‘Ask Me Anything’ with Tushar Sharan

In this engaging episode of the Ask Me Anything series, Tushar Sharan, Senior Vice President of Service Delivery for Jamaica and Colombia at HGS, shares insights beyond corporate leadership. He discusses his personal and professional mantras, stress-relief hobbies like singing, and his unique perspective on effective leadership and teamwork. This conversation reveals the human side of leadership and offers inspiration for balancing life and work with purpose.

What You’ll Learn  

Tushar's thoughts on a desired superpower: the ability to read minds to better understand others' true thoughts and intentions.​

His personal mantra of "live and let live" and professional mantra "I fail and we succeed," emphasizing teamwork and collective success.​

How singing serves as a valuable stress buster and a way to unwind during both workdays and weekends.​

Insights into leadership that combines strategy with empathy and balance in everyday life.​

Inspiration for aspiring leaders to embrace vulnerability, teamwork, and personal well-being.

Transcript 

Unknown Speaker A: Welcome HGS listeners. We are back with another exciting episode in our brand new series, Ask Me Anything, where we invite our leaders for conversations beyond the boardroom and daily work. In this episode, we are chatting with Tushar Sharan, Senior Vice President of Service Delivery for Jamaica and Colombia at HGS. With his unique blend of strategic leadership and commitment to finding balance in everyday life, Tushar shares valuable insights on leading with purpose. Ready to dive in? Let's get to the chat.

Unknown Speaker B: If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why?

Tushar Sharan: The one superpower that I would like to have is to be able to read minds. I believe there isn't anything more powerful than to be able to read the minds of people that you're talking to or people around you—to find out what exactly they're thinking, what is behind what they are saying. So I think that's a superpower that I would definitely love to have.

Unknown Speaker B: What's the one mantra you live by?

Tushar Sharan: I have one mantra each for my personal and my professional life. On the personal front, my mantra is to live and let live. On the professional side, I believe in "I fail and we succeed," and I often say that to my team members—that unless it’s a team, we can't succeed. So I fail and we succeed.

Unknown Speaker B: What do you do to unwind over the weekends?

Tushar Sharan: One of my hobbies is singing, and there isn't a bigger stress buster for me. Music itself is a huge stress buster. So to be able to sing songs that I like, I think that's something I do to unwind. I also do it on weekdays at times when I've had a not too bad, not too good a day. So yeah, singing is something I do to unwind.

[The audio continues with Tushar singing a few lines of an Elvis Presley song.]

Unknown Speaker A: That's it for today. We hope you enjoyed this episode and took away some valuable insights from our leader. Stay tuned for more episodes in our Ask Me Anything series where we dive deeper into the lives and leadership journeys of more inspiring HGS leaders. Thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to follow HGS on Spotify for more exciting and insightful conversations with the minds shaping our future.