121: The Secret to Transform Organizations into Learning Powerhouses with Ujjwal Kumar, Group President of Teradyne Robotics

The World Class Leaders Show: Mindset Shift, Decision Making, & High-Pressure Leadership Skills For Corporate CEOs & Executives

Andrea interviews Ujjwal Kumar, Group President of Teradyne Robotics, in an insightful conversation about turning organisations into powerful learning machines that drive performance. They discuss how past experiences at companies like General Motors and GE shaped Ujjwal's leadership approach centred on resilience, execution, and staying relentlessly focused on solving bigger problems. Ujjwal shares his vision for accelerated growth at Teradine through customer adoption, strategic investments in startups, and potential acquisitions. He stresses the importance of building a culture that encourages smart risk-taking and frames failures as learning moments rather than personal shortcomings.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Draw talent with diverse perspectives from around the world to solve complex issues that benefit societies
• Transfer learnings across industries to spot patterns and common links between end markets
• Cultivate resilience through open communication and regularly confronting weaknesses or blind spots
• Avoid complacency even in market-leading positions by staying attuned to inevitable disruption
• Focus your career on depth of learning over job titles to build capabilities as an effective CEO
• Lead with humility and executive stamina to calmly connect with all stakeholders

BEST MOMENTS

"Unions want to bring in robotics to improve workers' quality of life by taking repetitive, dirty, dangerous jobs. Robots won't replace humans, but take tasks we shouldn't be doing."

"Failing means you're pushing the envelope to create something big. We have to see it as essential to the learning process."

"Growth comes from operationalising ideas, not just goal setting. Dedicate people, plan change management - that execution discipline scales you up."

"Stay paranoid. The day you think you're on top, you'll take actions avoiding reinventing yourself."

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My name is Andrea Petrone. I'm a Human Performance and Leadership Advisor, Executive Coach and International Speaker. I help leaders and their teams to change their mindsets and master their leadership capabilities so they can achieve extraordinary performance. I've been in the corporate world for more than 20 years working globally - in 6 countries and 3 continents - for medium-large companies.