Inner Dialogue - an exploration of our beliefs and how it affects our reality - 24 Aug 2021

WOMEN'S BUSINESS FORUM

INNER DIALOGUE an exploration of our beliefs and how it affects our reality

6:00 PM

Welcome Address Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director Madras Management Association

Opening Remarks by the Chairperson Ms Mythili Chandrasekar Consumer Behaviour and Brand Strategy Enthusiast

Address by the Speaker Ms Supriya Padmanabhan CEO and Founding Partner My Persona

Discussion and Q&A with the Special Invitees Dr Lata Rajagopalan Kumar Consultant - Communication for Development Member - IAICS

Ms Babita Baruah Managing Partner, GTB India. A WPP Unit

Ms Supriya Padmanabhan

Concluding Remarks by the Chairperson

CEO and Founding Partner My Persona

TUESDAY

Ms Mythili Chandrasekar

7:15 PM

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FOUNTAINHEAD OF EXCELLENCE

SYNOPSIS

Understanding The Inner Dialogue How much do the conversations within our minds affect us?

Does our stress and confusion come from our Inner Dialogue?

Our upbringing and society have taught us how to communicate with each other- through language, articulation, intention and actions. Yet we have not paid much attention to how we communicate with ourselves. In fact, talking to one’s self was not encouraged!

The discussion revolves around our Inner Dialogue. To understand how we communicate and connect to the most important person in our world- ourself. We understand the effect of this inner dialogue on our minds, bodies, relationships, our work and our circumstances, our success and failure.

We

often

say

we

are

a

product

of

our

DNA

and

our

environment,

our

experiences

and

our

circumstances. How do we change that to our advantage?

Discover how we can minimise our stress and confusion and enhance our impact and success by

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understanding & changing the way we speak to ourselves- by paying attention to our Inner Dialogue.

SPEAKER

SUPRIYA PADMANABHAN Helping People Be the Best Expression of themselves CEO and Founding Partner, My Persona: Curating, facilitating and coaching programs designed to make authentic leadership easy with a visible impact. Featured in Silicon India in Top 10 Leadership Providers with a Distinct Flavour March 2021.

In her quest to understand the language of the mind,Supriya has studied Psychology, Sociology, English, Parent-Child & Non-violent Communication & Integrated Clinical Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Buddhist Psychology and is

a Professional Certified Coach from

International Coaching Federation ICF. In earlier avataars Supriya was Vice President, Thompson Connect @ J Walter Thompson and

the

Chennai

Lead

for

IAF

(International

Association

of

Facilitators).

Supriya’s

business expertise extends to Marketing & Communication. CRM & Digital Marketing.

Supriya

has

themselves

constantly

honestly,

worked

and

with

at

the

creatively groups

helping

they

people

interact

with

communicate productively.

with

She

is

recognized for her ability to connect with people and enhance the art of Effective Expression.

MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

profile

CHAIRPERSON

MYTHILI CHANDRASEKAR Over 35 years in Consumer Behaviour and Brand Strategy. Recently retired as Senior VP and National Planning Director, J Walter Thompson, India.

Currently

freelance Strategy and Research Consultant.

Work spans cities across India, and categories ranging from talcum powder, deodorants and shampoos, through pesticides, sanitary ware and education to foods, beverages, telecom and cars. Clients include Ford, ITC, Unilever, Hero Motocorp and PepsiCo among many others.

Career Highlights Created thinking frameworks, models and brainstorming tools in a variety of verticals: food and

beverage,

personal

products,

education,

technology,

automotive;

new

product

development, premiumisation, portfolio planning and digital strategy.

Created over 80 hours of training material.

Initiated and steered Coffee and Donuts with JWT Planning.

Published

over

75

articles

in

leading

Indian,

US

and

UK

media.

Repository

at

www.povfromindia.blogspot.com Created Brand Chakras ™ a first-of-its-kind proprietary toolkit.

Won the Patricia Mann Award for Women Marketers, UK, 2008, winning a bursary to the Executive Marketing Programme, in Stanford.

