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Leaders today and tomorrow

Professor, Honorary Doctor of Art, Olga Mroz, Dame of Honour is Professor and Director at Open World and Art Business Program in Al-Khalifa Business School (UK), the Editor and Chief of AKBS Journal. Professor Olga Mroz is Board Member delegate of Art and Culture of the Private Council of H.H. Prince Mahmoud Salah Al Din Assaf. She is a VIP member of the Ritossa Global Family Office Investment Summits. She is a Gold Ambassador of Books for Peace and Global Ambassador CEC – Commonwealth Entrepreneurs Club, UK. She lives in Germany, is a speaker, author, collector, and artist. Her paintings are in private collections around the world.

Based on the recommendation of the board of trustees and the governing council of the Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI) she is an honorary member in the Board Advisors of the Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry (AACCI).

Professor Olga Mroz is co-author in the international project – Book “Tough Roads Create Tough People” under the leadership of Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw, UK. She is officially the #1 international Best-Selling Co-Author “of Cracking the Rich Code”. Main authors of this unique project – World`s Top 20 success strategist Jim Britt, Star of the HIT TV Show Shark Tank Kevin Harrington, endorsed by Tony Robbins, USA.

She used to be a representative of many artists in Europe for many years, and she is dedicated to developing and managing various art projects now.

She has been part of many charitable activities and has greatly contributed to helping those in need. She wrote many articles about the expression of art as freedom, experiment and surprise. She pays a lot of attention to topics that are exciting to her this includes “Education” and “Women empowerment.” She has been awarded by the IME in the Women’s Empowerment category – for her helping women entrepreneurs have a social impact around the world.

Professor Olga Mroz has been awarded for outstanding vision, dedication, and success along with extraordinary leadership and advisory skills, excellent cooperation, and support to Global Family and the Royal office. She is certified for activities and participation in Covid-19-Program by Harvard Medical School. Professor Olga Mroz is recognized among 50 outstanding women from around the world in “Powerhouse Global Stars 2021” and the CIO TIMES Magazine recognized her as “THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS WOMEN TO WATCH 2021.

Professor Olga Mroz received the Award “GLOBAL IMPACT LEADER of the Year 2022” and recognised by Powerhouse Global as a difference maker in the world.

Al-Khalifa Business School, where Professor Olga Mroz works, is focused on digital learning with a new approach, with Innovation in business learning in different areas of Business.

Professor Olga Mroz was glad to share her experience with Tycoon Success Magazine.

It has always been important for me to do what I like, to reveal my talent, to feel my potential. My moto in life is „If you love what you do, you will be successful”. I clearly know that I want to contribute to improve people’s lives, make the world more open, bring art, knowledge and culture to the younger generation.

As a director of Open World Program in Al-Khalifa Business School, I work under the supervision of AKBS Chairman and Founder H.E. Professor Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Nunez. H.E. Professor Sir Manuel is a lawyer and journalist with an MBA and more than 300 courses and specialisations in different areas from IVY league and Elite Business Schools.

During the acute situation of the Pandemic, we have developed together a new project “Art and positive emotions – key success” aimed at improving the work of the team and the working atmosphere in companies.

A new method that we have proposed for companies is Art Therapy in the Workplace. It made it possible to solve important topics creatively – to bring employees together, improve the climatic atmosphere, remove internal conflicts, awaken concentration and imagination. All these factors have helped to raise the productivity level and efficiency of firms. However, a radical change was required in the management of firms and, above all, the leaders themselves.

Now the economy is growing again and organizations are looking for new market leaders that meet modern requirements. The Leader of the future must rely on teamwork and the positive consequences that flow from it, be highly motivated and possess emotional intelligence.

We need to know that the new generation of leaders will be different. Who are they, leaders of the future? These are young people – talented, successful, with a high potential for professionalism. In close conversations with students and young employees of various companies, I made the following conclusions. A successful leader of the future quickly adapts to changes and learns new things, has the resources to overcome uncertainty and forms a vision for the future. He has the skills to remotely manage teams and knows how to choose a competitive strategy in uncomfortable discussions. The leader of the future is tolerance, flexibility, and trust.

I would like to note that if we want to make changes in the world, we must change ourselves. It is crucially important for the people to make changes in their vision and style of life continuously. We must adapt to the progressive evolution of global informational technologies. This will contribute to a strong and successful economy around the globe. Thus, first, the middle and old generations should be in line with the modern world. Changes in us will positively affect our youth which is our future.

As for me, I am open to all innovations of the world. I am inquisitive, I want to learn a lot of new things. I strive to learn and do not hesitate to ask students for help. I’m working on myself all the time.

