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Abhilash Sampat

Founder, Guruskoolz

Abhilash Sampat is Founder and CEO of Guruskoolz. Abhilash has more than 13 plus years of experience in banking sector. He is an international certified Business Coach, NLP and Reiki practitioner and a Parenting Coach. His vision to empower millions of professionals in the field of training, coaching and counselling so that they can monetize their skills through platforms created by Guruskoolz

Ashutosh Chandwar

COO at Dineshchandra R. Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Ashutosh Chandwar is having 32 years, 360 degree experience in infrastructure in terms of project conceiving, planning, procurement, contract administration and execution, operations and financing/refinancing to transfer of project back to Authority. His carrier spanned from Rajasthan PWD, NHAI, IL&FS as developer and financer, Executor means as contractor and Operator means Asset management including working with one of the world’s largest infrastructure finance company Brookfield Inc. Noticeable achievement includes finalization of alignment of the East – West Corridor between Porbander to Shivpuri as part of National Highways Development Project, execution of more 500 kms of 4-lane NH, completion of India’s Longest Highways Tunnel and biggest highway project undertaken by GOI.

Dr Anju Sharma

Chairperson -Happy Heart Foundation

Dr Anju Sharma, Sound Energy Master , Author, Chairperson of Happy Heart Foundation Trust , Founder Sound of Infinity band (Asia’s first musical healing band) A renowned pioneer national award winning doctor in the field of Alternative healing through Music & Sound & author of BRAHM SE BRAHMAAND, , years experience in field of holistic healing therapy, International Speaker ,Emotional Health Consultant , treated & counsel more than 1 lakhs people, students, corporate employees, housewive & senior citizens through her awareness talks , sound healing sessions, and alternative healing therapy & medicine, also Asia first made musical healing capsule to treat sleep disorder & creative issues. As a wellness researcher, her study of the subconscious mind & also the pioneering in the field of soundhealing with using different colour did her PHD and under her guidance many students are doing their PhD and thinking ability adds weight to her credibility as a multi-hyphenate healer.

Dr Satish Sawarkar

Founder and Chairman, Appropriate Group

Dr S Kumar is a well known Scientist, Ph.d, D.Litt, triple gold medalist who has dedicated his towards welfare of mankind .

Dr. Amit Kumar Mahto

Financial Transformational Coach, MATD LLP

Dr. Amit Kumar Mahto is a Chartered Wealth Manager from American Academy of Financial Management and Certified Master Trainer from IATD, Mumbai with over 20 years of experience in financial sector. With his financial planning & wealth management, training, sales and team management skills, He has been empowering people for years. His rich experience and in-depth knowledge helps people achieving their personal, professional and financial goals. His goal is to touch lives, inspire people and help them in achieving success in life. His rich corporate experience helps him bring relevant examples in the training sessions. Customer focus, communication and his decision-making capabilities have always made him stand apart in his professional career. He is a self-believer and believes training is transformation and training is a continuous journey to achieve success. He is dynamic, creative and inspires the participants to absorb the contents effectively and apply them in their routines.

Dr. Rupali Paranjape

Founder of "Blue Ocean Compliance"

Dr. Rupali Paranjape is Asia's Top award-winning global pharma leader who has been making extraordinary contributions to the pharmaceutical industry for over a decade. She is the founder of her own company, Blue Ocean Compliance.Dr. Rupali is a highly experienced and successful Regulatory Affairs & Compliance professional, with over 22 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has worked in various leadership positions in Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Quality Control & Quality Assurance.She has a proven track record of helping Pharmaceutical Companies attain the highest level of compliance and save huge expenses & costs due to non-compliance. What makes Dr. Paranjape unique is her ability to foster a culture of quality within pharmaceutical companies.Through her work on mindset and thought processes, she enables her clients to develop an intrinsic understanding of quality that leads to long-term success which makes her an invaluable asset for any Pharmaceutical Company.

Dr. Saurabh Kumar Agarwal

Founder and MD, Madhavrao Scindia Public School

‘ACHIEVERS ARE NOT BORN TALENTED BUT THEY POSSESS THE, ‘I CAN DO IT’ ATTITUDE ‘ Dr. Saurabh Kumar Agarwal is a person who has proved the above quote by his deeds ,actions and accomplishments. He is an administrative leader with an experience of prioritizing and delegating administrative tasks to drive goal achievement. His proficiency in scheduling coordination, resource allocation and office supply inventory management has always resulted in his exorbitant success. He is an ardent believer in the fact that there is no age of learning and so his journey of education has covered so many milestones and is still ongoing.

