In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Nelson Kulandairaj who is the Chief Digital Officer of CIEL HR company. He is based out of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

a) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) In-detail mentions about his current job role.

c) Talks about the unconventional choices made by him throughout his career.

d) His take on the importance of Work-Life Balance in the IT industry.

e) According to him, mentions about the need of having an AI stack more than the need of funding.

f) For the department who are non-technical coming from the likes of Head - HR and Head Operations, suggests the ways they should identify, bring in, lead and adapt AI or technology interventions in their work.

g) His take on the importance of AI Agentic Systems adapted for small, medium and large enterprises.

h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Ikum Kandola who is the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company. He is based out of London, United Kingdom

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company.

c) Gives an insight into what his company TheAX.ai is all about to the listeners and, having said that shares an interesting back-story behind the inception of its creation.

d) Mentions about the key learnings that he has grabbed while working for an MNC like PwC in the past, that has totally shaped your career.

e) As a co-founder of TheAX.ai company, talks about the key industries/sectors and the regions/countries that he is currently focused on.

f) Mentions about the reasons on why he thinks AI is affecting business which sell time, e.g. "they are moving to outcome based pricing".

g) Sheds some spotlight into his company building the AI-Powered Platform for Productized Consulting and also talks about the types of AI it is currently focused on (Computer Vision or NLP or OCR or Speech Recognition or LLMs).

h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Beth Lloyd who is the Director - Organisational Development, talent and learning of Aston University, UK. She is based out of Birmingham, United Kingdom

a) Talks about the timeline of her journey in the Corporate industry and Higher Education Space.

b) Mentions about the key initiatives taken by her in building performance and organization effectiveness through leadership, management and people development across the public and private sectors.

c) Shares her experience of receiving a gold medal from the Staff Development Forum for the Women-Space Leadership Award and also a deep insight into the Women-Space Leadership Award

d) Talks about her roles and responsibilities of being the Director - Organizational Development, talent and learning at Aston University.

e) Gives a spotlight into her passion about generating sustainable effective transformation through people with integrity, creativity and positivity.

f) Gives an insight into her volunteering work pertaining to the likes of Fundraiser for Combat Stress: The Veterans'​ Mental Health Charity and Volunteer for National Trust.

g) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has come across in her entire journey that she would like to share in this podcast session.

h) Her take on the importance of Women Leadership in the Corporate Industry and Higher Education space.

i) Her view on why the representation of women in executive leadership roles remain disproportionately low and also mentions about the strategic actions that the organizations should take to accelerate gender equity at the top.

j) As herself not being from a technical background, talks about the ways she leverages technology to enhance your role and drive impact and, conveys a piece of message/advice to the peers in her sector about embracing digital tools for organizational development.