Category: ContraMinds Podcast
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Pooja Jauhari on Leadership Lessons in Building a Disruptive and Value-Driven Marketing Firm (#039)
About Pooja Jauhari Pooja Jauhari is the former Group CEO of VMLY&R India, and former CEO of The Glitch. Over her two-decade-long career, Pooja has worked with some of the biggest brands in the country and the world, and introduced powerful campaigns to society. Pooja has worked with some brilliant people and has held important…
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Dr. Aniruddha Malpani on The State of Indian Education – Outdated Systems, Flawed Teaching Methods and Myopic Parenting (#038)
About Dr. Aniruddha Malpani is a pioneering IVF Specialist, Angel Investor and Social Impact Entrepreneur. Through his firm Malpani Ventures, Dr. Malpani has contributed immensely in promoting India’s startup ecosystem. A strong believer in the power of entrepreneurship, Dr. Malpani funds frugal innovation in India, and is also among the leading voices seeking a transformative…
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Prem Kumar on How Technology Can Transform India’s Rural Education
About Prem Kumar is the founder of Kalvi40, a mobile educational technology app that is transforming the way education is imparted to over 750 Government schools across 26 districts in Tamil Nadu. A seasoned IT delivery Manager with a career that spanned 19 years across companies like HCL and TCS, Prem Kumar took a leap…
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Recap 2022 – curated episodes on Success, Advice to 18-year Olds at University and The Best Advice Ever Received
Recap Episode 3 About Sound advice can change one’s life. Given at the right time, at the right place and received with the right intent can transform your understanding of where you are and where you want to be. Sometimes it can even nudge you to rethink if you really want to be where you…
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Rupal Patel on Identity-Driven Leadership: Lessons Learnt from the CIA, to being a CEO (#036)
About Rupal Patel is an ex-CIA agent turned entrepreneur, international speaker and business consultant. She helps founders and executives unlock their potential through a powerful new toolkit that reveals how techniques of the CIA can help anyone find their voice and thrive without conforming to stale stereotypes or dated “best practices”. She is the author…
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The Chris Yeh Experience: On Design, Leadership and Blitzscaling
A writer, investor, and entrepreneur, Chris Yeh has had a ringside seat in the world of startups and scale-ups since 1995. His books help founders, venture capitalists, corporate leaders, policymakers, and everyday people better understand how the internet has changed the way we work together to build amazing organizations. Chris Yeh is the co-author, along…
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Thales Teixeira on Digital Disruption Through Decoupling
Prof. Thales Teixeira is the co-founder of digital disruption consultancy Decoupling.co. Previously, he was the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, where he taught MBA, doctoral and executive-level courses in Marketing Models, Digital Marketing and E-commerce for 10 years. His two primary domains of research constitute Digital Disruption and The Economics of Attention. He…
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B. Joseph Pine II on Want To Win Customers? Sell Them Experiences.
About Joe Pine B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. He is the cofounder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Pine consults with numerous…
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Prasad Mangipudi on Building a World-Class Sports Ecosystem in India
About Prasad Mangipudi Prasad Mangipudi is one of the top sports development and marketing minds in India. Prasad is the Managing Director of Sportzlive – a company primarily focused on investing and creating Sports IPRs in the Indian sub-continent market, and is a Mentor Director with the Hyderabad Hydras, a premier esports & lifestyle organisation.…
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Paul Zak on Applying Neuroscience in Engagement, Immersion and Brand Interactions (#031)
About Paul Zak Paul Zak is an American neuroeconomist. He is the co-founder of Immersion Neuroscience, which creates technologies that enable human flourishing. His specialities include neuroeconomics, neuromarketing and neuromanagement. Paul is also a professor at Claremont Graduate University (for over 27 years), where he currently is the Director at the Centre of Neuroeconomics Studies.…