Dec 5, 2022
Vikas Shah MBE is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is also a published author. His 2021 book Thought Economics released features his interviews with the people shaping our century. Including conversations with Nobel prize winners, business leaders, politicians, artists and Olympians, he has been in the privileged position of questioning the minds that matter on the big issues that concern us all.
He is CEO of Swiscot Group alongside being a venture-investor in a number of businesses internationally. He is a Non-Executive Board Member of the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and a Non-Executive Director of the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Vikas was awarded an MBE for Services to Business and the Economy in Her Majesty the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honors List and in 2021 became a Deputy Lieutenant of the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy. He is an Honorary Professor of Business at The Alliance Business School, University of Manchester and Visiting Professors at the MIT Sloan Lisbon MBA.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why defining who we are by what we do negatively impacts our happiness
- Learning the art of conversation that builds more meaningful connections
- The biggest myths about what makes an entrepreneur
- How Vikas successfully transitioned the family business from his father to himself
- The impact of staying in your strengths and hiring out for the rest
- Using your work to structure your creative passions
- Changing your life through allowing yourself different vantage points
- Insights into writing, distilling, and publishing a book
- The power in art to answer unanswerable questions
- Going beyond presence with the willingness to be open
- How our problematic idea of productivity was built on the industrial era
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Twitter: @mrvikas
Instagram: @thisismrshah