DnA - Extraordinary Leaders in Life and Business Podcast!

This week we talk about becoming a Data Driven Rockstar. How can we develop a data inspired strategy, that will fuel growth and new opportunities for you to differentiate from the competition!

People want to climb the corporate ladder. Not everyone succeeds. Want to know how you climb the corporate ladder without falling off? Join this Lunch & Learn.
Get ready for an empowering session with Gemma Casadevall and Rahim Gulamali. They will gladly share their insights and valuable tips to succeed.

Discover the importance of:

• Leading by example
• Knowing your people and your organization
• Embracing and pursuing a shared purpose
• Surrounding yourself with great professionals who are exceptional individuals

Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and practical tips from our experts who have successfully navigated their way up the corporate ladder.

Looking to win in your career and in life? This podcast with Robert Jordan and Rahim Gulamali is for you: How can your leadership style help you win in your career? Watch or listen. Don´t forget to fill out the free assessment to discover your leadership style and how to make it work for you.

In this 30-minute podcast, they discuss the different leadership styles and how they help you:

• achieve your goals
• grow as a person and as a leader

Fill out the free assessment to discover your FABS leadership style and how to make it work for you. First, let us introduce our speakers:

Robert is co-founder and head of the leadership team at InterimExecs. His book, Right Leader Right Time, is your one-stop guide to assess your distinct leadership style and a step-by-step plan to optimize that style to suit your business best and scale its growth.

Rahim is the co-founder of Duchain Associates and a seasoned executive. As a trusted advisor, he helps Sr. Leaders and Executives discover how to sustain high performance, achieve growth and empower their team members.

Let us know what your leadership style is and what you think.

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Roles and Responsibilities. 

We all know that they are important. But do we always act upon them, and do we ensure that our teams can perform in a structured but agile way?  That is the topic of this episode. PJ and Rahim share their insights and brainstorm to share learnings and explore solutions that will enable you to succeed in purpose-led change initiatives.  

We love to hear your insights on this topic.   

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Entitled, or not to be entitled! That is the topic of our conversation today. 

• I'm entitled to work from home
• I'm entitled to receive a higher pay
• I'm entitled to do whatever I want to do
• I'm entitled to decide .......

We all are allowed to have our opinions, and share our preferences. The question we are trying to answer is if our (perceived) entitlements are not getting in the way of business in the new world? Are we too focused on employee well-being versus business well-being? And how do we make sure that the right people stay onboard? And help others to find the right company for them? 

PJ and I work in the area of Purpose LED Change. During a peer-to-peer brainstorm, we touched on the topic of Entitlements. We love to hear your insights on this topic. 

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CO-Creators: Tiago Nunes and Rahim Gulamali

We all strive to be happy, resilient and achieve our goals. We also know that from time to time it may be difficult to maintain that positive mindset. Especially when things are not flowing seamlessly. Our mental state has a major impact on what we can accomplish.

In this Podcast Tiago and Rahim explore the essence of Inner-Happiness and take a deep dive into the process behind controlling it. Will we crack the code?

This podcast is Co-Created with Tiago Nunes – Districts Manager at Gates Corporation, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Co-Creation Network.

Tiago´s mission is to build positive work environments. This way people can fulfill their why and how at their work. With high trust, success comes faster, better, and at a lower cost. Tiago has an extensive background in the industrial and automotive business with a passion for Lean and Agile Thinking. His life story is amazing. With all the setbacks he has developed a state of ¨being Happy¨. This has been lifelong learning which he is passionate about sharing with the community.

Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (Former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams, and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.

Customer Experience is often misunderstood. Most people think that the remit of a Customer Experience Officer is related to all service activities of your organization. Sometimes we see this purely as a Marketing function. However, Customer Experience is so much more. It´s the end-to-end customer journey through your organization and all the engagements you have from physical contact to digital flows.

This week we will talk in more detail about Customer Experience.

• What is Customer Experience?
• Who should be involved in building a strong CX Strategy? Internal stakeholders
• How do you really secure the right funding and empowerment across the while organizations?
• How can we bring Customer Experience alive?

Let´s have some fun in this dynamic Leadership Podcast!

This podcast is Co-Created with Hussein M Dajani, General Manager – Digital and CX Transformation, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Co-Creation Network. Both organizations share a purpose in developing organizations to find purpose and meaning in business.

