138: Giving Your Career a Jolt with Roopa Unnikrishnan
Innovation consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan highlights why and how to use the same principles companies use to innovate…to jolt your career.
You’ll Learn:
- Principles for catapulting your career
- Productive stalking to follow innovations and trends
- How to manufacture your own serendipity
About Roopa
Roopa Unnikrishnan has almost two decades of experience in roles where she has seeded and driven change and innovation in several Fortune 500 companies. Roopa works with Consumer Goods, Education and Technology clients, helping them establish and improve key processes around strategic planning, innovation space identification and idea development. A master coach, she works with senior executives to drive personal and career change. Roopa was previously at Pfizer as VP, Corporate Strategy and Global Head of Pfizer’s worldwide talent and organizational team for Sales (2007-2012), at BlackRock as HR lead for sales and Citicards as Strategy Director.
A Rhodes scholar with an MPhil and an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford, is also a published poet and a world-class athlete in sports riflery. She is currently President of TiE’s NY chapter, a group focused on fostering entrepreneurship, and was previously Board Chair of Sakhi which works to end domestic violence.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Website: The Career Catapult – use code “mycatapult” for the goodies.
- Book: The Career Catapult by Roopa Unnikrishnan
- Book: The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Book: We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson
- Study: The Hawthorne Study
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