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Millig Design Build

I recruited and onboarded new employees and created various communication pieces to increase employee engagement. I created a Human Resources department and established internal communications best practices. I helped plan events and contributed to our marketing communications efforts.

Director of Communications & Employee Relations

Willdan Performance Engineering 

I provided communication strategy, developed content for both internal and external audiences and recruited new employees for our division. 

I created targeted communications to ensure employee engagement. I identified new ways to improve and innovate our internal and external communication practices and channels, including monthly update meetings, a branded Medium.com site, video communications, etc. 

I also recruited, hired, and onboarded new employees. I focused on furthering initiatives around Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, particularly in the hiring, recruiting, and onboarding process.

Communications & Talent Acquisition Manager

I designed presentations to share critical findings with clients, focusing on simplicity and client engagement. I also helped package our data into consumable content such as charts, graphs, etc.

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As the first communications person for the IT Department, I created and oversaw all communication efforts, including communications planning, crisis communications, and copywriting. I developed internal communication strategies and materials to support new launches, programs, and processes. 

I distilled complex, technical information into simple, digestible, and actional messages for diverse internal audiences, including students, faculty, and staff.  I also built relationships with other departments and team members to ensure seamless launches of new technologies and programs.

IT Communications & Media Relations Manager

David Evans and Associates, Inc.

As the first person in my role,  I created and executed a media relations program – including pitching media, writing press releases, ghostwriting bylines, and submitting applications for various awards. I ensured our external messages were consistent with our internal messages and focused my efforts on telling DEA’s brand story. 

I developed media pitches and articles to attract and engage with new talent through employee profiles in publications, company culture articles, and Best Places to Work awards. We were ranked on Fortune’s 100 Best Places to Work during my time in this role. 

I engaged with senior leadership and colleagues on media outreach opportunities and provided media training, including crisis communications guidance. 

I also assisted in various internal communications efforts, including contributions to internal newsletters and employee communication pieces.

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Corporate Communications | Writer | Employee & Internal Communications - Helping companies engage with their employees and clients

In our current remote/hybrid work environment, engaging and communicating with employees has never been more challenging – or essential. Creating an environment for employees to be the best versions of themselves is not only a cultural win – it’s also a business win.

A Gallup "State of the Workplace" report found that when employees are engaged at work, profitability increases by 21%. Yet, this same report shared that 65% of employees aren’t engaged at work.

We spend a lot of time talking “at” people – not necessarily “to” them. My goal isn’t just to communicate a message. My goal is to ensure those messages are delivered and digested by the audience. It’s also my responsibility to provide executive guidance and direction when messages aren’t the right voice and fit for the audience.

With a background in media relations, editorial content creation, internal communications and employee relations, I bring a range of creative skills and experience to any position. Communicating with employees and partners can be a company's greatest strength rather than its biggest weakness.

Karen Nicholas

India's Leading Mind Mapping Coach | Helping Busy Professionals Reclaim Time & Lead with Clarity | 5000+ Trained Globally | 1100+ Learners from 26 Countries on Udemy | Author of 2 Books | Mentor at Topmate

I am Mind Mapping Coach Who Still Believes in Ink-Stained Fingers, Think in Diagrams, Love Handwritten Notes & Live Inside Books.


Hi, 
I’m Dr. Subra Mukherjee—India’s only Tony Buzan Certified Mind Mapping Coach (right now), and the founder of Map Ur Mind (MUM).

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆. 
𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟯—𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹: 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴.

I was a college professor for 11+ years, where I witnessed brilliant students burn out because no one ever taught them how to think.
They didn’t need more effort—they needed more clarity.

So in 2020 went deep into Mind Mapping... and never looked back.

Since then:

🧠 Helped 3,000+ students, entrepreneurs & professionals
📚 Authored 2 bestselling books (and helped 10+ others do the same!)
🎤 Delivered a TEDx talk + 20+ keynotes
💡 Ran workshops for top universities, global companies, and communities
📈 Built systems that helped my clients boost clarity, focus & action by up to 50%—in weeks.

Here’s what I do (and how I can help you):

🔹 Want to write a book but feel stuck? → I’ve helped people go from blank page to published author in 12 weeks

🔹 Drowning in tasks & to-do lists? → I teach you to organize your mind, not just your time

🔹 Need clarity on goals, vision, next steps? → One mind map = hours of therapy + planning

🔹 Overwhelmed mid-career and don’t know what’s next? → I’ve got a system for that too


Inside my community, we don’t just talk productivity—𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗢𝗖𝗣: 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆.

Here’s how to get started:

📺 Subscribe to my YouTube for free trainings & deep dives on Mind Mapping
https://youtu.be/09BA6Sd2uPw?si=Kpy5Xg_40AmXwOnq


🧭 DM me “CLARITY” and I’ll help you build a system that actually works for your brain


💬 Follow me here for posts on mental clarity, visual thinking, focus, productivity and personal growth

Not ready for any of that yet? 
No worries.

Just hang out here. 
I tell stories, share tools, and post content that’ll make you go—
“Why didn’t I learn this earlier?”
(That’s what most of my clients say!)

See you on the feed 💛

📩 Speaking gigs, workshops & collabs: drsubramukherjee@gmail.com

Dr. Subra Mukherjee

This New Year I created something I had never consciously created before.
"A Fallback Plan."
Not for when things go wrong.
But for days when energy runs low and life runs real.


Yes, I did my usual mind mapping and vision mapping —
I always do that between Christmas and New Year.