Dr. Teena Sharma

Founder & Director: Pink and & Blue Foundation, National Advisory Board Member- MAME, Gov. of India.

Dr. Teena Sharma has been an activist on women and child rights. Her qualification is post graduation in political science and Ph.D in business and public Policy. Dr.Teena has been there holding important positions as Advisory National Board Member with MSME GOI. Prior to this she has also been Director ASSOCHAM INDIA and worked under the finance Ministry on financial inclusion for SC/ST Women in India. Dr. Teena has contributed to change the working of censor board of film certification GOI. Dr. Teena Sharma has been widely covered by indian and international print & electronic media on her achievements. She has been a big game changer in curbing prevalent corruption in the Censor Board during UPA govt. She runs an NGO called Pink & Blue foundation which has also received many accolades on their contribution to underprivileged children. She also runs another vertical called VEERNARI FOUNDATION OF INDIA, a NGO working on the welfare of defence war widows.

Hiten Mehta

Founder, Bhavsar and Mehta

Dr. Hiten Mehta, Founder of Bhavsar & Mehta & Co., is well known for helping people get rid of their financial crises and helping them to restart their lives for themselves and their families. Recently he was awarded by the Royal American Society as a Doctorate in Financial Crisis Counselling & also awarded by the Indian Achiever's Award, 2021 for Financial Crises Counselling & Mid-Day Icon Award, 2021. He was also awarded with the Times Upload Award and The Corona Warrior Award during the most crucial months of Covid and the downfall of the economy from September 2020 to March 2021. Through his counselling and guidance, he helped many small vendors and business owners whose livelihood was dependent on daily wages to counter the suicidal thoughts that were running through their minds during those peak crucial months by teaching them the basics of financial literacy which helped them to survive in those crisis times.

JINENDRA JAIN

Director, Soul Temple

He is a Holistic Healer, Speaker, Mentor, Author, Education Thought Leader. He has pioneered a mission to train doctors and patients to become Healers. He is a founder of SOUL TEMPLE UNIVERSITY and JJ CAFE - KITCHEN FOR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS" He is an international Heal Your Life workshop Leader. He is Vipassana Meditator.

Kamleshwar Pokhrail

Group Leader in Ameriprise India LLP

He was born and brought up in a humble family. He has worked extremely hard to achieve the level of success that he has today. He is currently working as a Group Lead at the supervisory level in a fortune 500 organization in the field of accounting and finance with over 11 years of experience. In his previous role, he was nominated for Organization's highest honour for his contribution to testing and implementing a new system in the team. He strongly believes that our beliefs shape our future, and that having empowering beliefs can help us attain our real potential. This is why he is so passionate about motivating people to go beyond their limits. He is popularly know as I Can't to I Can Enthusiast.

Karen D'Lima

Arts-based Therapy Practitioner and Parenting Coach at Astitva Healing

Karen began her journey as a school teacher in Mumbai until, over two decades later, she found that her passion to make a difference to children went beyond the realm of the syllabus. So, the teacher became the student once more and she studied arts-based therapy and certified herself in the fields of metaphor therapy, play therapy CBT and NLP. As an ICF certified life-purpose and mind-set coach, Karen is committed to increasing self-awareness and self-esteem and spreading the faith especially in the post-pandemic society of today. Her dynamic nature, rich experience as a parent, an educator, a parenting strategist and career counsellor embellished with her experiences as an arts-based therapy practitioner, empowers her to conduct wide-ranging workshops on emotional wellness and life-skills for people from all walks of life and to help them flourish and grow into their best and most authentic self.

Ketaki Gosavi

Student

Ms. Ketaki Sunil Gosavi is currently studying at MIT (World peace School Alandi). One of her projects included an Ambulance tracker that would track within a 1.5 km radius. She is a climate change activist. She is a blogger, coder, and writer. ‘Can we sustain ourselves in the future with the help of AI?’ is what she mainly works on. Her achievements would: She has completed her Junior MBA. Besides she has received NASA certification in the Area of Climate Change, equally she participated in Priksha Pe Charcha (PPC 22- 2023). She's a Certified Game Developer, App developer, and Website Designer in Java. She also showed interest in the Music Industry, where she completed her Certification of Music Production (Ableton) Course and Certification of Music Composition Course Additionally, she was awarded a certificate as Global Child Prodigy Award (2022). As a social activist, she has run many drives in rural areas. She is inspiring her students and fellows since the lockdown happens.

Kumar Nagendra

Entrepreneur & Author. Company: Living Abundance

Kumar Nagendra is an Entrepreneur and an Author, who believes to live life fully and completely every single moment. He is passionate to create wonderful life experiences and choose Happiness. He is always inspired to help people live a Lifestyle of True Abundance. His favourite quote is “You can never outperform your own Self-Image”.

