About Kuntal Joisher:

Kuntal is currently a Vegan Mountaineer, Nutrition coach, Body Builder, @SavetheDuck Athlete. From a software engineering consultant turned mountaineer to a socially conscious citizen advocating for animal rights, removing the stigma about mental health disorder, Mr Kuntal Joisher has done all. The first Vegan to summit Mt Everest in the world and now a bodybuilder in the making, the goal to prove muscle can be built with a vegan diet. The motivated transition from a next-door IT guy to a mountaineer, with a weight from 100kgs+ to attain current fitness levels, scale the Everest twice and chase the state of peace. The story has it all. BL-Insights Circle presents to you Mr Kuntal Joisher.

Website: https://www.kuntaljoisher.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kuntalj

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuntalj/

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/kjoisher

BL-Insights Circle

BL-Insights Circle is a part of PGP-BL (Post Graduate Programme in Business Leadership – IIM Kozhikode’s One Year MBA Programme) which revolves around providing the students in the cohort with an alternative approach to leadership. A leader is not only one who blossoms in a difficult situation but one who trusts the processes, a goal in mind, and focuses on the aim. Apart from this, the BL-Insights circle curates and keeps the batch updated with the industry’s latest happenings and provides a platform for knowledge sharing within the BL community to foster a healthy learning experience.

Current Running Members:

Dheer: Sales enthusiast, Engineer Dabbler Artist, Actor; currently setting Career Goals in a Pandemic at IIM-K’s PGPBL Batch of 2022.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheermd/

https://www.instagram.com/dheermd/

Akshat: A Computer Engineer turned Software Engineer and a storyteller gathering perspectives to make sense of the complex world.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatb02/

Insights Circle Podcast series:

The podcast series aims to redefine and rethink leadership at its core to answer what makes a leader? How can one learn leadership and, most importantly tries to instigate a transition from leadership as a trait to that of skill?

Timestamp:

1:30 Why Mountaineering

5:20 What clicked? Identifying the call

10:30 Finding your Everest

22:15 Motivation - How to stay motivated in challenging environment

24:00 Overcoming self doubts

29:45 Decision Making

37:45 Effective teams parallels in mountaineering and corporate world

46:05 What drives Kuntal to support the social causes of Dementia & Veganism.

51:33 Giving back to society