Jay Van Bavel is a Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, an affiliate at the Stern School of Business, Director of the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. He is co-author of the award-winning book "THE POWER OF US", and an award-winning teacher and public speaker.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Prof Jay and Subbu discuss a new way to think about our identities, how bias, prejudice and discrimination work, how to dissent well, and a whole lot more.

Key topics:

• How Prof Jay got interested in the field of social psychology
• How principles of prejudice can be used to unravel team conflict
• The wine-and-cheese party that brought the co-authors together
• How our identities are shaped (it's not what you think)
• The significance of Minimal Group Studies by Henry Tajfel
• Our identities are constantly shifting
• How do we throw away parts of our identity that no longer serve us?
• How do we surface our biases and start acting on them?
• Dealing with backlash against DEI initiatives
• Is there a right way to dissent?
• Why effective leadership matters for team culture
• Engaged followership v/s Quiet Quitting
• Tyrants, but of the petty kind
• Word-ball game
• Do we over-identify with our work-selves?

Pramath Raj Sinha wears many hats – he is a serial entrepreneur, having founded organizations like Harappa, 9.9 group, Vedica Scholars Program for Women, and is President at UpGrad. He is an institution builder – he was the Founding Dean of ISB and is the Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University.

In this episode, Subbu and Pramath discuss the importance of mentorship, the value of education, how careers are transforming today, and how founders can build distinctive workplace cultures.

Key topics covered

• Pramath's reflections on building institutions
• The value of education and mentoring
• Why Pramath wrote his latest book - Learn Don't Study
• How the workplace and careers are transforming today
• Building distinctive workplace culture as a founder
• Why founders need to build self-awareness
• The word-ball game!
• Entrepreneurship is about recovering from failures
• Everyone is a leader
• The future of education and impact of AI

Jimbo Clark works across APAC with individuals, teams and organizations on achieving transformational change. He excels at meaningfully facilitating activities, games and simulations to bring new awareness of possibilities and clear actions for future improvements.

In this episode, Jim and Subbu talk about what it takes to enable meaningful change for people, and how this can be transformative for not just individuals, but also teams and organizations.

Key topics:

• Why Jimbo Clark decided to move to Taiwan from the US
• Jimbo's "Working Retirement" philosophy to life
• Busting the myth about people not wanting to change
• Why less is more
• The origin story of THE BOX
• Helping people think out of THE BOX
• Making the unconscious, conscious
• Applying THE BOX in the context of a period of transition
• The Word Ball Game!
• My experience with THE BOX