Ion-Mircea Ghinda once played piano and guitar but stopped performing for years. He's now drawn back to music for its emotional power, and the conversation explores the thought leaders and intellectual influences that shape his approach to leadership and innovation.
That is quite powerful. I'm now going to show you the song you mentioned, right, by Iggy Pop. In life I've learned often, however I feel, start in the morning, put on a good face. If you are not in a good mood, fool yourself, fool yourself, don't get down, don't let yourself go down. I believe music is a very, very powerful medium. And I think for most of us— now, I am a musician. Are you a musician? Do you play any instrument at all?
Well, I used to play piano and guitar. I haven't played in ages, but I would like to start playing again if I can, because I believe, like you said, music is very powerful. Yeah.
Yes. Because I think everybody remembers important times in your life, where you were and what you were listening to and what songs or music kind of helped you get through it. So One question I'm going to ask now is, who are you following? Who are the thought leaders that you are listening to?
Yeah, very good question. So I'm actually, like we mentioned, Professor LeBlanc, he has a group called Board Experts, so there's very interesting governance information there. I'm following, you know, for example, I mentioned Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, because he's out there in the media a lot and he's talking about AI. So I mean, I could mention tens of people that I follow and it's always, you know, like once I follow people on LinkedIn and then I keep seeing their messages and their advice and if I like something, I repost. There's a gentleman, Hector Parekh, who is in the Canadian government. He posts a lot about AI and he actually built his own AI tool and I am inspired by these examples because
