Barbara is Executive Mandala’s founder and Managing Director, and is a widely acknowledged specialist in the field of human change. She has helped many executives to significantly transform the way they operate in their roles, bringing about higher levels of personal performance and organisational success.

She specialises in leadership development, both at an individual and team leadership level. Her work in this area is based on a broad principle that when technically competent business leaders learn to become personally aware, and strengthen their mental capability, they work more easily within high pressure scenarios, and build stronger relationships with others, based on trust, openness, and mutual connection.

Her career spans 30 years – and during this time, her business experience has been gained both domestically as well as internationally. Until very recently, Barbara headed up the executive coaching business for an international consulting firm across the Asia Pacific region. She was also a member of the global executive group accountable for managing the quality of delivery of coaching worldwide.

In these positions, Barbara was responsible for developing the expertise of a cadre of coaches across a number of cultures in the region, including India, Greater China and Korea. She also personally delivered coaching to senior level executives throughout these regions – and continues to do so.

She is a member of the teaching faculty of Jansen Newman Institute of Psychotherapy, and teaches third year students in organisational structure and behavioural dynamics. She also heads up the Summer School Elective on Coaching Skills for Psychotherapists. Barbara has a Graduate Diploma in Communication Management, from the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) and a Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy, from Jansen Newman Institute of Psychotherapy, Sydney (Australia).

Barbara has worked with companies such as American Express, AT & T, Cisco Systems, Citibank, Clarity International, Dyno Nobel, First Data International, KPMG, Telstra, Pacific Islands Club, Paddy Pallin, PMI, Powerlan, Schering Plough, SMEC, Sun Microsystems, Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces.

Co-Author of the intellectual property of the Global Creativity Corporation, Debra specializes in Spirituality and Business. She co-founded the Global Dharma Center, which focuses on spirituality and human values for leadership & work organizations, including a program on Human Values & Ethics in the Workplace designed for UN Habitat. Prior to moving to India in 2000, she founded Masterful Mission, a business coaching organization working with executives & entrepreneurs to bring out their values and natural talents. Aauthor of Beyond Motivation coaching methodologies 'Business by Design: Mastering Business from the Inside Out' and 'Spiritual Life-Design', Debra used to be a corporate executive managing information technology for an international oil and gas firm, and held Certified Systems Professional and Certified Public Accounting certificates.

Dr. Karl-Erik Sveiby is often described as one of the "founding fathers" of Knowledge Management, having pioneered several of the fundamental concepts. In 1986 he published his first book in Swedish, “Kunskapsföretaget”, which became the source of inspiration for the very early Swedish movement in knowledge management in both research and practice. His book published 1990 (Sw. "Kunskapsledning") was the world´s first with Knowledge Management in the title. He has since published 12 further books and dozens of articles. His website, www.sveiby.com, contains all his articles and most of his 13 books.

Being co-owner and a manager of a publishing company for 15 years, which he was instrumental in developing into Sweden's largest in trade press Ekonomi & Teknik Förlag, he recognised the need to measure the intangible assets, and he went on pioneering reporting practices for intangible assets, testing them in his own company. Today he is professor at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, researcher, developer of tools and methodologies and advisor to corporations and governments worldwide.

With 20 years experience in consulting on R&D management, manufacturing strategy, and business strategy to pharmaceuticals, consumer products companies and chemical industries, Patricia was heading the European R&D practice of Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), an international management consultancy. Her core area of expertise is Organization Transformation.
She was also Director of Product Strategy at Genentech, a leading biotech company, before which she was a consulting assistant professor at Stanford University and a senior consultant at SRI International. She holds a BS in physics from the University of Michigan, an MS in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon, and a PhD in engineering economic systems (with a thesis in decision analysis) from Stanford. She has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the Drug Information Association.

Prasun Chowdhury is one of the founding Directors of Avenir, a consulting firm focused on facilitating organizations achieve exponential growth. With more than 14 years of consulting experience, he has led key engagements with Fortune 100 organizations such as Burlington Resources Europe and Philips International as well as medium sized organizations across the world resulting in high value identification and capture. Over the last five years, Prasun has led and supervised consulting engagements with Indian and International companies that have delivered quantum increase in profits in very short periods of time.

Prasun is a certified Decision Analyst and has consulted and delivered workshops and class room sessions on strategic decision making with academic institutions and companies around the world.

Prasun is also a recognised TOC expert and has been a preferred project leader for the Viable Vision engagements of Goldratt Consulting, led by Dr. Eli Goldratt.

Other than the above, Prasun’s breadth of consulting includes TQM, Six Sigma, Service Quality and Process transformation.

Prasun has presented a number of papers in various international forums thus being actively involved in the furthering the boundaries of management knowledge in the areas of decision making, strategy, and TOC led operations and logistics.

Prasun is an Engineering and Economics alumnus of B.I.T.S, Pilani and a management graduate with distinction from AIM, Manila.

Prasun is also an active Rotarian and is the charter president of RC Vaishali and a Paul Harris Fellow.

