Sunita is an Executive Coach, Trainer and Consultant. She is of Indian origin and was born in London before moving to Geneva in 1992. She has a Psychology background (specialising in Occupational Psychology) and a Post Graduate in the Development and Training of Adults. She also completed a Masters in Ressources Humaines, Coaching et Gestion des Carrières at the University of Geneva.
During her 25 years experience Sunita's drive has always been to help people to do their best and hence led her to create Walk The Talk.
In her free time Sunita is a Mentor for the Branson Center of Entrepreneurship and a proud member of the School in The Cloud Team.
By Sunita Sehmi, Walk The Talk
A few months ago a friend of mine gave me a copy of the film Tashi and the Monk. She explained the project and gave me a brief history about the benevolent monk behind the project Jhamste. Jhamtse (jhaam’-tsay) is Tibetan for “love and compassion”, it is an international non-profit organization run by volunteers and sustained by individuals who participate in their programs. The film lay on my desk for a time but I kept thinking of completing my never-ending to do list before I was permitted to watch it! What I saw and what I witnessed was so heart-rending, so touching it literally blew me away. The 42-minute film has no elaborate camerawork, no superstar narrator, just an unpretentious story of Tashi and the monk, Lobsang Phuntsok. This left me even more curious and desperate to become involved with Tashi and Lobsang, because we have all met a Tashi in our lives. A chaotic, scorned and angry child due to no fault of their own and then it just takes one person to believe in this child and help this child and this can be life changing for them.
Lobsang only has room for 85 children at his school but he is bombarded with hundreds of requests from villagers begging him to take in more. But he just can’t, with limited capacity Lobsang has to make some life-altering decisions.
“Many people believe in compassion. Because it works.” Lobsang Phuntsok
By Sunita Sehmi, Walk The Talk
Anthony Levene is the Director of AMATA SA with twenty years’ experience producing and directing TV commercials, corporate films, and through-the-line marketing and internal communications campaigns for leading international brands.
Operating in Switzerland and the UK, he works with a highly experienced and talented team to deliver two distinct services to clients worldwide: Production Services and Bespoke Communications.
Film production services in Switzerland range from TV commercials, web and corporate, to TV documentaries and feature films - at all levels of budget whether it be a shoot downtown or up the highest mountain peak.
Recently Anthony and his team fully serviced a complicated glacier shoot for Nike featuring two US Olympic athletes and they also ensured that the Oscar-winning director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, created a powerful Nike film featuring Roger Federer.
I caught up with him about his move to Switzerland from the UK, the trials and tribulations of being local and global. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did.
By Sunita Sehmi, Walk The Talk
Seth Franklin Berkley, CEO of GAVI, is a medical epidemiologist by training and a global advocate on the power of vaccines. Seth has been featured on the cover of Newsweek and recognized by Wired Magazine as among "The Wired 25": a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders. Furthermore, TIME magazine mentions him as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2009. Seth Berkley joined the GAVI as CEO in August 2011, as it launched its five-year strategy to immunize a quarter of a billion children in the developing world with life-saving vaccines by 2015. Rarely have I seen such a powerful combination of passion, humility and drive..... It was a pleasure to talk to him.
How does Gavi work?
Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance (formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) is a public-private global health partnership committed to protecting children’s health by increasing access to immunization and strengthening health systems in the world’s poorest countries. As a public-private partnership, GAVI represents all the key stakeholders in global immunization: implementing and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, civil society, the vaccine industry and private companies.
“Our force is warranting that our collaboration is a win-win for all involved.”
By Sunita Sehmi, Walk The Talk
Scott Robinson, the ‘yogibanker’, was born in a yoga studio in Notting Hill in April, 2012, in preparation for his first career change while on a 15-year working holiday to the UK. The idea of ‘managing stress’ seemed too good to refuse. It took a while until yoga became part of his regular routine.
Here he shares his thoughts, vison and mission on how to bring back balance and harmony in your life.
I hope you enjoy this deeply captivating interview as much as I did.
By Sunita Sehmi, Walk The Talk
In a society that places so much emphasis on cognitive tasks and productivity, it’s easy to experience a major disconnection with your body’s natural, deep intelligence and its relationship with the wondrous world around you. Nilima helps people in their pursuit for a more mindful evolution, expansion and healing. She does this through a process of self-understanding on many levels: physical, vital, mental, psychic and spiritual. As a certified yoga teacher, her central purpose is to first guide individuals to connect with their Deeper Self and then to live it with authenticity in all aspects of their lives. I was lucky enough to interview this truly amazing woman.
Tell us about yourself.
I have been part of Conscious Capitalism led by people such as Raj Sisodia and John Mackey since 2010 and started my leadership consultancy Roots and Wings in 2004, with my husband, Vijay Bhat. I had reached a point in my corporate career where I began to think what is my purpose? Am I making a difference? I took up the study of Vedanta (Indian wisdom) and yoga and became a practitioner of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. My husband got diagnosed with colon cancer in 2001 when he was 40 years old. We left no stone unturned, as I looked everywhere for clues: Chinese Medicine, Enneagram, and Jung. We both became students of life, learning everyday. Our first book was born out of our journey, entitled My Cancer is Me. He is happily recovered today.
