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Bindi Basan – Episode 9
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What happens when your cultural heritage comes from one country, but your upbringing and worldview are shaped by another, and then you return to that ancestral culture as an expat?
In this episode, Sabiya welcomes Bindi Basan, a British-born transformation leader with Punjabi roots, whose global career has taken her from Yorkshire to Mumbai, Dubai, Singapore, and beyond.
Together, they explore the subtle and surprising layers of of identity, leadership, cultural nuance, and unconscious learning.
Key themes explored in this part:
- Navigating leadership as a Third Culture Kid
- What it’s like to be an expat in the country your grandparents called “home”
- Holding onto inherited culture while the homeland evolves
- Language, identity, and the subconscious cultural code-switching
- Hidden blind spots of global leaders and cross-cultural teams
- How intuition and lived experience shape cultural sensitivity
- The reality of being misidentified, and misunderstood, across geographies
- Social etiquette from Japan, to India, and the power of adaptation
- When intuition meets experience: sensing unspoken tensions in diverse teams
Subscribe for Part 2, where we dive deeper into leading with authenticity, resilience, and creative expression.
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SEASON 2 – EPISODE 9 – BINDI BASAN – PART 2
When you build a team across continents, how do you turn multiple worldviews into business results, not chaos?
In this episode, Bindi Basan shares how she created multicultural teams that didn’t just show up, but stood out. We also dive into how she uses her fitness and dance practices as leadership tools; consistency, resilience, focus and how those bleed into work when it matters most.
🔑 Keypoints Explored in Part 2:
Hiring people who don’t think like you — deliberately challenging your blind spots.
Empowering team members from diverse backgrounds and letting their ideas influence the product and business strategy.
The importance of creating environments where employees thrive. Even top performers won’t give their best if space to grow is missing.
Cultural overlaps: When Punjabi values and Egyptian hospitality “meet” in an office — how much more alike we are beneath the surface.
How fitness taught Bindi the power of consistency, handling pressure, and staying focused when the noise is loud.
The role of dance (learning choreography, performing) in building cognitive agility, teamwork, and performance under stress.
The specific example: the Egyptian colleague in Dubai who insisted to host a lunch, as a gesture of respect — and what moments like that reveal about values.
Why leaders should look beyond just experience and technical prowess — what people do in life outside their career can reveal leadership potential.
🎧 Watch or listen to the full episode on Rooted & Routed Podcast available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple & more.
💬 If you’ve ever led (or been part of) a multicultural team, we’d love to hear:
What is one practice that your team adopted that made cultural collaboration smoother?
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