As a professor of Economics and Social Sciences in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Ramnath's interests include Business & Society, Economic Reforms in Transition Economies, Spirituality & Self Development, and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Sector, Outsourcing and Creative Thinking and Innovation.

He was Visiting Research Fellow in the Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation) and was Reader in the Center of Eurasian Studies of the University of Bombay. He was also invited by the German Foreign Ministry to do a study on The Indian Response to Perestroika 1985-1990, (supported by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation) which was subsequently published by the Federal Institute of East European Studies in Cologne.

Ramnath was Visiting Professor in the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, the Federal Institute of East European and International Studies in Cologne, McGill University in Canada, The Management School, Lancaster and HEC Montreal. He also holds a Visiting Professorship at Nyenrode University in the Netherlands. He is a Research Associate of the Chair in Ethical Management at HEC Montreal. He is part of a worldwide research initiative on Integral Leadership profiling the lives of one hundred leaders supported by the Chair. After securing a First Class First in Political Science from the University of Pune, he shifted to political economy and area studies. Combining Economics, Political Science and Sociology, he secured his doctorate from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, in Paris.

Ravi introduced Theory of Constraints (TOC) in India and now focuses his efforts on increasing the wealth of his clients through a systematic application of Dr. Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints in Operations Management. He is the first practicing 'Jonah'(TOC Expert) in India and the founder of Goldratt, India and is personally trained by Dr. Goldratt. Ravi regularly disseminates his knowledge at a number of international conferences. He enjoys striving for the impossible by challenging sacred assumptions and complexity.

For over 34 years, Ravi's industrial experience has evolved from a core in Manufacturing Engineering through to Total Quality Management and Business Process Re-engineering to the Theory of Constraints (TOC). Prior to founding Goldratt India, Ravi was Chief Consultant at Eicher Consultancy Services Limited. During his consulting career of over 14 years, Ravi has consulted for and with several global organizations, such as L&T, Godrej & Boyce, Salora International, RPG Cables, ABB, Alstom, Indian Aluminum, Dalmia Cement, ICI, Exide and Eicher. Before starting his consulting career, Ravi gained valuable experience for 21 years in operations in the automobile industry (TELCO & Eicher).

Having spent a decade in research and consulting, and focusing on innovation in the field of management and strategy, Stephanos has worked in healthcare/pharmaceuticals, electronics, software and infrastructure industries. As a member of the Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) Network, he has worked with Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in the development and delivery of BOS Programmes and Seminars for Executive Development.

He co-founded Strategy Regeneration a group that uses the BOS to run 'in company' workshops. He is an MBA from INSEAD, currently working with the Centre for Social Innovation at INSEAD, developing an approach to adapt BOS methodology to issues around Sustainability and challenges at the Base of the Pyramid.

Initiated to Wellness through the International Sivananda Yoga School in Kerala, India, Suzie completed basic and advanced training programs. She continued her studies with several international teachers from different yoga traditions. She has done intensive workshops with international teachers such as her own teacher Mansoor with whom she has been working since 1999 in India and Switzerland (residential 8 day retreats three times a year), with Bob Smith in the USA, Clive Sheridan in the UK and most recently with Aadil Palkivala in the USA.

Basic postures, breathing and relaxation techniques form the core of her teaching of Yoga practice. Also included are techniques leading to meditation. She holds a BSc. Hon. Dietetics from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and a Diploma in Hospital Dietetics from the University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City.

For over 20 years, William has been a recognized expert on values-centered corporate innovation - as head of the Innovation Management program at SRI International and as President of the Global Creativity Corporation and at SOIL, he will be conducting a program on Spirituality and Business. He has been named by Leadership Excellence as among the top 30 leadership consultants worldwide.

Two of his four books have been rated among the top 30 business books of the year in the USA by Executive Book Summaries. A Guest Faculty member at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, he consulted and delivered keynotes in India, China, Japan, Singapore, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Holland, Canada, and the USA. His clients included AT&T, Charles Schwab, Chevron, Disney Institute, DuPont, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Kraft Foods, Levi Strauss, Monsanto, Motorola, Nike, Philips, Pillsbury, Pizza Hut, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and 3M. Throughout his career, William has developed and applied practical innovation tools and processes that show clients how to incorporate values into their innovative work. His innovation methodologies have a proven record of breakthroughs in the field of innovation.

William H. Davidson (Bill) started his career in academia. Before his extra-curricular activities prevailed, he served as a tenured Professor of Management at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, from 1985 to 1998. He was also Research Director for the Harvard Multinational Enterprise Research Project at Harvard Business School. He was acknowledged as the most widely cited academic in the field of international management during the 1985-1995 decade. His book 2020 Vision (with Stan Davis) was selected as the Best Business Book of the year by Fortune Magazine in 1992. He has written seven other books on management, including The Amazing Race. His latest book, Breakthrough, was published by John Wiley Press in 2004. He is currently completing a new book entitled GREAT CHINA, co-authored with Wei Zhong Ding.

