S3 E10: Inclusive Leadership through Self Awareness with Sanjay Patil

The Inspire Podcast

In this episode Bart interviews Sanjay Patil, a Consultant with The Humphrey Group about his life and professional journey. Sanjay is an experienced human rights lawyer whose globe-spanning career has been driven by a desire to help create spaces for others to be heard. In the course of his career he has embraced self-awareness, mindfulness and a commitment to going slow as fundamental to leadership. He shares his insights with Bart, and talks about how these tools are particularly relevant for any leader who wishes to be intentionally inclusive. A powerful conversation for anyone wanting to better know themselves, manage their emotions, and lead inclusively. 00:49 Welcome 01:00 About Sanjay 01:43 Why he's on the podcast 02:57 Career path 05:30 Finding clarity of purpose 06:26 Moral obligation to do Human Rights work 08:01 The commonality in all of humanity 09:21 Locus of control 10:35 3 big learnings that Sanjay has learned 11:39 The intention to create a space where people can be seen and heard 12:29 How can leaders create inclusive spaces? 12:40 Example of how to do it 13:30 Resources available to do the work 14:46 How to proceed? 14:53 Not a box-ticking exercise 16:36 How do you implement these programs? 17:06 Example: Anti-Asian hatred 18:13 Inclusive leadership -- the shallow way 18:33 Metrics? 19:04 Require a profound shift in consciousness 19:20 Need to allow the messiness to happen 20:18 So many dimensions to inclusivity 20:29 Thinking wholistically 21:14 The importance of slowing down 22:31 How to go slow? 23:46 Monkey mind 24:28 Meditation retreat 25:40 Make time for reflection 26:13 Guard your reflection time 27:43 Bart: hyperactive hive-mind 29:54 What do you have control over? A: your actions and reactions 34:42 Thank you 36:01 End of real-time interview