Yash Vasant, Founder and National Director, Corporate Connections India | Nepal | Sri Lanka & Executive Director, BNI
Yash is an entrepreneur, leader, speaker, and guide. He is a growing authority on leadership psychology in the world today and is one of India’s most sought-after speakers.
Podcast
Overview
In this age of hyperconnectivity, the walls are dropping down and the world is getting smaller day by day. The ironic bit is that it is harder than ever to identify true connections among hundreds of people we connect with on a daily basis. Yash Vasant, an entrepreneur, public speaker, and mentor takes us through the process of networking and tells us the secret to successfully connecting with people.
“I wasn’t networking for business, I was networking because I liked the guy.”
Yash is the Founder and National Director of Corporate Connections, an organization that helps entrepreneurs connect through forums and helps them have meaningful conversations and relationships with others who might be going through the same situations in life.
In the interview, Yash talks to us about the randomness of this universe and shares how the best connections are made not when you’re trying hard but when you like the person you are connecting with. He advises people to take 10 minutes out of their day and reach out to someone they haven’t reached out to before and make real connections with them.
“I wasn’t networking for business, I was networking because I liked the guy.”
Being on the top is a lonely job and entrepreneurs often feel lonesome at the top. Yash is filling the gaps in their lives through his organization and helping them build a family. Tune in to this interview and learn more about networking and building relationships.
Profile
Yash is an entrepreneur, leader, speaker, and guide. He is a growing authority on leadership psychology in the world today and is one of India’s most sought-after speakers.
With a degree in Neuroscience and Economics from the University of California Los Angeles, Yash started exploring his different abilities early. He worked as a bar-tender, undercover Loss Prevention Agent with the LAPD, and a teacher of the Sciences in Los Angeles, CA. His life soon drew him towards his passion for business and he moved to Dubai to experience what it was like to work at the very bottom of the corporate ladder. He worked at the B/L counter for a major shipping line and through his lessons learned there, he moved on to start his own business in Freight Forwarding and Logistics in India. Today he owns and operates several other business entities as a part of his portfolio under the Vasant Group Banner.
He has been recognized as an Enterprise Icon in India by the Economic Times, as the Who’s Who of the business world by Unified Brains, and is the Executive Director of the largest region in India for BNI with over 3000 members combined in his regions. He was also awarded the Top Speaker award at a global speakers convention held in Tallinn Estonia in August 2018.
In BNI:
Yash is the Executive Director of seven regions in India, Namely: BNI Ahmedabad West, East, Baroda, Anand, Nadiad, Bharuch, and Ankleshwar.
He is the only person in the world to have consistently had two of his regions rank amongst the top 10 in the BNI world traffic lights.
His region holds the world record for launching 4 chapters in 4 days and having 100 members in the first month of the launch of the region. His regions combined have over 3000 members in under 5 years of their existence, making them some of the fastest-growing regions in the world.
He frequents as a keynote speaker for National Conferences across the globe. Some of his notable keynotes have been at BNI: Poland, Lithuania, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.
He is also the Founder and National Director for Corporate Connections in India.
