Truths & Insights: Your Past Becomes Their Future E11
How does sharing our stories help us to connect more deeply with ourselves and each other? How do we help each other by sharing our story? What do we want our legacy story to be that becomes a seed for someone else’s? Pradeep U.N., Senior Director, Inclusive Innovations at Microsoft, shares his story about making choices on what truly adds to his life and about staying courageously curious to learning about things that bring him joy.
Pradeep was inducted into the Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame in May 2022, as the founder of Truths & Insights, a digital culture transformation platform that enables leaders to engage their teams and customers in courageous conversations. One way Pradeep is able to keep learning and create groundbreaking innovations is by committing to ‘suck’ at something for a while, simply to allow the learning experience to unfold as it does.
Listen to this episode of Rooted & Unwavering and allow yourself to become more conscious of the choices, as you grow more and more into your aspirations.
With a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement.
Microsoft Truths & Insights is a digital, social-learning platform to drive purpose-driven organizational transformations, by increasing team cohesiveness and organizational belonging using storytelling, gamification and AI analytics at scale for organization wide impact.
Truths & Insights is a highly engaging, competitive, personal story-driven, multi-player digital card-game that facilitates courageous conversations (such as dealing with workplace changes) amongst employees.
Truths & Insights was inducted into the Microsoft Garage Wall of Fame in May 2022.
Pradeep U.N. is the Senior Director Inclusive Innovations at Microsoft and the Founder of Microsoft Truths & Insights, a digital platform to enable leaders to engage their teams and customers in courageous conversations.
Over a 23 year career in the tech industry Pradeep has founded startups that bring cinematic storytelling to business, created movies with AI in under 90 secs, and held a number of leadership roles at Microsoft for first generation innovations in Collaboration, Data, Analytics, entertainment and AI technologies. Pradeep is an a11y champion actively advocating in the industry to help empower their employees with inclusion.
Pradeep has direct family from 3 different continents; communes with droids from alien star systems and colludes with imaginary monsters to manage and entertain his 5-year-old twin girls. He used to be passionate at tennis, photography, travelling and storytelling, but now his skills are limited to French braiding & dad jokes. 
He holds an MBA (Strategy & Organizational Behavior) from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Connect with Pradeep on LinkedIn.
About Rooted & Unwavering
Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.
In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.
How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?
Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.
About Our Host
For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.
Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.
When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.
He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.
He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.
His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.
Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.
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