With more than 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles within the global life sciences sector, Guru Ramamurthy is US Chief Financial Officer at Bayer and Chief Financial Officer at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, Inc. (AskBio). In this thought provoking Zone Podcast Episode, Guru sits down with Zone Partner, Melissa Palazzo-Hart where she deep dives into understanding the being and doing behind Guru's success. As a hugely accomplished person and leader, Guru see’s his position as a...

Introduction - 2:08   New opportunities - 2:55   Concrete is the second most used product - 4:00   How to build a better tomorrow - 6:20   Sustainable infrastructure - 7:30   Regenerative Design - 8:20   The bigger picture - 9:05   Always open to new ideas - 10:05    History of climate change - 11:10   Exploring new possibilities - 13:00   The Zone’s four elements - 14:05   Sustainable community - 15:15   A new mentality - 16:12   Capturing carbon -...

INTRODUCTION - 0:55   UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM - 2:28   NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS - 4:15   SOLVING A PROBLEM - 5:20   IMPORTANCE OF STAKEHOLDERS - 6:20   AGE OF THE INDIVIDUAL - 8:10   EXPERTISE - 9:15   EMBRACING NEW IDEAS - 10:20   COLLABORATION - 11:45   A NEW OUTCOME - 12:58   SCALING UP BUSINESS - 14:30   BACKWARDS STRATERGY - 15:10    A NEW IDEA - 16:10   TRUE IMPLEMENTERS - 17:00   STEPS TO BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR - 18:20   PRE PRODUCT AND PRE...

Introduction - 1:10   Transcending life's challenges - 2:16   Starting the journey - 3:21   A great decision - 5:09   A slippery slope -7:00   Suggestibility test - 8:10   The twist in the story - 9:15   Seekers, Hero’s and Villagers - 10:20   Trying to prove something - 11:40   Relationships - 12:10   Creating the human experience - 13:15   How is reality created - 14:50   Self realisation - 16:00   Creating your own story - 17:40   External narratives -...

Introduction: 1:50    Human side to business: 2:15   Doing what you love: 3:00   Personal stories: 4:30   Founder of a new business: 5:45   Being grateful: 6:40   Run your own business: 8:50   What happens after success: 10:30   The gift of clarity: 13:00   Breaking down his business: 14:40   Message marketing: 16:30   Mixing passion in business: 17:45   Working in multiple industries: 19:05   Global business: 20:50   Living in the growth zone: 22:00   Giving...

Introduction: 1:30   Health and wellbeing: 2:40   Leading to burn out: 4:15   Incredible changes: 5:40   Changing career: 7:10   Always a broadcaster: 8:26   Sustainable health: 9:40   It starts with food: 11:05   Tired of decisions: 12:40   Don’t buy it: 13:20   Social isolation: 14:00   Best version of yourself: 15:15   When was the last time you felt great: 17:05   Growth mindset: 19:20   Don’t sweat the results: 20:20   How does coaching work:...

0:30 - Introduction    1:30 - Taking a fresh look   3:00 - Forging a new career path   6:00 - Only seeing what you need   7:10 - Changing your journey   8:40 - De-cluttering the brain first   9:35 - Finding the real you   10:15 - The meaning within your space   11:20 - Setting up systems   14:00 - Clutter and mental health   16:15 - Look at the small picture first   18:00 - Celebrate the little wins   18:50 - Re-training the mind   20:35 - Knowing whats right for...

Introduction: 1:30   Learn how to ask the right questions: 2:50   Nobody is the same: 3:50   Smaller business but bigger change: 5:00   Opposite ends of the world: 6:00   Using LinkedIn to grow your business: 7:40   Business and social media: 8:55   Overcoming personal barriers: 10:20   Engaging with others: 12:00   Having control of your personal brand: 13:00   Direct message and have a direct response: 14:17   Being open to change: 15:15   Hobbies and relaxation...

Introduction: 1:00 Podcasting: 2:50 Never to young to start a business: 3:50 Follow what you love: 4:40 A spanner in the works: 6:20 Finding a new business path: 8:15 EOS: 10:45 What is life all about: 12:45 Planning the whole year: 14:00 Putting yourself first: 16:00 Always learning: 17:45 How to grow sustainably: 19:15 Delegate and elevate: 20:00 People pleasing and pushing boundaries: 21:15 Finding long term Structure: 24:15 It’s okay to change your role within your...

Introduction 1:00 Creative to Business: 1:50 Building new processes in a company with 120,000 people: 2:30 Independence to being a part of a team: 3:20 Never a moment to not be learning: 4:20 Changes and challenges: 6:00 Poetry to starting a business 7:15 Flexibility and fearlessness 8:40 Humanising the corporate world 10:30 Balancing change and how to be adaptable: 12:00 Problem solving professor: 14:00 How to apply creative frameworks into your business: 16:00 Writing a book...

Director of the Chiripal Group, Vishal Chiripal, is a STEM Enthusiast, ESTBAN/FIBAN member, and investor in startups from India living in Dubai. Today, he talks about the changes in his life he experienced after attending the Zone Reboot program. Working hard in India and living in Dubai caused Vishal to be judgemental, not present in the moment, and not listen to people. However, after he trained his brain through Reboot, his life is filled with truthful values, and people perceive him...

🎢 Life is a rollercoaster: From India to Dubai. 01:03 🌞 Vishal took a Reboot program last minute: transformation he experienced. 01:57 🤩 Having the courage to accept truth and reality: the exercise of removing transgressions. 04:28 😇 Learning to be present during work and also with the family. 06:30 📵 Not using a phone the first hour in the morning and the last hour in the day. 07:41 🧠 Vishal trained his brain to be focused again with exercises and small rituals. 09:56 🥳 Paula is a great...

