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Ennobled for Success: From Civil War to a US CFO takes you through a conscious journey within, for a self-exploration to Discover wisdom-filled lessons to support you in living an ennobled, empowered, and positive life.
The book helps you connect with your BEING to purposefully channel your DOING so the light in you could shine. Seeing life through the perspective of gratitude while igniting the process of ennobling to embody noble qualities of kindness, compassion, and empathy as a pathway to leadership and success is an extraordinary road least travelled. This is an unapologetically authentic road map to meaningful success.
“This is a heartfelt and transparent ‘love letter’ to those who feel they are not good enough.”
—Traci S. Campbell, CEO & Founder, BIBO Worldwide, LLC & The BIBO Foundation.
“Students, teachers, and business leaders will all benefit from the delightful fruits of knowledge that grow in Dr Kas’ garden.”
—Wolfgang Trampe, Human Resources Leader, Duracell (A Berkshire Hathaway Company), Latin America
“While some use fables, Kas shares real-life experiences to teach how being authentic, caring, and purpose-driven can bring success.”
—Joe Schum, Division Chief – Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue, Reno, NV and International Public Safety Leadership Ethics Institute (IPSLEI) Board Member
“As a world-renowned expert profiler who understands how people are wired, I recognize Dr. Kasthuri’s brilliance in helping you go deeper to bring the best of you forward.”
—Susan Ibitz, Human Behavior Hacker, Human Behavior Lab
“This autobiography is a gem from start to finish. When describing this book, the word ‘inspirational’ is inadequate.”
—Bob Whipple “The Trust Ambassador” MBA CPTD, CEO Leadergrow, Inc.
The Gratitude Journal provides fifty-two weeks of reflective exercises to facilitate your transformational journey and adopt the ennobling road for your own success. I had great pleasure creating the fifty-two images and integrating my motivational quotes, both of which set the tone for your journey to embrace positive brain chemistry. This empowering journal is a great companion to the #1 International Best-Selling Book, Ennobled for Success. This journal contains the opportunity to capture: (1) The week’s experience (1a) What happened (1b) How it impacted me (1c) Why I am grateful (2) The week’s self-reflection. As you begin your journey of gratitude, keep an open mind, become aware of your surroundings, develop the ability to see with your heart, and build the courage to be vulnerable to strangers. My life has taught me that a rickshaw driver in a war-torn country can teach a scared and angry little girl the value of listening. A sixth-grade Catholic nun can teach that same Hindu girl to unapologetically embrace kindness with courage and turn it into a superpower. An entire community of Indian slums and rural villagers can care enough to teach that lonely teenager the joy of servant leadership. Strangers can walk into a young woman’s life and teach her how to trust and build relationships that stand the test of time and distance. All this is possible only when we allow it to happen by being vulnerable. Ennobling is not the prerogative of the rich and affluent. It is a selfless gift that comes from a courageous heart of kindness and compassion. Step into your purpose. Embrace a life of being ennobled. As you take charge of your destiny and navigate towards your success, maintain perspective and find your inner joy. Keep the faith that the universe will rise-up to meet you because it is perfectly in tune with the energy you create around you.
The Resiliency Playbook aims to be your practical hands-on guide to a self-discovery journey. It helps you to first identify our limitations and then expand upon them to intentionally thrive.
The only constant in life is change. Without resiliency, navigating the speed and volume of change would be simply daunting. The BAN Plan introduced in this book is expected to
Facilitate the identification of the Basic realities of your current challenges
Formulate the necessary Adjustments to successfully navigate through your challenges
Implement the New game plan to fully live your life purpose
It is our hope that we help you push your boundaries to lead an evolving life at home, school, and work; to not just live, but thrive with purpose as you continually grow as a whole person.
“This book will change the perspective for the reader, and allow for the rebuilding of cultural, and societal norms.”
— Eugene Napoleon, CEO Nap Vision Entertainment, LLC
“It is a thorough guide to building resilience to help you navigate all areas of your personal and professional environment.”
— Margaret Bourke, Assistant Treasurer, Duracell – A Berkshire Hathaway Company
“Priceless gift to those ready for living and leading an unrecognizable life!”
— Sally Anderson. Leadership Coach To The Influencers.
“It is Packed with actionable “golden nuggets” for changing behavior.”
— Robin Litster Johnson, Master of Applied Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
“It’s an empowering read and a true playbook filled with examples and worksheets to enable immediate insights and application.”
— Amy L Riley. The Courage of a Leader.
Harmonized Life: Balancing Paid and Unpaid Work in A Functional Society
Work in a functional society is performed across its three pillars namely, state (government) market (commerce) and civil society. Family is the fundamental building block of society with workers and other stakeholders coming from their respective homes to engage across state, market, and civil society. Work-life balance is a traditional concept attempting to distribute time for paid work and life. This is a masculine construct that fails to consider the feminine contributions. A refractive thinker sees the flaw in this construct and understands that work comprises of paid and unpaid work that ought to be equitably budgeted with respect to time. Once the paid and unpaid work are addressed, then life ought to be harmonized with work, because balancing is not possible with disparate requirements placed on people based on their respective genders. Data shows that 75% of the unpaid work totaling up to 11 billion hours a day is carried out by women of the world while men focus mainly on paid work. In the absence of women and their work, life would be non-viable. Therefore, work-life balance needs to be replaced with harmonizing life, to balance the burdens of paid and unpaid work, including total contributions of women.
Ennobling Business for Success: Inspire-Ignite-Influence
The soul of an organization is the character of that organization. From that organizational character stems the behaviors, values, and actions that drives the organizational economic engine. Since excellence is a habit demonstrated by consistent behavior, the human capital attraction and development becomes the new frontier of organizational excellence.
Ennobling Business for Success provides a blueprint for organizations to understand and flip the script on the great resignation, pivot it into the great business mindfulness opportunity, and embrace the three core values propagated by the Ennobled for Success ™ Institute:
- Inspirethe human spirit so each soul feels valued and could live its full potential.
- Ignitethe sense of purpose to mindfully build a fulfilling life.
- Influenceby design to thrive and leave a legacy of ennobling.
The insights and lived experiences of 14 international professionals and authors are featured as a roadmap for organizational transformation at this pivotal time.
We have the opportunity to leave the business world and modern capitalism better than we found it. I invite you to come aboard to take the co-creative transformational ride of our generation! A ride of our shared purpose. A ride of our shared humanity. A ride of our shared happiness.
“Each chapter ends by summarizing three key points, allowing for an easy read and reference for the impactful future work.”
1. Mike Taney, Chief Human Resources Officer, Duracell – A Berkshire Hathaway Company
“Push everything to the side because this is the book you have been waiting for. A highly relevant tome of useful thought and action for our world today.”
2. Louise Mahler. International Speaker, Executive Team Mentor & Executive Coach, Australia.
“Packed with practical wisdom and actionable strategies, this book is a must-read for all those who seek to tap into their full potential and create their own unique definition of success.”
3. Nim Gholkar. Author, Speaker, Life Coach, Australia.“Living purpose is possible! Dr. Henry has created a must-read for those struggling to find meaning in the business world.”
“Living purpose is possible! Dr. Henry has created a must-read for those struggling to find meaning in the business world.”
4. Charlotte Allen, PhD. CEO, Rebel Success for Leaders, USA.