One Should Learn to Understand Their Audience

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1. Tell us more about what you do and what led you to speak on this platform.

I am a Civil Engineer & a Construction Management Professional from New York University. I have 3 years of experience of living in the Big Apple and then I moved back to India to do a 13-month long rural fellowship. I lived in a tribal village for 13 months where I had the first-hand experience of living with families below the poverty line. The experience led me to have a soul searching experience and led me to start Strawcture Eco after finishing the fellowship.

Structure Eco is a green construction company that manufactures its own building materials using paddy straw and wheat straw that is turned into a drywall panel. The enterprise stops stubble burning, leads to an alternate source of livelihood to farmers and a 100% Green Construction Material.

2. How can one become a public speaker?

To become a public speaker one needs to learn to create a presence. Presence is a combination of Gravitas and Communication. One should learn to understand their audience, be engaging to be a public speaker. Good command on a language no matter which one it is is important to be able to articulate better. Expertise on a certain subject is also important to be a public speaker.

3. Can motivational speaking become a full-time career?

Motivational Speaking can be a full-time career . Especially in today's world where social platforms are a new way of connecting, it can very well be a full-time job. Engaging and utilising multiple platforms should be a good idea to be efficient as a motivational speaker.

4. What are the best public speaking tips that have worked for you?

1. Use of sense of humour and the timing of it is really important to keep your audience engaged as a motivational speaker.

2. Storytelling is crucial.

3. The content should be simple and relatable, as the audience can be very diverse.

5. What impact do you want to make in the world?

I want to start and also be engaged with organisations that use the money for good. I believe business models can be a great tool to address world problems. I want to be involved with organisations that create impact and address issues like Climate Change, Women Empowerment. I want to create a business model based on the Circular Economy approach and create impact and prove that it should be the right model.

6. Which is your favourite book and why?

Change by Design, Author Time Brown is one of my favourite books. The book talks about how Great design could fix the world's wicked problems. It shows how a human-centred, creative problem-solving approach offers the promise of new, more effective solutions.

It also talks about how a circular economy, in contrast, aims to retain and recover as much value as possible from products, parts, and resources.

Our ability to redesign industrial systems to be restorative and regenerative, to transform waste into a nutrient for the next generation of industry, and to rethink the assumption that product life cycles must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, will be the measure against which our generation will be judged.

Interview by - Mahi