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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

138: Giving Your Career a Jolt with Roopa Unnikrishnan

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Decisions, Collaboration, Wins, Mockaitis, Mental Health, Education, Speaking, Success, Interview, Fun, Career, Business, Development, Health & Fitness, Winning, Careers, Training, Thinking, Sharpening, Skills, Writing, Selfhelp, Self-improvement, Meaning, Money

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Innovation consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan highlights why and how to use the same principles companies use to innovate…to jolt your career.


You’ll Learn:

  1. Principles for catapulting your career
  2. Productive stalking to follow innovations and trends
  3. 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.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete Lekitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 138 with Rupa Unichrishnan.

0:27.0

Rupa had so much wisdom to share from such a robust set of real life experiences you're going to walk away learning one

0:34.9

principles for catapulting your career to productive stalking to follow innovations

0:40.3

and trends and three how to manufacture your own serendipity.

0:44.4

So if you'd like to check out the show notes, the transcripts and links to

0:47.8

pieces that we reference here, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash

0:52.1

Epp 138 to view those.

0:55.3

While you're at Awesome at your Job.com,

0:57.1

I'd encourage you to check out some of our cool stuff

0:59.3

from the 10 days to winning at work email course,

1:02.1

which can help slash about 84 minutes of waste out of your work week.

1:06.4

That's a real number based on before and after surveys from training.

1:09.4

Fun fact. Or the gold nugget email list which provides summary insights from each of the guests in a bite-size email.

1:17.0

You can read in under two minutes in the morning as well as access to the archived vault of the 137 guests that came before Rupa so you get

1:26.0

all that wisdom in there as well.

1:29.0

Here is a Rupa's story.

1:31.0

Rupa Unikrishnan has almost two decades of experience in roles where she has seated and

1:36.1

driven change in innovation in multiple Fortune 500 companies.

1:40.0

Ruper works with consumer goods, education and technology clients, helping them establish and improve key processes around strategic planning, innovation, space, identification, and idea development.

1:50.0

A master coach, she works with senior executives to drive personal and career change.

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