Career Heist: How to Navigate Your Career

Gaurav Gandhi is an advisor, mentor and consultant based in Vienna, with nineteen years of global experience at Tata Consultancy Services and Tata Sons. He specialises in helping Austrian and Indian companies collaborate, mentoring start-ups and SMBs and advising on industry-research partnerships. With expertise spanning IT, innovation and business development, Gaurav has built partnerships with leading academic institutions like Harvard and MIT. A certified international career coach, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Management expert and gold-certified business storyteller, Gaurav is passionate about guiding professionals through meaningful career transitions.

Lochan Narayanan is a Leadership Development professional & ICF (ACC) certified coach with extensive experience across multiple industries. She has worked with organisations such as GE Capital, American Express & ACT Fibernet. As a Coach, Lochan works with successful professionals looking for that inflection point in their career that requires them to reevaluate their career and life choices. She has 500+ hours of experience of coaching different professionals navigate career transitions across life stages. She also hosts a Podcast called Career Uninterrupted focused on building an ecosystem that supports mid-career transitions.

Apoorv Bamba is a father who is trying to unlock the mystical world of parenting in the twenty-first century. He also happens to be an entrepreneur often finding himself in a battle with the broken employability system of the country. He loves the art of unlearning and thrives in uncomfortable situations with people and places who challenge his way of being. Lastly, he is a wanderer and loves getting lost in pursuit of constant change, evolution and sometimes for the sake of it!