Therapy is helping leaders shape their business better! Here's how
Here's to destigmatizing mental health and normalizing conversations around it. Starting as a subject of hesitation, therapy has come a long way in changing society's notion about mental health. Today, it's also helping CEOs, business honchos, and executives around the world, discover it as a weapon to build better businesses. Here's how businesses are going to therapy to find themselves.
Podcast on therapy becoming a 'Cost To Company'
A podcast series by The Ken, 'Cost To Company' offers insights on how modern Indian workplaces are changing. In their latest episode "Businesses are going to therapy to find themselves," they talk about how business leaders, CEOs, and executives are building better products with therapy. They are using therapy as a strategic tool to achieve goals better and with less collateral damage. Listen here.
'The Ken' records Piyush Shah, co-founder InMobi Group, COO Glance
Piyush Shah has been an entrepreneur since the age of 19. Today, his drive has led him to become the co-founder of InMobi Group and the COO at Glance - an AI-driven lock screen platform. However, his journey hasn't been a cakewalk, especially when his business suffered. Interacting with The Ken, the "lifelong entrepreneur" shared his lowest moments and how he overcame them.
"I was devastated, to say the least," says Shah
Despite his business running successfully, it got shut down one day. "It felt like we were hurtling on a highway in a pretty strong cruise mechanism doing well but a truck came on the side and just killed us altogether. I was devastated, to say the least," he stated. He began to doubt himself and all the hard work he did for years.
He shares his rebirth as Piyush 2.0
Upon beginning therapy, Shah realized that he was slowly giving up on anxiety, self-deprecating thoughts, and unkind assumptions that had unknowingly become a part of him. He could now converse better with his supervisors and subordinates. "I realized that 80% of who I am and why I behave the way I do is because of what I went through during my childhood," states Shah.
Making more space for feelings in the organization
Having experienced the benefit of therapy himself, he took the initiative to introduce the same to his employees. In an effort to make more space for feelings in the organization, 100 leaders of InMobi Group are attending therapy. With the help of an in-house therapist, they have experienced more trust among employees, and are witnessing fewer cases of self-doubt in the work environment.
When there's trust, there's collaboration of a different kind
With therapy, people in his organization have started trusting each other. "To let them discover their innermost fear, their conditioning, their childhood, their biases, completely opens up everything," says Shah. "When there's trust between people, there's a collaboration of a different kind," he adds. He is now able to unpack his limiting thoughts and make space for feelings, "unlocking" the next phase for InMobi.
