very helpful for many who aim to grow their career to a leadership position and the key is to be continuously learning, customer focus and passion towards work to achieve success.  You can reach out to Shwetank at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shwetanktamer/  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today’s episode is Rajeshwari Bhattacharya (Rajee), INSEAD alumnus, Cybersecurity and Blockchain expert who is a successful Marathon runner. In her two & half decade experience, Rajee has kept herself on top of technology advancements and being relevant in the Financial Services & Media sectors. She has started her career as a Securities analyst and raised her career to become the Sr VP & Head of BPE & IT at Radio Mirchi.  Currently, set out on a partnership to provide Blockchain Consulting and Technology Services. She is also on the Advisory Board of Percipere, a UK based SAP implementation partner and offers Cyber Security Advisory to Corporates She has been Guest Speaker at various forums on Blockchain and Cybersecurity and enjoys learning as much as enjoys sharing knowledge! Rajee’s story will be very helpful for many who aim to grow their career to a leadership position and pursue their passion and the key is to be continuously learning, better planning and going the extra mile to achieve success.   You can reach out to Rajeshwari at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshwari-bhattacharyya-23a1345/  Rajeshwari sharing on her InseadLPSIE Program experience at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ee5QYkO5D0 Rajeshwari is supporting Oscar Foundation, know more at  https://oscar-foundation.org/  Some of the Books mentioned by Rajee are, Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak  The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Our guest for today's episode is Subhendu Pattnaik, Head of Marketing at Cigniti, world's largest independent software testing services company. He is an experienced marketing leader with 16+ years of rich experience in 360 degree Marketing. He has worked with Infosys, Tata BSS, Mindfire and Gallop Solutions previously. He started his career as a techie and has transitioned his career to being a successful Marketing professional, a Phd Fellow Scholar in Viral Marketing at IIM Indore. He is a Gold medallist in MBA Marketing from SP Jain and a BTech from NIT Rourkela. Subhendu has won Top 50 Brand Leaders Asia Award from CMO Asia in Singapore, Top 100 Digital Marketers Award from Jessie Paul's PaulWriter, Top 100 Most Influential Global Marketing Leaders by World Marketing Congress for last 4 years. Subhendu has created large and strong vibrant community of 2500+ Content Writers and Digital Marketing. He also runs a very successful Meetup of 2300+ talented marketing professionals in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Bhubneshwar. Subhendu is also listed as "Pride of Odisha" by Invest Odisha, Odisha Government's Investment Sourcing and Marketing arm. Subhendu's story is of hard work, grit and determination to keep learning and making an impact to his organization, creating communities, doing his Phd  Research and sharing his knowledge at multiple industry forums. You can connect with Subhendu at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/subhendupattnaik/  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Niladri Dutta works in a leadership position with a global telecom giant in their consulting division. He has created his career after his MBA from Symbiosis like any normal management graduate would do and then working across geographies in various senior profiles across Asia-Pac, Europe and currently in Middle East & Africa. Niladri is a consulting professional in the TMT (Telecom , Media and Tech) sector since the past one and half decade and has worked with major Tier 1 telecom customers across geographies. He specializes in C-level engagement management where he has successfully sold and delivered multiple transformation projects across TMT, and established “Consulting and advisory” as service offerings and practices. His expertise spans around Digital Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management Consulting, Digital transformation, Technology strategy, Operational transformation, RPA & Analytics and IT Service Management. He is an ardent speaker at various regional industry forums as a speaker or panelist. He actively participates as an industry guest speaker in various technology & management institutions and loves mentoring young minds and professionals.  Niladri has a Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business from EMERITUS Institute of mgmt. (Conducted by Columbia & MIT Sloan school of mgmt.), followed by an MBA in Marketing & Finance from SITM Pune. He graduated from the University of Nagpur in Electronics Engineering (B.E.) In this episode he talks about his professional journey, role of mentors in shaping your career, role of family & work-life balance, continuous learning & why it is important in today's fast changing times and finally some valuable advice for building your career for the coming decade. Niladri can be reached at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/niladri-shekhar-dutta-3691715/  Some of the impactful books mentioned by Niladri are, The Digital Transformation Playbook by Prof David Rogers Platform Revolution by Geoffrey Parker Books by Amish Tripathi Kashmir as I see it by Ashok Dhar --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Most of us are really fascinated by the world of fashion, glamour and only very few of us get to explore that world. Today we have a very special guest who hangs with fashion designers, organizes fashion weeks in India & international locations, we will hear more on these experiences from our guest today. Our guest for today’s episode is Amit Bharadwaj who is Co-Founder of successfully funded & profitable startup 6 Degree, a fashion tech & talent company that provides opportunities for fashion professionals to showcase their talent across the globe. This year in Apr 2019 Amit has also launched ClosetStore, an online fashion store for women & men that offers designer wear and fashion week collections for multiple occasions. He is an expert in technology products in the areas of social networking platforms, mobility & payments. He is a Certified Green Belt professional from Motorola University. He completed his MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis International University Pune. Before co-founding 6 Degree in 2014, Amit has worked for 6 yrs with Tata Teleservices and Wave Crest Payment Technology. Today’s episode will be very useful for all of us, as Amit is like us, a normal middle class employee without any business background and he has launched a very successful startup in the fashion industry. This story is of grit, perseverance, hard work, passion and being ready, when the opportunity knocks the door.  You can reach out to Amit at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitbhj/  Read about 6 Degree at,   https://yourstory.com/2016/06/6degree https://www.vccircle.com/fashion-startup-6degree-gets-fresh-funding-from-ian-the-angel-network/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

 Our guest for today’s episode is Sairam Vedam, CMO at Kore.ai, award winning Conversational AI platform. He has worked with Software industry's thought leaders, CEOs and CTOs of enterprise billion$ companies, silicon valley based first generation entrepreneurs with multi exit track record, building billion$ businesses. He is also an External advisor with Bain&Co the leading management and technology consulting firm of global repute. He advises and works in the technology practice at Bain and Co.  He has played diverse roles across Engineering, Product marketing & Product management, HR and business management  while working with leading organizations like Pramati, Apere (Acquired by Citrix), Office of the CTO at CA, HCL-Cisco. At Cigniti, he lead Global Marketing encompassing the 360 degree Marketing function positioning Cigniti to become the World's second largest Pure play software testing and IP led quality engineering services company. He has been Awarded by BBC Knowledge and CMO Asia as the greatest marketing influencer of 2017. He has received prestigious award from Enterprise IT Magazine as one of the 100 best marketing minds of India in 2018. Also, he has won the Most Influential Marketing Technology Leader award from the World Marketing Congress twice in a row for the years 2016 and 2015. He has completed Masters in Computer Technology| Executive program in Management from IIM-K and Graduated in a leadership program administered by CA technologies for young leaders. He has Mentored a startup which had a successful exit in the FinTech space. Sairam is a frequent speaker at multiple global events across technology, marketing, branding. His LinkedIn articles have been very popular and he has been frequently published on multiple technology & marketing magazines. Sairam’s story will be inspirational for most of the employees who have a vision to achieve C level position and the key is to amalgamate technical expertise with product management, business knowledge and passion for being relevant to the market by being on top of the technological advances and building high performance teams.   You can connect with Sairam at,   https://www.linkedin.com/in/saivram/ Twitter @saivram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message

Introduction to the podcast Pathfinder - Growth Stories for Personal Success --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anil-mishra/message