Pathfinder – Growth Stories for Personal Success

Our guest for today’s episode is Anvesha Poswalia, winner of Economic Times Young Leader 2018, a highly-motivated, dynamic Marketing professional with an experience in building digital marketing strategies for organizations of various sizes, and driving ROI to increase sales & brand presence. Anvesha is currently working as Digital Marketing Lead for L’Oreal and previously she has worked with Asian Paints, Google and Travelyaari in the Digital Marketing space.

She has been Featured in the “Top 50 Digital Marketing Leaders in India” by World Marketing Congress and CMO Asia and Placed in Top 40 Under 40 Digital Marketing Leaders by Social Samosa.

She has been a frequent speaker in many Marketing Summits and MBA colleges across India. Anvesha has completed her MBA in Marketing from NMIMS.

In the part 2 of the conversation Anvesha shares her experience of winning the ET Young Leader Award and tips for Award aspirants and working mothers.

Some of her favorite books are,

Lean In: Women, Work & the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Our guest for today’s episode is Anvesha Poswalia, winner of Economic Times Young Leader 2018, a highly-motivated, dynamic Marketing professional with an experience in building digital marketing strategies for organizations of various sizes, and driving ROI to increase sales & brand presence. Anvesha is currently working as Digital Marketing Lead for L’Oreal and previously she has worked with Asian Paints, Google and Travelyaari in the Digital Marketing space.

She has been Featured in the “Top 50 Digital Marketing Leaders in India” by World Marketing Congress and CMO Asia and Placed in Top 40 Under 40 Digital Marketing Leaders by Social Samosa.

She has been a frequent speaker in many Marketing Summits and MBA colleges across India. Anvesha has completed her MBA in Marketing from NMIMS.

In the Part 1 conversation we will focus on knowing about Anvesha and her educational & professional journey.

In the part 2 of the conversation with Chandru, he shares his passion on ESG issues, the team behind ECube and how they are evangelizing ESG issues. Chandru also shares the emergence of insider trading during this conversation and also shars his experiences from Personal finance that will be very useful for all.

Our guest for today’s episode is Chandru Badrinarayanan who is Managing Partner at ECube, India’s pioneer investment advisory company dedicated to improving Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the corporate sector. Chandru was Country Head at MSCI where he build the India business for 6 years until early 2019. In his 13 years career at Crisil India, he has built and lead 3 high margin non-regulatory business related to Fixed Income Research, Risk Solutions and SME ratings for Institutions. Chandru has completed INSEAD Leadership Program in 2013 and is a CFA Financial Analysis.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/former-head-of-msci-india-chandru-badrinarayanan-joins-ecube/articleshow/69221070.cms 

Chandru’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. 

You can reach out to Chandru at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandru-badrinarayanan-6b9b954/

In the first part of this conversation with Chandru, he shares his journey from the early days and key learnings he acquired during his long corporate career. Chandru also shares a fun fact about him during this episode.

Our guest for today’s episode is Chandru Badrinarayanan who is Managing Partner at ECube, India’s pioneer investment advisory company dedicated to improving Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the corporate sector. Chandru was Country Head at MSCI where he build the India business for 6 years until early 2019. In his 13 years career at Crisil India, he has built and lead 3 high margin non-regulatory business related to Fixed Income Research, Risk Solutions and SME ratings for Institutions. Chandru has completed INSEAD Leadership Program in 2013 and is a CFA Financial Analysis.

Chandru’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all.

You can reach out to Chandru at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandru-badrinarayanan-6b9b954/

In the first part of this conversation with Chandru, he shares his journey from the early days and key learnings he acquired during his long corporate career. Chandru also shares a fun fact about him during this episode.

Our guest for today’s episode is Chandru Badrinarayanan who is Managing Partner at ECube, India’s pioneer investment advisory company dedicated to improving Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) performance across the corporate sector. Chandru was Country Head at MSCI where he build the India business for 6 years until early 2019. In his 13 years career at Crisil India, he has built and lead 3 high margin non-regulatory business related to Fixed Income Research, Risk Solutions and SME ratings for Institutions. Chandru has completed INSEAD Leadership Program in 2013 and is a CFA Financial Analysis.

Chandru’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all.

You can reach out to Chandru at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandru-badrinarayanan-6b9b954/

In this part 2 of the conversation with Mani James, he shares his secrets of CXO Engagements and also Sales Leadership. He also shares some of his great learnings, books he reads and one impactful advice for our listeners. We also have Phil Howard sharing how Mani became one of his best hires at Frost & Sullivan.

Our guest for today’s episode is Mani James who is Sr Vice President and Head of Global Sales at Frost & Sullivan, a top Management Consulting company. In his last two decades of career Mani has delivered growth strategies across multiple geographies, functions, industries and worked across the globe. Mani has helped Global CXOs to transform their businesses with growth strategies and he shares his learnings on strategy with his video series called Inside MJ’s Mind that he publishes regularly in LinkedIn. Mani is an alumni of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship and NIT Calicut.

