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Top 10 Lessons From Leadership Masterclass With Ceo Coach : Journey To C-suite

Article by Raju Shreewastava

Being an engineer teaches us to be tactical, but leadership is about soft skills. Different roles throughout one’s career span calls for different skills. So when it comes to managing your own career, how do you prepare yourself to move up? What skills should working executives hone as they strive to reach the next level? What do leaders need to become a C-suite executive? This  “masterclass” with a leading CEO Coach Asha Saxena provided the opportunity for engineering managers and  executives to have in-depth conversations about how they can maximize their own individual leadership skills and build high performing teams.

In this Leadership Masterclass Asha simplified the key things any aspiring C-Suite should keep in mind. 

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Top 10 Ten things to keep in mind:

  1. Vision
  2. Alignment
  3. Delegate
  4. Customer Focus
  5. Know your Numbers
  6. Measure what Matters – Weekly 1-3 things to measure
  7. Be a Good Communicatir
  8. Clarity and Consistency
  9. Power V/s Influence
  10. Culture – Core Values

My personal favorite quote by her was  “Leaders are lifelong learners”.

Q &A session:

Her experience coaching CEOs of Startups to Fortune 500 companies was very evident during the Q & A session. A varied range of questions were dealt with in a concise but impactful way with examples making it a true masterclass.

Here are notes from some of the very insight responses:

Question : What would be the top few things to keep in mind for the first 30 days of becoming a leader?

Answer: Depending on the size of the organization it would be vary but the high level would look something like below :

  • 30 days – Listening
  • 60 days – Design and strategy
  • 90 days – Executing

Question : What would be your suggestion on how to have tough conversations with non-performing or challenged employees/managers reporting to you?

Answer: It is important to deliver a tough message but the approach taken would determine the chance of success. Mixing the response with positive appreciation in the success area would be helpful to get the message delivered across. This would need one to be very observant to catching people doing the right thing while ensuring the appreciation is authentic.

The event was moderated by Vatsala Upadhay , Piyush Malik ( ASEI president) and Aina Aliieva and streamed live on YouTube and Clubhouse

If you missed the session , the YouTube recording  is a must watch for anyone aspiring C-suite.

About the Speaker

Asha Saxena is a strategic, innovative leader with a proven track record of building successful tech businesses for the last 25 years. With a strong academic background, creative problem-solving skills, and an effective management style. She has been instrumental in building business models for success.

Asha Saxena is a CEO Coach with CEOCI, the leading coaching firm for growth-focused CEOs and entrepreneurs, where we follow a practical and proven methodology to help CEOs and their teams perform at their very best and achieve their business goals.

This article is an event summary of the Leadership Masterclass with CEO Coach Ash Saxena was held  on 10th July 2021 as a FREE interactive event for ASEI members  hosted by ASEI. Raju Shreewastava is an ASEI Silicon Valley chapter member and founder of silicon valley company Big Data Trunk helping clients accelerate innovation through corporate training. He is the author of two books and has been in the data and analytics space for the past 2 decades.
ASEI Infrastructure Summit

ASEI Infrastructure Summit

Is it Infrastructure week yet? At least the week of May 20th is an infrastructure week per the ASEI Calendar!
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Historically though infrastructure spending as a share of GDP has fallen over decades, But the recently passed Bill which eventually became BIL (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) is a significant milestone in the infrastucture space.

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Asian Heritage Festival – Meet & Greet ASEI BOD

  • Event At : Fremont Downtown Event Center
  • Address : 3500 Capitol Ave Fremont California 94538
  • Event Date : May.27.2023
  • Event Time : 11-3pm
  • Contact : Piyush Malik
  • Phone : 5103049890
  • Email : [email protected]
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Samaira-Mehta

Youthcorner: Meet 14-year-old Ceo, Entrepreneur, And Feminist Stem Advocate Samaira Mehta

Samaira is the inventor of Coderbunnyz, a game that simplifies complex coding concepts and teaches them through an explorative adventure narrative. It has garnered a spot on the Amazon best seller’s list. She has likewise invented Coderminez, the world’s first ever artificial intelligence board game that simplifies the intricacies of AI for young learners. She has been featured on platforms like CNBC, Business Insider, The Today Show, and the Washington Post for both her creations and the many workshops that she has developed and organized.

