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Top Ten Speakers list of SpeakIn acknowledges four women influencers

Dec 10, 2020 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Deepshikha Kumar, #Founder, #Kamala Harris, #Nitish Kumar, #Rajnish Kumar Former Chairman, #Shantanu Moitra, #Soon Yu, #SpeakIn, #State Bank of India, #Sudha Menon, #Surekha Kothari, #Tahira Kashyap Khurrana, #Vikram Sathaye, #Vir Das

SpeakIn’s recent list of top ten speakers is a testimony of women’s growing impact on global leadership scenario across a wide spectrum of activities. The November 2020 list begins as well as ends with women leaders, and out of ten mentions, four are credited to women.

Every month, India’s fastest-growing online business learning platform, SpeakIn, publishes the list of top ten personalities, who are influencing people and businesses through their lectures and speeches. As November witnessed the world’s biggest political event, the US elections, where Kamala Harris was one of the most discussed figures as Vice President, elected. On the other hand, Mr Nitish Kumar once again has proved his mettle in Bihar’s Politics. Hence, they both emerged as the strongest contenders in SpeakIn’s top ten speakers list.
The other eight names in the list are — Rajnish Kumar (Former Chairman, State Bank of India); Tahira Kashyap Khurrana (author, filmmaker, theatre director); Vir Das (Standup Artist); Shantanu Moitra (award-winning music director); Vikram Sathaye (stand-up comedian); Soon Yu (international speaker, award-winning author); Surekha Kothari (hypnotherapist and Reiki expert); and Sudha Menon (author and a writing coach).
On possible leadership opportunities for women in the future, Kamala Harris, said, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”

SpeakIn has been hosting online discussions covering the most relevant issues featuring the top brass and the most experienced minds. On the backing of over 17,000 industry stalwarts at SpeakIn, its founder, Deepshikha Kumar says, “With the environment changing by the minute, it’s important to connect with thought leaders and constantly reinvent ourselves. Keeping this in mind, SpeakIn’s array of live sessions such as the SpeakIn Leadership Program, are carefully designed to cater to the current needs of people who are keen to build personal and professional excellence.”

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SpeakIn honours Experts who mentored Startups for the festive season

Nov 9, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Deepshikha Kumar, #festive season, #Jacob, #Mohit Arora, #Sanjay Srivastava, #SpeakIn, #Startups, #Suresh Mahalingam

India’s fastest-growing online business learning platform, SpeakIn acknowledged India’s top ten mentors that helped startups for maximising revenue in the festival season. Also, they were the most popular speakers on SpeakIn in October, when the festive season begins in India. With the objective of empowering young entrepreneurs and businesses, they helped out start-ups with their knowledge and experience.

T.V. Mohandas Pai (Chairman of Manipal University), Bijou Kurien (Chairman of the Retailers Association of India), Anjali Bansal (Founder and Chairperson of Avaana Capital), Padmaja Alaganandan (Chief People Officer of PwC India), Kushagr Agarwal (Founder and Director of Business Development – APAC & EMEA, at KNR Management Consultants), Ankur Pahwa (Partner at Ernst & Young), Jeeveshu Ahluwalia (Indian stand-up comedian), Gayatri Gandhi (Certified KonMari Silver Consultant in India and the founder of Joy Factory), Anjali Rajagopal (Motivational Speaker, Identity Advocate, and Entrepreneur), and Sampark Sachdeva (Founder and Chief Coach at (SamparkSeSampark), are named as the ten most influential business experts and coaches for Indian startups by SpeakIn. Their webinars and lectures were enthusiastically attended by startup founders, who are keen to perform well in this festive season.

On this occasion, Deepshikha Kumar, Founder of SpeakIn, said, “With the backing of over 15,000 industry stalwarts, at SpeakIn, our focus is facilitating learning and connecting start-ups from the best experts of India and abroad. Amidst the festival season, these industry experts have significantly helped young businesses to formulate successful strategies in the festival season, which is considered the most lucrative period of the year for a majority of companies.”

“At SpeakIn, we always keep our clients at the centre of our work, delivering them the best in terms of quality, credibility, and uniqueness. We’ve gone from strength to strength and the time has never been more fitting for veterans to bring to the table, their own style and vision,” Deepshikha added.

