Month: April 2024

 

The venue was the eclectic The Collection at Four Seasons Hotel Bengaluru at Embassy ONE. The ambience was understated elegance. The meeting of senior thought leaders from diverse industry verticals, the first in the CEO Meet series in India, heart crafted by ISD Global, was a class act. The spectacular team at Four Seasons Hotel Bengaluru at Embassy ONE   put on a grand show and the special edition cocktails made brilliantly fluid by Diageo | Godavan took the evening to a new high. And our partners in rhyme Wings Brand Activations let our creative imagination take flight. Here are some candid moments captured from the evening – A Meeting of Distilled essenCEO!

They arrived in full force. At the Four Seasons Hotel Bengaluru at Embassy ONE. Stalwarts, achievers, senior leaders from industry verticals as diverse as Retail, Infrastructure, E Commerce, Wellness & Healthcare, Learning & Development, Media, Aviation, Technology, Sports, Luxury, Culinary, Lifestyle, Software, NGOs, Consulting, Transport & Mobility and more. Resulting in a happy collision of heterogenous thoughts with the homogenous intent of making things better.

The theme for the evening centred around trust and the high voltage panel discussion on it was moderated by the mercurial Dr Smitha Ranganathan, also, the co curator.  Our eminent panelists included Dr Shankar Sundaran, Head of Renal Transplants at Aster, Deepthi Bopaiah, CEO of Go Sports and Chef Avin Thaliath, co-founder and director of academics at Lavonne Academy of Baking Science and Pastry Arts. That their respective stories were truly inspiring would be making an understatement.

Conversation expert and co curator of the CEO Meet Uday Kiran , co-founder @ Mentza, seamlessly facilitated more engagements with some of the invitees on the subject of trust and that led us to believe that they struck the right chord with a vast majority of the esteemed invitees.

 

 

 

 

Stimulating engagement and conversations led us to believe by end of the evening that trust indeed is more than a five letter word. We look forward to carry the baton forward together with all fellow travelers in this journey whom we are all at ISD Global grateful to.

 

 

 

This adage has stuck with me for a while now. ” Fear is a reaction, while creativity is a response “.

 

Fear is about us, inward. How will I fare in the entrance test? Will I ace the interview? Will my presentation go well? What if the investors reject my idea? Should I become an entrepreneur and let go the secure safety net of a job? Should I be the one to make the call? Will I reach on time? Weird as it may sound, fear comes across as selfish, self-centred, myopic. Remember, “Afraid is a country where they give you passports at birth and hope that you never seek citizenship in any other country “.

 

Yet, as soon as you cross the chasm, start showing up and shipping out, trying to impact a MVA(Minimum Viable Audience), the fear transcends and lets go of the coat tails that it hangs on to for dear life. Now you have entered the territory of generosity.  Where it is no longer about you or inward but it is outward, about them. Where the speech you deliver is not about you but about engaging and influencing the audience. Where the idea that you want to bring to market is not about fanning your ego but creating something worthwhile for the customer.

 

 

“Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.”― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement