Such Conversations Matter (SCM)
By Saurabh Nanda
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Such Conversations Matter (SCM)Aug 07, 2020
Youth, AI, Careers, Future | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Finale: S2E25 | Aditya Mallya
“…the world belongs to the youth from the emerging economies, so they need to work on systemic problems…problems that will take decades to solve…AI and Digitisation will not affect their futures then, in fact it will enable their progress for the world they are going to inherit! ” - Saurabh Nanda
YT- https://youtu.be/abxaziMzjCs
Please welcome Mr Saurabh Nanda, founder of Such Conversations Matter, founder of SN Mentoring and co-founder of Career Choice Pro, an AI Career Counsellor. Saurabh jumped into the Education space in 2012 after leaving his cushy American IT job (B.Tech in Computer Science from NIT Jalandhar, 2005-09). He was confused and knew that if this is happening to him then it must be happening to a lot of others like him. He up skilled himself in psychology, learnt from psychometricians such as Dr Itishree Misra. Since then, he has impacted over 20,000 students, parents, teachers and aspirants across 35+ universities and colleges, 600+ schools, companies and education institutions 25+ countries. As an international youth mentor, he mentors youth for multi-disciplinary projects in sustainability, tech4good, psychology and more for organisations such as Government of India’s Atal Innovation Mission, Huawei CSR, YUNGA Japan, RISE, NIT Jalandhar, Enactus chapters in Delhi University, Jagriti Yatra among others. He hosts 2 podcasts and is a multiple TEDx speaker. For his work in cyber bullying awareness, he was awarded the Jagran Josh Education Award for “Best Initiative for Mental Health Awareness” by the Dainik Jagran group on 31st March 2022.
You can know more about him here - https://linktr.ee/snanda
Career Choice Pro - https://careerchoice.pro/
This episode is also the finale of SCM Season 2!
Please refer to other episodes mentioned in the podcast here - https://scmonline.in
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#AI #Careers #Youth #Future #FutureOfJobs #Spirituality #introspection #retrospection
#SuchConversationsMatter #UniversalNative #SaurabhNanda #Information #Democratisation #AccessToInformation #sustainability #changemakers #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling
Preserving Languages thru Tech | Satdeep Gill | Wikimedia | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E24
“…in today's world, I think even humanities is about digital humanities. So you have to start forming those connections. You have to think about what's the state in the digital world? Can I directly contribute to that aspect if it's not really digitized?”
YT - https://youtu.be/WoL6WsLH-2Y
Meet Satdeep Gill, a linguist working to preserve languages and cultures with the help of technology. He is the Senior Program Officer, Culture and Heritage at Wikimedia Foundation. His journey with Wikipedia started in 2009 by becoming a volunteer and then a few years later he was representing the Punjabi language community at national and international forums within Wikimedia Foundation and other places as well. Most recently he represented the Wikimedia Foundation at the G20 Culture Working Group organised by UNESCO and Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Satdeep is a passionate story teller, poet, writer and traveller and is fluent in Punjabi, Hindi, English, French and is currently learning Balinese Bahasa.
Satdeep and I met online at an internal event of an online media organisation. Since then we have stayed in touch and admired each others’ work and our passion towards that.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/satdeepgill/ ; https://medium.com/@satdeepgill
Wikisource Loves Manuscripts - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Loves_Manuscripts
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#wikipedia #Culture #languages #SatdeepGill #DigitalTechnologies #Ethnography #Heritage #preservation
#indigenouscultures #india #indonesia #cambodia #wikimedia #wikisource #wikitongue
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Media, Technology and Future | Bharat Nayak | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E23
“Media Literacy is needed at the individual level for all.”
YT - https://youtu.be/4YS6ov9g-pM
Meet Bharat, a media professional and one of the core team members of the Logical Indian. Bharat Nayak has spent some 9 and a half years at Logical Indian, starting his journey at the Logical Indian startup, when he was still in college and worked for no money for over a year and then becoming one of the Founding Editors. He turned the Logical Indian into one of the most followed media outfits in India when he was the Editorial Director. Later he headed the Fact Checking division which has taken him to forums representing Indian media in Washington DC and Oslo. Bharat and I share very similar perspectives over media literacy, future of media and access to information. He is an alumnus of NIT Silchar.
He and I also share a spiritual seeking journey which has made us connect over mental wellness, youth empowerment and engagement and many related topics.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bharat-nayak-569700117/
The Logical Indian - https://thelogicalindian.com
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#logicalindian #factcheck #IndianMedia #BharatNayak #MediaTransparency #MediaTechnology #FutureofMedia #MediaLiteracy #SaurabhNanda #SuchConversationsMatter #IndianPodcast #SpotifyPodcast #Podcast #GooglePodcast #ApplePodcast
Youth, Governance, India | Lakshit Mittal | Y20 | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E22
“But once that leader is in power, once the leader comes to defining policy priorities. What they need is you, is the globalized educated youth to provide your perspective. You are now essential and all the leaders, right, in their sane mind, are looking for youth's participation and for you to lead from front. The problem areas the solutions that they want to see in the country, right? So there is absolutely great political, you know, will to involve the youth, it is time that the youth steps up!”
YT - https://youtu.be/onE3GbKGsog
Meet Lakshit, a management and policy consultant. Lakshit Mittal is currently the track chair of the “Health Wellbeing and Sports” track at Y20, the youth engagement wing of the G20 forum. As India is the president of the G20 in 2023, Lakshit and others are convening and leading conversations around different tracks of the Y20 mission. He has earlier worked with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission implemented by the National Health Authority (NHA). He has helped political parties campaign pre-covid and prior to that he has worked as a consultant in the healthcare sector with consultancies such as ZS Associates and McKinsey. He is an alumnus of Punjab Engineering College (PEC), Chandigarh.
I have worked with Lakshit since 2020 when we connected to discuss our common ideas about youth and governance.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshit-mittal-19155167/
Y20 - https://y20india.in
Career Break Article - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/saurabh-nanda-experience-career-breaks-for-professionals-and-students-1675925144-1
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#Youth #Governance #politics #policy #y20 #g20 #Leadership #YouthInGovernance #YouthMentorship #india #AyushmanBharat #NationalHealthAuthority #SaurabhNanda #SuchConversationsMatter #IndianPodcast #SpotifyPodcast #Podcast #GooglePodcast #ApplePodcast
भारत के लिए उद्यमिता | Elements of Entrepreneurship for India | Ashutosh Kumar | Jagriti Yatra | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E21
“ये भी समझने वाली बात है कि भारत जैसे एक विविध देश में, हर जगह की संस्कृति अलग है। अगर आप वहां के कल्चर में कुछ बहार से लेकर कोई चीज थोप देंगे और बोलेंगे के ऐसे ही करना है, ऐसे ही चलाना है, तो नहीं चलने वाला है, बल्कि आप वहां के कल्चर को समझ उसके हिसाब से इकोसिस्टम बनाने की कोशिश करें। लेकिन अगर आप ईस्टर्न यूपी जैसी जगह पर जाएं, या ओवरऑल इंडिया के लिए, ये वैलिड है, यहां पर काफी फैमिली बेस्ड एंटरप्राइज होते हैं”
YT - https://youtu.be/WQhTxvGQ6Us
Meet Mr. Ashutosh Kumar, CEO of Jagriti Yatra, which is an ambitious train journey of discovery and transformation that takes hundreds of highly motivated youth, from all over India and world, on a 15 day, 8000 km national odyssey to meet the role models - social and business entrepreneurs - of the country. The vision of Jagriti is 'building India through enterprise'. It is a confluence of change-makers, leaders, problem-solvers and innovators. This model has been replicated in many countries and regions of the world including the USA.
