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"""The Alchemy of Talent by Dr. Vijay Pendakur offers a clear and insightful exploration of team dynamics and leadership. This approachable, science-based guide provides a practical perspective on leading teams through uncertainty. Pendakur skillfully reframes the value of diversity and inclusion to address today's challenges, focusing on performance science rather than the noise of polarization. His simple and effective model for optimizing the employee experience ensures that teams can consistently perform at their best. Enriched with actionable strategies, this book equips leaders with the tools to nurture resilience and foster innovation, making it an essential read for modern leadership."" --DR. Karie Willyerd, six-time Chief Learning Officer, and bestselling author of The 2020 Workplace and Stretch: How to Futureproof Yourself ""A clear, science-based guide on leading your team to win consistently. This book should be on every team leader's desk right now."" --Dane Holmes, Chief Administrative Officer, KKR; former CHRO, Goldman Sachs ""Team leaders and managers need simple, impactful, and clear guidance to handle disruption, achieve results, and empower the connectivity of their teams. The Alchemy of Talent provides a fresh, accessible view of how one can immediately take action with science-based techniques."" --Michael Ohata, former Talent Leader and Chief Learning Officer, KPMG LLP, and author of The Talent-Fueled Enterprise ""Teams in higher education face ongoing volatility and uncertainty. The Alchemy of Talent is a clear, practical, evidence-driven guide that can help leaders support and empower their teams to not just survive today's challenging academic landscape, but do the best work of their lives."" --Dr. Susie Brubaker-Cole, former Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Stanford University ""World-class teams make world-class companies. The Alchemy of Talent is purpose-built for leading teams through the multitude of challenges all teams face. For any leader who wants their teams to do the best work in their lives, this book is a must-read."" --Jim Reid, former Chief Human Resources Officer, Rogers Communications, and author of Leading to Greatness"

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Dr. Vijay Pendakur is principal and founder of Vijay Pendakur Consulting. A true multi-sector organizational leader, Pendakur has held senior roles at four companies: Salesforce, Dropbox, VMware, and Zynga. He has also served as the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students at Cornell University. In his time at the largest Ivy League institution, he was named Presidential Advisor for Diversity and Equity as part of a new approach to campus-wide transformation. His 2016 book Closing the Opportunity Gap represents one of the few book-length works on how to graduate underserved college students and is still used by campus leaders today to inform strategy. Pendakur has served as an advisor to the Chief Diversity Officer of the National Institutes of Health, and he serves on the institute teaching faculty of the Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California. Pendakur is a board advisor for Ezra Coaching and Enterprise Ireland. When he's not working, he's strumming guitars, sampling single malts, and enjoying the creeks and trails around Austin with his wife and daughters. VijayPendakur.com

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