Former PepsiCo Chairman & CEO Indra Nooyi’s book, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and our Future, published by Hachette India, is just out. This conversation is an interview preceding her book launch with Vinay Kamath, Senior Associate Editor, The Hindu BusinessLine. Nooyi is a chemistry graduate of Madras Christian College and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, she went on later to earn another MBA from the Yale school of management in the US. She was the first woman of colour and an immigrant to head a Fortune 50 company. In this interview around her book, Nooyi ruminates about her growing up years in Madras, her family, and the values she inculcated that helped her succeed so phenomenally. She talks about the mentors in her life, her first hesitant steps in the US as a student, the direction she set PepsiCo in, encountering racism, role of women in the workplace, and her advice for business leaders in a post-Covid world.

Interview: Vinay Kamath

Editing: Akshaya Chandrasekaran

Portrait: Dave Puente