The leaders we overlook | Punit Kaur | TEDxNorthwesternU

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In this TEDx talk, I reflect on a question that stayed with me for years: Can caregiving and leadership truly coexist? Through my experience as a senior technology product manager and a parent to a child with complex needs, I began to notice something unexpected—many of the leadership skills I rely on at work were developed much earlier, in real-world situations that required navigating ambiguity, aligning across stakeholders, and making decisions without formal authority. These experiences didn’t replace formal training or professional growth, but they shaped how I approach complex problems and collaboration today. This talk is an attempt to broaden how we recognize leadership, by looking not just at titles, but at the underlying skills and responsibilities that define it. Punit Kaur is a product management leader, speaker, and musician who brings a deeply human lens to leadership. A Harvard-trained product manager and mother to a child with special needs, she reframes caregiving n

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