Webinar: Back to Basics: Communication, Empathy, and Problem-Solving in the Workplace and at Home by NAA Career Webinar Series

on-demand webinar

About this Webinar

We often learn about the fundamentals of communication, empathy, and problem-solving as children. These are values and skills that require practice and evolution as our worlds grow and our lives become subsequently more complex. It's easy to forget about those basics when we compartmentalize for the sake of our emotional and mental bandwidth. But taking the time to extend empathy, create lines of communication, and work to identify the problem at hand in order to solve it, makes us not only better colleagues and managers, but better people.

Join Priyanka Agarwal Mehta ’07, founder of "Sam and Mi," as she uses her book series and storytelling as a medium to teach us about the fundamentals of communication, empathy, and problem solving. And how those values have real world application in your workplace and in your home. You might be surprised to find you still have some learning to do yet.

Presenter

Priyanka Agarwal Mehta

Priyanka is a writer, entrepreneur and mother. She is the founder of ‘Sam and Mi’, a publishing house for children’s books and the founder of ‘Rongo’, an app that helps farmers in India minimize their risk. She previously founded the UK based education network ‘Connect2Teach’.

She completed her MBA from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge in the UK and BA from Northwestern University in the US. She recently completed her Professional Certificate in Digital Age Leadership with Kellogg School of Management, Executive Education. She serves as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society in the UK in recognition of her contribution to the education sector.

She has previously worked with corporates such as Tata Group, KPMG Boxwood and Towers Perrin in India, UK and the US, covering sectors from power, steel, education, retail to not-for-profit. Her operational expertise is in digital transformation, managing innovation and organizational change in businesses. She was presented with the Women of the Future (category: MBA Star) award in the UK in 2015 by HRH Princess Aga Khan for her vision of the education sector. She currently serves on the Governing Board of GLS University, Gujarat and SCOPE (Society for Creation of Opportunities through Proficiency in English), a Government of India initiative. She previously served on the Executive Board of VIDYA, a 32-year-old not-for-profit in India focused on education. She is also an advocate for women’s rights and is the chairperson for YFLO Ahmedabad 2022-23, an organization that works on women empowerment as a part of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).

She currently lives in India with her two vivacious daughters.