Society & Culture
Behavioral insights and decision-making are not just academic ideas. They shape how leaders think, how boardrooms function, how power influences judgment, and how people make some of the most important choices in business and life.
In this episode of The Aditi Govitrikar Show, Sutapa Banerjee breaks down the hidden biases behind decision-making, from conformity bias and herding instinct to gut feeling, delayed intuition, adversarial collaboration and the need to create space for dissent in leadership rooms.
Drawing from her journey in wealth management, finance, corporate leadership and reinvention, Sutapa explains why smart people can still make poor decisions, why diversity of thought matters in business, and how leaders can build better guardrails before making high-stakes choices.
The conversation also explores identity beyond titles, stepping away from the corporate treadmill, the meaning of “enough”, gender bias in finance, women in boardrooms, validation, ambition and what it really takes to live and lead on your own terms.
In this episode, we discuss:
Why the brain is wired to conform
How cognitive biases affect business decisions
Why gut feeling can be misleading
What delayed intuition means
How leaders can make better high-stakes decisions
Why women are still underestimated in finance and boardrooms
How identity changes when titles disappear
Watch till the end to understand how behaviour, bias, power and identity shape the way people think, lead and make decisions.