restoring the soul of business by rishad tobaccowala

“Companies should at least look after it’s talent and not just its customers.” – Click to Tweet “Companies that fixate on the short-term tend to implode in the middle to long term.” – Click to Tweet “The soul of a company is something that integrates the spreadsheet and the story.” – Click to Tweet

Listen to to get over the hump on the – Click to Tweet Rishad currently resides in Chicago with his wife, Rekha. In addition to his two grown daughters, his greatest pride are the hundreds of people he has had the opportunity to train, mentor, and guide over the years who are making an impact all over the world and to most of whom he remains connected. As the world changed and the company changed, Rishad re-invented both himself and the company. Rishad has spent his entire 37-year career at this one company in a wide spectrum of roles spanning advertising, media, strategy, digital and data. He’s also the Chief Growth Officer of Publicis Groupe, an 80,000-person marketing company. His parents loved books and reading as he did, and he always wanted to write one, and he finally has. Rishad Tobaccowala is the author of Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data. He immigrated to Chicago in 1980 with a BS in Mathematics to follow in the footsteps of his father by getting an MBA at the University of Chicago. Growing up, Rishad could be found in a book store reading books. Rishad was born in Bombay, India, and has one sister who lives in California. He now teaches others to combine their emotional intelligence with their data intelligence and to focus beyond the short-term tendencies that many businesses fall victim to. Rishad Tobaccowala stepped back from the brink of data overload by developing practical tools and frameworks that assisted his organization to properly put data in its place.

Restoring the soul of business by rishad tobaccowala