How leadership style impacts culture with Shreyasi Singh
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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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