I am calling all young people:

Please define your goals, values, and desires, and stay in harmony with yourself. Don’t be afraid of mistakes, failures, and defeats on the road to success. Each of you has the ability to influence the future of our planet. You are the pillars of the globe. You are the Leaders of the future

Protect your pet with the flip of a switch

Our founders, Ken Weilbacher, Co-founder & CEO, and Daryl Lawrence, Co-Founder & CMO are dog-loving energy industry veterans who grew disillusioned with traditional energy companies that take and take. But what do they give?

This was the beginning of a dream of a company that offered more than just electricity. It offered a change, a movement. Which led to the birth of GoodCharlie.

GoodCharlie gives dog lovers the best of both worlds. Through our fixed-rate energy plans and free Pack Benefits, we help you care for your dog while also supporting our rescue partners that are fighting to find less fortunate dogs loving forever homes.

Our Pack Benefits include:

• 24/7 Video Vet – A licensed veterinarian will be there for your pet when they need it most, providing you with hassle-free, ultimate peace of mind, and incredible savings at no cost.

• Up to $750 – Will be paid on your behalf for emergency care, taking the worry and stress away from a life-or-death situation, free of charge.

• Bill Roundup – We round up your bills and donate the proceeds to rescue organizations; together we provide lifesaving treatments for animals that need it most. We will pay for it on your behalf.

Our Pack Benefits give you a true, meaningful value. They have been designed to give you the ultimate peace of mind. They take away the worry and the stress of owning a pet. We cover up to 5 pets and save you thousands of dollars in unexpected vet visits.

Not only that, but when you join our Pack, we round up every bill-at no cost to you and donate the proceeds to non-profit charity organizations such as Houston Pets Alive!, and Dallas Pets Alive! who supports and advocates animal welfare across the state of Texas. “By joining GoodCharlie you are using your energy to do good. To both care for your pets, but also those pets in the community that are homeless, that are in shelters to care for them too,” said Ken Weilbacher, Co-Founder & CEO of GoodCharlie.

“Over a hundred thousand animals are euthanized in shelters across the state of Texas every year and most people are shocked when they hear that. I know we were, and that really was the beginning of GoodCharlie,” said Ken Weilbacher, Co-Founder & CEO of GoodCharlie.

Already this year, GoodCharlie has put its money where its mouth is. As of their official launch date, GoodCharlie has already presented a generous amount to Houston Pets Alive! during Dog Fest, earlier this month.

Making Texas the best place for a dog to live means that we must focus not only on rescue efforts, but also on our community at large. That’s why we partner with local entrepreneurs in the pet world who are just as committed to doing good as we are. One of our partners is Jessie’s Bites- their mission is to help people help their pups live their best lives by handcrafting human-grade dog food and treats. Inspired by Jessie, their dedicated team includes those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as they foster an environment where all abilities are welcome to serve man’s best friend!

“We are completely tied to our mission to make Texas the best place for a dog to live,” said Daryl Lawrence, Co-Founder & CMO of GoodCharlie. “We want to ensure that your pet at home is protected, and that pets without homes can find one too. We use our energy to do just that… to power forever homes.”

GoodCharlie gives dogs, cats, and animal lovers across Texas an easy choice to flip the switch, Join the Pack, and enjoy all the free Benefits that come with any GoodCharlie electricity plan!

The only question left is, will you be making the switch? Join the movement. Join the Pack at www.goodcharlie.com

Tips on starting a technology business in 2022

There’s no doubt about it, starting a technology business will be one of the most difficult challenges that you will ever undertake. The investment emotionally, financially and the amount of time it requires means your life is about to change in a big way. Therefore, before you launch into this challenge, be sure that you have answered the following points:

Solve a problem:

You don’t need to write a single line of code to develop screens and discuss your product and its prospects (with people you don’t know). Who cares if it’s non-functional, you are validating your idea and the solution.

Sure, until your solution is in the hands of customers, you’ll never truly know how they will interact with your product. But if your idea isn’t a problem worth solving prototyping is cheap, fast and will help you through the process of envisaging your solution. You can find thousands of designers on Fiverr.com or if you know someone to help you out even better.

Make sure you validate the whole business, including how you will make money. I recommend checking out “the lean canvas” to help you with your checklist of what you need to validate but here are some headlines: –

What is the problem?
Who has this problem?
Is the problem worth solving?
How will you make money?

Keep in Lean

Don’t sweat the small stuff, until you have a problem worth solving and the shape of a product customers will use, the finer details don’t matter. If it solves a problem people will accept bugs and a lack of nice features. There is no point in polishing something that no one wants to use. Find something that people like then start refining it.

Data doesn’t lie:

Measuring success is a key part of learning whether your product is well received. You need to gain insight into how people are using your product. Do they come back a day, week, or month from now? If they do, well done! Using analytics is fundamental to understanding user behaviour. You should integrate the basics ready for your launch. We love Mixpanel here at ASKWHO . Vanity metrics like downloads are useless, it’s the actions users are taking (or not taking) that are the difference between success and failure.

