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Changing your tracks mid-career can be a daunting experience. However, a wide variety of professional experiences can set you up for tremendous success in the future. On this episode of Throughline Thursdays, our guest Varsha Kanwar, the Chief of Staff for Cisco CX Engineering & Product Incubation, shares her experiences and provides recommendations for changing your role mid-career. While this conversation is tailored to women's career development, it includes valuable information for everyone!

Born in India and frequently moving cities with an Air Force parent, Varsha Kanwar has been an Australian citizen for 17 years and has been residing in the U.S. since 2014. These life experiences have taught her how to be resilient, a self-starter, and have an open mindset and an agile attitude. Backed by this global citizen mentality and with over 15+ years of experience as a business leader, change agent, team builder, customer excellence champion, and global executive, Varsha has realized her passion for making a difference and creating success, both personally and professionally. 

As Chief of Staff for Cisco CX Engineering & Product Incubation team, she leads a dynamic team that provides organizational effectiveness across the global team, focuses on a strategic vision for building an execution framework, internal communications & branding, stakeholder management, employee engagement, diverse talent, connected teams experience and fostering a truly inclusive culture.

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While the world celebrates the lives and experiences of 'born leaders', leadership is, in fact, an acquired skill-set. People in leadership positions must model themselves to adapt and react to ever-changing business environments while simultaneously creating circumstances for their teams to excel and outperform. Myopic vision and execution just won't do, leaders have to develop a 360-degree world-view to lead organizations into the future.

Travis Killion, the Vice President of e-commerce at VitaminWorld, has discovered that being a multi-dimensional leader allows his teams to work better and have more satisfying outcomes. Travis has worked in tech, product management, and business in small and large companies. Join us for this episode of Throughline Thursdays with Neha Malhotra to catch the conversation on how he’s developed his personal leadership style.

Travis Killion is currently the Vice President of eCommerce at Vitamin World. Over a quarter-century working with Internet technologies, Travis has held roles in business management, product management, and technology management. Having spent time performing in all the major roles, Travis can effectively communicate with all team members, stakeholders, and customers to drive execution and deliver results. From startups to large companies, Travis has created digital products and services that empower businesses across many types of domains including real estate, online/remote work, retail, e-commerce, and loyalty.

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Anyone who's never failed has never tried something new. Failure is a stepping stone to learning and success. Everyone fails along their career path in big and small ways- the difference is- most people amplify success and shun failure.

On this episode of Throughline Thursdays, we get together with our host Neha Malhotra and our Career Reinvention expert, Gaurav Rastogi to do the opposite!  Join us for an interesting chat to celebrate popular 'failure' stories and discuss the delicate art of 'upfailing'- failing at bigger and better initiatives until you strike gold.

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Whether it is the language of digital transformation, or the language of diversity, driving change across large teams can be very complex. Especially in companies that have been around for a while, people across the organizational hierarchy are more or less set in their ways. Leaders must facilitate integration across diverse teams with a lot of skill and tact.

Our guest on this episode of Throughline Thursdays, Kristin Coleman, Executive Director for CCB Diversity & Inclusion at JPMorgan Chase, is going to share with us how the company is learning the language of diversity. Every leader can take a leaf out of her book for their own transformation efforts.

Kristin Coleman is an Executive Director for the Diversity Innovation organization at Chase, helping the firm transform to create intentional inclusion in everyday people practices and drive business outcomes. She supports key diversity initiatives globally that are designed to increase diverse representation and promote a culture of inclusion and belonging.

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Do you feel like you don't deserve the job you've landed? Like one day you'll be discovered as a fraud, and ousted in front of your colleagues, in spite of everything you've achieved? Well, rest assured, you're not alone. Approximately, 58% of workers in tech suffer from the 'imposter syndrome'- the nagging fear that we all feel from time to time that we're just not good enough.

In this episode of Throughline Thursdays with our host Neha Malhotra, we speak about the imposter syndrome with one of our own- Christopher Swinton, who holds the fort as the manager of MSP Programs. We discuss themes of corporate culture and belonging, practices that deepen self-doubt, and what we can do in our day-to-day roles to make each other feel more included.

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We all have dreams. Whether these are dreams of a successful career, or dreams of driving meaningful change in your company or dreams of making a difference through your work. Some of us are fortunate to have the passion to chase these dreams. Simply having passion is not enough. You need to have a game-plan because dreams take doing.

Our guest for this edition of Throughline Thursdays, Madhavi Bhasin, is passionate about diversity in tech and comes into the field from the outside. As an outsider who came in to make a change, she’s had to work at building the case for change, driving consensus, and getting those fence-sitters off the fence. We discuss her dreams, her passion, and, above all, her game plan.

Madhavi Bhasin is a social impact change leader for over a decade. Given her life experiences and background in international socio-economic research, she is passionate about enhancing inclusion and belonging in social and professional spaces. She is intrigued by different facets of human nature and how individuals connect and create community. She has spent the past seven years working in the non-profit sector to guide corporations in crafting programs and experiences aimed at welcoming a diverse community and nurturing belonging.

At Okta, Madhavi is responsible for crafting the company's diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIB) strategy. Her efforts are focused on driving a diverse talent strategy and initiatives to ensure all Okta employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

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