Dr. Reji Kurien Thomas, Group Technology Officer, Virenxia is making significant changes in life of many globally through his strong technology vision, strategic thinking and innovations that are life changing.
WCRCLEADERS in conversation with Dr. Reji Kurien Thomas, Group Technology Officer, Virenxia
What makes a strong leader? What are your key leadership strengths are make the strongest attributes of success.
Leaders focus on developing others, encourage strategic thinking, innovation and action, are ethical and civic minded, practice effective cross cultural communication, and be self-aware enough to understand ones’ strengths and flaws, and be able build an authentic leadership style.
With a military background, entering the corporate area was a big change. But small tenets picked up along the way in life helped shape the organisations Technopilot and VIRENXIA to where they are now.
An accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career? What challenges did you face to reach to the success.
Our biggest challenge has been to practice our mission & vision plan in synergy with the existing infrastructure in the world. We have had to make adjustments to fit our frontier technology to dovetail with the existing scenario.
We are planning to bring more people towards exploring our quantum based mechanisms. We are helping world society and our ultimate aim is to make them have a happy and prosperous life.
What is a role of leader in these challenging times.
Demonstrate transparency, Practice empathy and empowering people, Be adaptable and open to change, Be able to solve the variety of social, economic, environmental and technological problems affecting businesses very creatively, Inspire and motivate.
What is your vision and how do you share that with your shareholders, employees and others?
By believing in the proposition that “Winners never quit and quitters never win. The best way to predict the future is to create it. See life almost like one long University education that you never had — everyday you will learn something new”
Going in with a long-term commitment and engaging the entire workforce and leading by example. Individual change feeds into organisational change which feeds into societal change. Societal change influences organisations and individuals; organisational change in turn influences individuals and society. At the societal level empowerment is a macro process, at the organisational level it is a micro process, and at the individual level it is a personal process.
A truly smart society brings together individuals who share goals, challenges, and opportunities, and enables them to be part of the development and the governance of their cities. This has been the endeavour of our teams.
How do you drive active business renovations and how does that impact your subordinates?
I believe that leading a good institution is as much about personal growth as it is about growing the business. It is the journey towards leading others and getting a global overview of trends, innovation, and future business scenarios.
There are good Companies with well defined processes & systems and then there are great Companies with extraordinary, motivated people, who go the extra mile to provide excellent service and who are also exceptional leaders. While with Technopilot, people were trained to harness spiritual energy towards creating business excellence at the workplace. We plant the seed into the clients’ business that exceptional leaders are manufacturers of success. Collaboration, receptivity, empathy, intuition, resilience, & sensory awareness are essentials that constitute the backbone of my leadership principle. Have always insisted that it is important for a Company to be a family, so that people feel as if they’re part of the Company & the Company is like a family to them. We at VIRENXIA believe in opening two way communication channels to garner ideologies, towards promoting its services using niche technology mediums in vogue today
How do you integrate corporate philanthropy or corporate social responsibility as a part of your business strategies?
Our biggest challenge has been to practice our Mission & Vision Plan in synergy with the existing infrastructure in the world. We have had to make adjustments to fit our frontier technology to dovetail with the existing scenario. We are planning to bring more people towards exploring our quantum based mechanisms. We are helping world society and our ultimate aim is to make them have a happy and prosperous life.
There is no shortage of self-serving philanthropic initiatives that lend themselves to photo opportunities without effecting real change. But the new paradigm encourages corporations to play a leadership role in social problem solving by funding long-term initiatives, like reforms and awareness programs, that incorporate the best thinking of governments and nonprofit institutions.
Technopilots’ Mission & Vision is built on integrating CSR with the business strategies.
VISION — “to strive to impact a worldwide integration of frontier Technology, Security of communication resources, the right coaching and holistic healing for all businesses”
MISSION — “ to provide niche technology to organisations and leverage that towards improved security and probability, with support to bring about a shift in consciousness, resulting in health and well-being”
VIRENXIA is committed to be the Worlds’ first for–profit Socio Economic Empowerment Company, and have taken stellar steps towards this at the Global level, always in synergy with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
What has been your driving force or philosophy in life?
For entrepreneurs to truly be successful, we must identify our end goals, and pursue them without restraint. The most successful and happy people I’ve met built companies that lit them up, not companies that just made them money. They understand the difference between end and means goals.
We are the only conscious life forms that we know of in this universe. We have been gifted self awareness by evolution to explore this existence, so we should be doing everything in our power to understand this beautiful universe we live in.
As an entrepreneur, it’s vitally important that you have a firm knowledge of what drives you, what really motivates you to succeed. It’s like a blueprint to your soul. When you focus on keeping your end goals in mind, rather than means goals, you’ll discover its power in helping you be unstoppable in reaching your dreams. I learned that a successful venture requires 100% attention, focus, and effort. Secondary ventures need a full-time manager or else they’ll just distract you and derail your existing efforts if you aren’t careful.
I learned that having enough money is important, but more money will never motivate me if I lack passion or belief in a company’s larger vision. Taking a look at the failures and tough times of others is one of the best ways to get over your own shortcomings . It’s important to see that failure is a part of the process, and that to be successful you absolutely must learn to make it a tool as opposed to roadblock. Failure hurts, and that may never change, but it’s how you learn to get better
How do you plan to drive your business at a global level?
The Company I founded TechnoPilot® is developing the security systems of the future, embedded with multi layered Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Nano-technology dovetailed with Laws of Quantum physics and using esoteric laws, which are not much in vogue in the present time. An economical Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication algorithmic rule appropriate for Wireless Network , Cryptography for Wireless sensing element Networks & use of Scalar Energy implement immoderate secure networked system as well their operators, are also being developed at our R&D labs. These make TechnoPilot® a niche operator in the global arena to herald a strong economy.
At VIRENXIA our solutions in Common Community Infrastructure (CI) and Digital Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture (CSSA) creating Rural Empowerment, is what drives the Company to be the Worlds first for–profit Socio Economic Empowerment Company.
How do you define success and how do you measure up to your own definition?
My definition of success is independent of the requirements put on me. I know have succeeded when have accomplished self goals thoroughly, even if that means doing more than is asked. Have always tried to implement this philosophy, but can always improve. Have always welcomed review, so that can become better and even better.
In your opinion what is the most significant aspect of leadership?
Have always believed in focusing on strengths, rather than weaknesses. Our team is made up of different people — people who have varying capabilities and shortcomings. However, as the leader, we should make every effort to base our conversations on our team members’ strengths, and not their weaknesses. Not only will this make conversations more beneficial and demonstrate that you have a high opinion of our employees, but it can also serve to make our team that much more productive.
Your perception of an empowered society. How far your industry has/can contribute for the same?
Individual change feeds into organisational change which feeds into societal change. Societal change influences organisations and individuals; organisational change in turn influences individuals and society. At the societal level empowerment is a macro process, at the organisational level it is a micro process, and at the individual level it is a personal process.
A truly smart society brings together individuals who share goals, challenges, and opportunities, and enables them to be part of the development and the governance of their cities. This has been the endeavour of our Teams
Esprit de corps: How do bring fairness and equality to all?
We have changed the rules at our workplace to promote fairness, created very transparent promotion procedures with 360 degree feedback, have an appeal procedure in place and always maintain an effective communication procedure with all employees.