Books to cherish:

The books below are worth their weight in gold and will save you time and resources.

The Four Step to the Epiphany
Crossing the Chasm
The Art of War
The Art of the Pitch
The Lean Start up
How to Build a Billion-Dollar App
Getting Things Done
The 5am Club
Start with Why
Venture Deals
Startup CEO

Building innovative Fintech products with Crassula

As technologies mature and customer behaviors deepen, the digital disruption today seems permanently rooted. New trends of consumption in the multiple fringes of the fast-evolving banking sector appear, urging us to take bold strides. Faced with digital upheaval, we no longer measure the impact of the transformation but take part in this revolution to become a player in the changes brought about by digital transformations and take advantage of the opportunities it offers to the banking sector.

One of such contributors who strengthens the fintech services industry and helps businesses redefine their growth is an inspiring woman Daria Dubinina. Today she is the CEO and Co-founder of Crassula. But things weren’t like that for her this way all the time. She made her way towards achieving such success in business leadership. And we genuinely believe her story and shared insights will uplift and inspire you.

Brief about Crassula Starting point of building Crassula

Long before trying herself as a dedicated entrepreneur who will once reshape the furniture of finance, Daria began her journey from the lowest position in an international payment system. That’s where she learned about FinTech and got curious to make her own input. Over time, she has mastered the art of strategic management, e-commerce, and international business development. And in 2014, when she met Alex Novozhenov and Vlad Nikolayev, she and her trusted fellows started building their own ventures. It all started with the idea of creating a start-up and turned into one of the most innovative Fintech companies. How amazing is that?

Industry disruption with world-class solutions

Further, Daria mentions that Crassula goes the extra mile to pave the way for creating new services and new collaborations, bringing greater value to the final consumer. Now, the Crassula platform offers three main products:

Core Banking System
Crypto Banking System
PSP

With a high concentration of financial services companies operating in the world, the advancement of fintech through research, technology and innovation it is pretty hard to stand out. Succeeding in an evolving fintech landscape requires surrounding yourself with industry knowledge, innovation and talent. Crassula, therefore, offers world-class solutions that are both affordable and comprehensive. “We seek to improve the ergonomics and customer communication of the users of our services. We strive to connect with individual customers and provide offers based on their requests and market trends.” This way, Crassula stays up-to-date and highly agile.

The best tips for business leadership Shared effort and cohesion

The complementarity in expertise acquired over the years and the same vision of how we see the financial industry being innovated was the most decisive factor. “Together, we created a unique skillset in which everyone played their part bringing the concept to life and giving each other confidence in what we were doing, inspiration for creating something new, and supporting each other during the bad times.”, she says.

In pursuit of growth regardless of challenges

However, like any other start-up, Crassula also faced the defining challenges that virtually affected all new businesses. It’s the speed at which Crassula team members and co-founders were able to meet these challenges and pursue their growth agenda along with the brave decisions that let us persist even in the harshest periods. Daria goes on, “We started focusing on business, staying bootstrapped, and that was the best decision that we could make because it taught us to survive difficult times, do big and beautiful things with very limited resources, and actually earn money.”

Immediate reaction instead of the blame game

When problems arise, organizations tend to seek who to blame. This method does not solve the situation. Quite the contrary, it creates room for fear and suspicion at all levels of the company. It’s human. If a person can’t find the reason why a problem occurred, he or she will shift the responsibility for that problem from himself/herself to someone else, whether it be the crisis, the government, the customers, the colleagues, the bosses, the situation, etc. To explain it further, Daria says, “When something goes wrong, I prefer not to waste time on finding out whose fault it is, but rather fix the problem and analyze how to avoid repeating the situation. This approach helps to reach the highest result, and the result is the most powerful progress mover.”

Opportunity to grow and educate together

Being CEO of Crassula, she cares not only about the company’s growth but also about her employees. Daria states, “We have a unique culture in Crassula – we call it freedom and responsibility. We value in our people prudence, communicability, proactivity, striving for development, creativity, and decisiveness. We embrace these qualities and develop them by providing ongoing education opportunities, helping each other in day-to-day work, always trying something new by developing new products, implementing new solutions, and constantly doing something that we have never done before.” By offering ongoing training to the team members, Crassula allows them to enrich their skills and study the subjects that interest them. By treating people well and fostering their personal growth, you can build a caring company culture and create loyalty.

To sum up

Daria finishes up this interview by pointing out that start-up or large company owners should not dread innovations and experiments. And Crassula is always out there to assist them on this path. “We’re constantly looking forward to new amazing clients, successful projects, and collaborations.”

