The Change Alchemist

David Allen is an author, consultant, and Founder of the David Allen Company. He is widely recognized as the world's leading authority on GTD(Getting Things Done) a system of personal and organizational productivity. His thirty years of pioneering research, coaching and education of some of the world's highest-performing professionals, corporations and institutions, has earned him Forbes' recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the United States, and as one of the "Top 100 thought leaders" by Leadership magazine. Fast Company hailed David Allen "One of the world's most influential thinkers" in the arena of personal productivity, for his outstanding programs and writing on time and stress management, and his groundbreaking methodologies in management and executive peak performance. Time Magazine labeled his first book, Getting Things Done as "the defining self-help business book of the decade." David Allen is the author of three books; the international bestseller, Getting Things Done: the Art of Stress-Free Productivity ("GTD" as the method is popularly known), Ready for Anything, and Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life. Getting Things Done has been a perennial business bestseller since it's publication in 2001, and is now published in 28 languages. Getting Things Done has spawned an international movement of devoted adopters from executives, techies, soldiers, entrepreneurs, university professors, musicians, students and the clergy. It has given rise to a thriving "GTD" industry of web sites, blogs and software applications. Internet searches bring up tens of millions of references. In this episode, he talks candidly about his own journey, and how anyone can become productive. Links: Website: https://gettingthingsdone.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidallengtd/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHxhjDPKfbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETZJSXK7zs&t=2s --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Dr. Zoe Chance is a writer, teacher, researcher, and climate philanthropist obsessed with the topic of interpersonal influence. Powerful concepts that you will learn in this podcast: - The Magic Question - Gator and Judge Thinking - The Power of No Dr. Zoe Chance earned her doctorate in behavioral science from Harvard and now teaches “Mastering Influence and Persuasion,” the most popular course at Yale School of Management. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered in global media. Zoe speaks internationally for Fortune 500 firms and leading NGOs, and gave a popular TEDx talk, How to Make a Behavior Addictive. Her framework for behavior change is the foundation for Google's global food policy that helps over 100,000 people make healthier choices every day. Before focusing on academic pursuits, she also managed a $200 million segment of the Barbie brand for Mattel. Here's why what she has to say should matter to you: Zoe teaches smart, kind people to raise money for charity, get elected to political office, fund startups, start movements, save lives, find love, negotiate great deals and job offers, and even get along better with their kids. In other words, she helps people to use their superpower of influence as a force for good. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. As one of the world's top experts on innovation and growth, Rita's work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Rita is the author of the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Her most recent book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin In this episode Rita McGrath talks about the importance of inflection points in business and why they are even more relevant in today's world. What you will take away from this podcast: As a leader: How to spot weak signals and leverage them for competitive advantage Tools to help you navigate the future of work in an increasingly complex and competitive world Frameworks to adapt your leadership style Lessons from other leaders As an individual contributor: How to use inflection points to guide your own career How to look for early markets and use cases where weak signals are getting stronger How to influence your company leadership around weak signals My favorite quote from the podcast is from Steve Blank - "The answers are never in the building" Leaders mentioned in this podcast: Andy Grove Jeff Bezos Satya Nadella Books Referenced: Only The Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove The End of Competitive Advantage: Rita McGrath Seeing Around Corners: How to spot inflection points in business before they happen Rita's Book Recommendations: Smart Growth - Whitney Johnson Arriving Today - Christopher Mims Winning The Right Game - Ron Adner Links: ritamcgrath.com (Personal Website) ritamcgrath.com/blog (Blog) www4.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/494874/Rita%20McGrath (Company Website) Company: www.valize.com Learning Hub: https://learninghub.valize.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ritamcgrath Check out her weekly Thoughtsparks Twitter: @rgmcgrath --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Today's guest is April Dunford, positioning expert and the author of the book Obviously Awesome. April Dunford is an executive consultant, speaker, and author who helps companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning, having launched 16 products across her 25-year career as VP Marketing at a series of successful startups. Positioning as a concept has been around since 1969 when it was first introduced by Jack Trout and Al Ries. The idea became mainstream marketing knowledge after Ries and Trout published“Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind” in the early 80's and marketers have been taught this style of positioning ever since. Ries and Trout argued that Positioning was the solution to standing out in a noisy marketplace filled with too many products and too many marketing messages trying to promote them. Positioning is the act of giving those customers a map of the current landscape and then instructing them where they fit and why one solution is better than the others around them. April points out that positioning has a positioning problem today and provides a 10 step positioning playbook for companies and marketers to adopt. Developing a positioning statement is often done as a fill-in-the-blank “Mad Libs” exercise based on a template. In this podcast April tells us what good positioning should look like with examples. She wants us to be cognizant that the early adopting customers may not be your eventual mainstream ones (as Geoffrey Moore has written about in his iconic book Crossing the Chasm). The history of Twitter, is an example of how a venture whose founders thought it would do one thing ended up doing something entirely different once they were exposed to the market. Website: aprildunford.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprildunford/ Twitter: @aprildunford --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Andrew J Taggart is a practical philosopher who works with executives and entrepreneurs. He challenges them to look at life with a "first principles" approach. In this podcast, we discuss the benefits of meditation in leading a "more examined life", and not merely to increase work productivity. We also talk about how philosophy can be the scaffolding to ask "questions that matter". Andrew gives listeners 3 practical quick meditations to get started on to Be a better leader Be more empathetic Reclaim a sense of control Andrew's superpower is the "art of the question" and engaging in dialogic conversation to figure out how to dislodge the "pebble in the shoe". Books Referenced: Sources of the Self :Charles Taylor Secular Age: Charles Taylor The Three Pillars of Zen: Phillip Kapleau Philosophy As a Way of Life: Pierre Hadot Concepts We Talked About: Rinzai Zen Buddhism Vipassana Learn More about Andrew" Andrew's website: https://andrewjtaggart.