He has been with the Yatra since its inception in 2008. After completing his Mechanical Engineering education from IIT Kharagapur, he joined CSC in Chennai. He left that comfortable IT job to join this movement and has led the movement since 2012. He is a 2 time TEDx Speaker. He was the invited by the US consulate’s prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), he is an Asian Development Fellow run by the Asia Foundation in 2018 and IIT Kharagpur awarded him the Young Achiever Alumni Award in 2019.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashutoshkumar5/
His TEDx Talks - https://youtu.be/xdpQ6F8osSI ; https://youtu.be/DwUCpNsi8cI
Jagriti Yatra - https://www.jagritiyatra.com/index
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Adoption Reforms for India | Vidyadhar Prabhudesai | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E20
“… there are roughly about 30 million children who are orphaned or abandoned; they are living on the streets as far India is concerned. But out of the 30 million, roughly about five to six lacs (hundred thousand) only make up to a formalized channel itself….Surprisingly, the adoption rate is very low in India, unlike the US or Japan, there are roughly on an average 3000 to 4000 children who get adopted.”
YT - https://youtu.be/h6AtuVPrAR4
Meet Mr. Vidyadhar Prabhudesai! Recipient of Thane City’s second highest civilian awards. Vidyadhar is a versatile professional who started off in the corporate sector but soon realised that his passion lies in empowering people. In this episode we talk about the adoption eco-system in India and how some reforms are urgently needed. He is a life-long change maker and now a father to the beautiful Adyaveda.
He founded LeadCap Trust which empowered more than 10 million youth between 2007 and 2012 and LeadCap Ventures which consults for national governments and international institutions like UN, World Economic Forum. He is a Curator of Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum and Fellow of UN and Ford Foundation. An alumnus of Thunderbird and Aegis, he shares board seats on institutions such as International Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development, Harvard Business Review, Dalham Foundation. He is also a member of Principal Scientific Advisor’s Consultative Group, Mentor of Change, NITI Aayog and Ambassador of Jagriti Yatra.
Know more about him - http://vidyadharprabhudesai.com ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyadhar/
Media Articles by Vidyadhar on this topic:
https://thelogicalindian.com/app-lite/trending/low-level-of-child-adoption-in-india-38245
CARA - https://cara.nic.in
Previous Conversation with Vidyadhar: YT - https://youtu.be/JLEF7FXiVYc
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#adoption #adoptioninindia #cara #childadoption #orphanedchildren #surrogacy #IVF #cradlesignage #childrensday #vidyadharprabhudesai #saurabhnanda #SuchConversationsMatter #IndianPodcast #SpotifyPodcast #Podcast #GooglePodcast #ApplePodcast
Democratising the Internet | Web3 | Supercraft | Debasri Rakshit | Soum Paul | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E19
“…from yahoo chatrooms, to facebook, to twitter, to influencers, we have seen users getting more and more identity on the internet… with Web3, that pattern is solidifying…which has very real world use cases…” - Debasri
Meet Debasri Rakshit and Soum Paul, founders of the Web 3 creator economy startup called Supercraft. This is the second venture that both of them are working on after Home Screen Network. Debasri has a background in publishing and Soum is a computer engineer with a passion for film making. They have both worked with creators since 2018 now and are now using the Web 3 world to give creators more autonomy and ownership of their creations. I have worked with Soum and Debasri since 2020 when I was on boarded as one of the first career consultants on their platform called Spark.Live. Since, then we have talked many times regarding future of tech and data and finally we get a chance to bring it all together in the form of this podcast episode.
Know More about Supercraft - https://www.supercraft.co
Know More about Debasri - https://www.linkedin.com/in/debasrirakshit/
Know More about Soum - https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumpaul/
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#Web3 #metaverse #crypto #careersincrypto #bitcoin #etherium #bitcoin #blockchain #Education
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India’s changing Dev Space | Ramesh Balasundaram | Binu Ramesh | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E18
“…I think the single most important piece now, especially over the last two years that has opened up for us is for NGOs to plan for scale… What was exposed in the last 2 years was that nobody… planned for scale” - Ramesh
YT - https://youtu.be/HnBEESur2_A
Meet Ramesh Balasundaram and Binu Ramesh, founders and leaders of the NGO BalUtsav, headquartered in Bangalore, India. BalUtsav helps to bring life-changing education to children living in India, thus facilitating learning for the entire life cycle: from childhood to livelihood. They work in government schools in 5 states in India and impact over 800,000 students. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Ramesh and Binu also assisted in the migrant crisis, distributing food, medicines, water and other essentials.
Ramesh and Binu left their corporate training careers to work in the development sector full time since 2008. Ramesh has also worked with the Government of Karnataka consulting in the Knowledge Commission. They share an indelible desire with me and SCM, for the youth of India to step in and start making the development sector more innovative and effective.
Know More about BalUtsav - https://balutsav.org
Know More about Ramesh - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rameshbalasundaram/
Know More about Binu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/binuverma/
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#DevelopmentSector #NGOs #Balutsav #SocialImpact #Sustainability #Education
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Science, Innovation Ecosystems | Jakob Williams Ørberg | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E17
“…transformation should not only come from outside the systems where impact is sought…but the people working within these systems have to become transformers themselves…”
YT - https://youtu.be/U2YfMJPvlxU
Meet Jakob, a Counsellor for Innovation, Research and Higher Education at the Royal Danish Embassy in New Delhi. This is one of the 7 such positions which exist in the world for the Danish Government. He helps in building collaboration for Innovation, Science and Higher Education between India and Denmark. I have known Jakob since 2016, when I attended his PhD defence in Copenhagen. His topic of research was “Heroes of the knowledge economy? - Futurity and Anxiety in the Lives of Indian Engineering Students”. We have had long conversations around such topics and more and this episode brings some of them to the fore.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobwilliamsoerberg/
Unleash - https://unleash.org
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#science #innovation #ecosystems #denmark #india #DanishEmbassy #HigherEd #Engineering
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Spirituality and its practice | Vishal Gupta | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E16
“…Agar hum ye sab nai samajh pa rhe hai ki hamare andar kya chal rha hai, hum jo kar rhe hain apni day to day life me, uske karne ke peechhe reasons kya hain? Reason hote hain logo ke pas, aisa nahi hai ki reason nai hote, reason hote hain, par vo reason ho sakta hai aapne acquire kiye ho society se vo definitions leke. Ye karna chahiye, aisa hona chahiye. Par aapne kabi usko challenge nai kiya, apne question ani kiya usko, ke bhai ye kyu hona chahiye? Isse mujhe kya labh hota hai? Kya isko karne ka koi aur behtar reason bi ho sakta hai, which is much much deeper, much more beneficial for you? Aur aapne kabhi challenge hi nai kiya. To hum kuchh dharaon pe chalte rehte hain haina. Isko hum bolte hain ki ye mechanical life hai….”