SpeakIn has been hosting online discussions covering the most relevant issues featuring the top brass and the most experienced minds. And recently, its core leadership got further strengthened with the entry of Sanjay Srivastava, Suresh Mahalingam, Mohit Arora, and Jacob Jacob on board.

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Speakin Expands its Core Leadership To Drive Global Growth

Oct 8, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Deepshikha Kumar, #Mohit Arora, #Sanjay Srivastava, #SpeakIn, #Suresh Mahalingam

SpeakIn, India’s fastest growing expert learning platform, has appointed Sanjay Srivastava and Suresh Mahalingam as Strategic Advisors to enable its global expansion strategy. SpeakIn also welcomes APAC senior business leaders as new members to its core team with Mohit Arora and Jacob Jacob. Each of these leaders brings decades of experience and industry expertise to the SpeakIn team.

Deepshikha Kumar, SpeakIn Founder, shares, “We are excited to have Sanjay and Suresh join us as Strategic Advisors and Mohit and Jacob as APAC leaders to accelerate our global vision and strategy. I am looking forward to the next milestone as we unveil our ambitious growth plans”.

Sanjay Srivastava will be advising SpeakIn on its global expansion plans and Go to Market Strategy. Sanjay, former CEO and Board Director of Mahindra World City, brings over 25 years of executive leadership across diverse sectors creating platforms, driving scale and delivering growth. He is acknowledged as the country’s most prominent business growth leaders for building ecosystems and “Make In India”. About his new role at SpeakIn, Sanjay shares, “Today, enterprises need to be equipped with dynamic learning skills to stay ahead of the curve in the New Normal. SpeakIn has already developed fantastic capabilities through its knowledge base and solutions. This is the best time for SpeakIn to leverage its transformative solutions and offer a scalable platform for new global business opportunities.”

Deepshikha further adds “Quality, credibility and uniqueness of delivery for our clients is at the core of SpeakIn. With the progress made in servicing diverse clients over the years, SpeakIn has laid a strong foundation which makes it an opportune time for leaders of exceptional standing to join the team and lift it higher. I along with our stakeholders are enthralled at this expansion.”

Mohit Arora joins SpeakIn as Global Head of Business. Based in Singapore, Mohit has a legacy of shaping business strategies and driving growth for large-scale business organizations across the Asia Pacific. He is also an automotive veteran consulting automotive OEMs, suppliers and dealers. Commenting on the occasion, Mohit says, “Today, employee re-skilling is one of the most critical for organizational future-readiness. Businesses are searching for right experts who can impart the right knowledge and skills to them virtually and interactively. It is time that SpeakIn takes its fantastic network of experts to fill in this need across India and beyond”.

Suresh Mahalingam is another glorious addition to SpeakIn and will lead the BFSI and FMCG industry-focused business in his new role. Suresh has over three decades of senior leadership experience and was formerly the MD and CEO at TATA AIA. Suresh comments, “Right now is the time when industries like BFSI and FMCG need transition into the new normal, thus creating a massive need to quickly upskill and reskill existing talent. This is where SpeakIn can help companies to learn from the experts, who have been there-done that, and thus expediting practical learnings.”. Suresh is currently an Independent Director at Aviva India and Principal Asset Management.

To shape the learning strategy for SpeakIn clients, SpeakIn is joined by senior APAC HR leader Jacob Jacob, while also heading South Asia and GCC business. With over two decades of experience in international markets, Jacob has served as the CHRO at Columbia Asia in Kuala Lumpur and at senior leadership at Apollo Hospitals and Emirates. Jacob shares, “With the backing of over 17,000 experts in its network, SpeakIn is ready to create new horizons in the space of business learning. I’m really excited to be a part of this journey.

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SpeakIn honours Experts who guided start-ups during lockdown

Sep 26, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Alok Goel, #Deepshikha Kumar, #Rajan Anandan, #Sanjay Mehta, #SpeakIn, #start-ups

India’s fastest-growing online business learning platform, SpeakIn honoured India’s top mentors for start-ups in the last quarter. Ankur Pahwa (Partner, EY); Jaideep Mehta (CEO, VCCircle); Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Sequoia Surge); Sanjay Mehta (Founder & Partner, 100X.VC); and Alok Goel (Partner, SAIF Partners) are named as top start-up experts by SpeakIn.

