TBLP073 | Kunal Gupta: Mindful Leadership

Kunal is the CEO of Polar, a technology provider to major media publishers, with offices around the world. He is also passionate about finding calm and focus in a modern era and writes regularly on the topics of leadership, mindfulness and technology culture on his blog, findfocus.today.

When he is not running the business, Kunal spent a lot of time learning more about himself. He does meditation, practices yoga, a lot of reading and a lot of other activities that Kunal found a lot of joy and meaning from.

In today’s episode, Kunal and Edwin deep dive on topics that will support up and coming business leaders on how to become a mindful leader. Listen and enjoy this episode and write down many takeaways that are actionable for your day to day life as a business leader.

What You Will Learn From This Episode

• What Polar Mobile Group does that made large media companies use it to power their website, advertising, analytics, and their content
• Key takeaways from Kunal when he faced challenging decision making that made him grow as a business leader
• How Improv Courses helped Kunal harness his creative thinking
• The five reasons why anybody works at any organization
• How mindful leadership made Kunal an effective business leader
• Best practices shared by Kunal for the emerging business leaders

Links

• Kunal on Twitter
• Kunal on LinkedIn
• Polar Website

Reading List

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari