A big Thank You to all of you :)

.. so, taking my own advice of expressing gratitude beyond the journals, this is a small thank you post, to a set of professionals who do their job flawlessly, meticulously and with amazing amount of energy & empathy .. & yet shared their personal and vulnerable side with a bunch of almost strangers..

First off - Akshay, Girish, Nitin & Amogh – its never easy to sit across from a guy you haven’t met or known and let him go ask you such searching questions in front of a live audience from your own industry .. but thank you for trusting me with this one

Jasrita , Meghna , Sakshi & Latika – we had all intended this to be something different and it flew in a different direction altogether but thank you so much for the poise, grace and intellect that you brought to the session ??

To the CXOs who trusted me blindly & took up the topics and the sessions that I asked them to .. Jahid , Anand , Prasad , Kuntal , Narendra , Sandeep , Samridhh , Vishwajeet , Alok … can’t thank you enough .. so many people had so many good things to say about these sessions and ALL the credit goes to all of you for making the sessions your own !!

..& then to the whole ‘gang’ who got adventurous enough on a foggy and cold day to investigate ‘govt approved binoculars’ and share some hot chai with maggi, pasta, pizza, momos ..I am walking away with a bunch of friends, lots of memories and tons of photos .. A lot of professional photographers will be worried when they see what you can do with that lens ??

Last and by every metric, the biggest thank you to the hosts - Latika Vivek Jevisha Disha Mayuresh thank you for pulling off another spectacular event .. I know you guys do this day in and day out and while it may not have been a new thing for your team, I am sure I speak for all the 100 of us, when I say Thank You So Much for being so good at you job .. and for doing it with such energy and empathy .. can’t tell you how much we all appreciated your hospitality and your professionalism.

Secretly, all of us are hoping to be invited to the next one ?? ..but until then, Rock On !!