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-taggart-17157a12/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewjtaggart --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Sylvia is an inquirer of our future, conducting foresight research on the future of work and life-long learning, the future of health, well-aging, and social interaction, as well as transformations in mobility and retail. She closely monitors the future of the mind and transhumanism. Sylvia also investigates Artificial General Intelligence and AI ethics. She has launched an "Ethics and Philosophy of Futures" think tank within the Association of Professional Futurists. She is involved in the future of our oceans and supports positive ocean tech startups as a mentor with the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. This past year, she focused her research on mental health in the workplace and remote work environments, and on the home of the 2020s, developing a resilient housing framework. Sylvia has been advising 500+ tech companies on strategy, business development, and funding for the past 15 years - as an IT consultant at Accenture, Head of Technology at Business France North America, General Manager at French Tech Hub, and Cofounder at big bang factory. She teaches go-to-market strategy and futures studies and is a published author of speculative fiction with Fast Future Publishing. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvialeroux/ Website: https://siliconhumanism.home.blog/ Here's a link to Sylvia's mental fitness exercises to stretch your time horizon: https://siliconhumanism.home.blog/2021/12/04/futures-thinking-12-mental-fitness-exercises-to-stretch-your-time-horizon/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Steph Smith is a creator, marketer and remote work thought leader. Six years ago, she left consulting and a 2+ hour commute to redesign her life as an indie-maker and creator. Most recently, she works for the Hustle acquired by Hubspot (you may know them for running one of the largest newsletters in the world), leading Trends which does millions in ARR and has 15000+ paying subscribers. In addition to her full-time job, she writes and blogs prolifically about continuous improvement, productivity, women in tech, and learning to code. Her book Doing Content Right has sold over $130K and 3300 copies. Her latest project is a podcast about the sh*t you don't learn in school. It got thousands of listens in its first month and teaches you all you need to learn outside an academic institution. She even started coding and has since had multiple projects go to #1 on Product Hunt and was even nominated for Maker of the Year. Links: This blog post is my favorite, and it has been read by 80K people: https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/ Website: https://stephsmith.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaniesmith93/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Bill Davidow has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture investor for more than 30 years. In 1985, he founded Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm and continued as an active advisor after stepping down as a general partner. Davidow is the author of Marketing High Technology and a co-author of Total Customer Service and The Virtual Corporation. While at Intel, Bill served as senior vice president of marketing and sales, vice president of thmicrocomputer division and vice president of the microcomputer systems division. Prior to Intel Corp.,Bill worked in various managerial positions at Hewlett Packard and General Electric. Bill's community involvement extends to serving on the boards of California Institute of Technology and Stanford Institutefor Economic Policy Research. He also sits on the Foundation Board of the University of California, San Francisco, and on the Board of the California Nature Conservancy.Bill earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, a master's degree inelectrical engineering from both Dartmouth College and the California Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University. In this episode, Bill talks about: - His latest book "The Autonomous Revolution" - Maladaptation to Virtual spaces - His advice on venture funding - Role of exponential technology in our lives Bill Davidow's latest book is "The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future we've sold to Machines", which he has co-authored with Michael S. Malone. We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remain--schools, banks, churches, and corporations--but they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools. Many of the book's recommendations--such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information "safety deposit boxes"--are bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us. Links: www.davidow.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-davidow/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Nithya A. Ruff is the Head of Comcast's Open Source Program Office. She is responsible for growing Open Source culture inside of Comcast and engagement with external communities. Nithya has been director-at-large on the Linux Foundation Board for the last 3 years and was recently elected to be Chair of the Linux Foundation Board. She looks forward to advancing the mission of the Linux Foundation around building sustainable ecosystems built on open collaboration. She has been a passionate advocate and a speaker for opening doors to new people in Open Source for many years. Nithya graduated with an MS in Computer Science from NDSU and an MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School. You can follow her on twitter @nithyaruff and you can find her on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nithyaruff/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Todd Kashdan - Personality/Clinical Psychologist, Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker. His latest book is The Art of Insubordination: How To Dissent & Defy Effectively. Preorder at: toddkashdan.com. Kashdan is Professor of Psychology at George Mason University. He is a leading authority on well-being, curiosity, psychological flexibility, and resilience. He has published over 210 peer-reviewed articles and his work has been cited over 34,000 times. He is the author of several books including Curious? Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life (William Morrow), and The Upside of Your Dark Side (Penguin). His latest book is The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively (Avery/Penguin). His research is featured regularly in media outlets such as The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, NPR, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. He is a keynote speaker and consultant for organizations as diverse as Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Prudential, General Mills, The United States Department of Defense, and World Bank Group. He received the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology. He's a twin with twin 14-year old daughters (and one more), with plans to rapidly populate the world with great conversationalists. Todd is the author of five books, including Curious?, The Upside of Your Darkside, and Designing Positive Psychology. In his latest book, The Art of Insubordination, Todd synthesizes decades of psychological research to show how we can improve the health of organizations and our society. He teaches us how to be courageous enough to question the status quo and instills in us the intelligence to know when and how. After receiving a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (2004), Todd founded the Well-Being Lab at George Mason University which has produced over 210 peer-reviewed journal articles on well-being and resilience, psychological flexibility, meaning and purpose in life, curiosity, and managing social anxiety. Todd works out relentlessly for the freedom to consume copious amounts of steak, whiskey, and Italian rainbow square cookies. Links: Website: https://toddkashdan.