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I love speaking about my adventures in Startup-land (and life in general) and have realised that it is a great way to engage with the audience and share the traps and the lessons learnt and other epiphanies. Topics I am passionate about are planting the seed idea and turning it into reality, technology, Startup founder dynamics, failures, branding, building resilience and managing chaos.

LBS Talk

The traps and lessons learnt from transitioning into startups

"Stories from the SHIFT"

Are you considering a career transition into the Entrepreneurial world?

Chennakeshav Adya, at London Business School


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Join me in seeking answers to questions such as:
1) Let me try entrepreneurship for a few months and see if it for me.
2) When should I quit my job? Should I quit my job to start a business?
3) The traps you will encounter when you leave your thriving corporate job
4) .. and the ways around them
5) The dark side of entrepreneurship and how to develop resilience
6) Frameworks to assess your readiness

Startups is hard. Don't let motivational speakers lie to you.

So, is entrepreneurship for you?

LBS Talk


Alfredo Ramos

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Alfredo Ramos Plasencia - Commercialising Innovation, Investments, Learning entrepreneurship, Career Vision, Process Engineering

Chennakeshav Adya, Alfredo Ramos Plasencia

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Alfredo Ramos Plasencia, Managing Director of CPI Enterprises, the UK-based technology innovation centre and part of the Government's High Value Manufacturing Catapult.



Pieter Hack

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Pieter Hack - Startups, Sustainable energy, Blue energy, Long-term vision, Altruism

Chennakeshav Adya, Pieter Hack

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Pieter Hack, Dutch entrepreneur, Chairman of REDstack BV - the world's largest blue energy firm.



Rikard Strid

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Rikard Strid - Entrepreneurial Resilience, Futurism, Sustainable energy, IoT, Bio-hacking, Mental Health, Spirituality, Sleep

Chennakeshav Adya, Rikard Strid

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Rikard Strid, Swedish entrepreneur, IoT guru, and bio-hacker, Chairman of KTC and founder of Clayster.



Tony Wheeler

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Tony Wheeler - Startups, Sustainable businesses, Passion, Stamps, Time machine, Space travel

Chennakeshav Adya, Tony Wheeler

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Tony Wheeler, English publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet.



Ed Lord

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EPISODE 10

Ed Lord - Ethics in the financial world and beyond

Chennakeshav Adya, Ed Lord

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Ed Lord, one of the founding fathers of modern Active Credit Portfolio Management.



Heidi Roizen

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Heidi Roizen - Startups, Diversity, VC, and Investing

Chennakeshav Adya, Heidi Roizen

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Heidi Roizen, Partner - Threshold Ventures, as Heidi shares unique relatable perspectives on Startups, Diversity, VC, and Investing.



Mike Kemball

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Mike Kemball - Push and Pull Sales

Chennakeshav Adya, Mike Kemball

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Mike Kemball, Partner Turnaround and Growth, as Mike shares some simple techniques to drive change and turnaround businesses using the push vs pull strategies.



Raju Venkataraman

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EPISODE 7

Raju Venkataraman - The Art and Science of Negotiation - Part 2

Chennakeshav Adya, Raju Venkataraman

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Raju Venkataraman, Partner Executive Coaching, as they discuss the art and science of negotiation. Raju brings 30+ years of rich C-suite experience from the corporate world; most recently as CFO & Head of Strategy of Walt Disney Company for South East Asia. He has rich cross-cultural experience across the APAC region and has a special interest in Asian economies. Presently, Raju is powering on senior leaders to fulfil their potential and aspirations amidst change and disruption.



Raju Venkataraman

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EPISODE 6

Raju Venkataraman - The Art and Science of Negotiation - Part 1

Chennakeshav Adya, Raju Venkataraman

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Raju Venkataraman, Partner Executive Coaching, as they discuss the art and science of negotiation. Raju brings 30+ years of rich C-suite experience from the corporate world; most recently as CFO & Head of Strategy of Walt Disney Company for South East Asia. He has rich cross-cultural experience across the APAC region and has a special interest in Asian economies. Presently, Raju is powering on senior leaders to fulfil their potential and aspirations amidst change and disruption.



Nav Kaplish

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EPISODE 5

Nav Kaplish - ERP Risk Management

Chennakeshav Adya, Nav Kaplish

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Nav Kaplish, Partner Risk Management as they discuss vulnerabilities in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. When it comes to ERP security controls, experience talks. Because they are usually out of the box solutions, these systems don't come with the controls enabled that regulators, management and internal auditors demand.



Mike Kemball

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Mike Kemball - Turnaround and Growth

Chennakeshav Adya, Mike Kemball

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Mike Kemball, Partner Turnaround and Growth, as they discuss how businesses can be turned around in COVID-19 times.



Nav Kaplish

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Nav Kaplish - Enterprise Risk Management

Chennakeshav Adya, Nav Kaplish

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Nav Kaplish, Partner Risk Management, as they discuss enterprise risk management.



Dipak Khot

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Dipak Khot - Market Risk Management

Chennakeshav Adya, Dipak Khot

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Dipak Khot, Partner Risk Management, as they discuss liquidity and market risk. Liquidity risk is associated with an investor's ability to transact their investment for cash. A risk management strategy provides a structured and coherent approach to identifying, assessing and managing risk or uncertainties followed up by minimizing, monitoring and controlling the impact of risk realities or enhancing the opportunity potential by applying coordinated and economical resources.



Dr Nicholas Beecroft

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Dr Nicholas Beecroft - Devil's Advocate and Decision Making

Chennakeshav Adya, Dr. Nicholas Beecroft

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Join Chennakeshav Adya, Managing Partner, and Dr. Nicholas Beecroft, Partner Executive Coaching and Commercial Mediation, as they discuss a methodical process to effectively integrate your logic, reason and intellect with inner mastery of emotional intelligence, intuition, gut instinct, mindfulness and judgement - a competitive advantage worth having. Dr. Beecroft also shares his experience of saving a Family Office $27 million in one afternoon using these powerful techniques.

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Whenever I get into something, I am not only able to breakdown and explain complex concepts to a 5 year-old, but also mentor the 5-year old to connect the dots and provide refreshing insights. I take this approach to everything I do.
Adya Dad

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EPISODE 3

The Adya Boys (aged 6 and 4 years) - discussing Socialism, Capitalism, Taxes, Jobs, UBI, Government Support and environmentalism

The Adya Boys

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Join Keshav and the Adya Boys (aged 6 and 4 years) in understanding some refreshing perspectives regarding Socialism, Capitalism, Taxes, Jobs, UBI, Government Support and environmentalism.



Adya Dad

Personal

EPISODE 2

The Adya Boys (aged 6 and 4 years) - discussing Supply and Demand based pricing and the Marketing Mix

The Adya Boys

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Join Keshav and the Adya Boys (aged 6 and 4 years) in understanding some refreshing perspectives regarding discussing Supply and Demand based pricing and the Marketing Mix.



Neha Keshav

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Neha and Keshav wishing Nishit and Ranjani in a very unique way

Neha and Keshav

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Join Keshav and Neha in wishing the newly-weds using books.



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