But this time, I asked a different question:
“What happens on the days I don’t have the energy to show up at my best?”


Because I’m human.
Because I’m a mother.

And because my family and my daughter are part of my life and my success — not distractions from it.

And as an answer to that question I mapped out my Fall Back plan...

Here’s how my fallback plan works:

1️⃣ Identify the drain.
Is it my body? Lack of sleep?
Is my child needing me more today?
Is it something emotional or family-related?

2️⃣ Respond, don’t resist.
If it’s my body → slow walk, nap, music.
If it’s my child → I show up fully.
No forcing. No “powering through.”


3️⃣ Avoid at all costs:
❌ Deep work
❌ Guilt spirals
❌ Comparison
❌ “I should be doing more”


4️⃣ Tiny progress only.
One paragraph.
One page
One mind map review
Save 3 content ideas.
A little LinkedIn engagement.

(Just one or two small actions out of these)

5️⃣ Closure journaling.
I end the day by writing:
“Even today, I showed up.”


And here’s the part that surprised me most:
I mapped this on Jan 2.

On Jan 3, due to an emergency, I needed it.
And it worked.

No guilt.
No self-attack.
No feeling of “I did nothing today.”

Just steadiness.


Maybe 2026 doesn’t need only big goals.
Maybe it also needs gentle systems for hard days.
Especially for those of us building lives, not just careers.
—

Would you ever create a fallback plan for yourself?

Wishing you a fantastic start to the week after the first weekend of the year...
LinkedIn Learning LinkedIn Life

#IntentionalLiving #GentleProductivity #LinkedInCreators
#WorkingMothers #MindMapping #MentalClarity

9 Silent habits we barely notice, but costing us our mental health...
(Have been guilty of No.8 and 9 several times) 


1️⃣ Treating tiredness like a flaw
Instead of information.

2️⃣ Turning every mistake into a lesson, immediately
Some experiences need rest, not meaning.

3️⃣ Forcing clarity when the mind is overwhelmed
Clarity doesn’t respond well to pressure.

4️⃣ Measuring self-worth by daily output
Even on days when life demands presence elsewhere.

5️⃣ Comparing our inner chaos to someone else’s edited calm
A very unfair comparison.

6️⃣ Staying mentally “ON” even when the body is done
Resting physically, but not mentally.

7️⃣ Calling it discipline when it’s actually self-neglect
Especially in the name of consistency.

8️⃣ Never giving ourselves closure for the day
Just carrying unfinished thoughts to bed.

9️⃣ Believing something is wrong with us for having low-energy days
Nothing is. We are human.

______________________

Which one of these quietly shows up in your life?
Or What would you add to the list?!


#MindMapping #EmotionalWellbeing
#MentalClarity #GentleProductivity 
#IntentionalLiving #LifeDesign

We don’t become better Readers or Thinkers by finishing more books.
Because the point of reading is not volume.
It is transformation.


Underline. Question. Capture. Revisit.
Quit the ones that waste your attention.
Stay with the ones that stretch your mind.
Read different Genres!


Reading is not a race. It’s resistance training for the brain.


__________________
📌 If you had to describe your reading identity today, which one fits you?

1/  Finisher (I complete the book no matter what)
2/  Extractor (I hunt for the ideas worth keeping)
3/  Curator (I protect my attention and drop fast)
4/  Synthesizer (I connect ideas into a system I can use)
5/ Not a Reader (I don't have time to read)


Drop it in the comments — I’m genuinely curious.😇
______________________

P.S. One of the things I help my clients with is distilling books into single-page maps that act as a second brain for future reference.
If you’d like to see what that looks like in practice, here are a few examples 👇

𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤-𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 🙏


For a long time, I Tried!
Neatly. Carefully.
As if life and work could exist without touching each other...😃

Only to realize that life doesn’t work in compartments....


My roles don’t compete.
They enhance each other.

The empathy I bring to my work
comes from lived experience.

The clarity I offer others 
is shaped by care, fatigue, responsibility, and love.


𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞
𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Where ambition coexists with presence.
Where success includes the people I come home to.
Where work is human, not separate from it.


This year, 2026... I’m intentionally choosing alignment over division.


Integration or balance — which are you choosing this year?
Would love to know your thoughts on this...


𝐏.𝐒. This photo is from a day I bought myself flowers on the way back home from a meeting. A small reminder that presence, care, and success can coexist -and sometimes, they look as simple as this 🌸


#LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #WomenInLeadership #WorkingMothers #ValuesOverVelocity

There are days I don’t want to “optimize” anything.
I don’t want lessons from my mistakes.
I don’t want to even force clarity.



And on those days, 
I don’t try to fix the mess.


I simply mind map all my thoughts on paper
No structure. No colours. No rules.


Just letting the mind empty itself.

That's it!


Sometimes, the mind map is just a place for me to rest the mind.
And that is enough for the day.

____________________
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲?
𝗜’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.💖


#MindMapping  #GentleProductivity
#IntentionalLiving  #WomenInLeadership 
#EmotionalWellbeing

Decisions improve the moment you stop thinking alone.
Try this 5-minute exercise and see the difference.

👇👇👇
🧠 Write the decision in the center of the page.
🧩 Add 5 voices around it: Mentor, Peer, Junior, Critic, End-user.
✏️ Note one insight from each.


#Leadership isn’t about having the final word.
It’s about connecting the right voices before you decide.


📌Which voice do you usually forget to include? 

#DecisionMaking #MindMapping 
#ThinkingTools #MentalModels

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