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddkashdan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/toddkashdan --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Rebecca Seal is the Author of SOLO: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind). Writer and TV presenter. Host of The Solo Collective podcast. She writes about the things which make us human: food, family, work, home. In the process of writing "Solo", she interviewed organizational psychologists, academics, and behavioral scientists, read hundreds of journal articles and talked with many solo workers, from professional violinists to TED talkers to designers to explorers, to find out how their work does and doesn't work for them, and what they've done about it. She also hosts the Solo Collective podcast, which is the #1 career podcast in UK. In this podcast episode, she provides practical advice on thriving as a soloist, whether you are a solopreneur, remote worker or someone considering solo work. Website: https://www.howtoworkalone.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccaseal/ Twitter: @RebeccaSeal Instagram: @bexseal Podcast: The Solo Collective --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Monica Ortiz is a Mindfulness, Communication, and Leadership Coach Themes covered in this podcast: -Mindfulness, and why it is increasingly important -Ebb and flow in communication -Communicating in an increasingly virtual world She helps executives build high-performing teams by establishing a new Communication Blueprint through Mindful Leadership | Speaker @ TEDx, Google, Stanford University | Published Author. Website: https://www.exceptionallifeinstitute.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-ortiz/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Eddie Yoon is a growth strategist who has helped drive $8B+ in profitable growth for brands, companies and categories. He has done significant research, writing and speaking on the topic of Category Growth and Category Creation. He is also the Co-creator of Category Pirates, the newsletter authority on category design/category creation. In this episode he covers a broad range of topics including category design, solopreneurship and personal IPOs. He talks about: -->How to create a category -->Who are super consumers and how are they different from regular consumers --> How should one go about identifying their superconsumers? --> Why solopreneurship is more important than ever --> How to define career success and achieve a personal IPO, and more... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddie-yoon-ewg/ Website: https://eddiewouldgrow.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EddieWouldGrow Category Pirates Newsletter: https://twitter.com/categorypirates Superconsumers: https://tinyurl.com/5e5jwj2f --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Nancy Hauge, CHRO at Automation Anywhere, one of the fastest growing companies in the world, oversees all "people" functions worldwide, including talent acquisition, communication, total rewards, learning and development, and employee engagement. She brings more than 30 years of experience in senior leadership and management consulting roles. Prior to joining Automation Anywhere, she was the chief people officer at HotChalk where she was responsible for all people functions, legal and facilities. Before that, Nancy served as the VP of global human resources and facilities at Silicon Image through its acquisition in 2015, and as SVP of human resources for K12 Inc. through their 2007 IPO. She sees herself as Chief People Officer because she believes in putting people first even in the midst of disruption. Nancy has won the Stevie Award for women in hi-tech and is considered one of the most influential women in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhauge/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Azeem Azhar is an award-winning entrepreneur, analyst, strategist, investor. He produces Exponential View, the leading newsletter and podcast on the impact of technology on our future economy and society. In addition, Azeem hosts the Exponential View podcast, distributed by Harvard Business Review. In this episode, we talk about Azeem's new book "The Exponential Age". In this new book ‘The Exponential Age: How the Next Digital Revolution Will Rewire Life on Earth', to be released in September, he talks about a wholly new way to think about technology, which will transform your understanding of the economy, politics, and the future. Many of us are familiar with the declining cost curves in computing, so well popularized by Moore's Law. A single dollar spent today would buy 10,000,000,000 times more computing than a similar dollar spent fifty years ago. In The Exponential Age, Azeem argues that this incredibly creative and world-changing experience of the computer industry is merely a harbinger for similar trends in other industries. Links: Book: http://hyperurl.co/exponential Newsletter: https://www.exponentialview.co/ LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/azhar/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/azeem Exponential View Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/8mye2d4a --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

In Season 2 I interview authors, thought leaders and practitioners and provide actionable insights on how you can navigate your careers in the changing future of work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

In this episode, Shobhana sits down with Daniel Burrus, Technology Futurist, Disruptive Innovation Expert, Keynote Speaker, and Best Selling Author, to discuss how trends can help you predict the future and become a positive disruptor. Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World's Leading Futurist Speakers on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus. Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology-driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. He is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage , is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business. Links: Website: www.burrus.