In this episode, Brij Sethi, a Principal Consultant at PM Power, shares
- His growing up days in Pantnagar, near NainiTal
- His passion for reading books
- His liking for mathematics and wanting to be an engineer
- Being bitten by the electronics bug and electronics engineering in college
- Joining a masters in management in systems in IIM Ahmedabad
- Learning Transactional Analysis
- Getting into a project to make ECG machines as an engineer, forgetting his MBA
- Joining WIPRO in 1993 and working on many challenging projects
- His strong feeling in 1998 to be a facilitator, including facilitating 6 sigma projects
- Taking up the CTO role with HP, and enabling filing a record number of patents across teams
- Wanting to teach and getting back to Wipro
- Creating education related media and starting a company
- How he connects various ideas picked up from books and other sources, by letting go
- Be simple in what he has to share
- Using Obsidian to keep connected points
- Making conscious efforts to digest what he reads
- Applying TA in business contexts
- Transitions across different ways or states of thinking
- Consciously spending time in capturing his state of mind before switching states
- Being low on J orientation, can accept contradictions and unresolved stuff
- Tip from his mentor: Need to wear a facilitator hat and outcome hat
- His experience of working in a social sector context
- A story on the approach of influencing with PowerPoint slides
- Why, Who and What – three questions for a facilitation session
- Creating an empty space for ownership
- The experience of a father-son founding team
- The trigger and satisfaction on launching his podcast
- His career advice
- Leave yourself open, take some risks
Brij is a Principal Consultant with PM Power. He has worked for Wipro and HP for many years and more recently founded a Media Studio to make educational content. He facilitated deep expertise in HP during his tenure as CTO. The number of patents filed in 1 year went up from 6 to 184.
Brij is a trained in group facilitation. He helps agile practitioners do personal action planning, undo team dysfunctions by themselves and dream a future by tinkering to a customer context. He also talks about career readiness in his podcast – Ready to work – on brijsethi.com.
