Executive Coaches

 





Sanjay Jha

Executive Director
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd



Sanjay Jha is the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India, which has a global experience of having worked with over 400 of the Top Fortune 500 companies. His areas of professional interest and management science specialization includes leadership development, change management , corporate reputation management, media training, creating the vision and mission map, and enhancing employee engagement. He has also handled senior professionals from various fields as an executive coach.

Sanjay has often received overwhelming feedback and recognition for his high-quality training and leadership talk . He is one of the senior trainers in the global Dale Carnegie Training network, and has addressed global audiences in New York, Washington, Los

Angeles, Chicago, Singapore, Bermuda, Taiwan , Mexico and Toronto.
He has conducted several corporate programs focused on executive development , advised companies on corporate image management , done executive coaching and consulted with companies such as Oracle, Prudential ICICI, Bajaj , Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Pricewaterhouse Coopers , Kale Consultants, Standard Chartered, Crompton Greaves, British Gas, ICICI Pru Life amongst others. He has also addressed business schools, industry conferences and knowledge symposiums. Sanjay has also been engaged as a strategic consultant/ advisor on training to a political party, including working with senior leaders and grass-root workers

He has made several contributions to mainline news and business dailies and magazines such as Business Standard, Indian Express, Financial Express, Hindustan Times, Mid-Day and appears regularly to air his views on print and electronic media , such as NDTV, CNBC, BBC, NDTV Profit and CNN-IBN. He also is a regular blogger on social, economic and political issues on various news websites.

He has founded one of the world's leading internet portals called CricketNext.Com which is now also part of the Network 18 media Group. He has also set-up new business initiatives with the world's largest HR association, SHRM in India and an assessments firm , with the French company, Performanse.

Prior to starting Dale Carnegie , Sanjay was instrumental in setting up the private sector mutual fund industry in India , having worked as a Senior Vice President with ITC Threadneedle Asset Management (part of BAT plc, UK) and Alliance Capital (USA). Earlier, he had worked with Bank of America and ANZ Grindlays Bank in the NRI marketing and operations unit. He started his career in sales with Bharat Petroleum.

Sanjay completed his MBA (HR) from XLRI, Jamshedpur and his Master's in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune. He graduated with distinction in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune.

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Ravi Sekhar

Ravi Sekhar

Vice President-Training Quality & Development

Dale Carnegie Training India


Ravi Sekhar is a graduate from Madras Christian College,University of Madras and holds a M.A. from St.Stephen’s College,University of Delhi and also a post-graduate degree from Balliol College,University of Oxford,U.K. where he was a British Council scholar. Following a short stint with the India International Centre,New Delhi he worked for over twenty years with ANZ Grindlays, an international bank ,both in India and abroad .Ravi’s overseas postings took him to London and Melbourne before he left the bank in 1996 to start CAMPAIGN, a management training and development consultancy firm,based at Pune.

 

Following the setting up of Dale Carnegie Training under the aegis of Walchand People First Ltd (now Walchand Talent First Ltd) in 2004, Ravi became associated with them and is now a certified Dale Carnegie Trainer and a Training Director.Apart from the time-tested and effective training methodology employed in the training process,his wide ranging experience of the corporate world helps to provide business relevance and reinforce transfer of knowledge and skills. He was awarded a Trainer Club Award in 2006 to recognize his training skills.

 

Ravi’s expertise in the areas of Leadership Development has taken him to Taipei,Taiwan in April 2007 where he participated in the Asian Regional Convention of Dale Carnegie International and to San Diego,California in April 2008 where he attended a Master Trainer Academy.

 

Since 2006 Ravi has also been an Executive Coach and handled engagements at top management level . A sample of some of the recent assignments undertaken by him are :

  • Chairman/Managing Director of a pharmaceutical company to develop public speaking and presentation skills.
    Associate Partner of one of the Big 5 consulting firms to be groomed in leadership competencies to enable him to move up in the organization
    General Manager of a leading Canadian financial services company in behaviour modeling and inter-personal skills
    Chief Financial Officer of an established realty company in presentation skills in advance of an IPO offering
    Vice-President Human Resources of a Fortune 500 company in life coaching and visioning self-growth and work-life balance

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