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielburrus/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielBurrus --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Frank Cottle is a serial entrepreneur and an expert on the future of work. Frank has been building flexible workspace companies under the Alliance brand since 1992, establishing himself as a timeless futurist who is more digitally connected than Gen Z and has a better beard than most Millennials. Frank Cottle is CEO of Alliance Virtual Offices and chairman of the Alliance Business Centers Network. He is a recognized expert on flexible working, the virtual office movement, and third-place working. Prior to creating the Alliance brand, Frank successfully operated his own portfolio of business centers in multiple locations across North America. He spent almost the past 30 years delivering business services that are finely tuned to the workplace needs of startups, entrepreneurs, and growing small and midsize businesses. Over the years, he has worked with tens of thousands of business owners and, coupled with his unique global perspective, has become the go-to authority on flexible and remote work. Connecting With Frank Cottle: Website: www.alliancevirtualoffices.com Facebook: facebook.com/alliancevirtual Twitter: twitter.com/alliancevirtual LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/frankcottle --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Robin is the CEO and Founder of Live in Their World, a company built to help improve workplace culture utilizing a modern virtual reality method, this fully immerses an individual in workplace scenarios teaching diversity, equity, and inclusion. This allows for open and honest conversation which results in mutual understanding and respect among team members. With an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology, Robin is a passionate author of both college-level psychology textbooks, and books for a general audience about the psychological underpinnings of fictional characters and superheroes. Robin is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California and has presented psychology classes at both Harvard University and Lesley University. Topics covered in this podcast: - Using VR in the workplace - What we can learn from superheroes like Batman and the X-Men and apply to everyday work - How to give and receive feedback - How Covid has impacted DEI - Civility in the workplace - why is it important and how to achieve it Some useful links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LiveNTheirWorld LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-s-rosenberg-b6942329/ Robin's Website: http://www.drrobinrosenberg.com/ Live In Their World: https://www.liveintheirworld.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Reenita Das is an evangelist and thought leader with over 25 years of healthcare marketing and consulting experience, working toward using technology to change healthcare and improve connectivity and engagement.She is currently working as Transformational Health Partner and Senior Vice President, she is the first woman Partner at Frost & Sullivan. Topics Covered in this episode: - Future of healthcare - Why femtech is important - The positive impact of Covid on healthcare Reenita is also the founder of GLOW (Growth and Innovation of Women), a non profit organization that helps to balance gender equity in the work place specially at senior level positions. She is also a Board member of High Tech High Heels, Silicon Valley, a Non profit organization that is focused on helping women excel in STEM. She is also a Board member and Advisor to a Visual Technology firm called Visual Lab, that focuses on bringing disruption in a experiential economy. She has lived and worked in over 7 countries in the world and speak at international conferences. She is a current contributor to Forbes covering healthcare transformation and emerging markets. http://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenitadas/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReenitaDas --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Eric Ressler is the Founder and Creative Director at Cosmic, a Social Impact creative agency. Eric got his start in design early, and and cut his teeth running a freelance business in the digital design space. After organically building a strong roster of clients, he discovered a passion for the social impact and philanthropic space. Through working with numerous organizations across this sector, he found that often their missions and visions are strong, but their efforts are stymied by ineffective communications philosophies and practices. Now, Eric and Cosmic are on a mission to help social impact organizations across the globe navigate a rapidly changing world. Cosmic helps future-thinking social impact organizations rethink their model and approach to accelerate their impact through brand-building and messaging. In this podcast, Eric talks about driving change in the social impact category by encouraging clients to think of themselves as a brand first and adopting a digital-first strategy. Website: https://designbycosmic.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cosmiceric/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto.   Madeline Ashby has worked with Intel Labs, the World Health Organization, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, Changeist, and others. She has spoken at SXSW, FutureEverything, MozFest, and other events. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, The Atlantic, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow. Her fiction has appeared in Slate, MIT Technology Review, Clarkesworld, and multiple anthologies. She is a member of the XPRIZE Science Fiction Advisory Council and the AI Policy Futures Group at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. She is the author of the Machine Dynasty novels. Her novel Company Town was a Canada Reads finalist. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Anthony Hayes has spent more than 18 years in communications, crisis and issue management and political and legislative campaigns. He founded The Hayes Initiative, a boutique, certified LGBTQ-owned and operated public affairs and strategic communications firm in NYC, to apply his experience steering organizations' public affairs and media relations to clients across business, politics, nonprofits, and philanthropy. Prior to founding The Hayes Initiative, Anthony served on Hillary For America's national advance team where he specialized in crisis management and oversaw media logistics and regularly briefed Secretary Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Senators Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and their senior staff. Topics covered in this podcast include: - The future of PR - Crisis communications - The evolving role of internal communications LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyjhayesnyc/ Twitter: @AnthonyJHayes Website: https://hayesinitiative.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Raja Rajamannar is a transformative business leader with substantial senior management experience across different geographies around the world. Managed large-scale businesses at Fortune 500 companies across financial services, consumer-packaged goods and healthcare, including at Unilever, Citigroup, Anthem, and Mastercard. Wide-ranging success in navigating highly regulated environments, leading transformational strategies – both growth and turnaround - and driving shareholder value. In addition to managing diverse businesses, has also significant experience managing functions including Marketing & Communications, Innovation, Sales & Business Development, Corporate Development (M&A), Data Analytics and Digital. He currently serves as the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Mastercard and the President of its Healthcare division. Is a member of the Management Committee of the enterprise. Also is responsible for exploring and developing business opportunities in new verticals such as health care. He is globally recognized for his innovative thinking, leadership in business transformation that he has brought to executive roles across industries, and leadership in Mastercard's marketing and brand transformation. Award-winning throughout his career, most recent ones being: WFA Global Marketer of the Year (2018), Forbes 2018 Top 5 World's Most Influential CMOs, Campaign Power 100, Business Insider's 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World, , Billboards 2018 Top Branding Power Player and The CMO Club Hall of Fame. He serves on the board of PPL Corp (NYSE:PPL) and on non-profit boards including Bon Secours Mercy Health, New York City Ballet, Cintrifuse, ANA and World Federation Advertisers (WFA). