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Courage TalksCourage Talks S8E2 Rakesh Godhwani๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ธ๐: ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ต๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ (๐๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐๐ฎ)Rakesh Godhwani, founder of the School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME), shares his journey from corporate roles at Wipro, Intel, and Qualcomm to a fulfilling career in teaching and writing. Tune in for insights on career reinvention and pursuing your true calling.๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐:๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐๐ผ๐: Transitioned from corporate roles in product marketing, sales, and business development to follow his passion for teaching and writing, living "a million times better" despite earning less.๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ณ๐๐น ๐๐
๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ (๐ฆ๐ผ๐ ๐): Offers programs on confidence, communication, curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and competence for professionals, leaders, and entrepreneurs.๐ง๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฅ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐: Adjunct Faculty of Communication at IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad University; has taught at IIM Trichy, IIM U...
2025-10-171h 10
WE-MatterHow a Visionary Leader Transformed HMELWelcome to the official podcast of WE-Matter!Weโre back with another insightful episode of the Leadership Series, where WE-Matter brings you conversations that spark ideas and drive change.๐ Key Takeaways:How Mr. Arun drove a culture of efficiency and productivity in Hindustan Petroleum, a public sector companyHow he created value in a highly commoditized sector like petroleum by reigniting the spirit amongst his workforceThe leadership values that helped him bring about influential and positive changes in the workforceThe critical role of independent directors in the f...
2025-06-1737 min
Decoding Impact with Rathish BalakrishnanPowering Prosperity: Emerging Promise of DPIs in India's Energy Sector ft. Dr Nikit AbhyankarThe Indian energy sector is at a critical juncture. Electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic growth, has grown significantly over the past 50-60 years, and India is primed to leapfrog into a sustainably powered future.
This transition calls for a robust policy foundation, technological advancements in demand-supply and storage mechanisms, and a keen study of economic incentives for users of green energy. In this episode of Decoding Impact, Rathish Balakrishnan is in conversation with scientist Dr. Nikit Abhyankar to unpack the unique opportunity India has, to transition to renewable energy, with economic viability...
2024-09-1959 min
Decoding Impact with Rathish BalakrishnanGreen Roads Ahead: Decoding Indiaโs EV and Digital Infrastructure ft. Akhil Jayaprakash & Arun VinayakWorldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road.
In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help:
โข Reduce frictions
โข Enable greater customer experience
โข Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India...
2024-06-291h 23
The Digital CX Podcast: Driving digital customer success and outcomes in the age of A.I.AI-Powered Customer Success & Predictive Analytics with Arun Balakrishnan and Preetam Jinka of FunnelStory | Episode 057Preetam Jinka and Arun Balakrishnan, co-founders of FunnelStory, join the podcast to discuss how weโre just scratching the surface with AI and machine learning.ย They chat with Alex about how FunnelStory is revolutionizing customer success strategies, enabling teams to predict churn, optimize user engagement, and drive revenue growth through data-driven insights.Additionally, Arun & Preetam share their own insights on A.I. and how Product teams best work with Customer Success.Chapters:04:35 - Arun's background in cybersecurity and product managemen05:25 - How Preetam got started in AI and data engineering14:00 - The dif...
2024-06-1851 min
AM Best Audio PodcastNavigating the Challenges of AIArun Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Xceedance said just because you have data, it doesn't mean it is useful.ย ย
2024-04-1208 min
AM Best AudioNavigating the Challenges of AIArun Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Xceedance said just because you have data, it doesn't mean it is useful.ย ย
2024-04-1208 min
HFS PODCASTSUnfiltered Stories | P&C Insurance Carriers: Have you revisited your target operating model in the era of prompt engineering?In this HFS Videocast, HFS' Reetika Fleming has a candid conversation with Xceedence CEO Arun Balakrishnan on the market dynamics in P&C insurance, how to reframe target operating model considerations in light of GenAI and technology advancements, and the changing nature of service providers to support the journey.
