132: Ask Yourself the Big Questions - Prina Shah
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132: Ask Yourself the Big Questions
Prina Shah was born in Kenya and started her education at a school there that primarily focused on the Indian community as that was how people maintained their safety. At home, however, there were other issues. Prina’s father was an alcoholic and there were traumatic circumstances that caused her mother to move her and her sister to the UK. Prina reflects on that time as her younger self, noting the life lessons she learned about how to build better relationships and thus began her growing fascination with people.
Once Prina entered university, she studied sociology and social psychology. While her choice of disciplines felt so right to her, Prina was less clear about what she would do for work once she graduated, so she sought assistance from a career center. She went through four days of psychometric testing and was placed in a two-year human resources development program at British Telecom. Prina experienced every facet of human resources in a rotation style structure during that period and she remained there for two more years before moving to Australia where she focused on organizational development work, as an internal practitioner inside a few organizations and government agencies.
Today, she has her own business as a coach, consultant, and trainer in which she develops emotionally intelligent leaders and optimizes company cultures.
Prina suggests that her clients follow the Japanese approach to a long and happy life, Ikigai, by asking themselves the big questions. What am I good at? What does the world need? And what can I get paid for? She says that has guided her through her career. “It's good to check in with yourself so that you're not a silent passenger. You want to curate your own life and your own career.”
In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about Prina’s journey:
Prina has over 20 years of experience in people management roles in the areas of organizational and leadership development, human resources, culture change, and change management.
She offers practical tools and methods to develop strategies that create positive change, develops people, and brings them together.
Learn more and connect with Prina here:
http://www.instagram.com/prina.shah/ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYunILYYO9UaE3Pf1PVwLQg/videos
http://www.linkedin.com/in/prinashah
https://www.prinashah.com/
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