YT - https://youtu.be/jyIRXxSwNR8
Meet Vishal Gupta, a relationship and emotional empowerment coach. He is the founder of the Soch Kholo Foundation and conducts training, coaching and awareness sessions for all types of learners. After almost 9 years with companies like Infosys and TCS, Vishal left his job as a software engineer in 2017 to embark full-time on a journey of self-learning and helping others through his understanding of spirituality. He conducts online and offline sessions and has helped hundreds of seekers. I attended a couple of courses with Vishal in May 2022 along with a few colleagues, friends and clients. He has given me the answers which were always elusive.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishal-gupta-80b87525/
Soch Kholo - http://sochkholo.com
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#SelfDevelopment #Spirituality #Sochkholo #SochkholoFoundation #VishalGupta #SelflessLeadership #Relationship #Parenting #Marriage #HusbandWifeRelationship #LifeSkills #Peace #RelationshipCoach #LeadershipCoach #SpiritualCoach #DecodeYourHighestPotential #MakeMarriageBeautiful #SelflessLeadershipWisdom #BecomeJoyfulParents
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Venture Building in India | Pranav Chaturvedi | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E15
“...there's a burn to build a product, then you need the best of people working on the product and therefore there's a burn to get the best of people, right. You need the smartest minds to be creating something like this. And the third then is to own the mind space, a brand. Promote your brand in such a large country, with such a large population, you again need to burn money... ”
Meet Pranav Chaturvedi, an entrepreneur who helps other entrepreneurs build their ventures through a unique Digitisation, Digitalisation and Digital Transformation venture building company called Favcy. I have known Pranav since 2014, when I started working with Pratham Test Prep and Ankit Kapoor. Favcy is a culmination of Pranav’s experiences in building start-ups in the Indian eco-system. Pranav is an alumnus of Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi University. Pranav and I keep discussing startup ideas and the ecosystem in general and this conversation is a good summary of such chats.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaturvedipranav/
Favcy - https://www.favcy.com/info/
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India: World’s Fellowship Capital | Aditya Mallya | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E14
“…Fellowships at their core are just about that - people development. How do you develop people while also solving some other short term problem statement… ”
YT - https://youtu.be/X0nNAWpRpTA
Meet Aditya Mallya, the City Director for Mumbai at Teach for India (TFI). He has been serving at TFI since 2016. But before that he was a chemical engineer from NIT Jalandhar, worked in ITC FMCG manufacturing, then went on to finish his MBA from ISB Hyderabad and ended up becoming a consultant at Deloitte for almost 3 years. But curiosity and an urgent need to create impact, especially in education, drew him towards TFI. Aditya and I are close friends from our college days where we co-founded the institute’s first student newsletter. We share a love for learning, reading, writing and, curiously speaking. It is serendipitous that we both ended up in the education sector and a lot of common areas of interest in the development sector.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-mallya-10996394/
Social Movements (3.5% rule) - https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-to-change-the-world/
Teach for India - https://www.teachforindia.org
SN’s article on Fellowships - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/what-are-academic-fellowships-all-you-need-to-know-1617102216-1
Recommended Listening - SCM S1E22, S1E23, S2E13
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Community Management of Water | Bhakti Devi | Jal Fellowship | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E13
“The reality is that the water crisis is so complex but at the same time the solution is simple, as in you can enable people to take care of it, water problem is solved, almost… a large amount of water is waiting for the community to take charge of it.”
YT - https://youtu.be/y0mPrQ8I59s
Meet Dr Bhakti Devi, Professor, Rashtram School of Public Leadership & Co Director Centre for Water at Rishihood University. She leads the Jal Fellowship, a program is aimed at creating District based water leaders all across 750 districts of pan India. Dr Bhakti is also Founder of two water impact platforms Jal Smruti and Urban Water Doctor. She has over 30 years of experience in facilitating & implementing water user-led onsite self sufficient water schemes and water sensitive neighbourhoods. With work experience across Australia, New Zealand and India, Dr Bhakti has worked in diverse functions across the value chain of the water system, namely -strategy, policy, planning, capacity building, design and operations. She is also the Founder President of Water Resources Council of WICCI a pan India network of women in businesses and industries - Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI). I have worked with her since 2021 on creating water awareness among youth in Punjab through Jal Smruti’s Youth Champions for Local Water Action.
Noteworthy organizations where Dr Bhakti Devi has previously worked and made her contributions to include - Sydney Water Corporation, City of Sydney, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Institute for Sustainable Futures, CRC for Irrigation Futures, Cooks River Alliance, Sydney Harbour Catchment Management Authority, CDD Society, Alttech Foundation and Good Earth. She has a PhD in Water Management from University of Western Sydney, Australia and a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering & Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from VJTI, University of Bombay.
Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhaktidevi/
Jal Smruti - https://jalsmruti.org
Jal Fellowship at Rishihood University - https://rishihood.edu.in/jal-fellowship/
Urban Water Doctor - urbanwaterdoctor.com
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Don’t miss out on Coaching | Srikanth ND | Inspire Someone Today | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E12
“…Professionally a coach can help you elevate your own thought process and journey, help in connect those dots and help in validation…personally a coach can act as a sounding board…pretty much like having a personal Board of Directors…”
YT - https://youtu.be/EezTM6pKJ74
Meet Srikanth, an executive coach, a podcast and a corporate leader who intends to “help people unleash their potential”. Srikanth is currently the COO-Tax of KPMG Global Services and based out of Bangalore and has a solid 2 decades of corporate career spanning Strategy and Business growth, Operation Management, Vendor Management, Project/Program Management, Change Management, Coaching/Mentoring. As an executive coach , he uses the coaching structures prescribed by the International Coaching Federation and Positive Intelligence (PQ) frameworks. Srikanth hosts the very successful podcast called “Inspire Someone Today” where he hosts leaders from different walks of life - cricket, journalism, development sector, corporate world and so on. Srikanth and I met virtually during the lockdown and have participated in the PQ eight-week Pod experience as well.
This episode was recorded in March 2021.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/srikanthnd77/
Inspire Someone Today - https://inspiresomeonetoday.in
Positive Intelligence (PQ) - https://www.positiveintelligence.com
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Financial Literacy in India | Harpreet Singh Chawla | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E11
“…People have started focussing on generation of money but are still ignoring part of managing money…”"... लोगों ने पैसा बनाने पर ध्यान देना शुरू कर दिया है लेकिन अभी भी पैसे के प्रबंधन के हिस्से की अनदेखी कर रहे हैं ..."
Meet Harpreet, a wealth manager and financial literacy advocate currently based out of Chandigarh. Harpreet has worked in multiple functions in his decade long career. He most recently left Amazon India where he worked as a Product Manager. He completed his MBA from IIM Ahemdabad, prior to which he worked in an education startup. After completing his Computer Science Engineering from NIT Jalandhar and worked for Fiserv India. His passion for numbers, patterns and understanding the nature of money generation has now catapulted him into being a full time investor, primarily in the equity markets. He is passionate about increasing people’s financial literacy and has been designing curricula around that. Harpreet is a close friend and the initial phases of our career journeys has been very similar. We have been working together since Aug 2021 towards financial literacy.
