Ashish KothariMake flourishing your competitive edge

Are you intentionally building your "experience capital"?

9 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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Ashish Kothari and a speaker break down how to build experience capital intentionally. For individuals: pick one skill like networking, block two hours weekly, and practice it. For leaders: spot sponsorship gaps, assign stretch work, and ask direct reports where they want to grow.

What would those two things be?
For individuals, I would say pick a skill and operationalize how you're going to build it. So if it's networks, put the 2 hours in your calendar a week and you can move it around, but you have to systematically start to build your network and diversify your network. If it's social and emotional skills, how do I practice negotiation or showing empathy or leadership? And then at the leader level, I think there's so much that we can do, right? How do I think about sponsorship gaps on my team in a different way and help the people on my team seek out new opportunities, stretch opportunities to really build their experience capital.
Yeah, start with where you are, start with the people you lead and have the sponsorship conversation. Where are they going? What would be helpful?