Manisha Ram Kelkar

Actress

Manisha Ram Kelkar is an Indian actress and trained Kathak dancer who appears in Bollywood (Hindi), Marathi movies and also works as an anchor for many show and events. Manisha Kelkar made her acting debut with a Multi Starrer Marathi movie Hyancha Kahi Nem Nahi directed by Kedar Shinde. Bandook Critical Acclaim is her Bollywood film. She has also done one Telugu film ‘Friend Request’. Manisha has also hosted many events like Times of India red carpet, Asian film festival, Times Marathi Film Technical Awards, Comedy Express, Marathi film awards on E Tv Marathi, Cricket World Cup host on Zee 24 Taas and other shows. She was also a strong contender in first ever reality shows ‘Zhunj Marathmoli’ (first ever adventure Marathi reality show) on E Tv Marathi.

Mayank Singh

Founder

An engineer from Bangalore who possess over 16 years of entrepreneurial experience founded political consulting firm under the banner Decoding Dynamics. He firmly believes that to strengthen our democracy one should think like a voter as well as an elected public representative. He encourages everyone to exercise their right to vote actively and responsibly. • Decoding Dynamics specializes in campaign designing and management, Political consulting, Strategic Research & Insights, Constituency Profiling, Data analytics and the list of services goes on...His handpicked team is a potpourri of academicians, scholars, consultants, journalist, broadcasters, analyst, civil service aspirants and Psephologists. He has been successfully able to decode the electioneering enigma in various political landscape like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Assam assembly election 2021 being the latest.

Mithilesh Reddy

Founder & CEO, Steadfast Business Consulting (SBC)

Mithilesh has over 13 years of management and consultancy experience in assisting clients on Taxation, Transfer Pricing, Regulatory matters, Advisory and Litigation. Mithilesh is founder and CEO of Steadfast Business Consulting (SBC), a new age professional services organization headquartered out of Hyderabad which focuses on providing niche consulting services within and beyond borders.

Parul Tripathi

General Manager - Enterprise Sales

Parul is a trainer and motivational speaker. She is dynamic, energetic and captivating in her sessions. She belives humans can achieve any dreams based on right direction, thinking and control. She helps participants discover their blind spots and focus on their strength to achieve their goals. She conducts workshop in a very engaging, story telling and activity based sessions.Parul last year has achieved ultimate goal of becoming entrepreneur and add meaningful value to hundreds of lives around her. She manages sales and business development in her Fintech business PeLocal. PeLocal is providing seamless collection and digital sales experience to enterprises.

Pramod Shetty

Business Leader :Innovation Manager - GWC

He is a licensed practitioner for IMBA on Innovation Management from Innovation 360. He has a keen passion for public speaking and has several successful keynotes to his name. He is also a Toastmasters and has knowledge and passion for collaborative communication, mentorship, and coaching. He’s an executive in supply chain management with over 15 years of experience in industrial engineering, TOC theory of constraints, and extensive consulting experience. Warehousing, supply chain management, automation, innovation transportation, and distribution management. In August 2021, Pramod published his first book called, The Power of Self-Awareness. He takes a brilliant arch of theory and philosophy and merges it with supply chain and consultation examples. As a professional, Pramod specializes in supply chain, Innovation management, continuous improvement, and business process improvement.

Praveen Sagar

DGM- ONGC

Mr Praveen Sagar is a Senior Executive. He believes that every individual is a powerhouse of tremendous hidden potential and through proper guidance and motivation he can be guided to his hidden treasures. This will enable an individual in achieving all his desired goals and bringing laurels to himself as well as to his associated organisation. Mr Sagar has a master’s degree in Science and have rich experience of 26 years of corporate culture. He is the author of books ‘Khyaal-e-Zindagi’ & ‘Haqiqat-e Zindagi’, which are collection of couplets of his rich experiences of life. For ‘Khyaal-e-Zindagi’ he has received “PREMCHAND SAMMAN – 2018” by IDEA, Mumbai, India. In January 2023 he has received ‘’JIVAN PRERNA SAMMAN” from Governor of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India. He is a voracious reader and as of now he has completed more than 165 titles comprising from different walks of life namely Mind Power, self-improvement, management, spirituality, mythology, psychology, etc.

