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LAVINA THANAPATHY (LT) PGMAG: So good to have you on today’s interview with Lady Anita, Lavina. LT: Thanks for having me. It’s such a pleasure to be here with you. PGMAG: Please introduce yourself to our readers. LT: I’m Lavinia Thanapathy and I’m a professional speaker on Change, Confidence and Gender Equity. My signature keynote is called “Embrace the Crazy” and it is all about maintaining mental wellness even in the craziest of times. Our ability to deal with change is directly related to how successful we are in all aspects of our lives and it’s a skill that isn’t taught anywhere. As part of a diplomatic family, we live and breathe change. I’ve combined this practical knowledge with my 2 decades of service on non-profit boards, and my education as a lawyer to develop a programme that I now teach on dealing successfully with change on a human level. world. LinkedIn’s article section is one of least utilised but most powerful functions on the PGMAG: You were recently named one of platform. I’m grateful to the LinkedIn News team the top voices on LinkedIn. What does this for selecting me as one of their top voices for achievement mean to you? 2020. I think most of this is because of a series of posts and articles that I put out at the start of LT: I’ve been on LinkedIn since 2006. At the the pandemic. My specialty is Change and with time, it was only really used to keep up with coronavirus locking down the world, we were your network as they moved around or for dealing with change on an unprecedented scale. job-seekers. In the last 5 years, it has become I used LinkedIn to share my thoughts of how so much more. LinkedIn is an important way we could maintain our mental wellness through to establish thought-leadership and to connect a period of collective trauma. This was very with like-minded professionals from around the timely and I received so many messages from
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