Hussein has an impressive background having worked for brands like Leo Burnett, Virgin, Red Bull, and now Nissan. He is part of the Middle East advisory board at the CMO Council and is one of the 200 most powerful CX thought leaders to follow. Hussein is one of the most respected and multifaceted CX Leaders out there who has been able to deliver extraordinary results.

We are blessed to have him join our Masterminds Podcast show.

Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (Former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams, and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.

Topic: Why is transparency in the workplace important? 

CO-Creators: James Burrows and Rahim Gulamali 

Why should you listen? 

Distilled to its essence, transparency in the workplace is about earning your people’s trust by communicating in an open, honest way. When team members feel like their managers or colleagues are people they can count on to tell the full truth, they’re happier and more productive. At Front, we've found that to be true time and time again. 

The truth may not always be pretty. Being upfront and honest about the challenges you face, the mistakes you’ve made, and what you’ve learned from those missteps show you’re committed to transparency — even if that means ending up with a bit of egg on your face. But people respect honesty, not perfection. This week we look at a practical use case as applied by the leadership team at Rentals United and the lessons learned along the way!

Best Practices and talking points 

• Meet regularly 

• Trust your team members 

• Don´t flinch when things get though

• Actively encourage questioning 

So how did Rentals United do this and what was the effect Co-Creation: 

This podcast is Co-Created with James Burrows, CEO and Founder at Rentals United, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Co-Creation Network. Both organizations share a purpose in developing organizations to find purpose and meaning in business.

About James Burrows 

James has over 20 years of experience within the travel industry specifically within the vacation rental sector. A serial entrepreneur, James first entered the VR market as a co-founder of a leading global listing website. A keen interest in technology led him into travel tech where he co-founded Rentals United, a leading channel manager for the vacation rental sector. James is a big advocate of using technology to make the complex more simple. Now residing in Barcelona, a European hub for many leading tech and vacation rental companies. 

About Rahim Gulamali, Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click 

Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams, and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships. 

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The Last Mile of Innovation is the final step between launching your innovation, and the final step towards really achieving the benefits. Innovation should include the return on investment. We look at the GTM strategy, Revenue Generation, Cost reductions, etc., etc. This part is often seen by innovation teams as the least interesting part. This is the part where your people, organization, and clients turn the concept into value.

Many organizations face challenges in the last mile of innovation. In this episode Anouar shares her experience from the aviation sector, which is applicable to all types of organizations, looking to innovate their business

• What is The Last Mile of Innovation?
• What foundations do we need to set for the organization?
• What should we expect from our people?
• How to transition from a siloed approach to an organizational drive!
• What it takes to make innovations successful (in the last mile)

Anouar Ouali Alami is a Ground Handling Executive who, during more than 20 years, successfully led different frameworks from PMO to IT and Resource Management in the aviation field.

She holds an Engineering degree in Automation and Industrial IT and a master’s degree in aviation management.

Anouar began her career in Royal Air Maroc where she implemented various projects and led operational departments, she then moved to the middle east and joined Qatar Airways where she built a business unit specialized in E2E resource management, she build strategic and tactical planning processes control 70% of company’s cost ., she also led Project management office department and delivered more than 20 Transformational projects. In 2017, Anouar was appointed VP of IT and Planning. During 3 years, Anouar designed and implemented an IT Governance and Strategy to enable business innovation and growth for Aviapartner Group and led diverse transformation programs across 6 European countries.

Anouar is the founder and CEO of Anfa Square, a company delivering Aviation consultancy in Digital and Business transformation and Enterprise innovation management programs.

Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.

How will you Achieve Growth, by applying Resilience, Passion, and Empathy!

• Pre Covid: PPE = Positivity + passion + empathy
• Post Covid RPE = Resilience + Passion + empathy

What does it mean to achieve real-life and business growth, by being more resilient, passionate, and applying empathy in all your engagements! We will talk about some simple steps to help you move forward and become more resilient.

Resiliency is a great ability you can develop to enable you to handle the tough times in life, give purpose and meaning, and move forward. Making the choices that will help you progress to your goals. Especially now this ability is more than just a catchword. Many of us struggle with this and therefore we wanted to spend 25 minutes talking about what this actually means, and how you can develop this!

