Flex your Power Skills, Create space for Others, The Art of Story Telling, Align to your Purpose and Adapt to Change-Vidya Krishnan, Chief Learning Officer (CLO), Ericsson

<p>Ep 29: A lifelong love of learning through career pivots led Vidya Krishnan to find her "Why" enabling her to impact a global organisation of 95,000 people across 180 countries.. Vidya discusses growth mindset and how we can find the intersection of Talent, Opportunities and Purpose (TOP) to energise and engage us. Vidya consistently invests in People Development at work, and she continues that investment in her personal life through self care to avoid burnout and find harmony in life (not just work-life balance).</p><p>We talk about how the reframing of Soft Skills as Power Skills, provides us the ability to transfer and carry it forward into different roles. Vidya has seen the significant impact storytelling has on driving change in organisations and in her career. She is a strong advocate for everyone to invest in this teachable skill giving us all the ability to drive both small and big changes in our personal and professional lives. Most of us quake in our boots with the thought of requesting feedback, but Vidya walks us through how to request and process feedback so it can be a game changer. As we touched on weighty matters, we discussed the importance of advocacy, giving opportunities for individuals to grow as leaders and how we can pay it forward.</p><p><strong>Vidya Krishnan is the Chief Learning Officer of Ericsson</strong>, leading Ericsson’s Global Learning and Development team as part of Ericsson’s Global People organization impacting 95,000+ people in over 180 countries around the world. <strong>Vidya just won the 2022 Women of Distinction from the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas.</strong></p><p>Vidya Krishnan is a technology and entrepreneurial leader with 20+ years of experience in Networks, Digital Services, Learning, Engineering, Consulting, and Business Transformation Operations. She fervently believes that learning is the intersection of execution, strategy, and engagement. She began her career in engineering operations with AT&amp;T, then worked at Nortel, building and launching wireless n