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Rishad is an author, speaker and advisor whose key skill is getting people to see, think and feel differently about how to grow themselves, their teams and their company. He does this through distilling 40 years of global learning and wisdom and communicating in a way that is provocative, pragmatic and inspirational. Rishad works closely with leadership of companies to increase productivity by unleashing the potential of the talent. He does so within hours with no need for long winded engagements and costs. Rishad's is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data” published by Harper Collins. Additional writings can be found on the Re-Inventing blog. Rishad is noted for his keynotes which are customized to every audience since Rishad uses no presentation materials, notes or multi-media. He has spoken at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Twitter, major brands like Walmart, CVS, Procter and Gamble and H&R Block and Associations like US Olympics, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Association of National Advertisers and Outdoor Advertising Association. Rishad was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators". Rishad is a Senior Adviser to the Publicis Groupe, the world's third largest communication firm with 80,000 employees serving most recently as its Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist. Rishad has a BS in Mathematics from the University of Bombay and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rishadtobaccowala Twitter: @rishad --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Robin Daniels is a business and marketing leader focused on delivering epic results through innovative, fun, and highly differentiated go-to-market activities, while empowering people and teams to do the best work of their lives. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at Matterport, the leader in 3D spatial data and cameras. Throughout his career I've held executive leadership roles in high growth companies of all sizes, including WeWork, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Box, Veritas, and Vera. His areas of expertise include growth marketing, product marketing, communications and media, go-to-market strategies, innovation management, mergers & acquisitions, leadership, category-creation, brand building, public speaking, and sales transformation. Here's more about his life story and journey during the last two decades: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/roadmap-life-love-happiness-robin-daniels/ Robin is from Copenhagen, Denmark and an avid runner and movie nerd. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robingdaniels/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Dr. Julie M Albright is a digital sociologist with counseling degrees and a faculty member in the Depts. of Applied Psychology and the Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her book - Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives are Reshaping the American Dream - on the impact of digital technologies on society -published April 2019 by Prometheus Books, distributed by Penguin Random House - was chosen as a Top 30 Bloomberg Book of the Year. She sits on the Board of Infrastructure Masons, a professional organization for IT and datacenter professionals. She is a sought after keynote speaker and consultant for large corporations, including eHarmony and have keynoted conferences from IBM Global to SAP for Utilities, to conferences like Distributech, the American Society of Petroleum Engineers, Data Center Dynamics, IoT North America, and DataCloud World, EU. She has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNN, The Today Show, Nat Geo, The Wall Street Journal and many others. Catch her new column in Arianna Huffington's new online magazine Thrive Global. Her follow-on book, The Cloud Machine, co-authored by Mr. Dean Nelson, will give readers a peek behind the scenes of global digital infrastructure, its impacts, and implications, and where we're going as a connected world. She is the Salonnière for The Reset Salon, alongside Mr. Ed Maguire and Mr. Brian Hayashi, where they bring together folks for meaningful discussions to find our way through this Covid moment.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjuliealbright/ Twitter: @drjuliea Website: https://devicesbook.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Khemaridh(Khe) Hy worked on Wall Street for 15 years and thought he had fulfilled dreams he had held since childhood: Income. Status. A nice apartment. But deep inside, he felt comfortably numb and was afraid he'd spend the rest of his life going through the motions.

Ryan Gariepy is the CTO and founder of Clearpath Robotics (2009).  He is also on the board of the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF), the governing body for ROS, since its inception in 2012.  He's also been involved in numerous Canadian and international robotics advisory roles and led Clearpath to be the first robotics company to sign the pledge to not make killer robots. Clearpath is building robots to automate materials handling which is today a job function that can't hire fast enough.  But, over time, a huge number of jobs will become redundant and that will be very disruptive if we don't start thinking about that future soon.   LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/rgariepy/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Ziad Ahmed (@ziadahmed) is a 22-year-old student, entrepreneur, and speaker. He has spoken for international audiences everywhere from Moscow to Mexico to major Fortune 500 companies, has appeared on networks such as CNN to commentate on politics, has established himself as a voice on Generation Z, has been named a Top 15 Young Prodigy Changing the World by Business Insider, and has been featured by almost every major press outlet. He is passionate about marketing, social media, purpose, politics, technology, and social justice. He is proud to be learning and doing simultaneously, and he wouldn't have it any other way. He is the CEO/Co-Founder of JUV Consulting, a Generation Z consultancy that works with clients to help them reach young people. The company has worked with over 20 Fortune 500 companies, has been profiled by the New York Times, and has established full-time offices. As a result of JUV, Ziad was named to the 2019 Forbes #30Under30 when he was 19-years-old. Ziad is also a student at Yale University. Additionally, Ziad is the Founder of Redefy, which is a youth-run non-profit committed to furthering equality. He has also done significant work in the realms of advocacy, community service, creative expression, and beyond. He speaks often on the power of his generation, and he is constantly working towards fighting for a better tomorrow. You can learn more about him via www.ziadahmed.me or @ziadahmed across social media platforms. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Mythili Sankaran is the CEO and Co-founder of Neythri, a global  community of professional South Asian womxn and the Co-founder and  Managing Partner of The Neythri Futures Fund I, a venture fund for and by  South Asian women. Mythili has been a consulting CXO to early-stage startups, product  management specialist, dealmaker, entrepreneur and community builder.  She comes with extensive experience in both, the corporate and nonprofit  sectors. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector,  Mythili brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, product  management and business development expertise to teams she works  with. Previously, Mythili was the Senior Director & Head, Western Region  for the U.S. India Business Council where she led the Council's west coast  practice and membership. Prior to USIBC, Mythili was the CEO of  Koollage, a telecom/web startup. Early in her career, Mythili spent several  years as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Labs as well as AT&T  Bell Labs and in product management roles at Lucent Technologies.  