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Soulful Leadership and Diversity: Vital for Survival and Growth

About This Webinar

Today, conversations concerning diversity are ubiquitous. In most instances, however, this conversation rarely transcends ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, the color of one’s hair and skin. No doubt, these demographic and life-orientation differences are important, but, there is another aspect of diversity that’s at least as important, if not more, and which rarely gets any play. And that’s cognitive diversity – differences in how people think, process information, and respond through their decision making.

Both kinds of diversity are important, but the lack of the second kind makes an organization increasingly vulnerable to threats posed by changing customer, competitive, and technological environments. Because to thrive in a VUCA world – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous – a company must match or exceed the complexity “out there” (market – customers, competitors, technology) with the cognitive capacity to deal with that complexity “in here” (within the company). Else, the company will miss, or dismiss, important signals of environmental change, and pay a heavy price. Accordingly, the main theme of the Webinar will be how embracing and implementing the ideas and practice of Soulful Leadership contributes significantly toward developing and nurturing diversity, and hence to a company’s survival and growth.

Who can view: Everyone
Webinar Price: Free
Webinar ID: 7a6d2840bf90
Featured Presenters
Webinar hosting presenter
A globally acclaimed thinker-doer, and a trusted expert in Leadership, Marketing, Innovation, and Strategy, Gaurav Bhalla has helped numerous clients achieve noteworthy success in:
• nurturing next-generation visionary leaders
• winning the hearts and wallets of customers, and
• unleashing the power of innovation.
He has changed the lives of thousands of individuals worldwide, by encouraging them to ask tough, game-changing questions related to work and non-work, through his dynamic, interactive, and entertaining speaking, seminars, workshops, and coaching.
Currently the CEO of Knowledge Kinetics, a company committed to helping organizations develop visionary leaders and practice customer-first thinking, Gaurav has experienced the work world as multinational executive, business consultant, entrepreneur, executive education specialist, author, speaker, and coach. At the end of 2016, as a recognition of his skills, reputation, and experience, he was recognized by the “2016 Executive Education Specialist of the Year” award, by AI Global Media, a UK-based media and information company.

Passionate about helping organizations and individuals Learn, Act, and Grow, and lead richer, more fulfilling lives, Gaurav’s 40+ years of global experience ranges from senior management positions at Richardson Vicks (P&G), Nestle, and TNS Worldwide, to hundreds of engagements with clients both large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, in a variety of sectors, such as Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Technology, Financial, Educational, Consumer Packaged Goods, Automotive, Hospitality, and Telecom.

A small sampling of his clients in these sectors include Glaxo Smith Kline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Capital One, Axis Bank, Citi, MetLife, Bank of America, Legal & General, Caterpillar, Maersk, Audi, ESSAR, Deloitte, PwC, EY, JLL, T. Rowe Price, Randstad, Indian Railways, National Association of Broadcasters, Sprint, US Dept. of Agriculture, Hershey, Marriott, and Heinz. Gaurav has also designed and implemented executive education programs at leading business schools like Georgetown, Duke, Singapore Management University, University of Maryland, GIBS-South Africa, Indian School of Business, and at corporate universities of companies like Glaxo, Sprint, Kodak, Hallmark, Deloitte, IBM, Boeing, and Texas Instruments.

Published in both business and literature, his leading edge thinking is reflected in his HBR article, “Rethinking Marketing,” and his book, “Collaboration and Co-Creation: New Platforms for Marketing and Innovation.” His latest book, “Awakening A Leader’s Soul: Learnings Through Immortal Poems,” reimagines the purpose of leadership, and was released on Sep. 7. His novel, “The Curse and the Cup,” was published at the end of 2014.
What sets Gaurav apart from other speakers and trainers are his growth mindset, his diversity and breadth of experience, his passion for translating knowledge into action, and his purpose that values the humanity of people more than their executive brilliance.
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