Bill was a founding faculty member of the Kokusai Daigaku, a joint US- Japanese international management education university in Japan, and also of the Dalian Institute in Dalian China, the first executive education institute in China, co-sponsored by the US and Chinese governments.

In 1984, Bill founded MESA Inc., a management consulting firm acquired by Deloitte & Touche in 1996. As a national partner at Deloitte, Bill had leadership responsibilities in its management consulting practice during 1996-98. After leaving Deloitte, Bill founded a new company, MESA Development, to focus on global strategy and leadership development. MESA's clients have included over half of the Fortune 100. MESA also conducts the Global Leadership Program for senior executives of a set of leading US, European and Asian corporations.

Bill has served on six public company boards and a number of private company boards. He is non-executive Chairman of Broadcast Technology (NASDAQ:BCST) and Chairman of Castle Arch Real Estate Company.

He earned an AB in economics, an MBA, and a doctorate in business administration, all from Harvard University. He lives in Palos Verdes and Palm Springs, California, is an active surfer, golfer and skier, and he plays on an adult ice hockey team with his oldest son.

A former partner with Mercer Delta, a global organization strategy and change management firm, Francois is a former faculty member at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. The author of ten books including Sharing Knowledge, The Chemistry of Change, and The Customer's Victory, he won the Manpower Award in 1999 for the latter. His latest book Le Fatigue des Elites was published in 2006.

Francois works with multinational corporations to identify organizational barriers to successful change and business growth. The diagnostic process illuminates the organizational context (place) and practice (behavior) that is preventing successful adoption and implementation of business objectives. He has worked with top management teams in Air France, Air Liquide, Bobst (Switzerland), Credit Lyonnais, CGNU (UK), Electrabel (Belgium), France Telecom, Fortis Bank (Belgium), L'Oreal, Monsanto (USA), Renault, Societe Generale and Telecom Italia.

An executive educator at INSEAD Advanced Management rogram and multiple custom programs for organizations around the world, his teaching evaluations at INSEAD place him among the top 10% of all program faculty. He received a BA in History from La Sorbonne in 1969, a BA and MBA in Political Science at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1971 and 1973 respectively). He also graduated from the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in 1974 and the Paris School of Journalism in 1971.

Prior to joining SOIL, Sunita was a Director with GRID Consultants, Mumbai and an independent trainer/consultant in Organisation Behaviour for about 15 years. Most of her work in the organizational and management space includes Human Behaviour and Organisation Development specializations. As a consultant she has provided consulting solutions to brand leaders across India. Some of the names include Motorola, PEPSI, Bajaj Auto, JK group, FAG Bearing, Crompton Greaves, Dabur, C Dot etc. She has been a trainer at many of these corporates and has provided consulting solutions for the complete training cycle including Training needs analysis, Skill inventory and Gap analysis, Design and delivery, Post training evaluation. Her research papers in the area of Talent and Leadership have been published in journals of repute in India (Global Business Review , Sage; MLS, XLRI Journal; Vision, MDI Journal ; NHRD Network Journal etc) and she has been recipient of Best Paper Award on Talent at an HRD association in Bangalore, India.

Before venturing into independent consulting and training she worked at Crompton Greaves for 5 years at the start of her career post MBA. She has a Bachelors degree in Commerce and MMS degree from NMIMS, Bombay University, Ph.D. from MDI, Gurgaon, India. An accredited Grid Trainer, USA and an MBTI user, she has been rank holder throughout. For a decade between 1993-2003, prior to joining MDI for Ph.D, Sunita has taught and trained at various MBA institutes viz Symbiosis (SIBM, SCMHRD, SIMS), ITM Mumbai, IIM Indore and MDI, Gurgaon.

Adwaita Govind Menon has taught Strategic Management and Social Research Methods at the post graduate level at XIMB and has also published several papers for global conferences and journals across disciplines.

Prior to his doctoral education, Adwaita has worked as consultant to the Department of Water Resources, Govt. of India, implementing water user associations for self governance. With an engineering degree in Information Technology and a background in Business Law, Adwaita brings to SOIL his capability and strength in Strategic Management studies.

Kingshuk K. Sinha is the Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation Professor of Management Science and the Director of the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Dr. Sinha's scholarly interests lie at the intersections of management of technology, quality management, operations strategy and supply chain management. He has taught courses covering these topics in the MBA, Executive MBA, International Executive MBA, and Ph.D. Programs. He conducts his research projects in partnership with industries. High-tech, health care/medical, retail, food, energy/oil and gas industries have served as the empirical settings for his research. Dr. Sinha's papers have appeared in top academic journals. The recent recognitions he has received include the 2005 Decision Sciences journal's Best Paper Award and the 2006 IBM Best Paper Award from the Production and Operations Management Society.

Dr. Sinha serves as the Senior Editor of the Production and Operations Management journal and edited the journal's special issue on high-tech industry (Summer 2005). He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences journal and edited the special issue of the journal on decision making in the health sector supply chain (May 2009); and as an Area Editor of Operations Management Research journal that is committed to advancing practice through research.