Mythili recently founded Stratalens, an executive advisory firm to help early  stage startups and advises them on all aspects from product ideation and  investor pitch preparation to fundraising, marketing, business  development, startup operations and business implementation.  Additionally, Mythili is a member of several leading angel investment funds  focused on women entrepreneurs such Portfolia, Pipeline Angels and  Golden Seeds and is also a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum,  Silicon Valley. Mythili is also actively involved in several non-profits focused on girls  education and empowerment. She serves on the Regional Board of Room  to Read, a global nonprofit supporting girls' education and literacy, is a  mentor for the Duke Technology Scholars program, and Global Advisor to  How Women Lead. Mythili has a MS degree in Physics from Texas Tech  University and an Executive MBA certificate from the Wharton School at  the University of Pennsylvania. LinkedIn:  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Robin Purohit is the co-founder and CEO of Peritus.ai, the AI recommendation engine for support automation. He has been an entrepreneur throughout his career, building and marketing IT products at both high growth innovators and established industry leaders including Griddable (acquired by Salesforce), BMC and HP Software. In this podcast talks about his career journey, leadership lessons and about his company Pertius.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinpurohit/ Twitter: @RobinPurohit1 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Rahul Rana is the author of “Making Moonshots" - a deep-dive into the mindsets, philosophies, and strategies that are conducive to building moonshot companies. Rahul is currently a sophomore at Rutgers Business School and works at Lux Capital venture capital firm. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-rana-99b338169/ Twitter: @rrana03_ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Elias Rubel is the CEO of Matter Made, Marketing Advisor at Dropbox and Calm Matter Made's B2B clients range from post-IPO enterprises, to fast growing scale-ups backed by Sequoia Capital, True Ventures, NEA, Redpoint, and just about every other big name in the valley. Companies like Dropbox, Calm for Business, Loom, Productboard and many others rely on Matter Made to smash their yearly growth targets through best in class Go-To-Market programs. Their work ranges from championing high velocity digital campaigns, to driving Account Based Marketing programs, to diving deep into persona driven messaging & positioning, to launching Product Led Growth Initiatives, to full funnel conversion rate optimization. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elirubel/ Company Website: www.mattermade.co Past Life: - First SaaS business was acquired in late 2014. Took a motorcycle trip through all of Central America post acquisition. - Acquired an eCommerce company in 2016 with the goal of branching out of the traditional startup ecosystem to learn something new. Grew the 10 year old business's revenue by 498% in the first 12 months. Sold to PE in 2019. Two fun facts about Elias: - He owns a motorcycle shop in CA (my passion project in an attempt to connect hobbies with work). - He rowed for Team USA at the 2018 World Rowing Coastal Championships against 24 other nations and am currently ranked 15th in the world for Mi2x. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Chandar is a results-driven senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in strategic marketing and management consulting. In 2019, he was recognized as one the Ten Most Influential Marketing Leaders in 2019 - https://rb.gy/dmg4gx. In 2017, he wasrated by LinkedIn as one of the top 5 CMOs in the world to follow for thought-leadership in the digital marketing domain - goo.gl/C5hNNc He has well-rounded experience across the breadth of the software industry ranging from applications to infrastructure, license to subscription & traditional to Cloud computing, and digital marketing businesses. He is a proven Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with in-depth know-how and proven success in the main pillars of marketing: Go-to-market strategy, product marketing, demand generation, brand building, event marketing and corporate communications.. He has an extensive track record of recruiting & building dynamic teams of marketers including industry veterans & top business school graduates. He is a frequent Keynote speaker at the leading SaaS, marketing conferences & published author of many articles & white papers and has been quoted in more than 2000 press & analyst articles. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandarp/ Support The Change Alchemist Podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Samira Khan, Senior Manager, Global Impact Engagement at Saleforce.org, stops by to talk to us about her journey and the work that she and her teammates at Salesforce.org are doing to make an impact using technology. She is a social impact changemaker and intrapreneur passionate about empathy-driven, innovative approaches to advancing societal wellbeing and solving global challenges — through tech, cross-sector business model innovation, education / skills, and engagement. She has a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School Clubhouse: @samirakhan Twitter: @samiraakhan Recent publications: "Here's how business can be a platform for social change" - podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Yvonne Wassenaar is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture.  Yvonne currently serves on the board and audit committee for both Forrester [FORR] and Harvey Mudd College along with being an advisor to Snyk and a Sapphire Ventures Fellow. Previously Yvonne served as a board director for Airware (exit to Delair in 2018), MuleSoft [MULE] (exit to Salesforce in 2018), Bitium (exit to Google in 2017), and the Athena Alliance. Yvonne's corporate experience includes: Airware where she was CEO and proved the value of drone analytics; New Relic where she was a key player in taking the company public and later CIO; VMware where she held numerous senior leadership roles scaling and diversifying the company; and Accenture where for over 17 years she enabled clients around the globe to lead in their industries leveraging technology. Yvonne holds a BA in economics with a specialization in computing from UCLA and an MBA in strategy and operations from the university's Anderson School of Business. Her market impact earned her recognition as a Woman of Influence in Silicon Valley; theBoardlist Top 20, SF Business Times Public Company CIO Award Winner, and as a WSJ Woman of Note. Yvonne is an avid traveler and uses her experiences abroad to deepen her understanding of human interaction and experience. In this podcast, she talks about her unique career journey,  digital innovation in the new post-pandemic world, gender diversity in tech and more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonnewassenaar/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

