Tales From Heads: Recent Episodes
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Imagine. You are sitting next to a successful business leader on a long flight. And she - or he - is sharing stories from their life. Stories of struggle, perseverance and success. The lessons they have learnt. The advice they’d like to share. The mistakes they made - and what you should avoid. How cool - and life-changing - would that be?
The Tales From Heads podcast brings you up close with corporate honchos as they share stories of their personal experiences to shed light and discuss their triumphs and failures to the path of true success.
This show is all about never heard before and raw - stories, plenty of advice, insights and wisdom. And actionable tips too to help you in your journey, your career, and your life.
The show is hosted by Prakash Iyer, former CEO of Kimberly Clark and former Executive Director of PepsiCo among other roles during his three decades in the corporate world.
He is a motivational speaker, Best Selling Author and Leadership Coach.
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Supria Dhanda is a business leader who was until recently the Vice President and Country Manager of Western Digital. She spent two decades in Human Resources across organisations like GE, Alcatel Lucent and Sandisk/Western Digital before transitioning into a business leadership role.
And in this conversation with Prakash, Supria shares stories and nuggets from a fascinating life and career. Tales of growing up in a small town in Punjab, meeting Jack Welch (and the lesson she learnt), how to engage teams (no, you don’t engage teams!), breaking stereotypes, and the power of going slow to go fast. Listen in, learn, and get inspired!
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Lloyd Mathias is an angel investor and technology thought leader who has built brands and businesses across product categories and countries in a storied career.
In this conversation with Prakash, Lloyd shares powerful stories and lessons on standing up to competition, the importance of attention to detail, how to be a good client, how to build a great team. And how to make your next appraisal your best appraisal.
Come, listen in, learn and get inspired.
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Lloyd Mathias - LinkedIn
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Dr Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder of 5F World, a platform dedicated to investment and mentoring of start-ups, skills platforms and social enterprises. He is also Chairman of Honeywell Automation India Ltd. and a Director on the board of the State Bank of India.
He is a distinguished alumnus award winner of IIT Bombay and NITIE and completed the AMP at Harvard Business School
Ganesh is credited with building and growing two corporate success stories: first APTECH and then Zensar.
Listen in as Ganesh shares his leadership and success mantras, grabbing the opportunity that education provides, the importance of communication skills, why ego is the enemy, building teams and scaling up businesses (with love!). And how we can all enrich our lives with his 5 F framework!
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Deepak Jayaraman is a Leadership Coach and host of the popular podcast “ Play to Potential”. He is a double MBA (IIMA and London Business School) and has worked in Consulting and Search in India and overseas.
Listen in to get nuggets of wisdom around showing tough love, managing transitions, being a learner, listening to your inner voice and finding happiness at work and in life.
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Deepak Jayaraman - LinkedIn
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Knowing what you know now, what advice would you have for your 21-year-old self? That’s a question I have asked many of my guests on this podcast.
So for this episode of Tales From Heads, I decided to ask myself the same question. Here then are seven bits of advice that I would give to my younger self.
Listen in. And tell me. What’s that one piece of advice you would want to share with your 21-year-old self?
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In this episode of Tales from Heads, Prakash is in conversation with, Partho Chakrabarti, the Managing Director of Faber-Castell India.
Listen in to the fascinating story of a ‘back-bencher’ who went on to become a top-notch Finance professional and then a CEO.
Partho shares nuggets and insights from his life as he talks about empathy, reading books, transitioning from finance to general management, being a global leader and the importance of taking risks.
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Partho Chakraborty - LinkedIn
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Our guest in this episode of Tales from Heads, is Damodar Mall, the CEO of Grocery Retail at Reliance and the author of the bestselling book Supermarketwala.
In this conversation with Prakash, Damodar shares hitherto unknown personal tidbits and insights from his life and career. Damodar talks about curiosity, intuition and insights, productivity and efficiency (and why they aren’t always good), strategy (and why companies get it wrong), and trusting and inspiring teams. And he also talks about relaunching himself after a serious illness and choosing to play big. Listen in.
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In this episode of Tales from Heads, Prakash is in conversation with Harit Nagpal, the MD and CEO of Tata Sky.
Harit has over three decades of experience across industries. He was a part of the Pepsi army at the peak of the cola wars in India, and then headed Marketing at Vodafone when pugs and zoozos became a part of our daily conversations. For the last ten years, Harit has been at the helm of Tata Sky.
Sharing nuggets and insights from his experience, Harit talks about bosses and colleagues, hiring for attitude, empowerment, decision-making, and building large, consumer-centric organizations. This is Harit. Unplugged!
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Harit Nagpal- LinkedIn
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In this episode of Tales from Heads, Prakash is in conversation with Tarun Rai. Tarun is currently the Chairman and Group CEO - South Asia of Wunderman Thompson. He is a Media and Communication professional with three decades of experience across both industries.
Through insightful, personal nuggets from a stellar career, Tarun shares some very interesting behind-the-scenes stories of some of India’s iconic brands and the people who created the magic. Be it the story of working with Aamir Khan or the late Mr OP Munjal of Hero cycles, or how he almost didn’t join HTA, you will find stories that bring a smile to your face. And leave you with a lesson to remember.
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Starting your career and you don't know if you should switch jobs or stay at one place? Or maybe you're thinking about making a risky investment with your hard-earned money?
Wouldnt it be great if you had a mentor, someone who's seen it all, to guide you through it? To tell you his own stories of failed investments and working at different companies?
In this episode of Tales From Heads, Prakash is in a conversation with Rajat Jain. Rajat started his career with Hindustan Unilever and then moved on to working in sales, marketing business operations, experiencing different parts of a company. He has been a part of iconic brands, MD of Xerox India, MD & Global SVP of Disney India, EVP & Business Head of Sony and is the founder of PadUp Ventures.
He talks about his early life, costly mistakes, his time at Sony Max and Disney and much much more. In the conversation, he also talks about his mentors and some of the bits of advice he got in his career which he now is passing on to people starting in the field.
For brand partnerships, collaborations and sponsorship opportunities, send us an email at hi@wyn.studio.
Tales From Heads is a Production of WYN Studio. Find us at http://wyn.studio.
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Rajat Jain - LinkedIn
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Imagine. You are sitting next to a successful business leader on a long flight. And she - or he - is sharing stories from their life. Stories of struggle, perseverance and success. The lessons they have learnt. The advice they’d like to share. The mistakes they made - and what you should avoid. How cool - and life changing - would that be?
The Tales From Heads podcast brings you up close with corporate honchos as they share stories of their personal experiences to shed light and discuss their triumphs and failures to the path of true success.
This show is all about never heard before and raw - stories, plenty of advice, insights and wisdom. And actionable tips too to help you in your journey, your career, and your life.
The show is hosted by Prakash Iyer, former CEO of Kimberly Clark and former Executive Director of PepsiCo among other roles during his three decades in the corporate world.
He is a motivational speaker, Best Selling Author and Leadership Coach.
For brand partnerships, collaborations and sponsorship opportunities, send us an email at hi@wyn.studio
The show is brought to you by WYN Studio. Find us at http://wyn.studio.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.