Dr. Sinha joined the Carlson School of Management in 1991 after receiving a Ph.D. in management and MS degree in engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.Tech degree in petroleum engineering from the Indian School of Mines.

"I am energized and enthused by my visit to SOIL. Together I believe we can make a difference in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and learning" - Kingshuk

A Ph.D from SUNY at Stonybrook in Economics, Dr. Avner is a Professor at the Center for Human Resources and Labour Studies. His research interests are in the area of Organization design and Behavioral Economics. For almost three decades he has held various positions at the Carlson Business School, University of Minnesota. He is also a visiting faculty at Central European University at Budapest. Listed in the Who’s Who in Economics (Edward Elgar, Third Edition, 1999), this distinguished professor has been a speaker at many international conferences and a recipient of many awards and grants for his research and teaching accomplishments. Dr. Avner started his distinguished career with the President’s award for excellence in teaching, even as a graduate student in 1980.

After completing her Masters in History from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi, and a Masters in Science in Continuing Education with emphasis on Special education, from the University of Southern Connecticut, USA, Lushin Dubey taught mentally challenged children for several years in the U.S and India. In 1987, Lushin co-founded KidsWorld, which pioneered youth theatre in India and has staged over 30 productions in English and Hindi. She was also instrumental in setting up United Players Guild in 1995, focused on Shakespeare, whose 1997 production of Othello, with her in the lead role of Desdemona, won the Edinburgh Fringe First. In 2008 she played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth directed by Alyque Padamsee. Her two solos Untitled (on women empowerment) and Bitter Chocolate (on child sexual abuse) , directed by Arvind Gaur, and her recent production Muskaan ( a journey of two people living with HIV) have been staged across cities in India and venues abroad such as the World Bank, Smithsonian, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford (USA), and Nehru Centre (UK). Lushin has acted the lead in several TV serials and films and was awarded the 2008 Gemini Award in Toronto, Canada for her role in the film Murder Unveiled. In 2009 she received two awards from Chief Minister Shiela Dixit: The Senior Journalists' Award for Best Stage Actress - National, and the Radha Raman Foundation Award for Outstanding Commitment to Theatre. She was also recipient of the 2009 Karmaveer Puraskar for socially meaningful theatre by the Indian Confederation of NGOs. She is currently involved in staging, 'Salaam India', directed by her and inspired by the diplomat, Pavan Varma's best seller, 'Being Indian', in cities in India and overseas. This production speaks about the Indian today keeping pace with the globalised world, without shedding its traditions of the past.

Renu Mattoo has taught Organization Behavior to post graduate management students at XLRI, Jamshedpur for nearly 16 years. In addition to her teaching responsibilities she was also faculty head for placement. She is a column contributor on `Business Etiquette’ to India’s premier HR journal, `Human Capital’. After having presented papers at Indian and International seminar, she is currently giving her final touches to her book on Personal Effectiveness. Renu has graduated in English (Hons.) from Delhi University, and a Post Graduate from XLRI, Jamshedpur and her expertise lies in the areas of Global Business Etiquette and Presentation and Communication Skills.

Dr. Gary brings broad experience in executive education, large-scale organization development and the design of high performance program and product teams. He has designed and implemented comprehensive learning architectures for several Fortune 100 companies. Prior to launching his own firm, Dr. Gary was a Partner with New York-based Mercer Delta Consulting, serving clients throughout the world with organization design, business transformation, leadership development and coaching. Prior to joining Mercer Delta, he served as Vice President and Chief Learning Officer of The Home Depot, prior to which he was Chief Learning Officer of Lucent Technologies. He also served as Vice President of Organization Effectiveness for Cisco Systems and as Chief Learning Officer for the joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell where he designed the company's learning system and knowledge management activities, managed an organizational effectiveness consulting practice, and designed the "Leadership Laboratory for Competing in the New Economy." Dr. Gary spent 11 years with the Boeing Company in Seattle, culminating in his appointment as Vice President of Organization and Executive Development. He received his MA and PhD in Organizational Behavior from Yale University and his BS in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

I very much enjoyed the chance to interact with the students at SOIL. The students are bright and ask insightful questions.I liked the classroom that I used for the course and the seating with the round tables was most conducive to creating natural small groups and facilitating a highly interactive and engaging learning process. Both the staff and the students are of high caliber and a real credit to SOIL's efforts." - Dr. Gary Jusela

Dr. Svjetlana Madzar, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic Management and Organization department at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and focuses on High Performance Organizations. She teaches International Management and Management of Groups courses in the MBA and executive MBA programs. She leads the virtual team project in the Global Executive MBA program and also teaches in this program in Warsaw, Poland. Prior to joining CSOM, she was an associate professor at Gustavus Adolphus College. Svjetlana has worked with a variety of multinational corporations on issues related to managing across cultures and has held visiting appointments in MBA and executive programs at European business schools such as HEC (France) and Instituto de Empresa (Spain). She recently taught in Fortune Institute of International Business in Delhi, India. Her research focuses on subordinate information seeking behavior in cross-cultural contexts. She is a recipient of a 2002-2004 National Science Foundation grant which allowed her to study the differences between US, Italian, Spanish, French, and British subordinate information seeking patterns of employees working for a large U.S.-based multinational company. Svjetlana earned her doctoral and master degrees from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Academy of Management and Academy of International Business.

