Everything is up for Grabs - Faris Aranki

Everything is up for Grabs - Faris Aranki

From Life Beyond The Numbers by Susan Ni Chriodain

April 14, 2026 · 41 min · Episode 223

About this episode

Faris Aranki discusses the factors that hinder team performance and the importance of emotional intelligence in achieving success.

"Everything is up for grabs. The good thing is the world doesn't care." Faris Aranki Faris Aranki and I talk about what it really takes for teams to perform and why the thing standing in the way is rarely strategy or intelligence. Faris talks us through his equation (Success = IQ × EQ × FQ) based on 20 years of watching some brilliant organisations fail to execute on perfectly good ideas. We get into resistance and how it shows up in the kids who walked into his maths classroom certain they couldn't learn and in the boardrooms where groupthink is found. We talk about fixed belief systems and biases. There's a lot of practical wisdom here about listening for what people leak, sharpening language and how his formula for success comes to life in an organisation. And we end on the two-metre radius around each of us and what becomes possible when we simply look after that well. Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consulting, an innovative consulting firm blending strategy and emotional intelligence; we will discuss how Faris went from high school teacher to CEO and all the skills he picked up along the way. Having spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for businesses around…

People in this episode

Host: Susan Ni Chriodain

Guest: Faris Aranki

Topics covered

  • team performance
  • emotional intelligence
  • strategic change
  • engagement
  • belief systems

Keywords

  • team performance
  • emotional intelligence
  • engagement
  • success formula
  • belief systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shiageto Consulting

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