Rohan Chopra

Academic Director at EduMont Classes

Being an adroit student, Rohan was awarded highly coveted ‘Certificate of Merit’ by C.B.S.E. for achieving the 99th percentile in 12th standard Accountancy. Consequently, Rohan went on to study Accounting and Business (B.Com. Hons.) at Delhi University. Straight out of college he started his career in Auditing with EY. At EY, he was informed of the urgent need for US CPAs in India. After completing his qualification, Rohan devoted his time to exploring diverse working milieu, at corporate giants to emerging growth companies in Canada, only to ultimately quit his desk job and return to India, in the pursuit of his true ardour, public speaking. Becoming a CPA faculty seemed like a job that suited his need. Rohan then went on to becoming the go-to CPA/CMA Visiting Faculty for 12 major private universities across India. Amassing this teaching experience helped him achieve his ultimate station in life, running his own Ed-Tech Firm and teaching thousands of students, across India.

Ronak Soni

CEO Co-Founder

*Introduction* Ronak Soni, CEO & Co-founder of Aapka CFO, is an Angel Investor, and a Trade Finance Specialist. A young teenager, who started out the quest of solving business problems as he was building one of his own. As he learned new things related to entrepreneurship, his willingness to do something innovative led him to co-found India's first-ever Trade Finance Fintech Platform, which helped structured the trade format by creating syndication between companies, issuing banks, buyers, and suppliers. As is a fact, no knowledge ever goes waste. And so Ronak’s initial experiences with building a startup proved useful and led him to launch a new company named Aapka CFO that helps other businesses to grow faster and to guide them on successful paths. He along with his team has been traveling to places to capture global markets for their business, such as visit in Dubai, UAE, where they strategized to tie up with businesses and help bring a technology revolution in the Middle East.

Sushmita Fernandes

Founder & Managing Director at COLORKETTLE (OPC) PVT. LTD.

Sushmita Fernandes – Founder & MD of COLORKETTLE (OPC) PVT. LTD. – A strategic brand design agency. Sushmita is a staunch believer in “empathy” and she gives credit to this belief of hers for her style of working. Being ever zestful and always trying to reinvent herself, she discovered her calling for branding at the age of 32 after having delivered her first born. Post which she went back to college to complete her ‘PGDM in Advertising and Public Relations’ and that’s how her love with branding began and a few years later gave birth to COLORKETTLE. Today COLORKETTLE, is a company and an agency which has managed to retain its clients – simply with its quality service and well-thought through design solutions. These things definitely happen, when it flows from the top. And in Sushmita’s own words – Empathy is what can save this world and make you the best in what you do.

Vibhuti Duggar

Founder, Project Purpose

Vibhuti Duggar, a global speaker and corporate trainer, founder of Project Purpose a Training and Consultancy organisation with 15 years of rich experience in this field. Vibhuti has been supporting organisations to improve productivity and team cohesiveness by empowering them with the manual of mind. She is a certified NLP Trainer. She believes that when the teams get a chance to manage their minds, when they have the manual to course-correct by themselves; employees and teams can thrive. Her journey has been an epic one. She underwent a 360-degree transformation when she was taught the proven tools by the stalwarts themselves. She is now on a mission to share these techniques with organizations around the world and help them and their employees unlock the power of managing mind. Also her core focus area is encouraging people to find their purpose of life and lead a meaningful life ahead.

Vijay Kasar

Empiricist Innovator - Business & Supply Chain

A Supply Chainer by profession and an entrepreneur at heart. Firmly believes in success through understanding human traits - a unique innovator through empricism. Aim to serve the world with simple and powerful tools to decode and adapt best practices in business and personal growth. Have built a fastest growing micro marketing consulting business with turnover of 90+ Million INR. Management Professional with Masters in Operations and General Business Management certified by IIM Ahmedabad, PGP in Advanced Project Management from SPJIMR, Certified Supply Chain Specialist (CSCS™)and Lean Thinking (CELT®). A Business Strategy enthusiast with nearly 2 decades of work ex in varied industries like Telecom, Market research, FMCG, Consumer Products, OTC, Pharma & Chemical.

Vikram Rajola

Founder-Chairman, IN-DEED Foundation

Vikram Rajola is a Civil & Environmental engineer, a trainer, mentor and guide to students and youth. He has devoted his entire career to the social and development sector. Vikram has been a key role in implementation of water, sanitation and structural strengthening projects in South and South-East Asian nations in partnership with some of the leading Universities, Funding Agencies, International NGOs and Government Departments. He has conducted and facilitated capacity building trainings and workshops for thousands of students, engineers, marketing professionals, managers, salespersons, factory and civil construction workers. Concerned with the suboptimal learning levels and non-existent digital literacy skills among government school students and rural youth, he quit his full-time job giving up a lucrative career plunging headlong into developing sustainable and scalable models to improve access to quality education.