What if one of the key things that stops us fulfilling our real potential is not others but ourselves? Instead of looking inwards, to our own talents, strengths, skills, knowledge, we stifle our voice and look at others. Those ‘others’ who tell us they know better than we do, dominate the conversation and decision making. Why do we fear speaking up. What drives us to believing that others are better than we are rather than celebrating who we are and what we have to offer. Time to make a stance. Take hold of our courage and find our own voice, value and shape our own paths for the present and the future. Kelli Thompson is an award-winning executive coach, author and speaker who is on a mission to advance women to the rooms where decisions are made. She has coached and trained thousands of women to trust themselves, lead with more confidence, and create a career they love. She is the founder of the Clarity & Confidence Women's Leadership Program, and a Stevie Award winner for Women in Business—Coach of the Year. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Closing The Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential & Your Paycheck. She holds an MBA, has served as an adjunct management professor, and has more than ten years of senior leadership experience in financial services and technology organizations. Her thought leadership has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, MarketWatch, Quartz @ Work, HuffPost, FastCompany and more 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

We’ve been told our faces are the problem. That beauty is a checklist of features—big eyes, sharp jawlines, smooth skin. But what if the issue isn’t your face at all… it’s the standard you’ve been compared to? "Dr. Sapnna Vaderra is a globally recognized Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon (specialized in Facial Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery) and researcher known for pioneering ethnicity-specific aesthetic protocols. She leads a clinic, an academy, and a non-profit—all centered around one bold belief: that you don’t have to change who you are to feel beautiful. She is the Director of Stellar Aesthetics and co-founder of SIACE, a premier academy that has trained 1000s of doctors from across the Global South — including India, Africa, and the Middle East — in safe, science-backed, and culturally-specific aesthetic medicine. Her pioneering research has redefined how rejuvenation, volume restoration, and facial harmony are approached for ethnic morphotypes, particularly the Asian Indian face. Dr. Vaderra is a bold voice for redefining beauty through the lens of identity. 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

Life may sometimes be full of struggles and difficulties, but challenges come our way to make us tougher. However what we become in life depends on what we make of the opportunities, and hurdles which come our way. We always have choices, and what we become is nothing but what we choose to. "Dr Shalya Raj, CEO Swami Vivekanand Subharti University is a steadfast and tenacious style icon with a compelling charisma about her. Her noteworthy intellectual accomplishments and personal strengths place her a notch above her contemporaries in the field. An Endodontist by profession, Dr Shalya is resolute, altruistic, free-spirited, and has benevolent essence. Her scrupulousness and an eye for detail has seen University achieve many a laurel and never stop short before achieving the best. A thoroughbred nationalist and an influential orator, her forte has been to challenge gender stereotypes while safeguarding women rights by providing them with affordable equal access to education, healthcare, and economic opportunities. 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

สิ่งที่ใครหลายคนมีไว้ติดตัวแต่ไม่ได้นึกถึงคุณค่าของมันอย่าง "บัตรประชาชน" กลับกลายเป็นสิ่งที่สามารถพรากชีวิตของคนบางคนไป เพียงเพราะเขาเหล่านั้นไม่มีโอกาสในการถือบัตรประชาชนเหมือนคนอื่นการต่อสู้บนเส้นทางของความไร้สัญชาติกว่า 23 ปีของ “โอ๋” หญิงสาวที่ไม่มีแม้แต่โอกาสในการใช้ชื่อและนามสกุลตามกฎหมาย บัตรประชาชนที่ทุกคนมองว่าเป็นแค่บัตร 1 ใบ ได้มาอย่างง่ายดาย สำหรับเด็กไร้สัญชาติอย่างโอ๋คือทั้งชีวิตที่เธอต้องต่อสู้กับระบบราชการที่ยุ่งยากและซับซ้อน ต่อสู้เพื่อความหวังที่อยากจะใช้ชีวิตปกติ ชีวิตที่ทุกคนควรได้รับในฐานะมนุษย์คนหนึ่งThis 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 Something that many people possess but do not appreciate its true value—an "identification card," —can result in the deprivation of life for some, simply because they lack the opportunity to have an ID card like others.The struggle on the path of statelessness for over 23 years of "Ao", a young woman who has not even had the chance to legally have a name and surname. While an ID card is often viewed as just a simple document and easily obtained, stateless individual like Ao, it represents her whole life. It is filled with battles against a complex and convoluted bureaucracy and battles for the hope of a normal life—a life that everyone deserves as a human being.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 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

Gli adolescenti odierni sono spesso considerati come superficiali, rapiti dai social media, violentati dalla trap. Loredana Cirillo ci offre uno sguardo diverso, che arriva dall’incontro quotidiano con i ragazzi nella sua pratica di psicoterapeuta dell’adolescenza. L’intervento propone delle ragioni affettive, sociali e culturali che portano i ragazzi a soffrire di un dolore muto e profondo che può diventare lesivo per se stessi o per gli altri. Loredana Cirillo. Psicologa e psicoterapeuta, socia dell’Istituto Minotauro, docente e membro del Comitato Scientifico della Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicoterapia dell’adolescente e del giovane adulto del Minotauro. Docente a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Psicologia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca e cultrice della materia presso la facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Cattolica di Milano. Editorialista per d di Repubblica.Tra le sue pubblicazioni: “AdolescIenza” (2010, con G. Pietropolli Charmet, ed. San Paolo; “L’adolescente. Psicopatologia e psicoterapia evolutiva” (2020, con M. Lancini, T. Scodeggio, T. Zanella, ed. Raffaello Cortina); “Figli di internet” (2022, con M. Lancini, ed. Erickson), “Soffrire di adolescenza. Il dolore muto di una generazione” (2024, Raffaello Cortina). 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