Designing your career

Dr. Pavan Soni is an Innovation Evangelist by profession and a teacher by passion. He is the founder of Inflexion Point, offering programs on Design thinking, Strategic Acumen and Consulting Skills. He is the author of the book, Design your Thinking, published by Penguin Random House in 2020. The book was one of the five books shortlisted for the ‘2021 BBLF CK Prahalad Best Business Book Award’. He is a gold medalist from BMB Engineering College, Jodhpur. He did his PGDIE and NITIE from Mumbai. He finished his Doctoral studies from IIM Bangalore in the field of innovation management.

Abstract: This workshop focused on spearheading several breakthrough innovations and to facilitate creativity driver breakthroughs for coaches, authors and leaders.

Flow of event: The workshop aimed at importance of brain mapping technique and its benefits.
Dr Pavan Soni shared his personal experiences from his graduation days and extracted the learnings out of them. He then shared the technique of brain mapping and how to effectively apply it to achieve our goals. He also shared his thoughts on networking, taking risks and discovering one’s passion.

Learnings from the event: Risk= Probability x Impact
How to design the correct thinking?
 Networking
 Where you learn from isn’t the same as to where you earn from.
 Take half chances
 Take risk when the downside is low and the upside is high
 Build your social equity
 Discover your Passion
 Time your choices
 Learn to swallow your pride
 Appetite to accept rejection
 Experimenting
 Exploring
 Learn to say no

Feedback from students: Dr. Pavan Soni connected his life stories and the possible learnings from it very well. We also understood the importance of networking.

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