EXPERT OPINION
Acceptance of Mental Health as an Important Factor Affecting Productivity
Asheesh Chanda, Founder & CEO, Kristal.AI
Asheesh has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry and established Kristal.AI in 2016 to bring personalised wealth management to the mass affluent class. With Kristal.AI, he aims to cater for a segment that has traditionally been...
Why Mental Health Breaks are Good for Your Job and Productivity?
Ayushi Mathur, Founder & CEO, Pickbetter Marketing
Ayushi Mathur is an aspiring polymath and a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She creates feel-good content around self-love, business mindset, self-improvement, and life goals to help people achieve their highest potential. She believes that our experiences and inner work is the...
Empowering Mental Wellbeing for Employees
Dr Sangeeta Kujur, Chief Medical Officer, AirAsia India
Dr. Sangeeta Kujur is a Chief Medical Officer with AirAsia India since February 2015. She is an Aviation Medicine Specialist with an MD in Aviation Medicine from Institute of Aerospace Medicine, IAF, Bangalore. She completed her MBBS from St....
How Does Someone with Mental Illness View the Modern Workplace Today?
Piali Dasgupta, Senior Vice President – Marketing, Columbia Pacific Communities
Multi-award winning marketing and communication leader with over 14 years of cross-category experience across media, e-commerce, retail and real estate. Cultivated skill sets in strategising and driving branding, imagery, brand positioning, brand architecture, customer segmentation, PR and corporate communication,...
Importance of Mental Health
Rajiv Naithani, Chief Human Resources Officer, Infogain
Rajiv Naithani, an expert on building resilient and high-performing cultures, is currently leading the people function at Infogain as Chief Human Resources Officer. Rajiv takes a human-centered philosophy to delivering employee experiences at scale, creating meaningful impact to employees...
Is Yoga or Meditation enough for a Healthier Mind?
Yash Kotak, Co-founder & CMO, BOHECO
Yash Kotak, CMO is the mind behind the entire Communications-Chain of BOHECO. He has lead several educational campaigns back in the day and also is a strong believer of speaking the truth to his prime focus of educating potential...
LEADERS INSIGHT
Start-up Culture Needs to Talk More About Mental Health
Chahat Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, Impact Study Biz
Chahat Aggarwal is the CEO of “Impact Study Biz”, and author of Branding and AI- Leveraging technology for Revenue Growth. Chahat was born in Amritsar, India and educated in India, U.S.A., and Sydney. She holds her family with the...
Need to Focus on Mental Health and Wellness at Work for Corporate Well-Being
Dr. Prakriti Poddar, Managing Trustee, Poddar Foundation
Prakriti Poddar has been working in the area of Mental Wellness since 2000. A Mental Health Entrepreneur, with a passion for innovation in the ecosystem. She mothers three organizations in this space, apart from her consulting practice. As the...
When Home became the New Office: Balancing Mental Health and Remote Work
Nirbhik Goel, Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer, VFS Global
As the Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer at VFS Global, Nirbhik is responsible for streamlining the HR function, ensuring greater operational synergies between the HR function across all regions and support the CHRO in strategic HR matters and policy...
How Remote Working Has Impacted Employee Mental Health
Samira Gupta, Image Consultant, Executive and Life Coach
Coach Samira Gupta is an accomplished Executive Presence Coach, Life Coach (PCC-ICF), National Award-Winning Image Consultant & Leading Corporate Facilitator. She is the founder of Auraa Image Management & Consulting, a leading Corporate Training Firm. Coach Samira has personally...
Why it’s Time for Business Leaders to Come Together on Mental Health
Sonica Aron, Founder and Managing Partner, Marching Sheep
Sonica Aron is the Founder and Managing Partner of Marching Sheep, an HR advisory firm specializing in Strategic HR advisory, Diversity and inclusion interventions and capability building. An XLRI post graduate, Sonica has worked with companies like Pepsico, Vodafone, Roche ...
IN MY VIEW
Importance of Mental Well-Being of Employees
Satya Jha, Chief Business Officer, Grant Thornton Bharat
Having an experience panning over two decades, Satya is the Chief Business Officer at Grant Thornton Bharat. He started his career as a software engineer and moved into project and people management roles as he advanced in his career....
The Unspoken Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Mental Health
Sajan Pillai, Managing Partner, Season Two Ventures
Sajan Pillai is an internationally acclaimed businessman, investor, engineer, IT innovator and philanthropist. He is currently the Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early stage venture fund based in Southern California. Renowned for his exceptional ability to foster...
PSYCHOLOGIST SPEAKS
Remote Work and Mental Health
Dr M Saradhi Goud, Consultant Psychiatrist, Kamineni Hospitals
Dr. M Saradhi Goud is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Kamineni Hospital LB Nagar with extensive experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders. He has over 15 years of working experience as a...
Work-Life Balance Tips to lead a Healthy Mental Life
Dr. Nachiketa Sinha, Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr. Nachiketa Sinha, consultant psychiatrist is a dedicated professional working towards breaking stigmas. Working in New Brunswick, Canada since 2006, he has been active in initiating important changes to mental health delivery systems and has a unique ability to...
Steps that Companies can Take to Ensure the Mental Welfare of Employees
Dr. P. K. Manglik, Psychiatrist
Dr. P. K Manglik graduated from King George Medical University in 1988 and is a former Director of one of India’s biggest Mental Hospital – Bareilly Mental Hospital. He has been a research officer at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate...
What Workplace Practices are Impacting an Employee’s Mental Health?
Dr. Satish Kumar CR, Consultant - Clinical Psychology, Manipal Hospital
C.R Satish Kumar is a Research scholar from Maastricht University, Netherlands. Currently he is practicing as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Manipal hospitals, Bangalore. He completed his MPhil Clinical Psychology from PGIBAMS and holds RCI license. He specializes in...
The Importance of Psychological Well-Being for Working Women
Geeta Ramakrishnan, Ontological Coach and Author
Geeta Ramakrishnan is an ontological coach, who has authored Amazon’s #1 Bestseller book, ‘The Game of Change’. This book brings together her rich experience of having interacted and coached people over the past few decades. Her coaching focus has...
Employee Mental Health in the Pandemic
Alma Chopra, Life Counselor
“I have conquered Cerebellar Ataxia, and now I am conquering the world, one day at a time. “These are the words of Ms. Chopra, an entrepreneur, an internationally based Inspirational speaker, and an experienced life counselor, who likes to...
Befriending the Pandemic and the Experiences for Our Wellbeing & Growth
Purvi Balasaria, Psychologist, Sri Healthcare-Research International (SHRI)
Purvi Balasaria, is a Counselling Psychologist based in India. She currently works as a psychologist at Sri Healthcare-Research International (SHRI). Holding a B.Sc degree in Human Development from J.D Birla Institute, Jadavpur University, Purvi did her MA in Applied...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Are We Happy? Let’s Talk About It!!!
Sarath Shyam
At the beginning of the pandemic, just before the lockdown, when companies started announcing work from home for employees, many of us had a sense of excitement. Despite the presence of a dangerous virus creeping into our neighbourhoods and...