This episode was recorded in April 2021.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpreetsinghchawla/
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Global Cultures’ Intelligence | Richard Farkas | Culture Connector | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E10
“Stereotypes are very rare…culture stereotypes are found once in about 450 people…people are actually very individual…” - Richard Farkas
Meet Richard, the CEO of Argonaut, a cross-cultural training and consulting company based out of London and Helsinki. He is an educator working with higher education and corporate training for almost 3 decades now. He currently leads the development of Ed-Tech training solutions for cross-cultural trainings. He is also the host of the Inter Cultural Tool Box podcast, where I had the privilege to be a guest earlier in 2021. This podcast unravels the various nuances of the cultural training and inter-cultural conversations. Richard is a thought leader in bringing cultural knowledge together from around the world.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardfarkas/
Argonaut - https://www.argonautonline.com
Interculture Connector - https://www.cultureconnector.com/
My conversation on the Inter Cultural ToolBox Podcast - https://interculturaltoolbox.org/episodes/what-are-the-training-needs-of-the-newest-generation-of-intercultural-training-participants
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Future of Leadership | Sangeeth Varghese | LeadCap Ventures | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E9
“The Future of Leadership is a completely decentralised and open form of leadership and probably we are already there and we are just not realising it yet.” - Sangeeth Varghese
Meet Sangeeth, the founder and MD of LeadCap Ventures, a strategic consulting firm. Sangeeth Varghese is a globally acknowledged leadership thinker, ranked among the top 10 in 2011, from the Harvard and London School of Economics. He is a personal advisor to 3 prime ministers of the world on matters of leadership and youth development. Varghese is an ambassador of Harvard and listed in the Who's Who in the World, 2012-13. He has consulted for nations from Africa and Asia, institutions like UNO, World Bank, ADB and Fortune 500 corporations like Microsoft, Intel, Unilever and Coca Cola. He was nominated as the Young Global Leader 2010 by the World Economic Forum.
He has written hundreds of columns in Fortune, Forbes, the Economic Times and such publications. He is the author of 2 best sellers on leadership, the last one being Open Source Leader published by Penguin. He has worked with the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and many national governments across the world. He was one of my initial mentors in my professional journey. I took an internship at LeadCap Ventures in Bangalore in 2009 which opened my eyes to the opportunities beyond IT engineering.
Know more about him - http://sangeethvarghese.com ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/sangeethvarghese/
LeadCap Ventures - http://www.leadcap.net
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The Modern Indian School | Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon | Kamla Nehru Public School | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E8
“IT helps enhance 21st century skils…SDGs are a part of that!”
Meet Paramjeet, the principal of Kamla Nehru Public School, a rural school in Phagwara, Punjab catering to 65 villages. She has been a pioneer in shaping what a modern school can look like. She has been an educator for 4+ decades. A gold medalist in university, she quickly became the Principal at Army Public School, Jalandhar and received commendation card from the Army management, even though she was a civilian, before moving to KNPS Phagwara. Under her brilliant leadership, KNPS is today a Microsoft Showcase School featuring all the latest in technology that can be utilised in such a school setting. KNPS is an ardent supporter of the UN SDGs since 2016 and started a #RiseUp4SDGs campaign connecting with 600+ classrooms in 46 different countries across the world. She has been recognised and awarded by multiple SDG organisations including the United Nations. She is leading the way for rural and smaller private schools in India to enter into this century. She has been training bigger schools in big metro areas now.
Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paramjeet-kaur-dhillon-18425260/
KNPS Phagwara - http://kamlanehrupublicschool.com
Microsoft Showcase School - https://news.microsoft.com/en-in/features/going-virtual-in-the-village/ ; https://youtu.be/JXn4YSzWoAU
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Community Model of Education | Ankit Chhabra | Sanjhi Sikhiya | PYLP | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E7
“…if most people are trying to do things to maximise profit, then I am being an economic agent for others…or I can break free of the cycle…awareness of the large structural patterns that we are stuck in…the young people need to self-reflect… and understand things critically…”
Meet Ankit, a development sector professional, educator, innovator, lifelong learner and a core team member of the Sanjhi Sikhiya movement in Punjab. After finishing his Bachelors in Civil Engineering from NIT Nagpur, he went on to do his Masters at IISc (Indian Institute of Science) researching on sustainable cement but that didn’t interest him and after a short stint in developing highway bridges in the Himalayas, he went on to teach in rural Rajasthan which proved to be a turning point in his professional journey. Since then he has been involved in the development sector and has worked with the Future Group, Indus Action, TAP India until he worked on curating Sanjhi Sikhiya or Collective Learning in Punjab.
Sanjhi Sikhiya’s flagship program, Punjab Young Leaders Program or PYLP is helping build community based, decentralised, locally empowered structures to change India’s rural development story. They have started with education and currently working in 2 districts in Punjab - Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala impacting hundreds of government schools and villages. They have recently hired their 3rd cohort of fellows.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitchhabrask/
PYLP/Sanjhi Sikhiya - https://www.sanjhisikhiya.org
Know more about Fellowships - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/what-are-academic-fellowships-all-you-need-to-know-1617102216-1
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Global Citizenship thru Teaching English | David W Fingerote | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E6
“…you’re going to have those small bumps at home as well, whichever country you come from… it’s much easier to move to a new country today and there are these different ways to connect which help…” - David W Fingerote
Meet David, an educator and English language teacher who has spent the last 15+ years living in different parts of Asia - South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan, teaching English to young students, corporate professionals and researchers. And, then switching over to managing such organisations which impart English language training for various purposes. He is originally from California, the USA but has made Asia his home. He is truly a global nomad who doesn’t shy away from embarking on the next big adventure which calls out to him.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwfingerote/
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Human Rights Activism FAQs | Pallabi Ghosh | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E5
Meet Pallabi Ghosh, a human rights activist specialising in work related to anti-human trafficking activism. She completed her studies from Lady Shree Ram College, Delhi University and then decided to embark on the journey towards Human Rights Activism. She is a UN Woman, is on the board of and is a consultant to many Civic Society Organisations, and has set-up a trust with some renowned philanthropists, journalists and leaders in society. Her work gets featured in media across the world. Her work takes her all across India and the under bellies of our cities and villages. She is an ardent supporter of education and she is a core part of ANNEducation, where I met her and we have been working together ever since.
Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallabi-ghosh-b2b9a349/https://www.facebook.com/pallabighosh90.lsr
ANNEDuction - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgpV1n51zr0zywFQK17Zi7A
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Psychometrics Demystified: An Indian POV | Itishree Misra | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E4
“Now the onus of choosing subjects and careers is also on a 13 year old on top of all other things…” - Dr Itishree Misra
Please meet Dr Itishree Mishra, one of India’s pre-eminent psychometricians. She has completed her studies and research under some of India’s pioneering psychologists and educationists such as Prof Vimala Veeraraghavan. She is a gold medalist and PhD from Delhi University and has mentored over 100,000 students in over 2 decades of her work across schools, universities and geographies in India. She has helped set up schools, set up career development centres and processes at various organisations and is regularly featured as an advisor at various research forums in both public and private sectors in India.
Know more about her - http://mapmycareer.in/about-us
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Student Empowerment for SDGs | Samarth Pathak | UNODC | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E3
“SDGs will not be successful if they are not transformed into ’Student Driven Goals’ or ‘School Driven Goals’ !” - Samarth Pathak
Please welcome Samarth Pathak, the Communications Officer (South Asia) and Regional Focal Point (Education for Justice Initiative) at UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime). Since 2020, he has spearheaded the Lockdown Learners program in India and South Asia under the Education for Justice Initiative.His work experience encompasses public advocacy, content-driven outreach, multilateral diplomatic engagement, youth mobilization on SDGs, community engagement, network-building, management of external and internal communications, institutional brand-building, news production and analysis on issues related to security, human rights and development. Prior to UNODC, he was associated with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Aspen Centre India, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Reuters Television.
