The Mindful Leadership Podcast with Shahana Banerjee

Have you been super successful … and yet felt stuck? When I ask leaders, ‘What is REALLY getting in your way?’, there is usually a long pause before they say … ‘MYSELF’.  The reason?  The very same things that enabled our success… stop working as effectively as they used to. I’ve seen leaders go from ‘HERO’ to ‘ZERO’ way too often in organizations. There are some consistent underlying themes I see...

In this episode of the  Mindful Leadership Podcast , Shahana Banerjee sits down with Tiger Tyagarajan, the former CEO of Genpact, to explore the transformative power of curiosity in leadership. Tiger shares his journey from a risk head at GE Capital to leading a global technology powerhouse, emphasizing a "treasure hunt" approach to learning from everyone around him. The conversation del...

LAUNCHING SEASON 4 with Ranjay Gulati, eminent scholar and Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University, and best selling and award winning author of Deep Purpose and How to be Bold, recognized by Thinkers 50. CAN YOU SPOT REAL COURAGE? Try this 👇 🤔 Which of these symbolizes courage to you? 🔺Rushing into a burning building to save lives or 🔺Publishing a book and opening yourself...

This episode is a mega dose of inspiration with Jonathan Kirschner, Founder & CEO of AIIR Consulting and AIIR analytics, a kindred spirit, fellow podcaster, coach, hockey champ and psychology buff. He is on a mission to make the world a bit better through leadership excellence.  In this episode, we dig into the power of value based leadership, why leaders lose their way and so much more: ✅ Ho...

THE BEST LEADERS ARE FORGED IN FIRE. Alex’s story of being an outsider - son of a peasant, an immigrant in the segregated south, a rugby player often tackled by guys twice his size, often underestimated … to studying at Yale and Harvard, joining iconic consulting firm Kearney and later serving as their Chairman and CEO for 6 years, is nothing short of astounding ‼️  He thrives on doing the impossi...

We are deconstructing IMPACTFUL COMMUNICATION ‼️ ✅ When it works … 🤔 When it doesn’t … 😱 When we think it works, but it actually doesn’t … 😰 When we don’t say anything, but communicate too much…, and   🚫 When it breaks down completely … We all want to show up, speak up, be authentic, share our ideas, but too often we don’t know how. Thankfully, Molly is here to help‼️ About ⁠ Molly Tschang ⁠...

Launching Season 3 of the Mindful Leadership Podcast featuring stories of inspirational leaders who do different things differently! Our inaugural guest on Season 3 is Dr Paul Peter Tak , who is dramatically changing the life of CANCER patients through transformative NEW medicines‼️ He is the CEO of Candel Therapeutics. He is a visionary, a physician, a scientist, an academic, a F500 pharma leader...

Bonus Episode of COACHING AHAs & Final Episode of Season 2‼️ “Do I really deserve this promotion?”  “What if I’m not ready?” “What if they realize they hired the wrong person?” “Am I good enough? What if I fail?” You know what the voice of self doubt / imposter syndrome sounds like… We dig into this and more, with Janet Harvey, Former President of International Coaching Federation, and Master...

Final Episode of COACHING AHAs‼️ This one WEIRD tendency of F500 senior executives has Tina and I quite puzzled‼️ We explore this and a whole lot more in this final episode of Coaching Ahas. Tina Dao, MBA is a fellow coach and successful business executive with senior roles in Walmart, Amazon, Oracle and Fitbit. She is inspired by the courage of founders to build something from scratch, persevere...

NEW EPISODE‼️ SPARKING REBELLION … REIMAGINING HEALTHCARE with Dr Sachin Jain, President and CEO of SCAN.  In this episode, we dive into: ✅ Sachin’s story - An unexpected underdog story, from growing up ‘different’ to going to Harvard for both his medical education and MBA ✅ His career trajectory and the twists, turns and seemingly unusual choices that defined it. He is one of exceptionally rare...

What happens when a NEW leader brings in ‘THEIR PEOPLE’ from their previous organization? That’s the case we are digging into this week on COACHING AHAS with Supriti. Supriti Bhandary is a fellow coach and successful business executive. She’s fascinated by people’s stories and draws inspiration from their journeys and unlocking breakthroughs that help them. In this episode, we dig into: ✅ The cas...

Is the problem we think we have, the problem we REALLY have⁉️ is the theme of the case study we are diving into this week, with Andrew. Andrew Neitlich is the Founder of Center for Executive Coaching that serves members across 30+ countries, now a part of Keystone Partners.  In this episode of Coaching Ahas, we dive into: ✅ The case study of a CXO in a VC Portfolio company and his breakthrough ...

