Our Team

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Ganesh Chella

Dr. Anand Kasturi

M Hariharan

Sudha Cannan

Ganesh Anantharaman

Suresh Srinivasan

Sangeetha Santosh

Abirami Kanmani P

Archana E Madhavan

Suganthi. V

Chithra V

Sabarish Gnanaraj P

Elakiya N Waran

Minu Ramachandra

Anne Davies

Ganesh Chella

Ganesh is the Co-founder & Chief Solution Architect.

In this role, he works closely with clients in shaping our Leadership development solutions to deliver sustainable results. He also works with the team of Program Directors and the entire coach community to enhance CFI’s leader development and coaching expertise to retain our cutting edge.
 
He is also a Master Facilitator in all the programs in our Graduate School of Coaching. This includes the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Executive Coaching as well as our Leader as Coach programs designed and delivered to bring about cultural transformation within organisations.

Dr. Anand Kasturi

Anand Kasturi is Program Director, Top Talent Development.

In this role, he leads our in-company top talent development programs.

M Hariharan

Program Director, CFI’s Graduate School of Coaching

In this role, he designs, facilitates, and oversees all programs to create coaches and mentors. This includes the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Executive Coaching and our Leader as Coach programs designed and delivered to bring about organizational cultural transformation.

Sudha Cannan

Sudha Cannan is Program Director, SheLeads

In this role, she designs, facilitates, and oversees SheLeads, CFI’s flagship, and pioneering coaching-based women leader development program.

Sudha is also a Master Facilitator in all our Graduate School of Coaching programs. This includes the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Executive Coaching and our Leader as Coach programs designed and delivered to bring about organizational cultural transformation.

Ganesh Anantharaman

Ganesh Anantharaman is Program Director, CFI’s Advanced Team Coaching program.

In this role he designs, facilitates and oversees our program to create Team Coaches through our Advanced Team Coaching program.

Suresh Srinivasan

Suresh is Chief Executive Officer, of CFI.

A critical part of his role as CEO is to build and strengthen the CFI community of coaches.

He also helps sharpen our Leader Development expertise and works closely with clients in shaping all our Leadership development solutions.

Sangeetha Santosh

Sangeetha is the Sr. Program Manager,  CFI’s Graduate School of Coaching.

In this role, she has end-to-end responsibility (from enrolment to certification) for all CFI public programs and in-company programs and ensuring they are delivered to exacting standards and the satisfaction of clients and participants. He role also requires her to work closely with our Program Directors, Facilitators, Supervisors and participants across multiple programs.

Abirami Kanmani P

Abirami is Assistant Director, of Leadership Development Solutions.

In her role, Abirami works closely with our clients, coaches, and expertise champions to understand specific client needs and craft and execute a range of solutions ranging from one-on-one executive coaching to large-scale in-house leader development programs. An important part of this role is to understand the specific needs of our clients and match them with the unique strengths of each member of our coach community.

Archana E Madhavan

Archana Edward Madhavan Is the Director, of CFI’s Research and Insights Cell.

In this role, she is responsible for driving our action-research efforts to constantly learn from our client engagements and improve our practices. She is also responsible for creating, curating, and publishing tools, guides, and other models and methods to bring the cutting edge to all our practices.

Suganthi. V

Suganthi is Manager, Finance.

In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of finance, accounting, compliance, and audit.

Suganthi’s primary role is to ensure that our coaches and clients find it easy to do business with us.

Chithra V

Chitra is Assistant Manager – Programs and supports all operational aspects of our leadership development programs and projects.

She is also the champion of our proprietary online platform that our coaches use to manage the workflow of our coaching engagements.

Chitra also manages our customer relationship management platform and serves as a motivated team player supporting our coaches and our team.

She has completed her Master’s in business administration in HR and has more than 10 years of experience in various industries such as Banking, IT and Education. She worked with organisations like Standard Chartered, NIIT, HTC and Space India, and handled Client Relation & Operations roles.

She has also done her Diploma in Medical record Management and was also a Classical dancer and is an avid music lover and singer and passionate about cooking as well.

Sabarish Gnanaraj P

Sabarish is actively involved in Digital Marketing, where he takes charge of our company’s website management, content integration, and the creation of brochures showcasing CFI’s programs and products.

He closely collaborates with external agencies to strategize and implement promotional campaigns. His role holds particular importance in overseeing the administration of our social media platforms, promptly addressing customer inquiries, and driving lead-generation efforts.

Elakiya N Waran

Elakiya is responsible for facilitating and managing projects from inception to completion, ensuring their timely execution.

Her role also involves administering surveys, assessments, and generating reports. A significant aspect of her role is sharing program status and reports with clients to ensure project quality.

Additionally, she plays a key role in the CRMS system for project management and the smooth execution of billing cycles, including invoicing clients and coaches.

Minu Ramachandra

In this role, she is responsible for all the Program Activities.