Arun Maira is a thought leader and writer on the subjects of transformational change and leadership. He is a frequent speaker at international forums on the future of India. He writes regularly in the Economic Times in India and other management and business journals. His recent books are “Transforming Capitalism: Business Leadership to Improve the World for Everyone”, “Discordant Democrats: Five Steps to Consensus”, "Remaking India: One Country, One Destiny", and "Shaping the Future: Aspirational Leadership in India and Beyond".

Arun was a member of the Tata Administrative Services and worked in several senior positions in the TATA Group in India and abroad for 25 years, including as executive director on the board of Tata Motors from 1981 to 1989. He worked with Arthur D.Little Inc, the international management consultancy, in the USA from 1989 to 1999, and consulted with companies across the world on issues of growth strategies and transformational change. He returned to India in 2000 and was Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group in India until April 2008, with whom he continues as a Senior Advisor.

Arun is Chairman of Save the Children BR and Chairman of the Axis Bank Foundation. He is a Senior Advisor to the UN Global Compact and on the advisory boards of think tanks in the UK and Sweden. He has served on the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry for many years. He also serves on the boards of several educational institutions in India and abroad.

Namrata works on establishing new business models and customer experience frameworks in Health and Sustainability. Her work is part of the core strategy of many Fortune 500 companies who are re-looking at new ways of doing business. She is currently based in Delhi and holds the position of Director at Futurescape, she is also a Mentor at the Futurescape Foundation. Her cross industry knowledge and proactive attitude have often been praised by her peers in the industry. She is an IIM-A Alumni and has also undertaken study programs on Strategic Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge and Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.

Dr.N.R.Parasuraman has 27 years of experience in diverse areas of finance. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants, apart from being a Law graduate. His PhD was on the subject "Capital Structuring of Indian Companies". He was the Company Secretary of Federal Bank for 5 years.

He has worked as Finance Manager of KEK group of Companies, Trivandrum and as a Securities Analyst for Joindre Capital Services, Mumbai. He has been in full-time academics for the last twelve years. His special areas of teaching and research are Strategy, Financial Derivatives and Multinational Finance.

He has published 25 papers and concept articles in various journals. He has authored a book titled 'Fundamentals of Financial Derivatives' published by Wiley India Limited, which figured in the Business World top10 management bestsellers in August, 2008. He is also currently an Adjunct Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

"It was enjoyable teaching the BLP and HRLP students the fundamental course in Finance. It was great working with the highly cooperating and hospitable staff and family of SOIL." - N R Parsuraman

Ratna is a senior Communications and HR professional with 15 years of experience in diversified international companies. Ratna is also a visiting professor at IIM-Indore and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management. Her areas of focus are Employee communication and Corporate communication, Employee engagement and Human Resource processes and administration.

She has worked at senior levels of responsibility in several industry verticals, including Business Process Outsourcing (Quatrro), International Trade & Manufacturing (Apollo), Telecommunications (Bharti), Hospitality (Hyatt), Consulting (PwC) and FMCG (Pepsi).

Her academic record is outstanding, with a Masters degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science (UK), an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (New Delhi) and an honors degree in English Literature from St. Stephen's College (New Delhi).She is also a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(USA).

In a teaching career spanning 17 years, Amrita has taught students of all ages, and across several educational systems, and now combines her love for teaching and for theatre in ways that are meaningful to students and herself. She has been teaching theatre at the Shri Ram School and The National Open School. She also teaches a Practicum Course in “Drama In Exploration” at the University of Delhi to students of the Bachelor’s in Elementary Education Programme.

She has been organizing workshops for students in various aspects of Theatre Production with the ultimate objective that some among them will be inspired to do it on their own for school as well as for other events. She has also worked on a film project with a documentary film maker, Ein Lal, under the auspices of INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage). This is one of many films that are being made for schools with the objective of sensitizing young people to different cultures that exist in India.

Amrita Lalljee uses Drama as a medium to work with students with special needs in the areas of confidence building, stress relief, team building and self acceptance and empowerement for the past three years.

Amrita has been trained in, and delivered 32 sessions of a devised piece in Theatre-In-Education to Primary Schools in Leeds in England in 2002. The piece was part of their curriculum and was based on George Elliot's Silas Marner.

She has graduated as a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology from Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi. She has also submitted a dissertation on “A comparative study on creativity in children from Formal / Traditional schools and Non-formal / Open schools”.

Raavi Birbal is a practicing advocate and her area of interest and specialization is labour law and service law and its application.

She has taken lectures in Labour Laws for New York State Bar Association, multinationals, public sectors and other organizations. When not busy with her practice she does opinion, consultation and compliances work for companies in the private and public sector.

