Lucia Annunzio on High Performance Leadership & Culture

October 5th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Susan “Lucia” Annunzio is an acclaimed leadership coach, author, President and CEO of the Center for High Performance. Lucia, known by her clients as the “CEO-Whisperer,” has spent over 25 years observing, analysing, and coaching CEO, C-Suite, and Board dynamics.  She has discerned that an organization is only as great as…

 

Ozwald Boateng OBE: Fashion Designer & Creative Visionary

October 1st, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Ozwald Boateng has been at the forefront of fashion for over 25 years. He conceived a new silhouette and palette for international menswear, creating a concept of style and luxury for men not previously envisaged but desired by men everywhere. Always the revolutionary, Ozwald Boateng’s collections now see an evolution…

 

John Chambers: Cisco CEO & JC2 Ventures Founder

September 15th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
John Chambers is an extraordinary leader. During his 25 years at Cisco, he took the business profitably from $1 billion, to over $49 billion in annual revenues. Not only is this one if the internet-era’s greatest success stories, but one which built much of the infrastructure of the modern internet.…

 

Sridhar Vembu: Bootstrapping Zoho to $1 Billion

September 1st, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO and Co-founder of Zoho Corp, which he describes as “...a state-of-the-art tech company with a very old-fashioned approach to company building.” Founded in an apartment, in 1996, Zoho now has over 15,000 employees, more than US$1 billion in annual revenues, and over 100 million users. All…

 

Chatri Sityodtong: Building Asia’s Sports Media Giant

August 31st, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Chatri Sityodtong is the Founder and CEO of ONE, Asia’s largest global sports media platform with a worldwide broadcast to over 190 countries. According to Nielsen, ONE ranks amongst the world’s top 5 biggest sports media properties (alongside NBA, F1, Champions League, EPL, etc) in terms of viewership and engagement.…

 

100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer – Ken Costa

August 14th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Ken Costa is a seasoned investor and author. Born in South Africa, he was active in the anti-apartheid movement as a student leader in Johannesburg and went on to study law at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, thereafter becoming Chair of UBS Investment Bank (EMEA) and Lazard International. He is currently chairman…

 

Secrets of Happiness: Professor Gad Saad Interview

August 3rd, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
“The quest for happiness is a universal, scientific, fact. We can measure happiness, we can assess it, and we can devise strategies to make ourselves happy and fulfilled human beings.”  This is the assessment of Professor Gad Saad, one of the world’s most sought after experts on psychology, marketing &…

 

Mike Berners-Lee on Climate & Carbon Footprinting

July 28th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Professor Mike Berners-Lee is one of the world’s foremost experts on climate, carbon foot-printing and sustainability. He is the founder of Small World Consulting, an associate company of Lancaster University, which is a world leader in the field of supply chain carbon metrics and management. Small World works with organisations…

 

Uri Levine: Problem-Loving Entrepreneur & 2x Unicorn

July 13th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Uri Levine is a passionate entrepreneur, a 2x 'unicorn' builder (Duocorn), and the author of the book Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution – A Handbook for Entrepreneurs. He is co-founder of Waze, the world's largest community-based driving traffic and navigation app, which Google acquired for $1.1…

 

Girish Mathrubootham: Freshworks Founder & Nasdaq IPO

June 30th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Girish Mathrubootham is a renowned figure in the global tech industry, an entrepreneur who has rewritten India's startup narrative through his determination, innovation, and entrepreneurial acumen. As the CEO of Freshworks, he has propelled the company to new heights, carving a niche in a domain that was previously dominated by…