This includes the flagship Post Graduate Programme in Executive Coaching and our Leader as Coach programs designed and delivered to bring about organizational cultural transformation.

Her role also requires her to work closely with our program Directors, Facilitators, Supervisors and participants across the program.

Anne Davies

Anne, in her role as CBO, plays a crucial role in maintaining strong connections with clients and ensuring that the organization provides solutions that benefit both individuals and businesses.

Her responsibilities encompass defining and implementing new offerings that are consistent with and advance CFI’s reputation as a distinguished coaching and leadership institution.

She is also responsible for promoting a sense of community, peer learning, growth and support within the extensive CFI Coach Community.

CFI Chapter Leaders

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Hari Prakash

Madhavan Srinivasan

Ravi Pisharody

Girish Mehta

A Krishna

Srikrishnan

M L Chakraborty

Shubha Murthi

Hari Prakash

Hari Prakash is a senior Management Professional, with about 38 years experience of in leading business operations in Oil & Lubricants, Petrochemicals, and Industrial component manufacturing.
Worked in India, China, and Singapore as Sales Director – Asia Pacific countries with Castrol / British Petroleum. He retired as the CEO of GP Petroleums Ltd.
Currently, he is an Executive Coach and a  Management Consultant for M&A, Strategy, and Transformation.
Hari Prakash is a B.Tech. from Anna University

Madhavan Srinivasan

Madhavan Srinivasan is a technocrat turned serial entrepreneur with more than 3 decades of IT and Telecom industry experience. He has played crucial leadership roles in a range of functions from Product Management, Sales, and Marketing to Technology management, both as a professional as well as an entrepreneur.
He created NetLabs, Serviont, and GQuotient as a promoter in 1995, after a successful professional career with DCMDP, TVSE, and DEC (India).
He holds Master’s degrees in Engineering, Management, and degrees in Marketing from premier institutions in India and Finance (CIMA, UK).

Ravi Pisharody

Ravi Pisharody has over four decades of corporate experience including executive leadership positions across diverse industries in organisations like Philips, Castrol and Tata Motors in India and abroad.

His core expertise is in Corporate Strategy, Sales and Marketing , People skills and Business Leadership .

He is a CFI Coach and for the last 3 years, has been coaching senior leaders across industries like manufacturing, Automotive OEMs, Automotive components, Farm Equipment, Oil and Gas, BPO, ITES, Steel.

He also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Boards of 4 companies.

Pisharody is an alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur and IIM, Kolkata.

Girish Mehta

Girish Mehta brings over 30 years of rich corporate experience across service industries conceptualizing, building, consolidating and growing businesses profitably leading teams comprising of highly skilled personnel.

His most recent executive leadership stints include Director, Clinical Diagnostics – Eurofins India, CEO India and Asia of MedGenome and Group CEO – Oncquest Laboratories and Diwanchand Agarwal Diagnostic.

Girish brings to coaching a unique combination of best in class, academic credentials and corporate experience and a passion to help people.
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Girish is an alumnus of IIT, Mumbai and IIM, Kolkata.

A Krishna

A Krishna has nearly four decades of multi-disciplinary professional work experience in Manufacturing and Engineering Technology sectors, including experience abroad in Europe.

A Finance and Accounting professional by qualification, his experience encompasses leadership roles in manufacturing, HR & IR and as Board Member and CFO.

He is currently deeply engaged in the ‘for-impact’ NGO sector in the area of education of underprivileged children, supporting start-ups, coaching and consulting.

Srikrishnan

Srikrishnan has an extensive track record of leading Hi-tech businesses and Software services, with a unique blend of experience from premium research organisations, MNC and startups.

His career spanned Mobility, Aerospace, Healthcare and manufacturing industries and has worked in Europe and USA in leadership positions.

Since 2021 Sri is a Leadership coach, Digital Innovation Consultant, Start-up mentor and keynote speaker.

He has completed a Global Leadership program from European School of Management and Technology, Berlin and BE (Electronics & Communication) from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

M L Chakraborty

M L Chakraborty has played leadership roles in Human Resources across diverse organisations for well over 30 years spanning strategic, developmental and operations aspects including Leadership Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development, Employee Engagement and Industrial Relations.

In his last assignment he served Dalmia Bharat Limited as Dy Executive Director-HR and Head- Learning & Development function.

He is a certified CEO coach, an MBTI practitioner, an HRD Auditor and certified in PPA(DISC analysis) , Emotional Intelligence & GIA/TST. He is also a six -sigma green belt.

Currently he works with various organisations as a Leadership Coach as well as an HR expert. He also helps business families on their governance practices.

Shubha Murthi

Shubha Murthi’s career spanning over three decades in the social sector brought her to many different countries across four continents.

Shubha most recently played a leadership role with SOS Children’s Villages International.

Her learnings have come from working in multi-cultural environments, differing social, political and religious environments.

Shubha Murthi has completed Executive MBA programmes – Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Governance programme from Harvard Kennedy School, and EQI 2.0 certification.