This podcast is a Co-Creation by Estrella Lopez-Brea, Head of Insights, EUAU Region at General Mills, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN

• 7% of your communication are based on words
• 38% of the message is all about intonation
• 55%  is all about body language

So how do you effectively communicate and actively collaborate, share your message with your team, your leaders, your organization in a hybrid world?

Today Glenn Wastyn and Rahim Gulamali crack the code and share their insights!

There is a major shift needed to effectively communicate and collaborate with people. It´s vital that we connect with our people, keep them motivated and involved. One of the major shifts we see today is that people lack the engagement and are looking into changing careers, moving to companies that they feel will bring them a sense of fulfillment. A sense of belonging. A sense of being part of something bigger. Today we explore ways how you can Improve team Collaboration and Communication and bring across a common desired message.

This podcast is a Co-Creation by Glenn Wastyn, VP EMEA at Avocor - USA-EMEA, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN

Glen is a highly-skilled, strategic Senior Executive with over 25 years of expertise delivering and growing sustainable revenue. He currently focuses on penetrating the digital collaboration and visualization technology markets through hardware and software. With that, he has extraordinary expertise when it comes to effective collaboration and communication. Besides that, he is also a public speaker and an evangelist on this topic

He loves driving innovation and transformation with transparency, passion, and integrity.

Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click.

Rahim brings over 20 years of Sr. Leadership and Executive experience to the table, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (Former) Clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams, and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.

This week's bonus ask me Anything¨ I wanted to spend a little time around the topic of why team members do not change and take ownership. And in this case, I wanted to look at role modeling and how you lead, influence how people perform!   

Why should you listen? 

• I don't have time for Lunch 
• When I´m not on top of it, nothing happens 
• I´m a fireman. I Extinguishing fires  
• I´m part of all decision-making 
• I need to protect my team from the outside world 
• I´m losing great resources 
• I need to be on top of my team's activities/deliverables  I

If any of the above points resonate, then this is the podcast for you!  

Being the specialist does not mean you have to get involved at all times! 

Most leaders get promoted because they are good at doing the job themselves. But leading people means it’s not your job to do it yourself. It’s theirs. You did not hire people just to come in and clock their time, push on some buttons, and clock out. You hired them to enable the business to improve and perform. You hired them to deliver success. You hired them to co-create the future!  So step 1 is acknowledging that you are part of the problem.   

Delegate, delegate, delegate..... 

Accountability does not happen if you don’t delegate the decision-making and the solution design and delivery. The moment you learn to delegate the decision, solution design, and delivery, you only need to ensure that the progression is measurable so you can coach your team and ask the right questions to enable them to broaden their mind and skills.  If you do this right, you will free up time and energy to focus on what is important to achieve, improve and negotiate in the mid-and long term!  

Conclusion: 

When you delegate the responsibility (please make sure you set them in their goals and objectives), your team can be coached to improve the way, the quality, and the results they are hired to deliver. Trusting that they are appreciated, that they can make a difference, that they are backed, that they can make decisions (within a certain remit), and subsequently are supported,  covers the basic levels of comfort which are safety, trust, and being part of something bigger!   The moment you start doing this, you will free up time to coach more, negotiate the future, and grow the business as a value-added partner and service.  

About Rahim Gulamali 

As a trusted advisor, I support Sr. Leaders and Executives to achieve SUSTAINABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE, empower people, and transform approaches to achieve sustainable growth. Coaching is just one element of how I enable you to be the best version of yourself and elevate a spirit where we co-create and solve everyday business challenges!  

Why should you listen?  

Let´s start with a few interesting statistics: 

• -41% of companies that use peer-to-peer recognition have seen positive increases in customer satisfaction (Source: Globoforce)  
• - Companies with recognition programs that are highly effective at improving employee engagement have 31% lower voluntary turnover (Source: Bersin & Associates)   

With the workforce returning to a more normal cadence between working from home and returning to the office we see a vast shift in people looking to make changes in their jobs. Some call it the big exit, others call it the loss of trust and engagement towards the companies’ objectives, culture, and structure. Andrew and Rahim discuss the topic of Recognition and rewards and how you as a leader and organization can make a new start to deliver engaged and inspired connections with your people.   