Know more about him - https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarth-pathak-0332b54b/
Education for Justice Initiative - https://www.unodc.org/e4j/Lockdown
Learners India - https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/about-e4j/e4j-around-the-world/lockdown-learners-india.html
UNODC - https://www.unodc.org/southasia/
UN SDGs - http://sdgs.un.org
Cyber Bullying - https://www.ipsos.com/en/global-views-cyberbullying
Cyber Bullying in India - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/cyber-bullying-all-you-need-to-know-1600087117-1
Cyber Bullying or COVID Anxiety - https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/is-it-covid-anxiety-or-cyber-bullying-expert-speak-saurabh-nanda-1622716764-1
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Mental Wellness and Indian Youth | Pallavi Khanna | Sage Advice | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E2
Sustainability and Citizen Activism | Dr Navneet Bhullar | AGAPP | Saurabh Nanda | SCM S2E1
"If you are not working towards lessening your carbon footprint, you are not literate." - Dr Navneet Bhullar
Meet Dr Navneet Bhullar, founder of Action Group Against Plastic Pollution (AGAPP) in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She divides her time between the US and India. She is activist at heart. She has previously volunteered at Doctors Without Borders. Last year after the lockdown, she could observe more and more plastic being used and could not stand our environment being destroyed by bad plastic waste management and that’s when she together with other doctors, counsellors to create AGAPP and start getting to the bottom of the problem and create more awareness. I am following her lead and have joined AGAPP as a member and we are trying to create more awareness around plastic waste management.
Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2TDHqpqiEpQ
Know more about her - https://www.todayshospitalist.com/finding-a-much-broader-perspective/
Plastic Waste Management in India (AGAPP Report) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-r3W7LkgiQwElxvkJrbVcGUNe0fCjzeo/view
Japan Pollution - https://www.ft.com/content/5cf68c84-afeb-11ea-94fc-9a676a727e5a
John Oliver Episode on Plastics - https://youtu.be/Fiu9GSOmt8E
Malaysia Refuses Plastic Waste - https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/malaysia-sent-4120-tons-of-plastic-trash-back-to-13-rich-countries-saying-it-refuses-to-be-the-rubbish-dump-of-the-world/articleshow/73486811.cms
Tauktae Cyclone Throws back trash - https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/cyclone-tauktae-garbage-mumbai-beach-b1851451.html
Sunderlal Bahuguna - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahuguna
Sant Seechewal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbir_Singh_Seechewal
KS Pannu - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/punjab-government-may-soon-set-new-pollution-parameters/articleshow/77762463.cms
AGAPP - https://www.facebook.com/AGAPPMissionplasticfreeJalandhar
The second season we also launch our new music background score created by the very talented Sharad Joshi - https://linktr.ee/SharadJo
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Season 2 Teaser with Season 1 summary
Season 2 of SCM will begin in the first week of May. With better production quality and renewed enthusiasm, the conversations would revolve around the small movements which will become part of our immediate future - a future we all deserve.
This teaser is an attempt at summarising the discussions which were held at SCM in Season 1.
Season 1 Guests -
Arti Anand Ashish Rana Anurag Bhandari Amandeep Rajgotra Harshita Suneja Jim Bouman Suneel Jangir Bettina Buchholtz Ankit Kapoor Emily Bailey Yasuka Inoue Siddhant Chaudhary Terrie Lloyd Micky Chen Robinder N. Sachdev Michele Bezzi Yuumi Okuda Daisuke Kaneko Vidyadhar Prabhudesai, FRSA Narendra Joshi Priyank Sharma Elizabeth Masamune PSM GAICD (Dr) Raman K. Attri Saurabh Nanda
#suchconversationsmatter #SCMseason2 #saurabhnanda #globalcitizenship #sustainability
Democratisation of Access to Information | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Finale: S1E25 | Aman and Anurag
“Indian systems we continuously need external intervention…and that external intervention will not come from outside India…there needs to be a systemic change at scale” - Saurabh Nanda Please welcome Mr Saurabh Nanda, founder of Such Conversations Matter and co-founder of Universal Native. He is a computer science engineer from NIT Jalandhar, Masters in Clinical Psychology and is currently pursuing a diploma in Sustainability Sciences. He is an educator, career consultant and UN SDGs proponent. He has impacted the lives of more than 14,000 students and parents across India, Denmark and Japan. Last year, he was selected for the Awaji Youth Federation international fellowship in Awaji, Japan. He believes that education should empower. This has driven him to the cause of using technology to ensure easy access of information for all citizens. He has co-founded a non-profit called Universal Native, with 3 other innovators who have similar passion for this: Amandeep Rajgotra, Anurag Bhandari and Ashish Rana. Aman and Anurag have been kind of to take my interview in this episode where we discuss in detail about Universal Native, Such Conversations Matter and much more. This episode is also the finale of SCM Season 1! Know more about Saurabh - https://snanda.in #SuchConversationsMatter #UniversalNative #SaurabhNanda #Information #Democratisation #AccessToInformation #sustainability #changemakers #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling
Learning shaped by New Tech | Dr Raman K Attri | SCM Ep 24 | Saurabh Nanda
"Organisations need to spend more amount of money on developing learning ecosystems which can help learners rather than on separate trainings..." - Dr Raman K Attri Please welcome Dr Raman K Attri, an expert on Expertise Acceleration! He is a double doctorate, author of 20 books, corporate training leader and scientist who currently resides in Singapore but has worked in many European countries, the USA and many Asian economies. He has more degrees, diplomas, licenses and certifications than one can comfortably count. He manages the global corporate learning and training programs for KLA-Tencor. He has his own proprietary research and training methodology. Most importantly, he is still the same humble curious engineering student that he has always been - hungry to know more. He is an alumnus of NIT Jalandhar from the class of 1994 (erstwhile, REC Punjab) and he has kindly agreed to be on our show as a caring senior! This teachers day episode is special because of him. Know more about Dr Raman K Attri - https://www.speedtoproficiency.com #SuchConversationsMatter #Technology #Learning #CorporateTraining #Hololens #VR #AR #Proficiency #Training #TechnicalTraining #Leadership #TeachersDay2020 #TeachersDay #SaurabhNanda #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling
Fellowships - Modern Learning for Leaders | Elizabeth Masamune | SCM Ep 23 | Saurabh Nanda
