Meenakshi Iyer's guest appearances

Meenakshi Iyer

Freeman Means Business' Wonder Women in Business Podcast

Empowering conversationZ

Balancing the Act- Bagpackerme - Travel Podcast

David Smith

Harley Davidson

Rebecca Cohen

Karen Kahn

Stephanie Dalfonzo

Bob Burg

Michelle Tillis Lederman

Kim Stuart

Charlotte Smith

Mark Greene

Ilya Somin

Madeline Jhawar

Tim Corcoran

Karen Hoskin

Angela Meyer

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Immigrants face many aggressions in society especially professionally, one is around their language and their accents. In this episode, our guest is Meenakshi Iyer and we talk about Why it's important to celebrate our cultureWhat is language inclusionExamples of microaggressions around language and accent And much more…Here are the TED talk links:Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6EChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zegSir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? - https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=enEZ33: Immigrants guide to racist comments: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/8e97f693/ez33-immigrants-guide-to-racist-commentsEZ44 How to deal with imposter syndrome with Kim Meninger: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/916ec209/ez44-how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-with-kim-meningerEZ 45 tips to speak with confidence when starting from scratch: https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/905031b9/ez45-tips-to-speak-with-confidence-with-mehran-sorourianNewsletter sign up link: https://mehrans.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6dfc4750bd3f20b3caae4503f&amp;id=0329b857f8Apple podcast link:		https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empowering-conversationz/id1502034147Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/mehrans.comHer bio:Meenakshi Iyer thrives at the intersection of People, Process, and Technology. She is a T-shaped servant leader with an international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, in India and the USA, spanning more than two decades. “Stop, breathe, think, act.” is her motto.Meenakshi is the Founder and Principal of NorthStar Solutions and Services - a future-of-work oriented, virtual coaching, training and consulting practice serving clients globally.  She is an ICF-certified Personal Agility and Self-Leadership Coach. She specializes in supporting People and Technology leaders in co-creating their personal transformation and leadership development journeys. Meenakshi is fluent in four languages, and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US.Connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-iyer-northstar/More about her and her work - https://www.northstaratwork.com/

Immigrants face many aggressions in society especially professionally, one is around their language and their accents. In this episode, our guest is Meenakshi Iyer and we talk about Why it's important to celebrate our culture What is language inclusion Examples of microaggressions around language and accent And much more… Here are the TED talk links: Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYCKzpXEW6E</a> Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg</a> Sir Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity? - <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en</a> EZ33: Immigrants guide to racist comments: <a href="https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/8e97f693/ez33-immigrants-guide-to-racist-comments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/8e97f693/ez33-immigrants-guide-to-racist-comments</a> EZ44 How to deal with imposter syndrome with Kim Meninger: <a href="https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/916ec209/ez44-how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-with-kim-meninger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/916ec209/ez44-how-to-deal-with-imposter-syndrome-with-kim-meninger</a> EZ 45 tips to speak with confidence when starting from scratch: <a href="https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/905031b9/ez45-tips-to-speak-with-confidence-with-mehran-sorourian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mehrans.com/empowering-conversationz/episode/905031b9/ez45-tips-to-speak-with-confidence-with-mehran-sorourian</a> Newsletter sign up link: <a href="https://mehrans.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6dfc4750bd3f20b3caae4503f&amp;id=0329b857f8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mehrans.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6dfc4750bd3f20b3caae4503f&amp;id=0329b857f8</a> Apple podcast link:		<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empowering-conversationz/id1502034147" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empowering-conversationz/id1502034147</a> Link Tree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/mehrans.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/mehrans.com</a> Her bio: Meenakshi Iyer thrives at the intersection of People, Process, and Technology. She is a T-shaped servant leader with an international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, in India and the USA, spanning more than two decades. “Stop, breathe, think, act.” is her motto. Meenakshi is the Founder and Principal of NorthStar Solutions and Services - a future-of-work oriented, virtual coaching, training and consulting practice serving clients globally. She is an ICF-certified Personal Agility and Self-Leadership Coach. She specializes in supporting People and Technology leaders in co-creating their personal transformation and leadership development journeys. Meenakshi is fluent in four languages, and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. Connect with her on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-iyer-northstar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-iyer-northstar/</a> More about her and her work - <a href="https://www.northstaratwork.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.northstaratwork.com/</a>