Co-Creation:  

This podcast is Co-Created with Andres Smith, Founder of the Beacon Business Support, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Co-Creation Network. Both organizations share a purpose in developing organizations to find purpose and meaning in business.   

About Andrew (Andy) Smith Assoc CIPD MiTOL  

Founder and Director of Beacon Business Support, Andrew has over 20 years of experience working in senior positions in multinational organizations within FMCG and Finance. With a love of putting people and vision first, he truly believes that engagement and leadership are the cornerstones of creating real value. He Co-Founded Beacon Business Support to understand and unleash the potential for business leaders and owners alike 

About Rahim Gulamali:

Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams, and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.  

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Why should you watch it? 

As for most people, the agenda from time to time is managed by the people needing your help, or people getting you involved in meetings that may or may not add value. Yes, it´s nice to feel important. It´s great that your insights are valued. However, too many meetings take away time to really focus on what matters. In a few minutes, I share some useful tips to get back on track and take control of your schedule.  

For who is this a good watch? 

This video is for everyone with an overloaded agenda. People feel overwhelmed by the number of meetings, social, or business activities around them. People who do not want to miss out on living a life with balance. People seek to free up time to focus. I guess.... for most of us.  

I don't have time, 

well, watch this video, and you will have! In this short 4 minute video, I cover some useful tips to start managing your agenda and gain an understanding of where you spend time, where you add value, and what you can improve.  

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I intend to share more of my experiences. This is a small trail to gain understanding if this adds value to you. If so, please Like, subscribe, share and leave a comment so I know I´m spending my time well and helping you. 

If you want to learn or hear my perspectives on a topic you would like an answer on, feel free to let me know. Happy to help or have some¡one who knows about the topic to share their perspectives.  

Purpose-driven organizations can be more successful than Shareholder driven organizations. What can we learn from Charity organizations? How can we be more intentional and build out a great purpose that your people, business stakeholders, and customers believe in?

Why should you listen?

This podcast will help you build intentional engagement with your people, customers, and other stakeholders. You will understand how to set foundations to achieving shared goals! You will be inspired to embrace the shared values that will make your organization thrive!

Co-Creation:

This podcast is Co-Created with Charles McLachlan, Founder of the CEO Growth Academy, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Co-Creation Network. Both organizations share a purpose in developing Sr. Leaders and executives to find purpose and meaning in business.

About Charles McLachlan, Founder at The Growth Academy

Charles is committed to enabling leaders to become everything they were created to be. Leaders who fail to invest in personal growth will hold back their teams and their business. He brings his passions to FuturePerfect and a range of executive growth groups so anyone can find freedom and joy in a rewarding working life.

About Rahim Gulamali, Co-Founder at DnA Executive Network BCN, Executive Transformation Mentor, and Co-Founder Content2Click

Rahim has over 20 years of executive experience, primarily supporting organizations in their transformational journeys. (former) clients acknowledge him as someone who engages the whole organization and enables them to elevate the journey towards success with passion and a smile. He partners with peers to solve business challenges through the DnA Co-Creative Executive Network, Mentors Executive Teams and enables the network to build meaningful business relationships.

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This week our podcast is co-hosted with Tom Verboven, Head of Management Consulting HR at PWC Belgium, and Rahim Gulamali, Founder at DnA Executive Network. We talk about the UN Directive regarding ESG (Environmental and Social Governance) and what it means to humanize businesses

For who? 

If you are a founder, executive, or business leader looking into the topic of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). If you want to better understand how to make an impact in this area? Then this is a podcast you should listen to!

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This week our podcast is co-hosted with Joel Invers and Rahim Gulamali. We talk about what is needed to drive innovation.

Why should you listen?

Joel is an engineer with a lifelong mission to share his experiences regarding being and staying innovative. He shares his perspectives regarding the behaviors of people and the organization. We explore what is needed to truly enable an innovative approach and the possible risks you will run into inside and outside your team, and how to manage them.

About Joel:

Joel has over 20 years of experience working and leading innovative teams. His niche is helping organizations continuously develop innovative products and building out innovation strategies. Joel is a so-called Innovation Guide and expert in connecting technology to people's daily life!

About Rahim Gulamali:

In this week’s episode, Ignasi and Rahim discuss what it means to find the right way of innovating within a corporation. It´s not a one size fits all. There are many factors to take into account. Do you choose M&A, maybe partnerships, or do you develop your own Innovation?

