Glendale TedX | Ganesh Mandadi | TEDxGlendaleAcademy

Ganesh Mandadi is an author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, farmer and philanthropist. Prior to his entrepreneurship pursuit, he has over 17 years of highly rewarding and successful corporate career in Financial Services and IT domains. To his credit, he has an extensive global working experience in over 10 countries including in India, United States, Thailand, UAE, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and other Middle East countries. His life journey spanned from a difficult childhood, a school dropout in Grade 8 due to prolonged financial distress in his family and he had a complete disconnect from formal education for over 7 years and struggled for basic survival for years, spent his teenage years in full time farming. He reconnected to formal education by pursuing B.Com through distance education, than pursued his regular MBA from Madras University, which was the turning point for his professional career. His school dropout life phase ignited his passion towards learning. Ganesh Mandadi is an author, motivational speaker,
entrepreneur, farmer and philanthropist. Prior to his
entrepreneurship pursuit, he has over 17 years of highly
rewarding and successful corporate career in Financial Services
and IT domains. To his credit, he has an extensive global
working experience in over 10 countries including in India,
United States, Thailand, UAE, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and
other Middle East countries. His life journey spanned from a
difficult childhood, a school dropout in Grade 8 due to
prolonged financial distress in his family and he had a complete
disconnect from formal education for over 7 years and
struggled for basic survival for years, spent his teenage years in
full time farming.

He reconnected to formal education by pursuing B.Com through distance education, than pursued his regular
MBA from Madras University, which was the turning point for his professional career. His school dropout life
phase ignited his passion towards learning. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx