Dr. Shantha Mohan is a mentor and Executive in Resident at Carnegie Mellon University Integrated innovation Institute's iLab. She co-founded Retail Solutions Inc. (RSi), a leader in retail data analytics and ran its global product development organization. Her prior experiences include technical and educational consulting, and running worldwide product development for Consilium a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) company (acquired by Applied Materials). She graduated a PhD in Operations Management from the Tepper School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University, and her undergraduate degree is in Electronics & Communication is from the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), India. She is passionate about equality, diversity, and sustainability. She is the author of Roots and Wings: Inspiring Stories of Indian Women in Engineering and a Distinguished Alumnus of CEG. She serves on the board of CEG alumni, North America (CEGAANA) and is instrumental in the creation of Ask a CEGian student mentorship program and the CEG Betterment program. She is a co-author for the forthcoming book by Routledge/Productivity Press, Demystifying AI for the Enterprise: Building Tomorrow's Self-Driving Organization.

Part 1: Leadership Attributes Chapter 1: Getting Better-Optimism Chapter 2: Within You Without You-Humility Chapter 3: The Long and Winding Road-Tenacity Chapter 4: Get Back to Curiosity Chapter 5: Help!-Being Vulnerable Chapter 6: Think for Yourself Part 2: Leadership Skills Chapter 7: I Want to Tell You- Communication Chapter 8: We Can Work It Out-Negotiation Chapter 9: Any Time at All- Being Available Chapter 10: I Me Mine-Empowering Chapter 11: All You Need Is Love-Heart-led leadership Part 3: Leadership Mastery Chapter 12: I've Got a Feeling-Using intuition Chapter 13: Hello, Goodbye-Balancing the Tensions Part 4: Care Chapter 14: Let It Be-Handling stress Chapter 15: The Inner Light-Lifelong learning Chapter 16: When I'm Sixty-Four-Balancing Family and Work