Are You Leading with Power Over or Power With?

Today I want to talk about what kind of leader are you? Are you a leader that leads with “power over” or “power with, to, and within?” As some of you know, I’m a huge Bre…

Moral Awareness

  January 6 was an unusual day. January 6 was a day we’ve never seen or thought we’ve seen in our country. Our country of democracy and freedom. When the settlers first came and set u…

Setting Goals

I want to talk about setting goals. Whether you’re setting goals for your corporation (yearly goals), individual goals, parental goals for your children. Something I’ve learned since I was…

The Importance of Mentors

This week I want to talk about mentors. I do a lot of work with students, both at the college level and graduate level in business and law schools. I also work with young professionals in corporations…

Danger is Real but Fear is a Choice

I was recently introduced to a movie by Will Smith called After Earth, essentially about the world ending. There’s a line in the movie that Will Smith says that says “danger is real but fe…

Protect Others Over Ego

I want to talk about something that I think is really powerful. It’s about empathy. There’s this concept of “are you going to choose to protect someone else, other people, or are you…

Living in Shame

Do you share your shame? Some of you have maybe heard me share my story about my grandfather, Banarsi Das Saraf who was a freedom fighter during the Quit movement in India. He fought alongside Mahatma…

Ethics: Doing it for the Right Reasons

  Hi everyone. So this week I’ve been watching a new documentary series on Netflix called, the Bad Boy Billionaire: India. It’s about Rogers and India. So very, very wealthy people in…

Third Party Risk

I recently received a question about 3rd party risk and vendor risk. Many of you work for large corporations doing business in many different countries with different cultures and laws. There are a lo…

What is Accountability?

I want to talk about what is Accountability? I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion with a gentleman named Sam Silverstein at Converge forum. He was speaking on and has been speakin…