EZ46 What Language Inclusion Means with Meenakshi Iyer

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Meenakshi is a global citizen, an inclusive and collaborative servant leader, and a professional thinker and doer. "Stop. Breathe. Think. Act." is her motto. Born and raised in India, she has been in the US for over a decade now. She is fluent in four languages; and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. She is passionate about democratizing access to, and opportunity for, people development across the world. Meenakshi founded NorthStar Solutions and Services in August 2019 – as a 100% virtual business - to partner with mid-career IT/Agile professionals and leaders, and small to medium-sized businesses, globally, in designing successful outcomes for their transformation journeys, especially in this digital, VUCA economy. She partners with them to help them learn and adopt ‘Future of Work’ skills and behaviors such as: agile, collaborative, and inclusive ways of working; remote leadership; and impactful change communication. A T-shaped servant leader with a 22-year international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, she is a champion of cross-cultural and cross-functional leadership. Having started off in the non-profit healthcare sector in India where, among other things, she learned the inner workings of a regional eye bank, the breadth and depth of her professional experience span cultures, geographies, industries, and hierarchies. Meenakshi is an IC Agile certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and her Agile experience is in B2B product development and client implementation in the healthcare space in the US. She excels in the application of Lean and Human-centered Design in organizational and agile transformations. ​ As a professionally trained and an experienced ESL Trainer, she has helped hundreds of aspiring and working professionals become proficient in their use of business English. She is particularly empathetic towards the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English in the workplace; and has consistently worked towards making culturally competent communication central to creating inclusive work environments. Meenakshi holds an Executive MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; a BS in Physics from Bharathiar University, India, and an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering also from India. She has an Executive Master's Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Business Process Design for Strategic Management; and is a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®. She is currently on her path to earning an ICF-PCC credential as a Professional Coach. An active member of the Lean In Agile community – a professional networking group for women professionals in the Lean/Agile space - Meenakshi is on the Catalyst team for the Washington DC area Spiral group. She lives in Ashburn, Virginia in the US, with her husband. In their free time, they enjoy going on road trips to the countryside, and visiting local wineries and breweries.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freeman-means-business/support

Meenakshi is a global citizen, an inclusive and collaborative servant leader, and a professional thinker and doer. "Stop. Breathe. Think. Act." is her motto. Born and raised in India, she has been in the US for over a decade now. She is fluent in four languages; and has lived and worked in 10+ cities in India and the US. She is passionate about democratizing access to, and opportunity for, people development across the world. Meenakshi founded NorthStar Solutions and Services in August 2019 – as a 100% virtual business - to partner with mid-career IT/Agile professionals and leaders, and small to medium-sized businesses, globally, in designing successful outcomes for their transformation journeys, especially in this digital, VUCA economy. She partners with them to help them learn and adopt ‘Future of Work’ skills and behaviors such as: agile, collaborative, and inclusive ways of working; remote leadership; and impactful change communication. A T-shaped servant leader with a 22-year international and interdisciplinary career in IT, Agile/Business Process Transformation, international healthcare, HR, and Training, she is a champion of cross-cultural and cross-functional leadership. Having started off in the non-profit healthcare sector in India where, among other things, she learned the inner workings of a regional eye bank, the breadth and depth of her professional experience span cultures, geographies, industries, and hierarchies. Meenakshi is an IC Agile certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), and her Agile experience is in B2B product development and client implementation in the healthcare space in the US. She excels in the application of Lean and Human-centered Design in organizational and agile transformations. ​ As a professionally trained and an experienced ESL Trainer, she has helped hundreds of aspiring and working professionals become proficient in their use of business English. She is particularly empathetic towards the challenges faced by non-native speakers of English in the workplace; and has consistently worked towards making culturally competent communication central to creating inclusive work environments. Meenakshi holds an Executive MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; a BS in Physics from Bharathiar University, India, and an Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering also from India. She has an Executive Master's Certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management in Business Process Design for Strategic Management; and is a Scrum Alliance Certified ScrumMaster®. She is currently on her path to earning an ICF-PCC credential as a Professional Coach. An active member of the Lean In Agile community – a professional networking group for women professionals in the Lean/Agile space - Meenakshi is on the Catalyst team for the Washington DC area Spiral group. She lives in Ashburn, Virginia in the US, with her husband. In their free time, they enjoy going on road trips to the countryside, and visiting local wineries and breweries.--- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freeman-means-business/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/freeman-means-business/support</a>

Wonder Woman in Business, Meenakshi Iyer

In the last episode, we understood about the jungle and rules that exist. This week in episode 9, I get to a Content and communications consultant - Meenakshi Iyer who previously worked with publications like Reuters, Mid-day, ELLE India. In this podcast she will give us the insides on not only her journey as a journalist, the perks and the experiences but also talk about her travels to various places more specifically the modern city; Dubai. Get acquainted with both the local and the lavish lifestyle. On a trip one often has the questions of what should one do in a place like Dubai? She has some  great tips on travel, cuisine and everything one could possibly thing of doing in the metropolitan Dubai. Host- Kevin Harding Introduction- Mikhail Singh Introduction Music- Nihar Shembekar Music - Amey Jichkar Sound mixing - Prasad Joshi, Amey Jichkar. To share feedback, Information about your trips - Please reach out to me www.instagram.com/bagpackerme--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

In the last episode, we understood about the jungle and rules that exist. This week in episode 9, I get to a Content and communications consultant - Meenakshi Iyer who previously worked with publications like Reuters, Mid-day, ELLE India. In this podcast she will give us the insides on not only her journey as a journalist, the perks and the experiences but also talk about her travels to various places more specifically the modern city; Dubai. Get acquainted with both the local and the lavish lifestyle. On a trip one often has the questions of what should one do in a place like Dubai? She has some  great tips on travel, cuisine and everything one could possibly thing of doing in the metropolitan Dubai. Host- Kevin Harding Introduction- Mikhail Singh Introduction Music- Nihar Shembekar Music - Amey Jichkar Sound mixing - Prasad Joshi, Amey Jichkar. To share feedback, Information about your trips - Please reach out to me <a href="http://www.instagram.com/bagpackerme" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/bagpackerme</a>--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

Dubai is for everyone - Meenakshi Iyer | Ep. #9