"I hope that when the effective vaccine is developed, the world shares that with everyone...I believe that middle powers such as India, Japan, Australia and others need to form some kind of an alliance that would help to provide some balance..." Please welcome Ms Elizabeth Masamune, a former diplomat, advisor to governments, companies, universities and non-profits. She is the Senior Managing Director of the Awaji Youth Federation (AYF) in Japan. AYF is a unique place which brings young innovators from around the world in contact with very accomplished mentors who are former diplomats, UN leaders, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, professors and niche experts. Elizabeth is the recipient of the Public Service Medal by the Australian government. She is a passionate advocate for the power of cultural diversity and developing the next generation of the custodians of our planet. She is a cultural intelligence expert and a wonderful mentor! Know more about her - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-masamune-psm-gaicd-7159a94/ #SuchConversationsMatter #fellowship #awajiyouthfederation #ayfjapan #awaji #japan #Leadership #SDGs #sustainability #changemakers #Leader #SaurabhNanda #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling
Education Systems in India | Priyank Sharma | SCM Ep 22 | Saurabh Nanda
“COVID-19 has made people ask some questions which people should have asked long back! Things don’t change till people protest to change the systems… the privilege of protest is limited to certain kind of people…” - Priyank Sharma Priyank is an engineer from NIT Jalandhar, a Masters in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, an MPhil from National Institute of Education Planning and Administration, Delhi and most recently, a researcher in education - who was supposed to pursue his research studies in the US on side effects of Education systems. But the COVID-19 crisis forced those plans to change and he is currently continuing his research at NIEPA itself. Priyank likes to go into the depth of topics and find out the fundamental reasons for any practice or policy. You can read more about his thoughts from his semi-blog on facebook - fb.com/arandomeducator And, he created the education forum, of which I am a co-creator now! ANNEducation - https://www.youtube.com/c/ApproachingtheNewNormal/ #SuchConversationsMatter #ANNEducation #Education #EducationResearch #EducationInIndia #NEP2020
राजनीतिक दर्शनशास्र | Political Philosophies | Narendra Joshi | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 21
“भारत हमेशा से एक धर्म या कर्तव्य आधारित सभ्यता रही है ... आधुनिक समय में, हमें बस अपने संविधान का पालन करने की आवश्यकता है …” - नरेंद्र जोशी “India has always been a ‘dharma’ (duty) based civilization… In modern times, we just need to follow our constitution…” - Narendra Joshi भारत के एक इंजीनियर और सिविल सेवक श्री नरेंद्र जोशी से मिलिए, जो भारतीय रेलवे के लिए काम करते हैं। यह हमारी बातचीत का दूसरा एपिसोड है। पहले एपिसोड में, हमने आज की राजनीतिक संरचनाओं पर चर्चा की और इस कड़ी में हम इन राजनीतिक प्रकरणों के पीछे के दर्शन पर चर्चा कर रहे हैं। यहां देखें पहला एपिसोड - https://youtu.be/XizlolA8VhQ वे बहुत कम उम्र से किताबों के शौकीन पाठक रहे हैं, शुरुआत में हिंदी में और फिर अंग्रेजी में भी। उनके शैक्षणिक हित इतिहास, राजनीति विज्ञान, दर्शन, साहित्य, व्यवहार अर्थशास्त्र (मानव संज्ञानात्मक पक्षपात और निर्णय लेने), योग सिद्धांत और व्यवहार (भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा), नई और उभरती हुई प्रौद्योगिकियां (सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक / आर्थिक / राजनीतिक निहितार्थ) हैं। वह एक अद्भुत तरीके से विचारों को बताते हैं। Meet Mr. Narendra Joshi, an engineer and civil servant from India who works for the Indian Railways. This is the second episode of our conversation. In the first episode, we discussed the political structures of today and in this episode we are discussing the philosophy behind these political episodes. Watch the first episode here - https://youtu.be/XizlolA8VhQ He has been a avid reader of books from a very young age, initially in Hindi and then in English as well. His academic interests are history, political science, philosophy, literature, behavioral economics (human cognitive biases and decision making), yoga theory and practice (Indian knowledge tradition), new and emerging technologies (socio-cultural / economic / political implications). He is a gifted articulator of ideas. #PoliticalStructures #Politics #PoliticalPhilosophy #SuchConversationsMatter #podcast #Democracy #communism #monarchy #totalitarianism #dictatorship
Today’s Political Structures | आज के राजनीतिक संस्थान | Narendra Joshi | SCM Ep 20 | Saurabh Nanda
भारत के एक इंजीनियर और सिविल सेवक श्री नरेंद्र जोशी से मिलिए, जो भारतीय रेलवे के लिए काम करते हैं। वह बहुत कम उम्र से किताबों के शौकीन पाठक रहे हैं, शुरुआत में हिंदी में और फिर अंग्रेजी में भी। उनके शैक्षणिक रूचियाँ हैं इतिहास, राजनीति विज्ञान, दर्शन, साहित्य, व्यवहार अर्थशास्त्र (मानव संज्ञानात्मक पक्षपात और निर्णय लेने), योग सिद्धांत और अभ्यास (भारतीय ज्ञान परंपरा), नई और उभरती हुई प्रौद्योगिकियां (सामाजिक-सांस्कृतिक / आर्थिक / राजनीतिक निहितार्थ)। इस सप्ताह हम भारतीय लोकतंत्र के बारे में एक अद्वितीय परिप्रेक्ष्य के साथ दुनिया की राजनीतिक संरचनाओं पर चर्चा कर रहे हैं। वह एक अद्भुत तरीके से विचारों को बताते हैं। Meet Mr Narendra Joshi, an engineer and civil servant of India who works for the Indian Railways. He has been an avid reader of books since a very young age, initially in Hindi and then in English as well. His academic interests are History, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, Behavioural Economics (human cognitive biases and decision making), Yoga theory and practice (Indian wisdom traditions), New and emerging technologies (socio-cultural/economic/political implications). This week we are discussing the world's political structures with a unique perspective about Indian Democracy. He is a gifted articulator of ideas. #SuchConversationsMatter #politics #PoliticalPhilosophy #podcast #PoliticalStructures #Democracy #communism #monarchy #totalitarianism #dictatorship
Role of Global Change Makers | Vidyadhar Prabhudesai | SCM Ep 19 | Saurabh Nanda
Please welcome Mr. Vidyadhar Prabhudesai! A maker of leaders. Vidyadhar is a versatile professional who started off in the corporate sector but soon realised that his passion lies in empowering people. He founded LeadCap Trust which empowered more than 10 million youth between 2007 and 2012 and LeadCap Ventures which consults for national governments and international institutions like UN, World Economic Forum. He is a Curator of Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum and Fellow of UN and Ford Foundation. An alumnus of Thunderbird and Aegis, he shares board seats on institutions such as International Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development, Harvard Business Review, Dalham Foundation. He is also a member of Principal Scientific Advisor’s Consultative Group, Mentor of Change, NITI Aayog and Ambassador of Jagriti Yatra. Know more about Vidyadhar - http://vidyadharprabhudesai.com The music for this video was suggested by Vidyadhar as this song is the song of the Climate Reality Corps. Listen to the complete song here - https://lnkd.in/dhFw5Mb This episode also signifies the change of our logo :) #GlobalChangeMaker #Leadership #SDGs #ClimateRealityCorps #DreamonX #GlobalShapers #UN #LeadCap #SaurabhNanda #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #sustainability #changemakers #SuchConversationsMatter #Leader #WEF Check out my latest episode!