Over the years she has worked in Courts of Delhi on issues such as Labour & Service Law, Arbitration Company Law, Trade Marks, IPR. She has an impressive list of clients she has represented in courts or provided Legal Consultation for such as Nestle, Bennett Coleman & co., Hindustan Times, Press Trust of India and Airtel. She has studied Labour law and Industrial Law from NILEM, Chennai.

Kalpana Sinha is Director People and Organization Capability at the India Development Center and will be conducting the course on Talent Management. The IDC is the largest Global R & D center for Microsoft outside of Redmond USA, that focuses on end to end software product development. Prior to the IDC, Kalpana supported MS Asia Pac’s Sales and Marketing Business based in Singapore. She has over 18 years of experience in the areas of corporate consulting and entrepreneurial experience in the application of behavioral sciences to organizations. This includes leadership development, mentoring and coaching, establishment of corporate universities, large-scale organization development interventions and training delivery in over a dozen countries. In addition, she is an accomplished water color artist and has several international shows to her credit. Kalpana also has a publication to her credit – a book on Women’s Empowerment in South Asia.

Dr. Shailendra Pratap Jain (Shelly) is currently Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. Earlier, he held faculty positions at Indiana University's Kelley School, Cornell University's Johnson School, and University of Rochester's Simon School.

Shelly has had extensive consulting experience globally with leading organizations such as 3M, Kodak, Ingersoll Rand, Ogilvy & Mather, Philip Morris, and Xerox on various marketing topics (Brand Management, Customer Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Product Line Management, and Marketing Strategy).

Shelly has been a recipient of a "four star" rating in the Business Week's Guide to the Best Business Schools, and has several Honors and Awards to his name including the PACCAR Award for Teaching Excellence at University of Washington's Foster School of Business, and multiple MBA Teaching Excellence Awards at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business as well as University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. Prior to joining academia, he worked in Advertising, Brand Management, and Sales for six years in different firms in India.

Shelly's research interests include branding, comparative advertising, consumer behavior and marketing strategy, cross-cultural and other individual differences in thought and consumption, and economics of information. His research has been published in several leading journals including Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Marketing Letters. Shelly is on the editorial board of Journal of Consumer Psychology, and has co-chaired the Society for Consumer Psychology Conference in 2009 and American Psychological Association's Division 23 Conference in 2005.

Dr. Shailendra Pratap Jain (Shelly) received his Ph. D. in 1995 from New York University's Stern School after finishing his M Phil from New York University in 1992. Before that he completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, in 1984 right after his graduation from BE, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India, (with honors) in 1982 .

"To me, SOIL epitomizes 'Incredible India'. The school is strongly committed to its philosophy of preparing leaders who inspire and are inspired. This philosophy grew on me with each day I spent with SOIL's tight-knit and highly personalized community of students, faculty, staff, and administration. I am deeply appreciative for the privilege to be part of SOIL's faculty during its very first year and to see first hand that human potential is only as vast as we believe it is." - Shailendra Pratap Jain (Shelly)

Ganapathy Subramanian is the Director, Centre for Rural Information & Insights, Mahindra & Mahindra and has over 30 years experience in India and overseas in the areas of Marketing Research, Stakeholder Relationship Management as well as Marketing. He has worked on the supply and the user side of marketing research and is therefore uniquely placed to understand what is needed for effective deployment of market and customer intelligence as business decision support.

Over the years he has worked with Philips India, Gallup, Eicher, Pathfinders (Division of Lintas) and Mahindra & Mahindra. He was the also Regional Director for Nielsen (Central and East Europe). Mr. Subramanian is an alumnus of IIT Chennai and IIM Kolkata.

Sanjay currently undertakes assignments as a free lance consultant helping companies with various aspects of Human Resource interventions including program design, competency development, leadership assessment and development and soft skills training.

Sanjay has been a part of Hewitt Associates and has worked extensively in the areas of performance management, competency applications, reward and recognition, change management, M&A and organization structuring. He has worked in different industry segments like Manufacturing, FMCG, IT, ITES, Pharma, Telecom and Oil and Gas across countries such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Korea, China, Australia and New Zealand.

His diverse client portfolio includes MNCs (Hewlett Packard, IBM, Motorola, DuPont and Procter & Gamble) and large Indian corporates (Tata Iron and Steel Company, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, HEG Ltd. Moser Baer, Chambal Fertilisers and Deepak Fertilisers).

Before Hewitt he worked with Crompton Greaves Limited heading its Training and Manpower Development function and Godrej Soaps Limited where he was Head of HR and Information Technology for a group company.

Sanjay is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur.

Shyam Viswanathan has been the Dean (Executive Education) of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He has also coached CEOs and Leadership Teams across areas of Strategic Planning, Leadership, Personal Effectiveness, Change Management, Team Building, Innovation & Creativity and Marketing & Sales.

He was the Founder CEO of an international services organization and has been on the Board of Directors of corporations both in India and the US.