When she was just 6 years old, Samaira’s dad introduced her to coding. Coding became something exciting to her. It was a mechanism for her to develop projects and games and bring anything that she dreamed of to life. But, over time, she saw that her friends did not share the same experience of coding that she had. They thought that coding was boring, hard, and never something that they would do for fun. That was the first time that she thought, “Hey, this is a problem. My friends don’t like coding as much as I do. But I think they could.” And that’s where her mindset about sharing her hobby emerged.

She got to work creating games that would teach her friends coding in a fun way. She quickly found that she very much enjoyed teaching her friends with these games. That’s when she started booking conference rooms on Saturday afternoons. Anybody who wanted to could come in, and she would teach them how to play and explain how what they learned connected to the real world and computer science. These events built up over time to create the board game that she has today.

At first, parents started coming up to her and asking where they could buy her games. Of course, she was just 7 years old and had no intention of selling a product. This was just a project she was doing for fun. But when more and more parents started telling her that this was something people would be willing to buy, she got excited and started thinking about how she could help more young people get into coding.

Her work became a way not only for parents to introduce coding to their children but for teachers to implement computer education in their classrooms. Samaira says that she sometimes cannot fully comprehend how vastly her project has evolved, but that it is humbling to see the support from her community and people around her. That’s why she thinks organizations like ASEI are important. ASEI helps create a community of like-minded people who truly want to lift each other up. Together, ASEI and Samaira want to help spread knowledge and information.

Samaira’s biggest advice for finding your passion is to continue doing new things, continue to experiment, and never say no to a new opportunity because you never know where it could lead you. Don’t force yourself to stick to activities you aren’t interested in. When she was younger there were so many activities that she was introduced to and there were a lot that she didn’t enjoy. She says she is very grateful to have parents that didn’t force those hobbies upon her and who instead let her explore her passions and blaze her own trail.

** This Article is contributed by Aditya Guthey – ASEI youth coordinator. He is available via linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaguthey/  **

AI For Humanity

AI For Humanity By Piyush Malik, A Volunteer Of ASEI

Everyone would have grown up watching Star-Trek or Star war which is a result of Science fiction. The power of Artificial Intelligence and advances in technology have made our lives interesting. People are using the benefits of AI in the form of a smartphone or home-based device voice assistant like Alexa, Google home. To know more about how AI is being used in today’s world, please have a look at the post written by Piyush Malik, who has been involved with AESI for a long time.
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Youth Chapter Blog

Youth Corner – Meet Teen Founder & Inventor – Samaira Mehta

  • Event At : virtual & youtube live chat
  • Address : Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara California 95054
  • Event Date : Apr.22.2023
  • Event Time : 9 am PT
  • Contact : Aditya Guthey
Samaira Mehta is no ordinary teen.
Samaira Mehta is no ordinary teen. She is a founder, inventor and a sought after speaker. And shes still in high school!
We will meet her & interview her about the projects she’s been involved in and the impact she is having as well as her aspirations to make a dent in the universe!
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Meet & Greet ASEI Founders & Patrons

The American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin (ASEI) was founded in the Detroit area, Michigan with the objective of exchanging and collaborating technologies between India and USA.

Meet the founders and patrons of ASEI
  • Jay Shah (first ASEI President) would lead the recognition part of the event.
  • Lakshmi, Shailesh Vora, Asha, Nirdosh Reddy and several long term ASEI Patrons would join us at the event
These long term patrons to share their experience and what ASEI means to them.

Event Name : Meet & Greet ASEI Founders & Patrons

Event At : HTC Inc – 3270 West Big Beaver Road

Address : Troy MI Michigan 48084

Event Date : Apr.20.2023

Event Time : 6 PM

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  • Event At : ICC, Milpitas
  • Address : 525 Los Coches Rd Milpitas California 95035
  • Event Date : Apr.15.2023
  • Event Time : 6PM onwards

Svayam Padhi – Music Festival. A Cupertino & Bhuvneshwar Sister Cities Initiative that ASEI is supporting

with rising star and Youtuber Singer Svayam Padhi who happens to be from the tech industry. Come enjoy and support the Cupertino & Bhuvneshwar Sister Cities Initiative

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