Crypto company Bob Eco secures a $100 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM)

Hong Kong – The Asian Green Cryptocurrency Bobcoin announced a $100 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets (GEM), the $3.4 billion private alternative investment group focused on emerging markets with offices in Paris, New York, and Nassau (the Bahamas).

Under the agreement, GEM GLOBAL YIELD LLC SCS (LUXEMBOURG) will provide Bob Eco | Bobcoin with a Token Subscription Facility of up to $100 million for a 24-month term. Bobcoin will control the timing and maximum amount of each drawdown under the facility with no minimum obligation.

“With GEM’s investment, we will scale up our cryptocurrency Bobcoin globally and be able to accelerate the roll-out of our revolutionary e-mobility solutions across our current focus markets,” says Bob Eco | Bobcoin CEO Bob Ultee. The fresh money provided by GEM will drive Bob Eco forward in its goal to offer inexpensive and carbon-free transportation through its industry-leading innovative electric motorbikes, e-tuktuks, e-bicycles, and e-scooters. Bob Eco aims to provide economical and carbon-free transportation via its revolutionary products.

About GEM

Global Emerging Markets (“GEM”) has offices in New York, Paris and Nassau Bahamas. It is a $3.4 billion alternative investment group that manages a diverse set of investment vehicles focused on emerging markets and has completed over 570 transactions in 76 countries covering 5 continents. GEM’s investment vehicles provide the group and its investors with a diversified portfolio of asset classes that span the global private investing spectrum. Each investment vehicle has a different degree of operational control, risk-adjusted return and liquidity profile. Our family of funds and investment vehicles provide GEM and its partners with exposure to: Small-Mid Cap Management Buyouts, Private Investments in Public Equities (PIPEs) and select venture investments.

About Bob Eco’s Cryptocurrency Bobcoin

Bobcoin officially launched through an ICO at the beginning of 2022 and has a fully diluted market capitalization of over $1.5 billion and a daily transaction volume that peaks at $20 million

Cold Storage WMS with TMS Connection

All warehouse management systems (WMS) are not created equal, especially for cold storage warehouses. In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment, you need software that addresses real-time warehouse data. Now, pair your WMS with a transport management system (TMS), and you can put all your data in one place.

What is Warehouse Management Software?

Developers created WMS to help companies manage inventory, show effective storage solutions, control labor costs, and include mobile features.

Cold storage facilities have their own set of obstacles in this industry. The immediate need to fulfill orders has many moving parts which can be abruptly halted due to the complexities of management of the warehouse.

Failure to fulfill an order, either due to human error or logistics, can harm the relationships and cause your company issues in the future with customers.

One company, Datex, explains its system as Truly workflow-based. It automates processes for increased accuracy, efficiency, and labor savings & can be used for the handling & storage of any type of goods.

WMS helps cold storage management of goods that are flowing throughout the warehouse with:

Inventory accuracy
Expiration date tracking
Rotation of products
Real-time visibility
Labor efficiency

What is Transport Management System (TMS)

This logistics software was developed to optimize supply chain management. TMS helps optimize fewer road stops, shorter routes, and better strategies for transportation, thus saving your company time and money.

A leader in TMS, Exspeedite, summarizes TMS as a more efficient transactional and communication system, allowing users to use large amounts of real-time data to make better judgments, plan, and strategize for ideal transportation solutions.

TMS helps you manage your logistics and compliance with:

Compliance documentation
Shipping efficiency
Best route options
Transportation efficiency
Timely delivery and pick up

Inventory Management and Control

You need quick, accurate data to ensure that the cold storage items in your inventory are moving efficiently; perishables or date restricted stock are monitored and in a position to be picked first and need rotating.

Cold storage facilities should have a system designed explicitly for temperature-controlled environments, including quality assurance, quality control, and variable weigh indicators. In addition, lot control, traceability, and ease of use should be considered in a WMS.

This should include tracking the product’s location inside the warehouse to the correct shipping and outbound lane to the right truck.

The efficient use of space can help control costs and reduce waste. A WMS can help identify the optimum location for items, saving space, time and labor.

A sound inventory management system helps reduce waste, maximizes space and product placement, and enables your team to operate the warehouse inventory more effectively, thus saving time and money.

Customer Relationships

You want your cold storage warehouse to run efficiently and accurately. Order errors or delays can leave customers dissatisfied and cost you business and money.

Customers satisfied with their orders will equate to more sales. To this end, an efficiently run warehouse needs to be able to follow the load from beginning to end.

A real-time management system is imperative to ensure that the products to fulfill orders are easily accessible and ready to ship with no more overages or scrambling to cover low inventory.

Safety and Security Inside and Out

The audit trail and accountability are always utmost in the mind of warehouse managers, business owners, and financial managers, and for a good reason. With the ever-changing regulations, a WMS system needs to quickly adapt to changes for your operation to run smoothly with logistics and compliance.

