In this exciting episode, Gaurav invited Sari Marsden, Co- Founder of Sarius Performance and Co-Author of "Fit to Lead". This insightful conversation about the right way for connecting fitness to performance and stories from Sari's journey is absolutely worth listening if you envision a fulfilling and high performance life , in this Digital and Data Driven world.

Anshul is a renowned spiritual coach, business psychologist and a mystic. A professionally qualified business psychologist from University of Wetmkinster, A charted marketer , a masters in communication & Entrepreneurship , Anshul is a TEDx Speaker and has received multiple prestigious awards such as India Icon -Zee News, Power Women Award and WEFT Leadership award , for her work in helping corporate and individuals on spiritualty and soul awakening , emotional intelligence and leadership.

Anshul is also the founder of Searchlight| The Soul school that offers a range of development programmes for individuals and corporate.

In this Episode, Gaurav invited Anjali Sharma , the Founder of "Narrative: The Business of Stories" , to talk about the importance of storytelling in business and some best practices around storytelling with data.

Anjali is one of the leading business storytelling consultants, author, global keynote speaker, and founder of Narrative: The Business of Stories. Anjali has spoken on the topic of Storytelling in New York, Russia, India, Singapore, Japan, Australia, and many other Southeast Asian countries. She helps business leaders, data analysts, sales professionals, marketers and TEDx speakers find and tell stories. Anjali has worked in corporate roles for over 18 years in Australia, Singapore, and India. Her background constantly informs her work, so that it is not just theoretical, but based on extensive experience, knowledge, and understanding of strategic issues companies face as well as issues that employees face in delivering their best work. Anjali partners with Global 1000 companies including Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Microsoft, Shell, SAP, Microsoft & Danone. She regularly publishes her ideas on business storytelling on her storytelling blog .

The reason creators and consumers have been debating the value of analytics and roadblocks in the maturity roadmap is because of the fact that  the consumers of analytics expect data science to be  full course meal or a gourmet cuisine. Analytic is not for one time satiation, it is to be savoured right from the time it starts cooking

• Make them learn the recipe , before they enjoy the meal

Customer education is the most important part of analytics adoption in an organization. I have worked with many clients who love when they do some hands-on. Analytics is not about providing black box solutions. Make it transparent, have as many conversations as you can, right from the start of understanding the problem.

• Ingredients are important , so is the cooking process

Learn, account for and explain the ingredients, and also the cooking process; which tools are you using , what hypotheses you are testing , which parts take how much time and iterations. How many other questions you are answering while answering one big question and what cannot be answered. This leads to a discovery based creation and consumption of analytics

• Learn how to master the art of dressing, data science is aesthetic

Presentation is something you cannot ignore. Simple and intuitive. Think creative. Complex models need to be dressed with self-explanatory attires. Visualization is important. Analytics is as much as Power point as it is Python

• Leave room for Salt and pepper

Leave some open ended questions. Do not close everything, keep your analysis and the results open enough to hit the curiosity button of the stakeholders. It is good to have ‘Not so complete’ analysis and let people walk out of the room with some take-aways and think-aways

Thanks to Sigmund Fraud for all the fascinating discoveries in human Psychology. I have always been fascinated about how human psychology plays a vital role in decisions we make and how it is inevitable to be understand how human psychology works before you get into improving customer experience and talking about machines replacing human thinking.

One of the major discoveries which Fraud has is around the different states of mind, namely, conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious. From Psychology perspective, our conscious mind is responsible for interactions and decisions we make, sub-conscious is responsible for processing of recent and active information, and unconscious is the dormant state of mind. Ironically what looks the most active is only about 10% of our brain’s capabilities, sub-conscious is around 50-60% and unconscious is about 30-40%. Conscious is like a Screen, sub-conscious is like a processing unit and conscious is like a storage unit.

I see a relevant analogy to this with the way data and the science around it works.  Let’s relate the conscious part of analytics to be as ‘Output: Visualisation’, sub-conscious as ‘Analytical processing: Algorithms’ and unconscious as ‘Storage: Historical data.

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