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People often struggle to define me and fit me into a “box” that makes sense to them. Being of mixed heritage has consistently raised one question in every country I have lived or travelled to in almost every imaginable encounter—"What are you?" My immediate thought and response is, “Human.”
It's common to try to identify with someone by fitting them into a box that makes sense based on our value system or perceptions. But these boxes are limited because of perception, biases, misinformation, and other factors that can inhibit our connection as humans.
Hi, my name is Barani.
I’m human and the human in me sees the human in you.
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A few background
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For the last 30 years, I have focused on how our background and environment influence our interactions, thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and beliefs. Throughout my career in marketing and operations, I have been called on to solve more than business needs. I have worked with abused and at-risk children in schools and victims of school shootings, helped to create integrated, diverse campuses through tolerance and education and helped navigate terse negotiations to find "option c,"the option that moves everyone forward.
In 2014, I left the US to help launch a groundbreaking women's health campaign in Nepal, the first-ever national Menstrual Hygiene Day. From this point on, I decided to embody what had always felt true to me: humans are fundamentally good, and anything described as preserving a race, culture, religion, or people at the cost of another human being is not preservation; it's outright destruction.
I have always been amazed and dismayed by how humans tear each other down in the name of something good. To create true human equity in perpetuity, we start by treating the problem at its root, not the symptoms. We re-establish and awaken the indisputable connection we share as humans through positive actions that build momentum and change from the inside. Hello My Name is Human is one easy way to create an immediate seismic shift that will long outlive us all.
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It's simple, irrefutable, positive and serves all of humanity.
WORKSHOPS
I have created and led over 60 workshops on leadership, love, confidence, happiness, community building and diversity.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
I have cultivated awareness and mustual respect of differing cultural norms and values and how they shape societies. Together we push the envelope to bring about much needed change.
MODERATING
Curated and led discussions from small groups to audiences of over 1000 people with leaders in neuroscience, spirituality, religion, film making, politics and National Geographic Explorers.
LEADERSHIP
Intentional, heart centered and decisive leadership through contentious, diverse and shifting circumstances. This has sometimes meant tossing out the playbook and guiding intuitively to serve the collective purpose.
For the love
of humanity
I love co-creating with diversely talented people. From invitations to speak on podcasts, holding bi-weekly gatherings for women worldwide to a popular, weekly morning interactive talk on a panel of speakers covering love, the power of forgiveness, intentional interactions, choice and finding happiness, I have shared many tools and online workshops, which have received tremendous feedback and helped people connect with their lives and the world around them more fully.
Hello My Name is Human offerings will include workshops, talks, and events with highly skilled and like-minded co-creators worldwide. Get in touch with us, and let's explore how we can restore the human in humanity together!
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