Additionally, these changes need to be accomplished by in-house IT or a WMS team accurately and without disruptions to the warehouse flow.

A WMS should be able to track activities inside the warehouse. Most systems have a component, whereas a specific user is attached to each unique transaction in the warehouse, allowing a chain of command and paper trail.

This system can show the need for workforce training and personal accountability, such as theft.

Trends in Cold Storage Business

Unfortunately, many companies in this industry fail to explore more efficient and profitable alternatives. Many remain stuck in familiar yet inefficient systems that may cost them daily revenue and, ultimately, customers.

Real-time visibility, movement, and inventory control are “must-haves” in this ever-changing industry.

Combining WMS with TMS

It’s like having the whole world in your hands.

When WMS and TMS work together, you will have a complete look at inventory as scheduled, en route, and moving in and out of the cold storage warehouse.

With the proper integration, you should have a single source for the movement of your goods. You will be able to view planning, arrival, and, ultimately, the end delivery. This will result in high efficiency and profitability.

Adjustments can be made before a problem arises to run a more competent and profitable business.

Exspeedite TMS can provide problem-solving resources to give your company the freedom to focus on moving ahead toward success. Exspeedite trucking software experts have seen plenty of glitches and frustrations to provide us with the knowledge and foresight to know where the problems are arising. Then, we work through these challenges so operations are free-flowing and creating the success that our clients are working toward.

To Sum It Up

The integration of WMS and TMS offers many advantages for cold storage warehouses management:

Lower costs for both the company and the end consumer
Supply chain process simplification across regions, modes, and carriers
Business process automation for more efficient and accurate billing and documentation
Enhanced visibility and security
Time savings—fewer manual stages have fewer delays and quicker delivery times.
The ability to trace freight on a single platform, both locally and globally.
Improved import and export compliance, resulting in fewer penalties and shipment delays.
Better reporting leads to faster response and process improvement, resulting in new business insights.
Improved customer service and satisfaction thanks to real-time updates and shorter shipping times
The ability to grow the business by meeting and exceeding customer expectations for speedy, on-time deliveries. (Exspeedite)

Many remain stuck in familiar yet inefficient systems that may be costing them daily revenue and, ultimately, customers. Make the best decision for your company with these advantages for a more efficient and profitable business.

– By Beverly Little

How the Logistics Industry is Changing Lives Around the Planet

Logistics in general is a very overlooked and under appreciated industry. Without a properly functioning logistics industry, our supply chain would be inefficient, and we would not get all the goods we rely on for survival.

The cold supply chain is even more sensitive. When shipping perishable goods such as frozen or chilled food, pharmaceuticals or electronics the temperature and humidity within the shipping container need to be held at certain levels and monitored throughout the time the shipment is in transit. If the refrigeration unit within such a shipping container fails for some reason, and as a result the temperature within the container spike up, then by the end of the journey the contents inside the container will spoil or become unusable and destroyed. You may find more here how experienced freight forwarder service providers can help you safely deliver your container.

For decades many shippers of such perishable goods have relied on freight forwarders to process and schedule such shipments for them. Processing such shipments can be a very frustrating, time consuming, unreliable and expensive ordeal; especially when these shipments are international rather than domestic. So, shippers opt to pay freight forwarders to deal with these headaches.

The problem is that the traditional freight forwarding industry is old, outdated and technologically challenged. Freight forwarders are processing shipments today as they have for decades. To process one shipment can take hours, days and sometimes even weeks of constant phone calls, emails and even faxes. Rarely can a traditional freight forwarder provide real time information regarding a shipment’s GPS, temperature or humidity. If there is a problem with a shipment, then the traditional freight forwarders can do no more than simply convey the bad news to the shipper if and when they are notified of an issue. This industry is in dire need of technological advancement and automation.

Enter automated freight forwarders.

As stated earlier, traditional freight forwarders rely on outdated technology such as fax machines for communication with the shippers. Traditional freight forwarders also are reliant on manual labor to process and schedule shipments. This leads to long processing times as well as inefficiencies. In recent years, there has been an influx of startups in the logistics industry. Real time tracking devices, API (Application Program Interface) and blockchain technology are just a few of the innovations that have come to market. These new tools have really helped take the logistics industry out of the dark ages and improve the efficiency and visibility and accountability of all shipments. Putting all these new tools under one roof to provide a much better shipping experience is what automated freight forwarders are doing.

By automating the entire processing and scheduling of an international shipment of perishable goods, the time it takes to process such shipments is reduced to as little as a few seconds. Having systems communicate via API rather than manual labor leads to a dramatic decrease of time and manpower required in the process. Shippers as well as vendors can opt to allocate labor from non-revenue generating positions in logistics to revenue generating positions in business development such as sales and marketing.