Mani’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. You can reach out to Mani James at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manijames/

Our guest for today’s episode is Mani James who is Sr Vice President and Head of Global Sales at Frost & Sullivan, a top Management Consulting company. In his last two decades of career Mani has delivered growth strategies across multiple geographies, functions, industries and worked across the globe. Mani has helped Global CXOs to transform their businesses with growth strategies and he shares his learnings on strategy with his video series called Inside MJ’s Mind that he publishes regularly in LinkedIn. Mani is an alumni of Xavier Institute of Management & Entrepreneurship and NIT Calicut.

Mani’s story is very inspiring with great learnings and I am sure it will be super valuable for all. In this first part of the conversation with Mani, he shares his journey from being an Engineer to a Consultant with Frost & Sullivan. He shares some really exciting nuggets and learnings during this conversation.

You can reach out to Mani James at https://www.linkedin.com/in/manijames/

After the successful completion of Season 1 where we had 10 episodes of great conversations with achievers from entrepreneurs, sales, marketing & technical professionals sharing their journey and key learnings on the way. There are really some great insights and wisdom available from all the guests, I will highly encourage all of you to go ahead and revisit the episodes if you have missed any of them.

We had great line of guests in the episode 1 with Sairam Vedam (CMO at Kore.ai), Amit Bharadwaj (Founder 6 Degree), Niladri Dutta (Global Telecom Consulting professional), Subhendu Pattnaik (Phd Scholar & Head of Marketing), Rajee Bhattacharya (Blockchain & Cybersecurity expert, Marathoner), Shwetank Tamer (Global Telecom Expert), Raghav Hunasgi (Serial Entrepreneur, TedX speaker), Dr Karthik Nagendra (Founder & Content Marketing Expert), Yaagneswaran Ganesh (Martech Influencer, Best selling Author) and Ravidra Saini (Ex Defence person & Head HR at L&T). There are great insights and learnings they have shared.

Hold on, Season 2 is going to be bigger and better. I am also offering a quick conversation with our guests and if you want to avail the same, write a note or share a voice message to me at [email protected], or in my social channels Twitter @anilkm108, Instagram handle & facebook page @Pathfinder_anil

In season 2, we are making minor changes to the format where I am breaking down the conversations to two parts – Part 1 focused on knowing the guest & his/her background and Part 2 focusing on one specific area or theme where the guest shares his/her experiences, learnings and guidance for the people, I hope this will add more value to listeners, I hope you are excited as well. So stay tuned to this podcast channel every Tuesday to listen each of the upcoming stories and if you haven’t yet please subscribe to this channel so that you don’t miss any episode. Also share this podcast with your loved ones, friends & colleagues as it will add value to them and inspire them as they are writing their pathway to success. Keep learning and keep growing.

Our guest for today’s episode is Ravinder Saini who started his career with the Indian Air Force and worked in Administration and Personnel domain before moving to the Corporates. He led the HRD function in Titagarh Wagons at their Plant in Hind Motors initially and later joined L&T as Regional HR Head in Delhi in 2008 and was responsible for leading HR teams for Northern Region. He moved in Corporate role subsequently and has provided leadership to multiple teams in areas of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation & Benefits, OD Intervention, Performance Management globally. Ravinder has completed Executive Program in Human Resources from IIM Calcutta and HR Leadership Development Program from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He holds his Masters in IR & PM from Nagpur University. He is also a Certified Coach for Life (ACSTH) from International Coaching Federation (ICF).Ravi has won Best HR Executive by L&T Infrastructure and is a recipient of L&T Annual HR Awards.

Ravinder’s story will be very helpful for many who aim to grow to a leadership position and pursue their passion and the key is to be continuously learning, better planning and going the extra mile to achieve success.

You can reach out to Ravinder at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravinderksaini/

Some of the books that inspired Ravinder,

Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Our guest for today’s episode is Yaagneshwaran Ganesh (often called as "Yaag"), he is among the top 100 global martech influencers, and is responsible for marketing, growth and product adoption at Pramati Technologies. He is also a TEDx speaker, a member of Forbes Council and author of 6 books, with the latest one titled “The Growth Hacking Book”. He has been a speaker across business forums such as CII Young Indians, Chamber of Commerce Netherlands, Kerala Startup Mission (Initiative by Govt of Kerala), and academic institutions such as IITs, Saxion University of Applied Sciences and more. Yaag's recent books include: “The Growth Hacking Book” - released July 2019. "Syncfluence" - released August 2017. "Is your marketing in sync or sinking?" - released January 2016. He is an active member of the startup ecosystem and is part of the Google for Entrepreneurs initiative "Startup Weekend", thus being a sounding board for startups in APAC and Europe. Yaag also writes columns for HuffingtonPost, Forbes, Martech Series, Martech Advisor, dtNEXT, Techstory, ManagementNext and has been a regular blogger on RonSela.com, the thought leader on marketing practices.

Listen to his TedX talk on Marketing Personalization at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZ_3kreyzE

You can connect with Yaag at https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaagneshwarang/

Links to books

The Growth Hacking Book https://www.amazon.in/Growth-Hacking-Book-Guarded-Marketing-ebook/dp/B07V5936YT

Syncfluence https://www.amazon.in/Syncfluence-Influence-Audience-Without-Burning/dp/1947586866