In this episode Dr. Jayshree Seth, Corporate Scientist and Chief Science Advocate at 3M talks about the role of science in our lives and the inspiration behind her new book, "The Heart of Science", innovation and how everyone can innovate, and the importance of diversity in STEM. Resources: 3M State of Science Index: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/state-of-science-index-survey/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Sacha Thompson is a DEI professional with over 20 years in the non-profit and tech industries. Over this time, she has seen the challenges faced by executives with good intentions struggling to make decisions around diversity. Where executives are motivated to do the ‘right thing' when it comes to DEI but may be hindered by their own biases and fears. She has also seen the damage endured by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) mid-managers when they have felt they are not centered in their company's DEI efforts or where they have been/are in difficult situations due to discrimination or bias by others. Her work is about removing barriers or providing support in order to get to a place of equality. She helps executives and leaders have that important dialogue, and coach them to the necessary, long-term changes that develop institutional cultures of DEI. Website: https://www.theequityequationllc.com/about LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachathompson/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Jeff Schwartz, Principal, Deloitte Consulting provides insights from his new book "Work Disrupted" in this episode. Schwartz teaches everyone invested in the future of work how to: Welcome AI:  Historically, technology has created more jobs than it has taken; it's time to embrace this and create value by empowering people to work with machines. Value a diversity of work arrangements:  Part-time, contract, freelance, gig, crowd—integrating these talent models will benefit your career and community. Build on what the pandemic has taught us:  Expect to continue to work anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Use this to your advantage and Embrace new capabilities to lead teams: Smart leaders will shift away from a narrow vision on cost and efficiency to an expanded one of growth, innovation, and meaning. Reimagine careers as experiences: Prepare to adapt, reskill, upskill, and develop a portfolio that combines education, work, and personal pursuits, throughout your lifetime. Jeff is a senior consulting partner and is a recognized global advisor and thought leader in the future of work. He has been a consulting partner for 25 years and he has extensive experience in workforce and workplace transformation, work redesign, and human capital issues in global and growth markets. He has lived in and led practices in the US, India, Russia, Belgium, Israel, and Kenya. He currently leads the US Consulting Future of Work research and practice; he is the co-founder and was the US lead partner from 2016-2019 for Deloitte Catalyst in Tel Aviv (the US-Israel Innovation Tech Terminal), and he has been the global editor and senior researcher for 10 years of Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends report, one of the world's leading annual reports on the future of the workforce, organizations and HR, which he started in 2011. He has authored and contributed to more than 40 articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Deloitte Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, the Rotman Management Review (at the University of Toronto), and Wired Magazine. 1.  Deloitte.com website including the introduction download. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/human-capital/articles/digital-workforce-transformation-roadmap-welcome.htm 2. Also, let's include a link to the 2021 Human Capital Trends report in the podcast description. https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/human-capital-trends.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Bryan Kramer is a renowned business strategist, TED speaker,global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, two-time bestselling author and Forbes contributor. As former President and Co-Owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing agency since 2001, he sparked the Human-to-Human H2H movement that set out to humanize business through simpler communication, empathy, and celebrating our imperfections.   With more than 350,000 social fans and followers, Bryan believes that being human is our competitive advantage because of our ability to leverage our emotional intelligence alongside technology to scale, in order to share stories in a human way – not corporate speak. Bryan's first book “There Is No B2B or B2C: It's Human to Human H2H” rose to the #1 spot in Business Books on Amazon in its first week. His second book, “Shareology: How Sharing is Powering the Human Economy”published by Morgan James, made USA Today's Top 150 Book List the week of its release, as well as #1 on Amazon in Business books. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Key takeaways from podcast: Startup lessons from a CEO/Entrepreneur turned VC - the Future of Work will be global, the best product will win in an increasingly flat, global marketplace Future of Fintech, Mobile. Healthcare - how India has led the mobile payments space, Aadhar and the importance of UIDAI State of venture capital in India, Digital India paving the path to innovation and new startup opportunities in healthcare, mobile, Fintech Insights from his new book "Sailing through a Storm: Making a crisis work for you" - co-authored with T.N. Hari, this book is an inspiring read for anyone feeling discouraged with the recent pandemic In this episode of the podcast, Sanjay shares his experiences & learnings from being on both sides of the startup ecosystem - An Entrepreneur & A VC. He is a co-author of a new book called “Sailing through a Storm: Making a Crisis Work For You” Sanjay started his career in Silicon Valley in the 1990s  & spent over 7 years at his first company, working in different business roles before coming back to India in 2003. From 2003 to 2011, he revolutionized entire ecosystems in fintech, mobile payments and SaaS. In 2011, he started Angel Prime (now Prime Ventures) which invests in early-stage entrepreneurs to build great companies.  Prime is an early stage VC in India - investing in category creating startups in Fintech, Healthcare, Education and SaaS.  Some of Prime's investments include Ezetap, Niyo, Moneytap, KredX, Quizizz and Mygate. In this podcast, Sanjay shares his experiences & learnings from being on both sides of the Startup ecosystem - An Entrepreneur & A VC. He is a co-author of a new book called “Sailing through a Storm: Making a Crisis Work For You” Time stamps: 16:40 - Data Fiduciary, Account Aggregator Framework 20:06 - Being an Entrepreneur in India 20:25 - Innovation in Fintech, mobile and healthcare, emerging use cases 29.08 - New paradigm shifts with Covid-19 34:15 - Insights from "Sailing through a storm" 43:02 - Advice to entrepreneurs 48.48 - Happiness Equation  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

