Welcome to another episode of Habits Matter, the podcast that’s nearly as old as Harappa!

We’re delighted to host Sumedha Bakhshi, one of the country’s leading practitioners and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) experts who’s currently leading talent management and organizational development at @Amazon.  In this candid chat, she’s talks about the cautious optimism she feels over DE&I awareness at workplaces and an interesting ‘3Is’ approach to bring about meaningful change — from Individual to Interpersonal to institutional. 

Welcome to a brand-new season of Habits Matter. We’re back with our hugely popular podcast that explores the human side of how things really work at work — stories, goof-ups and triumphs. And we’ve lined up a roster of entertaining guests, people who’ve sifted the good habits from the bad, and are now telling it like it is.  

This season we’re all about learning and development — ready to dive into the challenges and triumphs of those at the forefront of high-performing enterprise learning in India. 

And we’re thrilled to kick off the season we have corporate stalwart, bestselling author, mental wellbeing expert and chief learning officer at Grant Thornton Bharat, Ankit Jhamb!  
 
A highly effective L&D business partner with the ability to deliver business impact, his approach to solution design, building agile and effective L&D engines by leveraging fields like social sciences, analytics and branding is the stuff of corporate India legend.

Work often demands that we focus on the details. But when we focus too well, we risk losing sight of the big picture. In this episode, we explain big-picture thinking in less abstract terms, explore a nifty tool to practice it, and find out how a campaign from your favorite fast-food chain knocked it out of the park—all because the folks behind it dared to think big.

Meet Papiya Banerjee, Co-founder, Unqbe, and a leader with years of experience in culture building, talent management and leadership development; and Mark Pollard, strategy consultant for The Economist, Twitter, Euronews, Facebook, and host of the Sweathead podcast.

This is Season 5 of Habits Matter. We’re going behind the scenes of common work problems and asking questions like: how do you present effectively? Get that job? Or decode feedback?

This episode was hosted remotely by Harappa Founder & CEO, Shreyasi Singh.

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