Description
Shreyasi Singh is the Founder and CEO of Harappa, an online learning platform that focuses on building Thrive Skills - an essential set of cognitive, social and behavioral skills that enable professionals to succeed at all stages of their careers. Although Shreyasi is now an entrepreneur disrupting the Ed-Tech space, she’s had diverse experience in broadcast and print journalism, editorial leadership, book writing, teaching and higher education administration.
In this free-wheeling conversation, Subbu and Shreyasi discuss entrepreneurship, leadership styles, the representation of women at the workplace, research insights from Harappa's studies, and so much more.
Key topics
0:05 - The Harappa origin story
5:45 - Overcoming imposter syndrome
8:30 - Know your why
12:50 - The perks of being an outsider
17:45 - The misplaced value of effortlessness
19:15 - Disrupting the ed-tech industry as a woman founder and CEO
25:00 - Shreyasi's style of leadership
31:15 - The culture at Harappa
35:35 - Insights from Harappa's research studies
41:30 - How entrepreneurship transformed Shreyasi
45:47 - Rapid-fire round!
47:45 - Is DEI a Utopian dream?
49:45 - A podcast-a-day...
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