Co-authored "Voices Within"(with two leading South Indian musicians) a coffee table book on the maestroes of carnatic music.

Took short breaks from advertising to write for UNICEF and in dotcom

Specialties: and

Brand strategy, integrated marketing communication, insight mining, socio-cultural

ethnography

research,

new

product

development

and

portfolio

curation, content creation, writing, teaching.

MMA MANAGEMENT CENTER TEMPLE FOR KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

MADRAS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

planning,

knowledge

SPECIAL INVITEES

DR LATA RAJAGOPALAN KUMAR

BABITA BARUAH

EDUCATION -PhD

-

In her 24th year in the industry and with WPP, Babita

Communication,

Dept

of

Mass

Media

&

Comm. Studies, University of Madras, 2007 -Research

Methods,

Centre

for

Baruah now leads GTB India as Managing Partner.

She joined HTA ( Wunderman Thompson ) in Kolkata

Studies

in

Social

in

1996.

Over

Sciences, Kolkata, 2004

agency’s

-M.A. Communication, University of Madras – 1988

working

onwards:

People

(a

Founder

C4D

–

Director,

project)

and

Curious

free-lance

onwards

in

Academia:

Guest

Her

the

portfolio

and

she

took

Delhi

on

roles

offices,

Wunderman

as

in

well

Thompson

the as

Unilever

Faculty

at

CEG, Anna University, Dept of Science & Tech

and

experience

extends

across

categories in FMCG, Finance, Technology. Besides being

advertising/ communication consultant 2001

with

years,

team in Bangkok on Sunsilk and Lux.

EXPERIENCE 2014

the

Mumbai

part

of

global

agency

teams

on

Nestle,

Johnson and Johnson and Radiant & Knorr in Unilever.

She led the team on Nokia India, before moving on to

Communication, Madras University, WCC, Loyola,

setting up a dedicated integrated solutions team for

NIFT

PepsiCo, India, in 2016.

and

MOP

colleges.

communication,

Subjects:

advertising

branding,

and

creative

strategy

departments

agencies

in

Coimbatore

of

Chennai, &

leading

advertising

Bangalore,

Hyderabad

across

Delhi, leading

agencies including Artig, Insight, Euro RSCG and Mudra

Communications.

Held

leadership

passionate

about

the

intersection

of

national

accounts

to

creative

solutions

that

shift

the

needle

for

the

brand and business. Collaboration with WPP and non WPP

partners

has

been

key

to

her

business

relationships. She believes in the power of influence of the communication industry towards a purposive future.

positions in the creative depts.

Handled

is

consumer behaviour, culture and technology, leading

1988- 2001 Advertising industry: Worked in the creative

Babita

like

Henkel,

Cavin

In 2004, Babita was one of the 12 Indian women to

Care, TI Cycles, Kurlon, ICI, Wipro, Pricol, Nalli

be

Silks, ITC,

Mysore Silks, Crocodile and HMT. Won

scholarship in the U.K, on Women and Leadership. In

awards at the regional and national levels for

2016, she was invited to Harvard Business School as a

advertising creativity and brand communication.

speaker on Trends in India Marketing, in the India

and

published

for

the

prestigious

British

Chevening

Conference. In 2017, Babita was invited to speak on

PAPERS PUBLISHED Written

selected

Women papers

in

Communication,

as

Professionals,

at

the

Women

Influence

Forum in Geneva.

CSR & Marketing/Advertising for Development within India at national and international conferences.

Babita is driven by her efforts on diversity, mentoring young professionals, engagement with management

OTHER INTERESTS Sports-

Former

ranked

institutes, initiatives for making the workplace culture tennis

player,

represented

conducive to inspired talent and strong partnerships.

Madras University and TN State. Won All India Inter

She has initiated programmes like SheHour, with her

University

team, to connect and empower women at work in

tournament

&

Bronze

at

the

National

Games. Keen interest in classical arts and reading.

her workplace.

She

lives

in

Gurgaon

with

her

fifteen year old daughter, Joya.

husband,

and

her