If you are looking to invest in innovation, but not sure what the best options are, then this is an episode where we share some great perspectives and insights!

About Ignasi Torguet Carbonell:

Ignasi is an experienced advisor, having worked in a strategy consulting firm alongside banks and funds to lead several successful deals, and tech corporate developer, being responsible for the hotel product in the leading online travel agency in Europe. More recently, investor and venture builder, to gain a deeper understanding of business value drivers and of ways to grow long-lasting ventures on a global scale.

We know him as an action-driven and assertive individual, with a sheer drive to bring to life new realities that have a positive impact on societies and on people's quality of life.

About Rahim Gulamali:

Why diversity is not an issue within Startups? Diversity and inclusion are hot topics. It may even be overpromoted. We are not saying it does not need attention. We explore why this is such a massive hype. Why do organisations still measure people based on their ethnicity, gender, age or whatever scale we put forward?    Piotr Godzinski wrote an article, reaching out to Venture Capitalist to take the lead into showing kids what they can bring to startups, without looking at diversity, but focussing on the capabilities someone can bring.   Read more about this article via the following link  

About Piotr: 

Piotr is a serial entrepreneur. Now working on his latest startup Finnu, he aims to bring good quality finance to developing countries. Piotr is highly experienced in the venture capital markets and one of the key people we have in our network in the FINTECH space.   

About Rahim Gulamali:  

Rahim is a creative transformative mentor at DnA. He has worked in Sr. Leadership and Executive positions across the EU, US and APAC region. Now he focuses on mentoring businesses in building out engaging transformational journeys, building tribes, and reinvigorating programs to success. His vast experience, combined with inexhaustive energy and a passion for ensuring organisations achieve sustainable results, enables organisations to derive real and tangible benefits for the long term.   

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When I was young, success meant working yourself up the ladder, buying a house, and living the dream. Most Executives I work with are really living the dream. However, in real life, living the dream is nothing more than working 24/7, and being lived by your ambitions. In this episode I talk to Jordi who worked himself up to being an Executive, but with another mission. Live the life, not the dream!

About Jordi Miró Bruix

Sundaraj Balakrishnan and Rahim Gulamali talk about the Impact of Changing Customer Behaviour on the supply chain industry!

I´m honoured to have Sundaraj Balakrishnan as co-host of My Two Cents Podcast. We discuss the Impact of Changing Customer Behaviour to the supply chain. Listen in and learn from one of the leading APAC Supply Chain Executives share his two cents on what’s happening in this space.

About Sundaraj:

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in Cold Chain logistics and supply chain. Skilled in Operations Management, Freight, Strategic Sourcing, Warehouse Operations, and Management. Strong business development professional with a Bachelors in Business focused in Finance and Economics from Curtin University of Technology.

Sundaraj consults organizations with optimizing their supply chain strategy with a core focus on perishables. He shares his extensive experience and track record in optimizing supply chain strategies for organizations like McDonald's.

About Rahim Gulamali

Rahim is a creative transformative mentor at DnA. He has worked in Sr. Leadership and Executive positions across the EU, US and APAC region. Now he focuses on mentoring businesses in building out engaging transformational journeys, building tribes, and reinvigorating programs to success. His vast experience, combined with inexhaustive energy and a passion for ensuring organisations achieve sustainable results, enables organisations to derive real and tangible benefits for the long term.

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I´m honoured to have my friend and Digital Transformation Director Tom Carnewal as co-host of My Two Cents Podcast. We discuss why Digital Transformations fail to succeed and touch on a great use case from Decathlon. Listen in and learn how the impact of a transformation mindset across your organisation, and the journey to transform from a Command and Control to Trust and Empowered organisation empowers success!  

This weeks session is co-hosted with Adriaan Kom, Chief Commercial Officer at Visma Onguard. We discuss what's hot in the fintech space and discuss some of the insights from the FinTech Barometer, which will be published soon. We also take a little look back at how Adriaan was able to put a long-lasting mark on my new car :)!  We trust you will enjoy this edition of My Two Cents!

This week my guest is Saurabh Gurnurkar, Executive Director at UQUIFA! 