When shipping perishable goods overseas, there are many documents that need to accompany such shipments; bills of lading, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved Health Certificates, Certificates of Origin. Many times, these documents are misplaced, lost or damaged. A shipment cannot be released from the port of destination without such documents. If the documents are missing or inaccurate, then the shipment will not be released by the local authorities and this will lead to delays as well as warehousing expenses until the proper documents are presented to the local authorities. The blockchain technology solves these issues. Shippers simply upload the required documents and certificates for anyone on the blockchain to see and use.

As stated earlier, when shipping perishable goods, monitoring of temperature and humidity are extremely important. Tracking devices provide that information now in real time, as well as GPS of the shipment. Now shippers can know if and when there is an issue with a shipment and flag it at the port of destination upon arrival. As a result, the shipper can avoid any inconveniences with their customer.

Transship Corp is the first and only automated freight forwarding platform that is focused on international shipments of full container loads of perishable goods. All the automation that was mentioned above is what Transship has managed to develop and implement. The pandemic has opened many company’s eyes as they evaluate improving efficiencies in their supply chain. As a result, companies such as Tyson Meats, UNFI and Oatly have all approved Transship as a vendor. The automation and digitalization of freight forwarding is here and Transship is leading the way.

Closing Thoughts

Automation of the freight forwarding industry is a natural progression. The business model of the traditional freight forwarders is based on manual labor. It would take a nearly impossible change of course for them to automate entirely. That is where startups are filling the void and revolutionizing how international shipments of perishable goods are processed and scheduled.

Back in the day the horse and buggy got you from one place to another. But how effective and efficient was the horse and buggy. Today people are driving Tesla’s. What happened to the horse and buggy? Their day has clearly passed. Same applies to the traditional and technologically challenged freight forwarders. These dinosaurs’ days have passed. It is time for shippers and vendors alike to enjoy the benefits of automated freight forwarding.

Asokan Ashok – The Professional Journey

Asokan Ashok, CEO of UnfoldLabs has over 30+ years of experience as a technology leader and innovator. Being a technology leader with his business relationships and industry expertise, he has nurtured and influenced many aspirants towards strategic thinking. As a tech leader, Ashok regularly speaks at industry conferences, events, webinars and shares his technology and leadership expertise with the industry. Ashok has great experience in developing innovative and futuristic software solutions, technology platforms and mobile/communication systems. His commitment to and his proficiency in cutting-edge technology has brought him, UnfoldLabs and the organizations that he has been involved a lot of success, growth, and recognition. His efforts in the technology industry & thought leadership have given several upcoming innovators a ray of inspiration to keep going.

Ashok is on the Board of Advisors for multiple technology companies and plays an active role in the growth and development of the companies that he is involved in. His unmatched work in the technical industry and thought leadership has given a lot of upcoming innovators a platform to learn and grow. All his articles and laurels are just a glimpse of his vision, and profound futuristic work in this ever-changing dynamic tech industry. He strongly believes that Tech can help humanity and has been working on tech solutions that can help human beings around the world. He certainly disrupts the usual mindset of the industry as he never resists himself from doing the unthinkable.

Products – Wings to Elevate

Been in the technology industry for long and driving innovation, Ashok has been on the forefront of delivering innovative products. At UnfoldLabs, Ashok has been spear heading a lot of products/solutions that can help humanity with technology. This zeal has driven him to come up with solutions that beats the industry standards – MyFamily (Digital Parenting), SecureME (Android Launcher), DistanceD (Distance Calculator), uFallAlert (Detect Unusual Falls by the elderly or by workers), unfoldQuotes (Inspiring and Motivating your Near & Dear Ones) & many more. There are a few award-winning products with over 500K+ downloads on the mobile app stores.

Ashok has always been in the forefront of innovation, technology and how it can enable human beings for the better. Early in 2019, Ashok ideated and innovated on an amazing platform to protect families from digitisation – usage, tracking & online threats and that laid the foundation for development of “MyFamily” – A Digital Parenting Platform. This is one of the leading products available in the market that can help families stay secure. Another wonderful ideation from the labs is SecureME, an amazing android application that allows businesses to restrict user access to allowed applications on device. DistanceD, a perfect distance calculator that helps you monitor friends/ family/ colleagues/ employees based on their distance was delivered and can help social distancing during this pandemic as well. There are many more outstanding products developed at UnfoldLabs that can help humanity in their daily lives.

Every recognition for the products/ solutions and company has been possible only due to the kind of accomplishments Ashok has received in the past few decades. He has always made sure that his team, peers, and his entire connected ecosystem leverages his technological know-how to their benefits. The products really brought a change in the customers lifestyle thus helping them grow. Technology has been shaping the world, Ashok & UnfoldLabs are creating wonderful solutions to shape and make a dent in the world. The technology industry has seen the impact and has achieved quite a few awards for his vision and execution of technology solutions. The awards have been for leadership, technology innovation and product innovations.

