This document summarizes Abhijit Chaturvedi's presentation on personal agility. It discusses how the current environment requires individuals and companies to be agile to handle rapid change, pressure, and disruption. It then explains that personal agility involves having a growth mindset and neural plasticity to adapt behaviors and thought patterns. Developing alignment between the reptilian, limbic and cortex parts of the brain is key to neuroagility. Exercises like meditation can help remodel the brain to develop resilience and respond better to challenges. The presentation provides a framework for personal agility that combines purposefulness, neural agility and resilience to learn from failures and embrace change.

1. Navigating
Change.
Being Agile Unleashing Potential!
Personal Agility

2. About Me
Founder
Director:
Sentientia Interactive
Services Pvt. Ltd.
Abhijit Chaturvedi is an entrepreneur, business
consultant and political strategist.
He has helped fortune 500 companies by improving
organization learning design, infrastructure and talent
development strategies.
His company has significantly contributed in building
learning settings that are future proof. Helped
government, NGOs, corporate, trainers and publishers.
Before starting Sentientia, he was driving e-learning
business for LearningMate in the US.
Holds a master degree in Artificial Intelligence and
Cognitive Science from University of New South
Wales, Sydney Australia
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3. Pandemic, difficult, untrustworthy, uncertain, complex, volatile, disruptive,
turbulent, hyper-competitive and rapid change.
Companies are de-layering, downsizing, changing roles, adding responsibilities,
and a having a lot higher expectations.
Individuals - handling pressure, managing distraction, losing focus, losing work
life balance
Stress Age
COVID, Digital Transformation &
Disruption
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4. My Story
COVID &
Resilience
Tum Farishte hoo!
Farishte, Darkthoon kae saye sae nahee
utarte!
Hoo chingari tum, samundar kae seenae
sae shola ban kae Ayae hoo!
Tum mitaa kae rakh kar doge Covid ke es
manhusiat ko!
Jaan hathoon mae liaye, khudse khade hoo
tum, khud khuda hoo tum!
-Abhijit
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5. When Pre-frontal Cortex makes decision Personal Agility, Resilience and Will Power grows
Leaders who understand how the brain works can make themselves and their teams more
nimble, innovative and resilient.
‘Agile’ is a method and Agility is a mindset. Being agile at a personal level means you’re
nimble to receive, accept and respond to new information in your environment; you’re
open to turn inwards and implement behavioural changes necessary at an individual level.
Neural Agility!
Reptillian, Limbic
& Neo Cortex
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6. Agile Projects are complex, require accepting new requirements,
changing thought patterns, behaviors & course-correction
Neural Agility (Neural Plasticity) is the ability of the brain and
nervous system to change in response to our experiences. Our
brain and nervous system are innately agile, we are born super
connected, rewired till the age of 25 and however need focus
and attention to develop nueral agility after the age of 25.
Reptile brain - aggression / safety (automated process); limbic
brain - emotions and social skills, and cortex - thought, planning
and reasoning. Alignment and integration of these brain parts is
the key to neuro agility.
Negative live events, depression and anxiety remodel brain.
Likewise postive mindset and mindfullness do to our brain.
Exercises- attention, memory, cognitive flexibility and
meditation refer to Luminosity, Head Space, Calm etc..
Neural Agility
Take Aways!
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Customer problem are more important than
business problem. Aim to build legacy that you
great grandson can be proud of.

7. More than education,
More than education,
more than experience,
more than experience,
more than training, a
more than training, a
person’s level of resilience
person’s level of resilience
will
will
determine who succeeds
determine who succeeds
and who fails.
and who fails.
That’s true in the cancer
That’s true in the cancer
ward, it’s true
ward, it’s true
in the Olympics, and it’s
in the Olympics, and it’s
true in the boardroom.”
true in the boardroom.”
surf
surf
-Dean Becker
-Dean Becker
P R O V E R B
Resilience
Bounce back,
Emerge Strong, &
Respond to change
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8. ार मु मजना न प र यज त ॥
NO ONE LIKES TO LEAD A
Strong minded person though repeatedly
hindered by difficulties do not give up what
they have once begun
Resilience
Bounce back, Reset,
Rewire, Adapt,
Recover, !
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SCRIPTED LIFE
Its not going to work!
That dream is too big for you!
You are wasting time!
You are not cut out for it!

9. Adversity does not discriminate, we all are suffering only degree
varies.
Believe in yourself, and in human endeavour. Google, Facebook,
Uber and Tesla are outcome of human endeavour.
Get rid of victim mindset and self-pity. If you do not control the
situation situation will control you. Be the driver and not a
passenger of your life.
Focus your attention carefully. Focus on things you can change.
Accept things that are not in your control.
Take Failures as feedback lens, and put a process to
systematically move out of the comfort-zone. Fail big and fail
well.
Hunt the God Stuff. You did all the work and your boss to the
credit or your worked over night for a delivery
Yaa to Chand Chaheeyae
Yaa Kuch bhee nahee!
Resilience
Take Aways!
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10. Smooth seas do
Smooth seas do
not make skillful
not make skillful
sailors.
sailors.
Personal Agility
Adapt, Navigate, &
Respond to change
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You cannot stop
You cannot stop
the waves but you
the waves but you
can see the ocean
can see the ocean
of opportunity
of opportunity
and learn to surf
and learn to surf
-Jon Kabat Zinn
-Jon Kabat Zinn

11. Personal Agility
Framework
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Purposefulness + Neural Agility + Resilience
Personal
Agility Failure (feedback signal)
=

12. Focus on must to do essential things that align with
your purpose
Adopt a growth mindset. Recognise failure, stop
taking approvals, be authentic be yourself, focus and
pay attention to mental rebuttals.
Embrace change and have an inquisitive and learning
mindset.
Work sincerely and not seriously; be easy on mind
without losing outcome focus.
Check what you are doing is helping or harming you.
Create a log of you decision and implications.
Learn to read to problem sitution and challenges well.
Personal Agility
Take Aways!
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Jeevan kee har jang vahi jeet pata hai!
jisko apne aap ladna aataa hai!

13. Questions!