Saurabh explains the dynamics within Life Sciences where Regulatory, Operational and Environmental Risk are influencing the way the Life Sciences Industry continuously need to innovate, optimise and diversify their supply chain. Supply Chain diversification is a hot topic in many sectors. Our regulators throughout the EU are expressing their concerns on our dependability and looking to promote more domestication. Saurabh´s expertise in this area is immaculate and we are honoured to have him speak and share his ¨My two Cents¨!

About Saurabh Gurnurkar:

Saurabh is the Executive Director at UQUIFA Group - executing business turnarounds, creating value through tactical M&A, in addition to enhancing customer satisfaction are his key objectives. With an immaculate track record and as you will hear during this podcast, experience and insights, he is a real dynamic executive. 

• 9+ years of experience in Investment Management, prior to assuming roles in UQUIFA in 2013.
• Holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and, an MBA in Finance & International Business.
• Previously associated with firms such as Prudential Financial, Credit Suisse and Kotak Mahindra Group.

About UQUIFA:

With 80 years of experience, UQUIFA’S business model is based on a combination of a quality manufacturing platform and a track record of service and reliability. UQUIFA is a manufacturer of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and intermediates for the pharmaceutical and animal health industries globally. The Company has 3 manufacturing sites (2 in Spain and 1 in Mexico) with strict adherence to all regulatory norms. These sites operate under cGMP conditions and have been inspected and approved by leading global pharmaceutical companies and regulatory authorities. Soneas, based in Hungary is also a part of the UQUIFA Group since 2018; it adds significant development and manufacturing capability through its 3 locations across R+D, small and large scale manufacture.

Thank you, Saurabh for sharing your expertise in this area!

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In this episode of My Two Cents, I Interview Gemma Casadevall. I am very inspired by her journey from Scientist to CEO. Her innovative mindset and the experiences she shares are great inspiration for many.   

About Gemma: 

Gemma Casadevall, PhD., is nowadays CEO at Nutrareseach and Nutra Procés. Overseeing executive operations for both companies in Spain. With more than 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, her career has focused on the formulation, drug delivery and development: she held several C-Suite and senior director positions at Medichem (Spain, Malta &China), Salvat (Spain), Esteve (Spain), Johnson and Johnson (USA) and Ferrer (Spain).  We discuss the journey, touch a. bit on diversity and inclusion, but mostly focus on what it takes to become a CEO. But also we look at what it will mean for you to step up the corporate ladder. Mindset, Motivation, Humility and being humble are a few traits we explored. But also the expertise she brings to the organisation in the area of science, makes her a hands-on executive.   

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New episode: Paul Turner explains his JOURNEY TO BECOMING AN INFLUENCER ON LINKEDIN through videos and podcasts, and how this contributes to the SUCCESS OF HIS ENGAGEMENTS with clients and partners!  

Putting yourself out there is never easy. 

• Am I good enough? 
• What will people think of me? 
• What will I get out of this? 
• Should I put myself out there?

That fear of failure may be blocking you from sharing your niche online. In this week's Podcast, we talk about Pauls Journey, and subsequently what this brought him. 

About Paul:

As a former Executive, Paul now works as VP of Strategic Accounts at Vonage. Through Podcasts, he is sharing indispensable insights for executives and people in the contact centre world. Thanks to his podcasts he was ranked in the top 100 LinkedIn Sales Influencers of 2020.  

This week we talk you through some useful tool to help you navigate better through Downsizing, reengineering and redesign. Let us start with some insights:

• Almost 50% of executives in the US, expect to invest more in 2021 whilst in the EU only 16% expect to be able to invest.
• Most executives expect to be reengineering and will critically need to look at the skillset of their people.
• Unemployment rates in the EU are stable, we have fewer bankruptcies. The support our Governments put in place seems to help.
• At the same time, there is a lot of talk about Zombie companies. Companies who will not survive when the support stops.

For you as a leader, these are challenging times. For your people, difficult times may be the result of your restructuring. The question then is, How Do I Downsize On A Double Bubble?

This week my guest is Kim Adele. Kim is a former Executive/Boardmember, an internationally bestselling author, keynote speaker, and master coach in the area of cultural change AND motivation. She has led teams with empathy and trust throughout her career and now coaches executives and business leaders in Cultural Change. In this episode, Kim shares insights into the triggers and subsequent tools you as a leader possess to manage your organisation through reengineering.