Sustainable Living Practices | Tane no Chikara (Seedbed) | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 18
“...people used to make everything on their own…we should have that skill…how to manage things on our own…and we are trying to do all those things on seedbed…” - Daisuke and Yuumi Meet the team behind Tane no Chikara or Seedbed! Daisuke Kaneko decided to do something about how we will today. He wanted to go back to nature and make sustainable living practices that others can follow and emulate. That is when he started Tane no Chikara, where he can put in the seeds of sustainability, with Yuumi Okuda. They had to move to Awaji, a rural island in Japan, to realise their dream. Michele, a passionate advocate of permaculture and nature conservation, found Tane no Chikara and started working with them to build earthbag houses, chemical-less agriculture and composting, creating education programs for students and young professionals in Japan. Being part of the Awaji Youth Federation in 2019, I got the golden opportunity to volunteer at Tane no Chikara, learn from the team, create conversations around SDGs and conduct corporate training modules for Japanese professionals. Know more about them - “https://www.facebook.com/seedbed.awajishima/?eid=ARCPRwMY7bwhGCbj77E8Oj9i0ExU_pmvG7-wDvIhpmvbHScThHpLS9g99qkqNKBkvRJtRc9azsZ9d4G8” #awaji #TaneNoChikara #SustainableLiving #EarthBagHouses #NaturalFarming #permaculture #composting #seedbed #japan #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #SDGs #sustainability
Live & Let Live | New International Perspectives | Robinder N. Sachdev | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 17
“Society is not a market…groupings of nations lead to more innovation…more impactful measure of the informal economy is needed…” - Robinder Nath Sachdev Meet the foreign relations expert, Mr Robinder Nath Sachdev. He is an engineer-entrepreneur turned international relations expert and the President of the Imagindia Institute, an independent think tank. Mr Sachdev was instrumental in the India-US nuclear deal in the late 2000s. He has had more than 3000 mentions in media like the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and many more. You can see him at least 2 times in a week on Indian TV channels like Zee News, India TV etc for commenting on India-US, India-China relations etc. His new campaign for Live and Let Live suggests a foreign policy that India should employ in today’s times. Know more about him: http://www.imagindia.org/index.html #foreignpolicy #internationalrelations #wto #UN #international #enterpreneur #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #usa #india #china #saarc #asean #rcp #nepal #iran
कानूनी और सोशल इंजीनियरिंग | Legal & Social Engineering | Amandeep Rajgotra | S. Nanda | SCM Ep 16
“Lawyers help in social engineering…they are closer to the grassroots than most lawmakers…” - Amandeep Rajgotra Meet the lawyer turned educator and legal activist Amandeep Rajgotra, who is a published author of books on Legal Reasoning. He loves the mountains and reading legal Acts. A passionate advocate of human rights, equality, and nature conservation, Amandeep has been involved in some social impact projects and is currently working on a community model for creating impact by allowing professionals to contribute their talents on a pro-bono basis to make socially relevant projects become real. Know more about him: https://www.quora.com/profile/Amandeep-Rajgotra #law #india #socialimpact #legalactivism #mountains #chandigarh #panchkula #socialengineering #universalnative #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling
Global Nomadic Entrepreneurship & Multi-Ethnic Upbringing | Micky Chen | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 15
Meet the energetic ‘simultaneous entrepreneur’ Micky Chen who currently manages 3 ventures. She is a techie who runs an e-commerce company for baby products, a corporate gifting venture and most recently a virtual assistant provider. She has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Nepal, China, Taiwan, Ireland, California and currently Singapore. She works so much that she doesn’t find time to rest much, and she loves that!
Know more about her and her ventures: www.linkedin.com/in/mickychen/
#globalnomads #serialentrepreneurship #multiethnic #international #enterpreneur #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #japan #netherlands #singapore #ecommerce #salesforce #ireland #nepal #china #taiwan #usa
Future of ‘Tech for Good’ | Tech Architect Anurag Bhandari | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 5
Meet Anurag Bhandari, a technology architect who has led teams for companies like Accenture and Sapient. He also co-founded a start-up in the US which helped provide college graduates with industry-level skills. He is working on many projects but the one close to his heart is creating a platform for involving young professionals to contribute to use Tech for Good.
#techforgood #universalnative #socialentrepreneurship #usethecrisis #neverquit #citizenempowerment #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
Social Impact Sector | Harshita Suneja | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 7
Meet Harshita Suneja, a management consultant who has worked in companies like Pricewaterhouse Coopers. She recently completed her MBA from the University of Manchester and is now working in the UK. She is somebody who doesn’t give up until she achieves her goals. This discussion is about her indispensable work in an NGO in Delhi. She explains the various aspects of the Social Impact Sector in India and globally.
#socialimpact #socialentrepreneurship #SDGs #usethecrisis #neverquit #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
Dr Arti Anand on reasons for domestic abuse during Lockdown | COVID-19 | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 4
The 2nd conversation with Dr Arti Anand to discuss the causes and effects of an increase in domestic abuse during the lockdown, especially towards women and children.
#mentalhealth #domesticabuse #womenabuse #childabuse #usethecrisis #neverquit #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
Watch the first conversation with Clinical Psychologist Dr Arti Anand on reasons for Depression During Lockdown here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM0aEoDecR4
Increasing Importance of International and Global Teams | Jim Bouman | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 6
Meet Jim Bouman, a start-up coach and investor, who is deeply interested in mentoring young start-ups especially from the developing world in Asia and Africa. He is someone who has worked with people from more than 60 countries and he is not even 30 yet! He brings in his very ‘Dutch straight-forwardness’ to conversations and yet, he is very grounded in his multi-cultural sensibility. He managed the office for a Chinese mobile game company in the Netherlands right after college and for the past two and half years he has been an integral part of this unique community of the Awaji Youth Federation on the Island of Awaji in Japan.
#globalcitizen #internationalteams #globalcommunity #usethecrisis #neverquit #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
You can follow him on LinkedIn and listen to Daily Jim, where he shares his experiences from which young entrepreneurs and professionals can learn from - www.linkedin.com/in/jimbouman/
भारत में एड-टेक | Ed-tech in India | Ankit Kapoor | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 11
1:14 - क्या आपको लगता है की हमारा जुगाड़ इ-लर्निंग और वेबिनार के लिए सफल रहा है , जब की हम लोग अभी लोखड़ौन के लिए तैयार नहीं थे।
3:26 - अIपने एक बोहोत जानी मानी सहवास रीगल ग्रुप में तीन साल से अधिक काम करने के बाद अपना कॉरपोर्रेट करियर छोड़ दिया और सोचा की टेस्ट प्रिपरेशन में जाना ह। ऐसा क्यों?
5:50 - सर क्या आपकी लर्निंग में ज़्यादा योगदान आपके कॉर्पोरेट सफर का है या आपकी एजुकेशन का ?
8:09 - सर टेस्ट प्रिपरेशन ही क्यों जब की इंडस्री में और भी ओप्तिओंस थे सेलेक्ट करने के लिए?
9:05 - तोह आपको इंडियन एजुकेशन सिस्टम में कितना एक्सपीरियंस हो गया है लगभग?
9:43 - तोह आपके बारह साल के एक्सपीरियंस में आप क्या कहना चाहेंगे की इंडियन एजुकेशन सिस्टम क्या है और कैसे है ये ?
12:50 - हमारे देश का एजुकेशन सिस्टम दुनिया में टस्सरे स्थान पर है अगर क्वांटिटी की बात करे लेकिन फिर भी ये स्ट्रक्चर्ड नहीं है, स्रमलीनेड नहीं ह। आपको क्या लगता है इसमें कोई बदलाव आएगा ?
15:28 - बांग्लादेश की एक स्टडी में पाया गया की किस तरह से उन्होंने अपने टेक्सटाइल इंडस्ट्री को स्ट्रॉमलिने और स्ट्रक्चर किय। साथ की साथ वह पर आई टी इंडस्ट्री ना होने के बावजूद बांग्लादेश में भारत के मुकाबले ज़्यादा आई टी फ्रीलांसर है ? आपका क्या कहना है इसके ऊपर?
18:19 - क्या आपको लगता है की लोखड़ौन की इस माहौल में जो बदलाव आया है उसमे अन्नअकादेमी और बाइजु जैसे कंपनी सही दिशा में काम कर रहे है?