While the entire economy has faced enormous challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic, start-ups, in particular, have been the most affected during this crisis. With the objective of empowering young entrepreneurs and businesses, many accomplished business leaders are helping out start-ups with their unparalleled guidance and expertise. Honouring the contributions and extreme dedication towards start-ups of such leaders, SpeakIn has named these five leaders, who have extensively provided subject-matter expertise and mentorship to start-ups across India.

All five mentors have successful and glorious track records in their respective fields. With over 20 years of consulting experience, Ankur Pahwa is at the helm of the e-commerce and consumer internet sector. His areas of expertise lie in strategy and transactions, start-ups and innovation. Jaideep Mehta is another business leader with a track record of delivering winning results. He is an expert in angel investments, market research and change management.

Rajan Anandan, in the past 15 years, has invested in many technology-based start-ups. He has deep knowledge about business transformation and is an established investment advisor, always looking for the next big unicorn. Sanjay Mehta is another leader whose immense knowledge of the start-up ecosystem makes him an incredible coach. He has invested in 103 start-up companies to date in diverse sectors and start-ups seek his guidance on topics such as financial planning, management consulting, vendor management, and sales negotiation.

Alok Goel is the next name in SpeakIn’s top-five list of start-up experts. He is a noted venture capital investor besides a successful entrepreneur. Alok is phenomenal in providing coaching to entrepreneurs and business professionals about e-commerce and product management.

While revealing the names of these start-up experts, Deepshikha Kumar, Managing Partner & Founder of SpeakIn, said, With the backing of over 15,000 industry stalwarts, at SpeakIn, our focus is facilitating learning and connecting start-ups to the best experts from India and abroad. During the lockdown, these industry experts have contributed greatly to several organizations, filling critical gaps and stand to be a huge asset to any startup advisory board. SpeakIn is proud to feature these experts and looks forward to recognising many more industry experts.

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India’s own professional network strengthens reach; launches e-learning app in five regional languages

Sep 15, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Deepshikha Kumar Anand, #EdTech apps, #SpeakIn

“Make In India” and “Digital India” campaigns have brought some disruptive start-ups in the country’s business landscape and SpeakIn is one such leading example. Having already expanded to over 12 countries in Asia including Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Israel, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Philippines and Vietnam, SpeakIn has now launched an e-learning app with vernacular content in five languages including English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam and Kannada. SpeakIn’s continuous growth has helped the startup in completing another round of funding recently.

While the market is flooded with a myriad of EdTech apps in the academic spectrum, SpeakIn is disrupting online business learning platforms in India by bringing in learning directly from the global thought leaders. The video-based learning comes in short (8 minutes) and long (60 minutes) modules with assessment and certification.

Recognizing that “learning does not have to stop” due to global pandemic, SpeakIn launched an e-learning app with vernacular content – making learning more accessible. SpeakIn virtually reached out to regional experts for the creation of modules in sales, marketing, digital transformation, etc., in regional languages. “With content in five languages and growing, SpeakIn aims to bring premium content not only to white-collar professionals comfortable in English but also to multilingual front-line sales, operational and diversified client-facing workforce,” says Deepshikha Kumar Anand, Founder, SpeakIn. With this desired feature, mentees who are not well-versed in English can also extract the best from lectures, training programs, and webinars. While companies pay an annual subscription fee to access content, individuals benefit from a pay-per-use plan. The content can be further customized to topics of business relevance depending on an organization’s requirements.

While commenting on SpeakIn’s growing popularity, Deepshikha Kumar, said, “With the core philosophy to create a large yet highly-curated network, SpeakIn works with top professionals and organisations to connect them to industry experts and thought leaders globally to for their business learning requirements and to inform, inspire and motivate leaders and individuals. Backed by a stringent compliance framework, SpeakIn has served an array of clients and continues to deliver competitive pricing and a pan-region presence to gain access to experts in the remotest of cities and rarest of topics.”

At SpeakIn, expert generated content is being used for bringing curated business learning – especially to businesses in the immediate need to pivot (such as dealerships who wanted to sell online) and on training that can help professionals switch careers (especially those who lost jobs during COVID-19 outbreak). SpeakIn’s customised learning modules on contactless sales for real estate and automobile sectors have already proven very effective during the current economic slowdown.