Speaker Session: Prof. Rakesh Godhwani, Chairperson, School of Meaningful Experiences
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
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External participants (everyone except IIM Bangalore Students, Selected YLS participants, and case competition finalists) would require to purchase an access pass from Unstop to visit the IIMB campus for this session on the given date.
Topic for the Session: Preparing Oneself For the Future: Questions Everyone Has That Must Be Answered
As the Chairman of the School of Meaningful Experiences, Prof. Rakesh Godhwani is always thinking about one thing: what is it that is a challenge for his students (which include people from across different age groups), and how is it that he can help them solve it. An established speaker from the past few editions of VISTA, Dr. Godhwani is known for advising young talent of the world on how to navigate the complexities of their lives and career.
The students of today need the learnings of Mr. Godhwani more than anyone before has ever needed them. In a world where young people are expected to achieve everything at the youngest age possible, where only the outcome is rewarded and not the effort, and where the idea of success is becoming more and more idealistic and unattainable with every passing day- Mr. Godhwani suggests young people things that they must do to still make it big. Join him to learn more about specific life and career-related challenges that are likely to be a part of your future, and learn how you can effectively work through them.
About The Speaker
Dr. Rakesh Godhwani is the founder of SoME (School of Meaningful Experiences) which offers
programs for teenagers that help them become more confident, communicative, curious,
creative, collaborative, and competent. He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Communication at IIM
Bangalore and Ahmedabad University. Rakesh coaches promising startups and senior
managers in the industry gives seminars and talks at corporate events and colleges, reads a
story to his kids every night before they sleep, bicycles to work whenever he can, writes, earns a fraction of what he used to, but lives a million times better. His fourth book titled “Public Speaking Kaleidoscope” was released by Business Expert Press USA in May 2017. His earlier book “What to Say and When to Shut Up!” was published by Penguin Random House in November 2014 and translated into Marathi in 2017. Rakesh launched his online course on EdX and IIMBx called “Effective Business Communication” designed for learners around the world.
Rakesh has also launched his podcast “Plunnge” which can be accessed freely from any podcast app like Spotify, Apple Podcast, or Google Podcast apps.
Rakesh is a much sought-after keynote speaker in various industry and education forums. His talk at the IIMB Vista 2018 has crossed 1.7 million views on YouTube now. He has a popular channel on YouTube called “Conversations With Rakesh" where he takes questions from audiences and releases a video every week”. Besides this, Rakesh also volunteers as a counselor at The Vishwas Society for Mental Health in Bangalore.
Prior to this, Rakesh worked in Wipro, Intel, and Qualcomm in various profiles ranging
from product marketing, sales, and business development before he took the plunge to pursue his passion for teaching and writing. He is an alumnus of NIT Karnataka (BE Computers, 97), IIM Bangalore (PGSEM, 2004), and Cardiff Metropolitan University (Ph.D., 2018).
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9 Jul'23, 12:00 AM IST Registration Deadline
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- A leading graduate school of management in Asia, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) was set up under the IIM Act of 2017.
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- IIMB offers the NS Ramaswamy Pre-doctoral (NSR Pre-doc) Fellowship programme with the aim to increase social diversity of management academia in India. All these programmes are very highly rated and IIMB alumni occupy senior managerial and academic positions around the world.
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