Addressing Conscious and Unconscious Bias: Tools for Overcoming Bias

As humans and professionals, we make assumptions every day – based on our experience, the world around us, our intuition or ego. And it’s these biases which can become the compass for strategic decisions, in life or business. Conscious bias may be easier to identify but if it’s linked to ego, harder to break. For […]

Understanding the Power of Conflict

As professionals, the principle job is to create long-lasting value for a holistic set of stakeholders – customers (internal/external), investors, the environment etc. But much like a healing journey at the individual level, the process to identify the optimal value solutions can be messy! Opinionated and Passionate about our convictions and what is ‘best’ for […]

A Letter to Our Team & Robinhood Community 

Sar Pass – 4200M – June 24, 2023 Many that know me well understand why I go out on trekking adventures. In short, they are my therapy and have been for years. Whenever I feel broken or burnt out, I can always go to the mountain and lean on it for support. But it doesn’t […]

Why Cooperatives Are Important

A Message from the CJO When Robinhood Co-Living was founded, the vision was a cooperative, to provide fair value exchange and help uplift the ecosystem. Working in the ‘working class’ in India is a struggle, and oftentimes provides limited economic advancement opportunities. The system, especially in rural parts of the country can seem unfair. A […]

Our CJOs Annual Thanksgiving Message

About five years ago, at the ripe age of 29, I made the decision to ‘retire’ from corporate. I was filled with financial abundance, after years of advancing in the ‘system’ but lacking in what mattered most… A zest for life and general gratitude for existence. At the time, I desired more meaningful work, and […]

The Future of EcoTourism

Pre-Pandemic Eco-Tourism was one of the fastest growing industries in the world, at a globally annualised rate of nearly 17% per year. While the new data is yet to be published, it’s clear from country level reporting that the trend has accelerated with the advent of COVID, albeit in different ways.  Tourism is still on […]

The Digital Working and Lifestyle Revolution

For over 100 years, the western world was organized around an economic and living model with industrialized urban housing centers built within and around to support its workforces. What is surprising is that, a system established in the West, was universally adopted in the East, in economies that were predominantly agrarian and community oriented. Remote […]

A Recipe for Joy

Much has been written about the ‘lying flat’ movement and the greatest exodus of human capital in the modern era. Professional workers globally are ditching their desk jobs and urban lifestyles in the pursuit of a more fulfilling future. It’s no surprise to me, as someone who’s seen both sides and was a first mover […]