Business, Technology, Growth & Impact

Ashok believes that the technology will have a significant impact on most businesses, as it will shift orders of magnitude in terms of data transmission speed, volume, and connection quality. He strongly envisions that technology can be steered towards helping human lives around the world. During the covid times, technology advancements in vaccines like mDNA has helped the world getting vaccinated. UnfoldLabs built a platform for one of our clients to accomplish vaccinating people at their offices during these trying times.

As a servant leader, Ashok is very involved in the personal development and performance of the team. He strongly believes that everyone has something to offer, and the leader should observe and nurture the team members towards success. His views around leadership and management have clearly helped him build innovative teams that are of high performance and deliver with quality in mind. He encourages work life balance, with trust, empowerment, and a personalized approach to working as a team. He is an avid listener who listens receptively and without judgements and loves to hear multiple viewpoints. His motto about working with teams is to “listen to understand, and then be understood.” He is authentic and very dependable to the teams that he is involved with, as people love working with him to ideate, innovate and deliver quality in products/ideas.

Humanity & Mentorship

Ashok Asokan strongly believes the growth cannot happen in isolation. Growth can happen only when people around us also grow along with us. He is a world class mentor who has guided a lot of technology leaders to deliver innovative products and thrive on areas of technology and humanity. He is known for his ways of handholding and helping his mentees with a keen style of observing and steering them towards growth trajectories based on their interests, motivation, interest, and vision about their lives. He actively seeks to develop and align his ideas, thoughts and experiences to his mentees needs and their sense of purpose which helps them be value driven leaders of the future. He also values this as a social responsibility to thrive and deliver better messages towards his mentees.

Asokan Ashok – The Business Leader

Being a business leader, Ashok Asokan has a motto of “Leaders with integrity live up to their words (i.e., they practice what they preach) and own their faults rather than hiding them, blaming their team, or making excuses”. A true leader never forgets that their actions reflect not only on themselves, but also on the organization’s reputation.” Everyone should blend emotion and logic to make judgments that benefit themselves and those around them. In simple, Be OPEN MINDED, Stay CALM & FOCUSED. Magic Happens!!

Enhancing Product’s Discoverability and End User

Consumer behavior is changing. And so the way they search on Google is changing, too. The new challenge for companies, both large and local businesses, is to create relevant content that addresses consumer needs in a specific way. To be found, then, content must be smart. This means it requires talking about the right topic, in high demand, and optimized to be as visible as possible to the target market – especially on search engine results pages or SERPs.

On their side, for search engines to return the correct results and provide instant answers to users, they need to understand what you’re talking about.

Created the first semantic AI-powered SEO platform that helps businesses produce smart content that is understandable to search engines and relevant to new consumers. It is a new approach to SEO and offers a competitive advantage to all those businesses, big or small, that want to grow by getting more organic traffic and more significant customer engagement.

Using AI and machine learning, WordLift analyzes the content of your website and selects the concepts (entities) that are most relevant to your business. The dynamic infrastructure behind your website allows it to be suitable for search engines and voice assistants and to create well-contextualized and related web pages and articles, turning web pages into connected data and making the user experience more relevant.

For e-commerce sites, WordLift builds a enhancing a product’s discoverability and end-user experience by enriching each piece of content with all product details, including linked data.

With this technology, it is possible to increase organic traffic from search engines and improve the quality of the user experience. WordLift can be integrated with all CMSs, providing APIs and webhooks.

Automation is a massive need for companies investing more and more in it. Whether it’s automating content creation, discovering new search opportunities, or implementing conversational AI, you need a graph-based structure that describes the content you produce. A Knowledge Graph is a critical element of any organization’s AI strategy. It’s not just for Google, Bing, or Amazon anymore. A Knowledge Graph is for any organization that looks at growth strategically.

WordLift’s innovative AI is used on more than 800 websites and actively contributes to the traffic growth of Luxottica Group brands, Enel X, ZoomInfo, and other large Fortune Global 500 companies.

The WordLift team is focused on the continuous research and development of innovative solutions for businesses. It has developed that will be launched shortly. It will help businesses find new search opportunities and create a Knowledge Graph starting from website data.

WordLift closed in January an investment round of 800.000 euros with the venture capital firm Primo Ventures SGR S.p.A., which invested through its Barcamper Ventures and Barcamper Ventures Lazio funds. The objective is to accelerate growth by expanding the customer base both nationally and internationally.

“WordLift is one of those startups that immediately demonstrates a strong international reach, with a product delivering clear value to its customers. The results achieved and the entrepreneurial vision of the founders convinced us to support them in their growth path”.

