P.O.W.E.R UP Newsletter Edition 24 They met at a professional event and clicked immediately. Their first conversation happened at a conference lunch that was supposed to last fifteen minutes. "You're in strategy consulting?" Maya set her plate down without waiting for an invitation to sit. "Tell me one thing you actually believe that your clients never want to hear." Daniel looked up. He was not used to being asked that on a first meeting. He answered anyway. Forty minutes la

5 min Read Lakshmi Ramachandran, PhD, Leadership communication and influence He was the most impressive person in the room before he opened his first slide. Confident, sharp, full of insight from years of building ventures and leading teams. You would have backed him to hold any room. Then he stepped on stage. The slides appeared. Dense text with errors visible on every slide which was nothing but a wall of information competing for space with the person delivering it. And t

Welcome to P.O.W.E.R UP (Brilliance to Influence) edition #13. This is a newsletter for leaders in science, technology, pharma, and biotech who want to turn expertise into influence, and ideas into impact. “Your expertise may get you to the table, but what keeps you there is influence.” Many brilliant ideas never make it past the boardroom because they’re presented as 'information' that people forget, not 'insights' that connect. In science and technology, leaders often belie

Welcome to P.O.W.E.R UP (Brilliance to Influence) edition #13. This is a newsletter for leaders in science, technology, pharma, and biotech who want to turn expertise into influence, and ideas into impact. “Your expertise may get you to the table, but what keeps you there is influence.” Many brilliant ideas never make it past the boardroom because they’re presented as 'information' that people forget, not 'insights' that connect. In science and technology, leaders often belie