Anil Sachdev

Founder & CEO of the School Of Inspired Leadership – SOIL.

Anil’s experience in India and across the world covers areas such as talent management, strategic change and
organizational transformation. Recognised as a thought leader in Leadership Development and Organizational
Transformation, Anil has done pioneering work with leading global and local firms.

Anil serves on the Academic Committee of CEDEP, the Leadership Institute at Fontainebleau and is a Trustee of
the Global NGO, Chinmaya Mission.

Dr. Santrupt Misra

Dr. Santrupt Misra is CEO, Carbon Black Business and Director, Group Human Resources of the Aditya Birla Group.

He is a Director on the Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Limited Board, the apex decision making body of the USD 45 billion, Aditya Birla Group.

Santrupt is a Director on the Board of the Aditya Birla Science & Technology Company Ltd., Alexandria Carbon Black Co. SAE., Thai Carbon Black Public Co., Ltd., and The Alexandria Fiber Co., SAE., which are part of the Aditya Birla Group.

With two postgraduate degrees, two doctorates and close to three decades of experience in education, training, consulting, HR and business leadership, Dr. Misra is a shining role model in the field of Business and Human Resources.

R.R. Nair

R.R. Nair has over 3 decades of corporate experience with Unilever. He has served on the Boards of Unilever subsidiary companies in India and abroad. He has more than a decade’s experience as a professional executive coach serving mostly Fortune listed companies. He also serves as master coach and leadership development facilitator for leading Indian conglomerates of great repute. He is a frequent speaker in professional forums.

Nair serves as an Independent Director for a few companies including BASF India. He is on the Advisory Board of Schneider-electric. He is a master coach for programmes on leadership skills for top management at the Indian School of Business.

Nair has Graduate & Post Graduate Degrees and Diplomas in applied Psychology, Industrial Management and Individual & Group Development. He is an Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, India and Stanford & Michigan Universities in their advance management programmes.

Aroon Joshi

Founding Member, Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Sciences & Executive Coach.

Aroon Joshi is deeply committed to personal growth and leadership development, and has championed this at the individual and organization level. He is a founding member of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and has very rich corporate tenure of close to 50 years with Organisations like Metal Box, Cadburys and RPG. He is an accredited coach to many senior executives across diverse industries including Engineering, IT, Plantations and Petroleum.

Bhaskar Bhat

Bhaskar Bhat is a shining example of a leader who combines exemplary business and entrepreneurial capabilities with a strong concern for people and their development.

Before joining the board of Tata Sons, Mr Bhat was the Managing Director of Titan Industries. Having joined Titan Industries with the Tata Watch Project in 1983, he helped Titan became the ‘Changing face of time’ through the establishment of the largest retail chain in its category “The World of Titan”, Tanishq boutiques, Gold Plus stores and Eye Plus stores.

Bhaskar Bhat is also a member of the Governing Council at the T.A.Pai Management Institute, Manipal and the National Institute of Design.

He is a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and has completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Management in IIM Ahmedabad.

He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras in the year 2008.

Dr. B. J. Prashantham

J. Prashantham is a world-renowned psychologist/professor with over 50 years of experience as a trainer and supervisor of Counsellors and Executive Coaches. Having been educated from undergraduate to post-doctoral levels in Counselling at Hyderabad, Chicago, Texas Medical Centre, Houston, and Ohio State University, he is committed to training rigour and competency enhancement and has trained over 100 CEOs in Executive Coaching Skills.

He is a Professor of Counselling Psychology & Director at Institute of Human Relations, Counselling and Psychotherapy, Christian Counselling Centre, Vellore.

He is also President, Association for Psychological Counselling (APC) and was clinical Faculty at University of Washington’s Global Health Department on mental health, disaster mental health and cross-cultural communication.

He is the author of a Best-seller book ‘Indian Case Studies in Therapeutic Counselling and many Journal articles.

Dr Prashantham played a pioneering role in helping establish the curriculum for CFI’s post graduate program in executive coaching and served as senior facilitator for several batches and also served as a role model and source of inspiration for several CFI Coaches.

Dr. Zahid. H. Gangjee

A major part of Zahid Gangjee’s almost 16-year career was with ITC (an associate of BAT Plc., UK) at Calcutta; the last 5 years as Chief of the Manpower Development Group (reporting to the Chairman). This was a profit centre providing HR, OD & Training Consultancy to the divisions and companies of ITC and also externally. He started his own Organization and HR Consultancy in August 1995. His clients include leading multi-national and family-owned corporations in India. He has consulted and conducted / taught at developmental programs for the Private & Public Sectors, Govt., NGO’s etc., in India and abroad.

He has headed the HRD Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta and is a member of the Advisory Panel of the monthly publication “Human Capital”. He has a Masters in Psychology and M.Sc (Applied Psy), Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad.

Nirmala Menon

Nirmala Menon is a HR professional with over thirty years of experience in varied roles across diverse organisations both in India and the United States. As Founder & CEO at Interweave, her contributions in the field of Diversity and Inclusion has been recognised with her being listed among the “Top 50 Diversity Professionals” in the Global Diversity List.

Prior to Interweave, she was the Diversity and Employee Relations leader for IBM, India where she gained wide and specific experience in the area of diversity management. Her stint as part of IBM’s global diversity team provided her international experience embedding IBM’s diversity philosophy and practices across countries in APAC, Ireland, Canada, Mexico and the United States.