22:14 - हमारे टीचर्स का टेक्नोलॉजी की तरफ देखने का नजरिया टेक्नोलॉजी की ताक़त और उसकी सही समझ कब आएगी?
25:09 - लेकिन कोरोना के बाद जब स्कूल कॉलेज खुलेंगे तब भी क्या इस टेक्नोलॉजी का इतना इस्तेमाल होगा?
28:29 - अगर बात कंदरिया विधालय और मुन्सिपल स्कूल की करे तोह वह पर इस टेक्नोलॉजी को कैसे लाया जाए?
33:20 - क्या आपको लगता है पालिसी मेकिंग में सर्कार के साथसाथ प्राइवेट प्लेयर्स को भी आना चाहिए ?
36:10 - क्या आपको लगता है की इ-लर्निंग में हमे सिर्फ कंटेंट बनाने की बजाये और भी बातो पर ध्यान देना चाहिए ?
37:53 - पेरेंट्स अपने बचो कलिए महंगे से महंगा स्कूल और फिर टूशन रखते है लेकिन रियलिटी बोहोत अलग ह। ये कब बहार आएगी और सुधरेगी?
40:35 - क्यों सरकारी तोह सरकारी लेकिन प्राइवेट कॉलेजेस में भी टीचर्स की सैलरी काम ह। क्या इसके पीछे कोई विशेष कारन है?
41:34 - क्या कारन है की बड़े बड़े सरकारी कॉलेज में तोह पे स्केल अच्छा है लेकिन फिर भी हमे क्वालिटी टीचर्स नहीं मिलते?
45:58 - भारत एक इंडस्ट्रियल देश बनाना चाहता है लेकिन स्किल लेबर बनाने के लिए स्किल एजुकेशन , पॉलिटेक्निक कॉलेज की तरफ ध्यान जीरो ह। ये गैप कैसे बारे जाएगा?
Meet Ankit Kapoor, the Director of Pratham Education and IIFM, New Delhi. The company is a leader of non-science undergraduate test-prep in the Delhi NCR market. He has led the company for the past 12 years and teaching more than 80,000 students and consistently getting the best results in the industry. He is a through and through management guy, doing his BBA from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, DU and MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. He has been shaping his company into an ed-tech company for the past 5 years now.
Pratham website - www.prathamonline.com
Ankit Kapoor LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/ankitkapoor1982/
#elearning #edtech #edtechteachers #webinars #webinar #education #onlineeducationplatform #onlineeducation #india #onlineeducationindia #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #saurabhnanda #prathamonline #suchconversationsmatter
भारतीय इंजीनियरिंग - जुगाड़ ज़ियादा, इनोवेशन कम | Sunil Jangir | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 8
Meet Suneel Jangir, an aeronautical engineer turned teacher, who prepares engineers for further education and work options. He has taught around 10,000 engineers in India and has recently started his own ed-tech venture Engenius. This conversation focusses on how most Indian engineering students and engineers think, how the society thinks about Engineers, and what impact it has on engineers’ innovation thinking.
#innovation #engineering #indianengineer #Jugaad #saurabhnanda #usethecrisis #suchconversationsmatter
VIsit Engenius - engenius.in
Inter-cultural International Impact | Bettina Buchholtz | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 9
Meet Bettina Buchholtz, a college English teacher, and inter-cultural communications expert, from Denmark. She has taught hundreds of international students and has devised innovative activities to find a way to their minds. Over the years, she has observed international students, especially from the Indian sub-continent, and how their lives change when they decide to move abroad for education and work.
You can visit her LinkedIn profile here - www.linkedin.com/in/bettina-buchholtz-ba225118/
#internationaleducation #studyabroad #saurabhnanda #globalcitizens #psychology #multi-ethnic #suchconversationsmatter
Depression during the Lockdown | Dr Arti Anand | COVID-19 | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 1
An amazing first conversation with Dr Arti Anand about mental health issues during the Lockdown. Watch for insights regarding this neglected aspect of our lives from an expert.
This is the first conversation of the series. I am going to have a weekly series about Mental Health with mental health expert Dr Arti Anand, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi. She has more than 22 years of experience in the field and is regularly mentioned in print media. I had the privilege of learning from her during my internship at the Department of Psychology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
#mentalhealth #lockdownanxiety #depressioninlockdown #usethecrisis #neverquit #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
Social Tech Entrepreneur Ashish Rana | Citizen Empowerment | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 2
Ashish is a computer engineer from NIT Jalandhar, who has in the past worked with companies like MakeMyTrip.com. His social entrepreneurship idea of Qbila has been incubated by IIM Ahemdabad and was presented at Harvard University. You can read his white paper here:
inclusive.growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/ashish-rana
His new venture Universal Native intends to re-launch Qbila and create other such services which can help in democratising the access to information.
#universalnative #citizenempowerment #socialentrepreneurship #usethecrisis #neverquit #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter
International Serial Entrepreneurship De-mystified | Terrie Lloyd | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 14
Listen about international serial entrepreneurship from the horse’s mouth. Terrie Lloyd is the founder of 20 companies, so far! He migrated to Japan in 1983 and hasn’t left. He has started companies for selling PCs, magazines, online recruitment agency, tourism, and maybe in the future, fermentation! He is a consultant to some prefectural governments in Japan and has an amazing network of ex-pats in Japan and the world. And his best quality is his humility and accessibility. Listen to know more about how to find and create opportunities in Japan and just understand Japan and the Japanese.
Know more about him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrielloyd/; www.terrielloyd.com
Japan Travel: en.japantravel.com
#serialentrepreneurship #international #enterpreneur #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #japan #japantravel #sourdoughbread #awajiyouthfederation #ayf
Child-Led Learning in Early Education | Awaji Kids Garden (AKG) | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 10
Meet Yasuka and Emily who manage the Awaji Kids Garden in Awaji-shi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Yasuka founded AKG a few years back and is now the Director of the pre-school which focusses on Nature, Respect for Others, and Fostering Curiousity. Emily is the Head Teacher at AKG and is developing the curriculum for the school and publishing kids' storybooks. You can know more about them here:
AKG Website - en.awajikidsgarden.com
AKG Youtube Channel - www.youtube.com/channel/UC1t_qOrnpsS9zcuRMOQQI4g
#earlychildhoodeducation #montessori #awajikidsgarden #saurabhnanda #awaji #japan #suchconversationsmatter
Bringing Student Cultural Activities Online | Mental Health | Bloomoquent | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep12
#careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #saurabhnanda #bloomoquent
Visit Bloomoquent - bloomoquent.wixsite.com/mysite-2
Personal Development Movement | Siddhant Chaudhary | Saurabh Nanda | SCM Ep 13
Meet Siddhant Chaudhary, the co-founder of LifePlugin, a unique training, and development company that creates weekend events and online courses where participants get to interact in a very personal fashion with trainers and experts on various aspects of personal development. They focus on all aspects of personal development be it mental health or nutrition or increasing productivity or just hacks to improve yourself, but most importantly, they provide you with a tribe that supports you and encourages you.
Visit LifePlugin - lifeplugin.com
For learning more about psychedelics -
tim.blog/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/
tim.blog/2019/07/15/psychedelics-microdosing-mind-enhancing-methods/
#personaldevelopment #personalgrowth #lifeplugin #saurabhnanda #suchconversationsmatter #careerconsultant #careeradvice #careercounselling #careercounseling #misfits