2023-11-2823 minAM Best Audio PodcastTechnology RevolutionArun Balakrishnan, CEO and co-founder of Xceedance, advocates a transformative approach for insurers.
2023-10-1619 minAM Best AudioTechnology RevolutionArun Balakrishnan, CEO and co-founder of Xceedance, advocates a transformative approach for insurers.
2023-10-1619 min
The Voice of InsuranceSpecial Ep Arun Balakrishnan CEO Xceedance: AI and Insurance - everything you need to knowTodayโs guest is an insurance technology entrepreneur with a great story to tell.
Arun Balakrishnan started his career at sea but went back to business school, became an internet entrepreneur and ended up captaining Berkshire Hathawayโs foray into the Indian insurance market.
Ten years ago he founded Insurance technology firm Xceedance and the growth has been rapid.
But thatโs just a bit of background because the main purpose of todayโs podcast is to talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and in particular the generative AI that has exploded onto the worldโs...
2023-09-0143 min
The SpotlightBuilding the tech stack for insurance | Arun Balakrishnan @ XceedanceXceedance is building a unified suite of services and products for insurance companies, helping them in their digital transformation journey and creating cutting-edge products for the next-gen customer. Arun was recruited as a very young India CEO for Berkshire Hathaway Insurance, which paved the way for him to eventually start Xceedance.What you must not miss:- Building a 100 million dollar business without funding The Backend technology powering insurance businesses How tech will impact insurance
2023-03-161h 06
The Insurance Coffee House with Nick HoadleyPowering the next generation of insurance businesses with Arun Balakrishnan, CEO, XceedanceโItโs not a cookie cutter processโ, says Arun, the Boston-based CEO & Chairman of Xceedance as he talks about the value proposition the business offers its clients.Launched in 2013, the business has grown to a team of 2200 spread across its offices in India, North America, Europe and Australia with clients relying on Xceedance to launch new products, drive operations, implement cutting-edge technology, deploy advanced analytics, and achieve process efficiencies.โWe help improve the productivity of underwriters and brokers. Itโs a balance between people process and technology.โArun believes, โThe way data analytics and technology...
2021-10-1227 min
BaroqueAmplifying Dreams: A Lateral View of FundraisingListening, the singular experience on which this podcast is anchored, is taken for granted until we no longer have the ability to hear. Unlike other forms of disability, ย deafness the disability is invisible, what is visible are the related educational and social widening gaps.
Arun Shah, the Director, Development of the All India Federation of the Deaf, shares with Baroque his engagement with visibilising the invisible disability. He has been supporting non-profits, in marketing, communications raising resources, both material and human for nearly four decades.ย
In the course of the conversation, he discusses growing up as...
2021-01-2854 min
The Indian DreamFounder Journey: Building a Global Insurance Products & Services Business - Arun BalakrishnanOur guest todayย is an ex- Merchant Navy Officer who, through an interesting sequence of events, became an Insurance Executive and eventually an Entrepreneur. He currently runs a Global Products & Services business in the Insurance Domain with a team 1900 people spread across 9 countries. This journey began little over 7 years ago when Arun Balakrishnan was heading the Berkshire Hathway's Indian Insurance Business. When Berkshire decided to wind up the India business, Arun spotted an interesting opportunity that would eventually lead to his company, Xceedance. And he's used the bootstrapped entrepreneur playbook of starting with services and then building products very e...
2021-01-1453 min
Sources and SinksCoffee And TeaA lot has been discussed about economy, remote work, startups, technology and what not of these COVID times,In this episode of Sources and Sinks, we will discuss a peculiarity of silicon valley lifestyle -ย Coffee and Tea.ย To discuss that, I have invited two special guests - A Coffee snob and A Tea Snob.Manish Gupta, CEO of ShiftLeft is our Coffee Snob and We have Arun Balakrishnan, Director of Products at ShiftLeft is our Tea Snob.In this episode, I attempt to learn from their knowledge of Coffee and Tea and ma...
2020-04-1114 min