He has 27 years of experience in the industry as well as in Executive Capability Development and has participated in configuring and delivering solutions to large corporations in India, W. Europe, Asia Pacific as well as the United States in areas as diverse as Process Design, Knowledge Management and Technology Based Training.

Shyam Viswanathan is an Electrical Engineer and an alumnus of the Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University.

As a consultant of long standing, Vijayalakshmi has trained and taught senior management of public and private sector organizations on leadership, strategy, communication, change management and instructional design and development. In addition she has been a visiting Faculty at the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

Vijayalakshmi has around 25 years of experience in the fields of Marketing, Market Research and Executive Capability Development across organizations such as Asian Paints, Funskool (India), Mode Research and NIS Sparta Limited. Her experience includes marketing strategy development and implementation, marketing and social research, configuring training solutions, development and delivery of training programs for senior management.

At NIS Sparta, Vijayalakshmi was involved in the setting up of several new initiatives—the corporate training division, the insurance training division and the Corporate Research Centre of Instructional Design. She was also a member of the Executive Committee with profit center responsibilities, and Corporate Communications and Marketing.

Vijayalakshmi is an Engineer from College of Engineering Guindy and an MBA (gold medalist) from the Faculty of Management Studies of Delhi University. She also holds a Masters degree in Sociology from Annamalai University.

Debi Saini is currently a Professor of HRM at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.

His research interest areas include: Strategic HRM, Diversity Management, Global HRM and New Industrial Relations. His consulting interest areas include: Strategic People Management, Employee Relations Strategies, Building a Joyful Organization, Change Management and Management of Contract Labour.

He started his academic career in 1971 as a Lecturer at Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi following which he served as a Professor (1992-94) at Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad. He has also been a Professor of HRM at the Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (IILM), New Delhi (1996-1999).

He has chaired over a 100 workshops and has been a keynote speaker at several academic and management conferences in India and abroad. He has authored several papers, management cases and book chapters published in India and abroad.

Among others, he has been awarded the Best Researcher of MDI, 2005 and the Best HR Faculty in India, 2007 from Amity International University. He has also been certified as a Global Professional in Human Resource (GPHR) by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), USA in May, 2008.

Before obtaining his doctoral degree from the University of Delhi, Debi Saini obtained a Master’s degree in Commerce from the Delhi School of Economics (1971) and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Law from the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

Urmila Chowdhury is currently involved in various teacher training projects both in India and abroad. In a teaching career spanning 20 years, she has worked as a teacher of English in some of the best schools in Kolkata and New Delhi. She has extensive experience in the training of teachers both in curriculum related areas and in the management of regular class room and student issues.

With her inherent interest in theatre as a medium of education, she has introduced Theatre in Education practices in the teaching of English at the Shri Ram School. She has also adapted the international concept of Writer’s Workshop to the Indian school environment, and today it is an established program in the Shri Ram School.

She completed her B.A. (Honours) in English Literature and Language and her M.A. in English Literature from Jadavpur University followed by a B.Ed from Kolkatta University. Urmila also has a Certification of English Language Teaching to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) from the University of Cambridge.

Anil Sachdev is the Founder and CEO of the School of Inspired Leadership. Anil has been adjunct Faculty to leading business schools such as Indian School of Business, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, GMI, Flint Michigan, Antioch University, Seattle and Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Given his belief in the power of education, Anil decided to create SOIL- the School of Inspired Leadership to provide management education with focus on ethics, community partnerships, sustainability and other leadership aspects that the world of today badly needs.

In April 1991, he had created Eicher Consultancy Services to work with large global and local firms in areas of strategic change, operations improvement and people development. During this time, Anil brought AT Kearney to India and also formed a joint venture with Strategic Decisions Group, a Menlo Park, California based Strategy Consulting firm, founded and led, mostly by Stanford University faculty and alumni. After spending 10 years building ECS, Anil decided to start a new organization with a focus on human development. This organization, Grow Talent, grew to become the leader in the HR consulting business and enabled several global and local organizations to achieve breakthrough performance by realising the potential of their people and creating a talent advantage.

Recognised as a thought leader in talent management, leadership development and organizational transformation, Anil has spoken at national and global conferences all over the world and has written contributory pieces for leading publications. He is active in management circles and has held several public offices such a Chairman of National Committee on Industrial relations and Regional Committee on Human Resource Development of Confederation Indian Industry. Anil serves as the Trustee of the Chinmaya Mission, an inspiring 'Not for Profit' Institution and the Charities Aid Foundation, a global NGO. He has received several National Awards including 'The HR Professional of the Year'.

After completing his MBA from the University of Pune in 1975, Anil joined Tata Motors and then the Eicher Group in 1978 and worked in HR, Operations and TQM areas.

Nishchae Suri is the President of the School of Inspired Leadership. Prior to taking charge as president in Oct 2008, Nishchae spent 11. 5 years at one of the world's largest Human Resource and Consulting services firm headquartered in USA. He was appointed as Global Principal in 2004 and invited to join the firm's global leadership group.

