Adobe organized a panel discussion for their diversity initiative- Adobe and Women on 28 June 2013. The Topic for the Panel Discussion was 'Figments of Awakening: Career Strategies that Successful Women devise to build their Personal Brand' Ms. Chandni Taneja, Executive Director, Navjyoti India Foundation was a speaker at the panel discussion. She shared her insights on how she built her career and evolved to reach her current position. She talked about various essentials which helped her in her upward journey; she talked about Authenticity, Gratitude and the 4Ps (Purpose, Priority, Passion, Persistence) and how they ultimately work together to putting an individual in a dynamic multi-layered growth phase and ensure career success, simultaneously creating a Personal Brand.

1. Figments of Awakening:
Career Strategies that Successful
Women devise to build their
Personal Brand
Chandni Taneja
Executive Director
Navjyoti India Foundation

2. “WHAT IS THE EXPERIENCE OF
THE RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU
HAVE WITHYOURSELF?”
Commitment to the journey of defining yourself
Being yourself Unique values
as a person, as a leader
PERSONAL BRAND

3. AUTHENTICITY
Don’t live someone
else’s perception
Be OriginalBe true to yourself
HOLD YOUR OWN | CREATE YOUR PERSONAL BRAND
Be the UNIQUIE YOU!

4. IF A MAN IS NOT FAITHFUL
TO HIS OWN INDIVIDUALITY,
HE CANNOT BE LOYAL
TO ANYTHING.
- Claude McKay

5. 4Ps
PRIORITY
PASSION
PERSISTENCE
PURPOSE

6. PURPOSE
Explore, but don’t get
lost
Synchronize personal
and professional vision
Know the destination,
Find a way
Clear purpose in life

8. PRIORITY
Purpose is prime
Time and Energy are
scarce resources
The Perfect
Imbalance
Build Real
Relationships

9. “To succeed today, you have to
set priorities, decide what you
stand for.”
-Lee Iacocca

10. PASSION
Intrinsic motivation
Undying enthusiasmGive 100%
Good and Bad
Workaholism

11. “ The most powerful weapon
on earth is the human soul
on fire."
- Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch

12. PERSISTENCE
See opportunity in
adversity
Never back down!
Fail, Learn, Grow
Stick to your purpose Equanimity

13. A little more persistence, a little
more effort, and what seemed
hopeless failure may turn to
glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

14. GRATITUDE
Thank
ThankThank
Thank

15. Gratitude unlocks the
fullness of life. It turns
what we have into
enough, and more.
It turns denial into
acceptance, chaos to
order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a
feast, a house into a
home, a stranger into
a friend.
Melody Beattie