About Empowering Indian Expats: Create more Impact & Influence, beyond just making a living
Bringing Stories, Strategies and Life Lessons of inspiring Indian Expats who dared to take the leap and successfully transitioned from Employee to Entrepreneur or excelled in Corporate Career itself beyond an average 9-5.Your host Ehsan Ali moved from India to Australia in 2008 with big dreams but without realising settled into a normal job. A decade later, when he tried to escape the mediocrity trap, he couldn‘t get enough help and encouragement. Finally, he launched this podcast as an endeavor to unpack stories of Indian expats who have already made it and are willing to share their journey with the rest of us. Ehsan‘s objective is to build a powerful knowledge database covering a wide variety of transition and transformation stories.
E40 - Building Linkedin Profile With Karen Tisdell, LinkedIn Profile Writer and Trainer
Despite LinkedIn being the need of the hour, this episode is unique in its own right.
This week's guest is one of the early users of LinkedIn, who has not only built her career through LinkedIn but has also helped a lot of people do the same.
From being an account manager to HR recruiting to becoming LinkedIn's top voice in 2021, Karen Tisdell followed her passion.
She is running her own business for the last 13 years and has been a LinkedIn user for the last 18 years.
She is currently a LinkedIn Profile Writer and got over 100 recommendations.
She started her journey as an account manager for the Essex chronicle group back in the 1990s and today, she has close to 20k followers on LinkedIn.
In this episode of Empowering Indian Expats, you will learn about
Following your passion
How to use Linkedin
Building Career on LinkedIn
Learning something new every day
Adding value in every job
Communication
Networking
Alignment of role and purpose
Karen Tisdell coordinates:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karentisdell
Website: https://karentisdell.com
Email: hello@karentisdell.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karen_tisdell
Host Ehsan coordinates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimohammadehsan
If you are concerned about your career, take the 3-minute quiz to find out what gaps in your career are costing you the most: https://empoweringyourcareer.scoreapp.com/
16 May 2022
E39 - Using Technologies To Impact Human Lives With Jaya Vaidhyanathan, CEO, BCT Digital
The less traversed path comes with unique challenges that change the way we think.
The guest of this week, Jaya Vaidhyanathan, has stretched her boundaries to show that we can accomplish whatever we set our minds to.
Jaya was listed in the top 10 most influential women in tech and has also been named India's most trustworthy CEO.
She started her career as a computer science graduate.
She wanted to work with people rather than systems, so she studied finance and strategy in an MBA program at Cornell University in USA.
During her MBA, investment banking caught her interest, so she joined CIBC Oppenheimer as their Director.
She then got into technology shaping up large deals in USA for HCL Technologies.
After that, she moved to management consulting where she worked on setting up large businesses for Accenture clients.
Then, she joined Standard Chartered Bank as Executive Vice President heading global technology and strategic transformation.
A personal situation made her think of the next stage of her career, and she thought of bringing all her corporate experiences to build something valuable for the banking industry to help the bankers. And her entrepreneurial journey started.
Today she is CEO at BCT Digital and Independent Director at UTI Mutual Funds.
During her career, she was primarily driven by demands on a personal and professional front.
Her passion for exploring and learning became apparent in her shifts in jobs in quite different ways.
Her main objective is to use technologies to impact human lives.
In this episode of Empowering Indian Expats, you will learn about
Various aspects of growing your career
Developing right growth mindset
Transitioning into Entrepreneurship
Giving back and creating an impact
Jaya Vaidhyanathan coordinates:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaya-vaidhyanathan-26039510
Host Ehsan coordinates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimohammadehsan
If you are concerned about your career, take the 3-minute quiz to find out what gaps in your career are costing you the most: https://empoweringyourcareer.scoreapp.com/
14 Mar 2022
E38 - From Door-to-Door Sales to Building a Technology Platform With Tinesh Chhaya, Founder, Decipher Cyber
Do you want to start a side hustle?
Do you want to shift from corporate to entrepreneurship?
Then this episode is the answer to your questions.
From finance to sales,
From banking to cybersecurity,
Tinesh Chhaya has experienced it all.
He started his journey in finance but soon realized he needed to switch.
He moved to sales, where he sold address verification software door to door.
It didn't take him long to realize there was much more to life than what he was doing.
He then joined Gartner, which turned out to be the best decision of his life. He got an inside-out view of the entire market.
That's where he fell in love with cybersecurity.
He switched a lot of roles and did a number of side hustles before starting his own firm in cybersecurity.
Today he is very proud to say that he is building the largest database of CyberSecurity vendors globally with his startup Decipher Cyber.
The following are two important lessons he learned from his side hustles:
Always do whatever you are passionate about
Choose your business partner correctly
In this episode of Empowering Indian Expats, you will learn about
Sales
Importance of mentorship
Finding opportunities
Career switching
Following your passion
Identifying the problem
Creating the solution
Tinesh Chhaya coordinates:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinesh-chhaya-07623097/
Company Website: http://www.deciphercyber.com/
Host Ehsan coordinates: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimohammadehsan
If you are concerned about your career, take the 3-minute quiz to find out what gaps in your career are costing you the most: https://empoweringyourcareer.scoreapp.com/
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