Nishchae's consulting experiences span all aspects of human resources. He has worked with leading global organizations across a number of countries including India, China, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates and the United States.

Nishchae has actively built thought leadership in consulting by frequently authoring professional articles for leading publications and by being present on the speaker panel of several management associations and institutes. He has successfully nurtured and created alliances with several industry forums including NASSCOM, American Chambers of Commerce, HRM and ASSOCHAM to which he is an invitee speaker. He is one of the foundational faculty members with WorldatWork in India.

A gold medallist from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (University of Pune), Nishchae was selected as CNBC's Young Turk and Business India's Front Runner in 2005.

Prasenjit Bhattacharya is the CEO, The Great Place to Work Institute, India.

Prasenjit has about two decades of experience in Indian and multinational corporations like HSBC, Grow Talent, Eicher Consultancy Services (ECS Ltd.), Siemens, and Crompton Greaves. Prasenjit has worked closely as an internal HR consultant and as an external consultant with senior leadership teams at various organisations in the area of change management.

Great Place to Work Institute is the world's leading Institute doing research and consulting in creating great workplaces. Prasenjit is a thought leader in the area of employee engagement and employer branding, and his articles and comments appear regularly in Economic Times, Human Capital magazine, and other publications.

In his previous stint in consulting Prasenjit has worked widely in various areas in HR, and in Service Quality and TQM in industries ranging from telecom, cement, heavy engineering, automotive components, dairy products, software, hospitals and hotels.

Prasenjit has done his MA in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

Prior to joining SOIL as Resident Faculty for Information Management , Shri Kant Gupta worked as a full time Professor of Information Technology for five years with FORE School of Management, New Delhi teaching MBA students. Earlier he was a professor with Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He has been a visiting faculty at FMS, New Delhi. He has a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from DCE, M S (Industrial Engineering), MBA from USA. He has over 30 years experience working with the corporate world. He was a General Manager with NIIT and has also headed a California based software company prior to moving to academics. His research, teaching and consulting interests lie in the area of IT strategy, Excel Based Modelling, Business Transformation through Information Technology, Software Project Management

Hardayal Singh recently retired as Ombudsman to the Income-tax department, Mumbai, a post he held since January,2007. Prior to that he held the position of the Chief Commissioner of Income-tax, Mumbai and Delhi.

Prof. Singh has rich experience in direct taxation and has administered the law, researched on it, formulated policies with regard to its implementation, practiced it as departmental counsel and taught it both to officers of the Indian Revenue Service and to MBA students at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of management, Mumbai.

He has co-authored special chapters on the Vigilance Manual on vigilance management in public sector banks and public sector undertakings. As Director of Organisation and Management Services in the Central Board of Direct Taxes, he further co-authored about 50 management studies on diverse subjects.

Between 1974 and 1978 he pioneered management training in the income-tax department. He has also written for the Times of India, Hindu, Economic and Political weekly, Management in Government and others.

He has an M.A. in Political Science and an M.Sc in Fiscal Studies from the University of Bath, U.K. with distinction. He has trained at the Royal Institute of Public Administration, London(1982) and the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad (1981).

Arunav Banerjee is currently Executive Director of Rubicon Learning Systems Private Limited. He has 15 years of consulting experience, & has worked with firms such as Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen, & PricewaterhouseCoopers. He had also launched his own consulting firm Triple A Consulting. His areas of expertise include Organisation Design & Structuring including banding for several organisations across sectors. He has also developed his own job evaluation methodology which has been tested across many companies including Infosys.

Arunav also enjoys coaching & mentoring. He writes a column for the Hindustan Times on career related discussions. He completed his Bachelors degree from IIT Kharagpur and then did his Post Graduation in Behavioural Sciences from IIM, Kolkata. He also has a degree in Law from Bangalore University.

Prior to joining SOIL, Dr Vinita S. Sahay was a Professor of Marketing at IMT Ghaziabad. She is also a visiting Professor at Aarhus Business School, Aarhus University, Denmark. Prior to IMT, Dr. Sahay held the posts of Head of the Marketing Department, Chief Mentor of the organization and Member of Academic Advisory Council at Amity Business School, Noida. She was also a Faculty Member at ICFAI Business School, Gurgaon where she was HOD Marketing. In her previous assignments at ITS, she had been Chairperson of Post-Graduate Program in Management and Founder Editor of Synergy: ITS Journal of IT and Management. She has secured first class with high ranks through out her academic career. She did her PGDM with Marketing as a major concentration area. She secured a first class with a Gold Medal in M.A. in Economics and has done her Ph.D. on Customer Value

Dr. Sahay has about 17 years of experience in Industry and in teaching and training. Her teaching, research and training interests include Marketing of Services, Retailing Management, Customer Value, Customer Satisfaction, CRM and Consumer Behavior. She has conducted many management development programs for senior executives.

Dr. Sahay has published and presented many research papers in International and National journals and conferences. She is currently working on her book on Customer Relationship Management.