This episode is a solo episode and explores 10 questions around the future of work that the host Shobhana Viswanathan answers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Crossing the AI Chasm and Solving the World's Problems with Lila Tretikov Lila Tretikov is a Board Director, CEO, Entrepreneur, and CVP at Microsoft. She brings scientists, engineers, designers, and the best creators together to solve the world's most challenging problems, and empower humanity through technology. Moving to America from Russia 3:00 “I was always between worlds -- art vs. science or East vs. West. I moved from Russia to New York when I was 15. It's shaped how I think about the world and allowed me to think outside the box.” Transfer learning: thinking about problems and unique, unusual ways. Lila switched the focus of her work multiple times. She started her first company while at Berkeley, observing scientists, mapping the human genome, I worked for finance, banking, started another company, then pure software and telecommunications. Nonprofits, Wikipedia, power, energy, green energy companies, now Microsoft, and health. “I love looking at technologies through the lens of impact on humanity.” Can you tell us more about your role at Microsoft and what you do there? 5:00 Lila was the deputy for CTO Kevin Scott. She's the person to jump into a complex project and help teams accelerate. It's hard to take an innovation and make it part of the company's core business. She helps teams cross that chasm. I look at innovation and figure out how to scale. Artificial intelligence 9:40 The brain helps us design better algorithms. Computational biology will be an enormous and exciting frontier. The human brain has 100 trillion connections. The leading supercomputer has 172 billion hyper parameters, growing astronomically fast. At some point, supercomputers will match the human capacity.” Humans are more computationally efficient, extremely low powered, 20 watts to operate. Supercomputers with 30,000 GPUs take 10 times that amount. 10:30 The human brain is also multimodal. We have many senses, including hidden senses. We imagine the world that our brain processes. The human brain trains incrementally and builds upon prior knowledge all the time. We've built up knowledge over and over again. AI is good at specialized tasks. It can translate across human languages. We can learn from biological constructs and apply them to computer science, then accelerate biological discovery, and create a flywheel in computational biology and AI. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Topics covered in this podcast: - Why companies of all sizes should adopt Intelligent Automation - Role of AI in digital transformation - Technologies used in Intelligent automation: RPA, ML, Computer Vision - Technology and business frameworks for intelligent automation Pascal Bornet is a recognized global expert, thought leader, and pioneer in the field of intelligent automation (IA). He is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience leading digital business transformations and creations. He founded and led the "Artificial Intelligence and Automation" practices for Mckinsey & Company and Ernst & Young (EY), where he drove hundreds of IA transformations for corporates, across industries. He is passionate about the capacity of IA to make our world more human. Bornet is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. He was awarded Global Top Voice in Technology 2019 with more than 300,000 followers on LinkedIn and Twitter. He is one of the authors of the first book on Intelligent Automation and Hyperautomation www.intelligentautomationbook.com : Key Quotes: [10:10] “Necessity is the mother of invention.” [13:50] “Intelligent automation is a combination of methods that involve people, organization, processes, and technologies.” “Everything comes with passion. But it is not easy. You have to find your passion and this passion should fit you or your personality.” [33:33-33:35] “Technology makes our world more human.” Resources Read more about Bornet here: www.linkedin.com/in/pascalbornet/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Yousuf is a managing Partner at Ridge Ventures. Having held many operational roles in his previous positions, he's uniquely qualified to not only grow Ridge's portfolio, but more importantly to support founders through the vantage point of deep start-up experience. Prior to joining Ridge, he was the first ever CIO of Automation Anywhere, the CIO and Vice President of Customer Success at cloud-based AI platform Moveworks, as well as CIO of Pure Storage, Qualys, and Hult International Business School. He continues to host monthly CIO events amongst his peers which have become known as group therapy dinners where problems solving and design partnership lead conversations. Yousuf currently serves as a board director for Polly, the leading survey solution in Slack and Microsoft Teams. Topics covered in this episode: - Role of CIOs in startups - How to scale startups to enterprise-readiness - Post-Covid Trends in venture funding --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

M.R. Rangaswami is an entrepreneur, investor, and community builder. His career as a technology CMO, angel investor, corporate eco-strategist, and philanthropist demonstrates a unique talent for fostering innovation and creating impactful networks. This episode will cover: - Ways to create impactful networks - The differences between networks and networking - The value of community in the future of work --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Scott Smith discusses takeaways from his book “How To Future”. He talks about his work as a futurist, guiding large organizations towards better futures with a blend of foresight, narrative design and strategic thinking. Topics covered in this podcast include: - Creating futures with agency - Design thinking and prototyping - Designing futures with a common grammar and framework - AI, AI Ethics --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor to established high-tech enterprises,  including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google, and Splunk.  He is a partner at Wildcat Venture Partners.  In this podcast interview, I ask Geoffrey for his insights on how startups and large companies can benefit from his books including "Crossing the Chasm" and "Zone to Win". Topics covered in this podcast:  - Disruptive and sustaining innovation  - Crossing the chasm - Innovation in large companies  - Technology adoption lifecycle Moore's life's work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, focuses on the challenges start-up companies face transitioning from early adopting to mainstream customers. It has sold more than a million copies, and its third edition has been revised such that the majority of its examples and case studies reference companies come to prominence from the past decade. Moore's most recent work, Zone to Win, addresses the challenge large enterprises face when embracing disruptive innovations, even when it is in their best interests to do so. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Ariane Hegewisch is Program Director of Employment and Earnings at IWPR and Scholar in Residence at American University; prior to that she spent two years at IWPR as a scholar-in-residence. She came to IWPR from the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings. In this podcast, Ariane talks about: - Gender Wage gap - Diversity - Impact of Covid-19 on women's jobs - Impact of automation on women's jobs - Future of work for women --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years. She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter. The author of six books, Margaret's third book, Willful Blindness : Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was named one of the most important business books of the decade by the Financial Times. In 2015, she was awarded the Transmission Prize for A Bigger Prize: Why Competition isn't Everything and How We Do Better, described as “meticulously researched…engagingly written…universally relevant and hard to fault.” Her TED talks have been seen by over twelve million people and in 2015 TED published Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes. Her most recent book, Uncharted: How to map the future was published in 2020. It quickly became a bestseller and was nominated for the Financial Times Best Business Book award. She is a Professor of Practice at the University of Bath, Lead Faculty for the Forward Institute's Responsible Leadership Programme and, through Merryck & Co., mentors CEOs and senior executives of major global organizations. She chairs the boards of DACS and FilmBath and is a Trustee of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. www.mheffernan.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support