28 min

Dream Big & Persevere with Shalini Goval-Pai Notable Leaders' Radio

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Today I sit down with Shalini Goval-Pai, Vice President and General Manager of Google TV. She shares the story of how dreaming big and persevering helped her build a career  of international impact. 
 
Shalini’s leadership has led to winning strategies for distribution of streaming media, including Netflix, Disney plus, and HBO Max across TV and mobile device form factors. She previously served as Senior Director at YouTube, where her work enabled creators, storytellers and citizen journalists to expand their reach and increase monetization by over 10 times. 
 
Shalini is an industry thought leader and frequent speaker on digital transformation. 
 
Listen to her amazing story, you’ll be inspired to dust off your big dreams and bring them to life!
 
Guest Bio:
 
Shalini Govil-Pai is currently VP & GM of TV at Google. 
 
Her leadership has led to winning strategies for distribution of streaming media including Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max across TV and mobile device form factors. 
 
She previously served as Senior Director at YouTube, where her work enabled creators, storytellers and citizen journalists to expand their reach and increase monetization by >10x. 
 
Prior to Google, Shalini was Technical Director at Pixar Animation, where she led efforts for the first entirely CG animated block-buster ‘Toy Story’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’. 
 
Shalini is an industry thought leader and a frequent speaker on digital transformation. She was the keynote speaker at Google’s annual hardware event, IBC 2019 and at CES 2021. 
 
She was featured on NextTVs executive watchlist, Forbes, Vogue and Economic Times and writes frequently on leadership including for FastCompany: Remote work, Launching products in a pandemic and NextWeb: Intrapreneurship. 
 
Devoted to education, she is a board member of Pratham, an educational non-profit, and TechLab, an educational lab for children. 
 
She is the author of two internationally-published books in Computer Graphics – Principles of Computer Graphics and Learning Computer Graphics. 
 
Shalini holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from where she holds a Distinguished Alumni award, and a MS in Computer Science from Penn State. 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalinigovilpai/,  https://twitter.com/shalinigovilpai 


Free Resources:
 
https://www.fastcompany.com/90596269/google-tv-launch   
Belinda’s Bio: 
 
Belinda Pruyne is a sought-after Leadership Advisor, Coach, Consultant and Keynote speaker. She is a leading authority in guiding global executives, professionals and small business owners to become today’s highly respected leaders.
 
She gained a wealth of expertise in the client services industry as Executive Vice President, Global Director of Creative Management at Grey Advertising, managing 500 people around the globe. With over 20+ years of leadership development experience, she brings industry-wide recognition to the executives and companies she works with. Whether a startup, turnaround, acquisition, or global corporation, executives and companies continue to turn to Pruyne for strategic and impactful solutions in a rapidly shifting economy and marketplace. 
 
Website: Belindapruyne.com
Email Address: hello@belindapruyne.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindapruyne 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NotableLeadersNetwork.BelindaPruyne/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/belindapruyne?lang=en 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belindapruyne/

Today I sit down with Shalini Goval-Pai, Vice President and General Manager of Google TV. She shares the story of how dreaming big and persevering helped her build a career  of international impact. 
 
Shalini’s leadership has led to winning strategies for distribution of streaming media, including Netflix, Disney plus, and HBO Max across TV and mobile device form factors. She previously served as Senior Director at YouTube, where her work enabled creators, storytellers and citizen journalists to expand their reach and increase monetization by over 10 times. 
 
Shalini is an industry thought leader and frequent speaker on digital transformation. 
 
Listen to her amazing story, you’ll be inspired to dust off your big dreams and bring them to life!
 
Guest Bio:
 
Shalini Govil-Pai is currently VP & GM of TV at Google. 
 
Her leadership has led to winning strategies for distribution of streaming media including Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max across TV and mobile device form factors. 
 
She previously served as Senior Director at YouTube, where her work enabled creators, storytellers and citizen journalists to expand their reach and increase monetization by >10x. 
 
Prior to Google, Shalini was Technical Director at Pixar Animation, where she led efforts for the first entirely CG animated block-buster ‘Toy Story’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’. 
 
Shalini is an industry thought leader and a frequent speaker on digital transformation. She was the keynote speaker at Google’s annual hardware event, IBC 2019 and at CES 2021. 
 
She was featured on NextTVs executive watchlist, Forbes, Vogue and Economic Times and writes frequently on leadership including for FastCompany: Remote work, Launching products in a pandemic and NextWeb: Intrapreneurship. 
 
Devoted to education, she is a board member of Pratham, an educational non-profit, and TechLab, an educational lab for children. 
 
She is the author of two internationally-published books in Computer Graphics – Principles of Computer Graphics and Learning Computer Graphics. 
 
Shalini holds a BS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from where she holds a Distinguished Alumni award, and a MS in Computer Science from Penn State. 
 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shalinigovilpai/,  https://twitter.com/shalinigovilpai 


Free Resources:
 
https://www.fastcompany.com/90596269/google-tv-launch   
Belinda’s Bio: 
 
Belinda Pruyne is a sought-after Leadership Advisor, Coach, Consultant and Keynote speaker. She is a leading authority in guiding global executives, professionals and small business owners to become today’s highly respected leaders.
 
She gained a wealth of expertise in the client services industry as Executive Vice President, Global Director of Creative Management at Grey Advertising, managing 500 people around the globe. With over 20+ years of leadership development experience, she brings industry-wide recognition to the executives and companies she works with. Whether a startup, turnaround, acquisition, or global corporation, executives and companies continue to turn to Pruyne for strategic and impactful solutions in a rapidly shifting economy and marketplace. 
 
Website: Belindapruyne.com
Email Address: hello@belindapruyne.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindapruyne 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NotableLeadersNetwork.BelindaPruyne/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/belindapruyne?lang=en 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belindapruyne/

28 min