Carine Assouad is a Director at Levant Consult. She was also known as the Queen of hummus, but she didn't get this title in Lebanon. Instead, she got it in New York City after the New York Times elected her hummus as the best in town. Before opening a restaurant and becoming The Queen of Hummus, she was known in the consulting world as the Excel queen. Today, she shares her remarkable journey about the power of change. Carine says there are many fears and challenges that come with change but...

🥣 Bringing Semsom’s Lebanon hummus to NY: cooking 200 tons of hummus.  01:22 👑 Carine as  Queen of Excel: solving problems through weird and convoluted formulas. 03:11 👩‍💼 Embracing all your passions: Journey from graphic design, consulting, restaurant owner to an executive advisor. 04:47 👠 True feminism: we can do whatever we want, but we don't need to do it all at once. 07:11 🎯 Trust yourself and your abilities - if you trust life, it will make the journey more exciting with less anxiety...

The founder of EasyMD, Nicolas Ibañez, is a physical therapist specializing in Osteopathy, a surfer, and a soccer player who has a passion for Digital Health Solutions. Nicolas profoundly cares about people, and he's on a mission to make access to health care more convenient and easy for people of Central America and the Caribbean. He shares his journey from the football fields of Brazil to his clinic in Nicaragua that he willingly sacrificed to provide private health care to as many people...

🏖️ Every surfer’s dream: Nico is now in Nicaragua, and he loves the smiling people there. 01:14 🧑‍⚕️ Enabling private health care and unlimited doctor and psychology consultations to people of Central America and the Caribbean. 04:23 ⚽ Former soccer player now startup owner who partners up with big companies: 70% of the population can be treated through telehealth. 06:56 🥅 Being egoless to create an organization with impact: Having a great team to learn from is very important. 09:19 🤩...

Sports rehabilitation specialist, personal trainer, and peak performance coach Dean Griffiths focuses on helping people realize who they are at their core. Dean shares the story of finding himself after a long trip and what influenced his coaching people to upgrade their thinking. He says that with his background in sports rehabilitation, he realized that physical injuries affect the state of mind and healing of the soul. As a result, he was able to identify bodily injuries as the root of...

💆 Relax, and enjoy the journey. 01:03 🛑 When life pushes back against what you're trying to do, it is time to stop pushing. 01:45 🛳️ Traveling for three and half years helped Dean find himself. 05:02 🧘‍♂️ Dean’s background is working as a personal trainer in sports rehab: mental and emotional impact on the body. 06:54 🧠 There are no short-term results: The mind needs repetition too. 09:36 🤏 Most people are playing it too small in life. 11:59 📚 Dean’s book on seven principles of how to play...

Carla Maroussas is a values-based coach, accredited Life Coach, and NLP practitioner. She helps teams and leaders to reduce overwhelm and create transformational wellbeing. Carla shares her story on how she felt overwhelmed but decided to explore her anxious and uncomfortable feelings to find clarity and make a change. She emphasizes the importance of values and says people live based on their beliefs and make decisions based on core values. Listen to hear Carla’s thoughts on finding your...

😇 Carla’s relationship with values: making choices while discovering her values. 01:02 👩‍💼 Waking up and feeling anxious and not having time for herself: asking herself the same things as others about values. 03:52 🕵️‍♀️ Examine your triggers and reactions. 07:32 🔢 Value hierarchy work: non-negotiable things in your life. 09:04 😮‍💨 “Values are like oxygen; they are essential to your happiness.” 10:13 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Freedom, flexibility, and her family as the most significant value. 11:41 🎯 We choose...

Radka Dohnalova is the Founder and CEO of ATAIRU and a co-author and speaker on Authentic & Adaptive Leadership. Radka is on a mission to redefine leadership and make it accessible to everyone and wants to positively impact a million people by making leadership and leadership education available to them. She emphasizes that leadership and leadership education need to evolve and that it should be taught in school. Radka shares her journey from Harvard to Prague, what made her change her...

🇨🇿 Radka is from Prague, Czech Republic. 01:13 🗽 MBA from Harvard: a crisis period when she redefined her purpose. 02:16 🙃 Re-inventing leadership: content element and a flow with form element 05:23  🤓 Strategic choices: focus, creating series with the most relevant topics, empowerment, and live sessions. 09:19 ⏩ The two-speed leadership concept and changes COVID brought: fast innovation and need for managing multi-speed organisations. 15:20 👩‍💼 Being a mother of three and a successful...

Liz Sweigart holds a Ph.D. in organizational leadership, and she is the Chief Product - Strategy Officer for a new technology company called Safe Kids AI. Liz is passionate about being authentic, creating genuine connections, and is on a mission to empower kids to be safer online by helping them make better decisions. Today Liz shares a personal story about the challenges of mental illness and how her struggles inspired her to speak out about the pandemic that society is silent about; the...

😍 A successful love story: Liz made her home in Houston, TX.  01:11 🧠 Mental health is a global pandemic no one is talking about: my zone is me.  03:29 😟 Fear of judgment: Liz’s story about living in depression. 07:21 👩‍⚖️ Getting professional help, learning to hide, judging herself, living a lie.  09:23 💊 The most profound depression period and self-medicating: Liz became suicidal. 12:06 🌺 Coming back to life and authenticity: working on herself for 12 months. 14:02 📣 Obligation to speak out...