– Niccolò Sanarico, investment manager of Primo Ventures

Quote by Andrea Volpini CEO of WordLift:

The entry of Primo Ventures marks a stage of maturity for our startup and projects our technology, one of the first AI made in Italy, into a path of the international scale of which we are proud.

Unleash The Power of Neuroscience to Master Your Mind & Business

By Jodi Pliszka, Ph.D. – Neurolicity

Crash! I was in a car accident that would change my life forever. I awakened with gobs of hair on my pillow and each time I took a shower, clumps of hair would clog the drain. I fell into a deep depression and couldn’t believe that all of the hair over my entire body was gone. I was a bald woman living in a society where hair defines a woman’s beauty. How could this be happening to me?

I figured that I had two choices, I could survive and be miserable, or I could learn to thrive and help others along the way. I had an epiphany and soon learned how to take my thoughts off autopilot and rewire my own thinking to achieve any result that I wanted. “If you can’t change your circumstances, learn to change your perspective” became my motto.

We all have wonderful gifts, like fingerprints. When you take the leap of faith to open up and share your vulnerabilities, you can help so many people. Now, I’m showing women entrepreneurs how they can empower their minds and create ground-breaking success in their own businesses.

What happened next? I got married, moved to New York and my daughter, Jess,

was born. A few months after her birth, my ex-husband decided that he didn’t want to be a dad and left us. Instead of panicking, all over again, I used the same process I used to help me get over losing my hair and guess what happened? It worked! I changed my perspective and everything turned out positively for Jess and I. This made me think, “if I could get over losing my hair, my husband, my house (we were homeless for a short time during the divorce) and still have hope, I could apply these principles into the business side of my life.

Success began following me in whatever I decided to do. It seemed almost like “magic.” No matter what I wanted to accomplish, I accomplished it. My check list was growing.

Invent an award-winning product. Check!

Write three award-winning books. Check!

Quit my job at the hospital and create a million-dollar company selling the product I invented. Check!

Win a Top Finalist spot of ABC’S American Inventor TV Show and work with Simon Cowell. Check!

Create Neurolicity, a business for helping women entrepreneurs flourish. Check!

Get featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, ABC, FOX, CBS, NBC news and articles, globally. Check!

Be featured on Lifetime TV’s Health corner as an alopecia advocate. Check!

Win the Enterprising Women of the Year Award. Check!

Create Neuromarketing Simplicity and help women entrepreneurs grow highly profitable businesses. Check!

As you see, my simple neuroscientific system has allowed me to do whatever I want in life and in my business, with almost guaranteed success. But my system also worked to save my life!

Five years ago, I ended up in the hospital for nine days with a 106.1 fever. I had a sinus and throat infection, influenza, pneumonia and strep A seeped into my blood; I was in Septic Shock! I had a rare brain infection and almost died. I began teaching my body how to kill off the infection, one white blood cell at a time. The doctors said my recovery was a miracle, but I let them know that it was actually based in science and my knowledge of understanding how to control my brain and body. I’ve since gone through five throat surgeries, two broken ankles and nothing has stopped me from helping others, because of my proven formula for success.

My daughter, Jess, was a straight A student and graduated Cum Laude, pre-med with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Professional Counseling. Jess is a board certified, licensed Neuropsychotherapist and owner of NeuroJess Women’s Neurocounseling Center. Jess started her own private practice, just one month after graduating and receiving her license. (Which is unheard of.) Within only a few months, she has a full, thriving practice.. Jess is a specialist in working with neurodivergent women, LGBTQ+ individuals and multicultural women. She has been epically successful in her personal and business life by implementing the very same principles that we teach women entrepreneurs, coaches and consultants. Jess is living proof that even though she was raised by a single mom, she didn’t lack for anything and the processes we teach really does work!

Here’s a question for you. “Did you know that you can take the challenges that you’ve endured in your life and turn your own obstacles into opportunities to help others?” All you need is a proven neuroscientific formula that will allow you to tell you story in a way that will attract people to you and get them to stop ignoring your messaging. But how do you do this? You can learn how to activate the psychological triggers in the brain that prevent people from scrolling past your messages. When you stop using outdated ‘benefits marketing’ and start focusing on ‘emotional marketing’ (something every women entrepreneur is great at doing) you can have success almost like “magic,” as well.

Helping others turn their dreams into reality has always been a passion of mine. I love to use neuroscience to prove that if you don’t have a strong mindset, it’s really hard to have a powerful impact on others and nearly impossible to achieve your goals. In order to gain the trust of others it’s crucial to be able to back up your words with actions, and we do just that. We openly show the successes that we have earned, by taking our thoughts off autopilot and rewiring our own thinking, and you can learn to achieve any result that you want to achieve, as well.

You don’t have to be great to start helping people, but you need to start helping people to become great. Here are free trainings for you: neurolicity.com/information1 and neurolicity.com/extraordinary .