Sohee Jun, bestselling author of Mommytracked and Aligned Mindset, and a fellow coach and business executive, is our guest this month‼️ Sohee came to the US when she was 6 years old. She didn’t speak any English. She was mercilessly teased at school, felt like she didn’t belong, and struggled to fit in. A teacher offered her help to learn the language, and it changed her life. She shares the impac...

76% of respondents in the US said they CURRENTLY have or have recently had a TOXIC BOSS (Monster 2018)🤯‼️ This is even more alarming because managers drive 70% of the variance in employee engagement‼️  Toxic bosses often: ⛔️ Care only about themselves  ⛔️ Undermine and sabotage ⛔️ Play politics ⛔️ Play favorites ⛔️ Make unreasonable demands ⛔️ Display abusive or destructive behaviors  Toxic...

Bidding FAREWELL to your old life, and STARTING AFRESH is truly scary😰. The struggle to REINVENT yourself is one of the greatest challenges of work and life.  There are often 4 key drivers of the need to reinvent yourself: 🛑 You choose a field of study or work, and realize your heart is not in it  🛑 You face severe challenges at work or get laid off 🛑 You’ve had a successful career, but you ar...

There are 5 pivotal promotions in our careers. How we perform in them determines how far we go. These are: First time manager Manager of managers Global or Cross Functional Leader  Enterprise leader CXO They are characterized by: ✅ Increasing size and scope ✅ Increasing complexity  ✅ Increasing volume and diversity of stakeholders ✅ Increasing team and location complexity  ✅ Increasing challe...

✅ Ranked among the 100 Most Influential Business Leaders in America  ✅ Named the 2nd most influential African American in IT by Business Insider   ✅ Serves on the Board of Directors of Verizon, Roper Technologies, Okta, Lineage, and non profits Catalyst and Braven (previously on the Boards on Nordstrom and Arbitron) ✅ Was the 1st African American woman to head IBM business unit, Became CEO at...

COACHING AHA! - The Series 10 min episodes, every week, with talented coaches, sharing real stories of their clients’ growth journeys. If you are interested to learn and grow, this is for you! In this episode 👇 MEH - that indescribable feeling of LANGUISHING at work… Feeling numb Feeling disconnected Feeling unfulfilled Feeling disengaged Going through the day on autopilot That’s NOT what work sh...

LAUNCHING COACHING AHA! - The Series 10 min episodes, every week, with talented coaches, sharing real stories of their clients’ growth journeys. If you are interested to learn and grow, this is for you! In this episode 👇 ——————————— Layoffs are hard. It can be a blow to your self esteem. Sometimes we need a little help to get our swag back. Join us as Jane Park Mohr shares the journey of a very t...

OMG‼️ It’s MICHAEL WATKINS ‼️Author of 15 books including the life changing bestseller FIRST 90 DAYS and the much needed Six disciplines of Strategic Thinking. He is a Professor of Leadership and Organizational change at IMD Lausanne, and was inducted into the Thinkers 50 hall of fame. Engineer, martial artist, rebel, AI aficionado, he is an educator at heart, and is on a mission to help people re...

The journey to being the best leader you can possibly be starts with Becoming Coachable .  In this episode of The Mindful Leadership Podcast , we dive into a mega dose of inspiration on this life changing topic with Scott Osman , Founder and CEO, 100 coaches agency , and  Jacquelyn Lane , President of the 100 coaches agency , and authors of the book Becoming Coachable along with Marshall Goldsmith...

Brian Elliott, Future of Work luminary, Co Founder of Future Forum, and Author, shares his leadership journey and what drives him. We cover a lot of ground in this episode navigating through… ✅ How the people, influences and experiences have shaped him as a leader, and more importantly, as a human being  ✅ How a quest for learning fueled his storied career from being a consultant with BCG, to st...

FACT or CLICKBAIT  ⁉️ Play along with Brian and I and find answers to every question on The Future of Work you’ve ever had and didn’t know whom to ask‼️😁 I dug up news headlines and CEO quotes (read: rant) and tossed them over to Brian for his insights. If you know Brian, you know that he tackles these with data, evidence, grace and a hearty dose of humor ‼️ Here are a few: 😱 “The work from anyw...

S2E02: Sarena Lin, Former Chief Transformation and Talent Officer at Bayer and Board Member at Siemens Healthineers is our guest‼️🥳 Sarena’s journey is a testament to her resilience. She moved to the US at 13, from Taiwan. She didn’t speak a word of English, yet she blossomed in her new environment with support from amazing teachers. Her storied career weaves through -  ✅ 2 Ivy League institutio...

40% said that their lives would be no different… WITHOUT SCIENCE ‼️🤯 (Survey by 3M) It is easy to dismiss skeptics. It is immeasurably harder to have empathy for them, their fears and concerns. It is even harder to make the invisibility of science visible and tangible for people, and HUMANIZE science so that people can relate to it, and see how science enables every minute of their day. If scienc...