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Pallavi Jha Executive Chairman Pallavi Jha is the Chairperson & Managing Director of Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd a publicly listed company. Walchand PeopleFirst has international partnerships with some of the world's leading firms and brands such as Dale Carnegie, USA (training) and PerformanSe, France (Assessments). Pallavi has diversified exposure to various management practices in areas such as training and development, HR, consulting and business restructuring, and lobbying, covering a wide range of industries from media, entertainment, technology to the financial services sector and the engineering industry. She has been recognized by reputed institutions such as CII and FIE Foundation etc for her outstanding contributions. She has been a vocal spokesperson for industry associations , and has chaired and moderated panel discussions involving India's leading business leaders. She has played a pioneering role in setting up India's first Finishing School focused on soft -skills training, the missing ingredient in the talent development and employability challenge confronting Indian industry. Additionally, she has been part of women's groups which has encouraged first generation women entrepreneurs into taking business initiatives. She has singularly led the India operations into the fastest growing region for Dale Carnegie Training, winning several global awards for service and sales excellence. She has been a keynote speaker and a panel member in various forums on business, HR, training and leadership. In Y 2000, the prestigious global weekly Newsweek had selected her among the emerging young women entrepreneurs of Asia. She has also been Chairperson of CII, Maharashtra Council. She was Executive Director of India's leading construction company, HCC, an erstwhile Walchand Group company before starting off her own ventures. She also worked briefly in market research at Feedback Ventures and Proctor& Gamble. Pallavi is an MBA from Syracuse University, New York and a graduate in humanities from St Xavier's College, Mumbai. Sanjay Jha Executive Director 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. In India, Dale Carnegie has worked with over 700 corporate firms and trained 90,000 Dale Carnegie graduates in the last six years.His area of professional interest and management science specialization includes leadership development, creating the vision and mission map and enhancing employee engagement. Sanjay is an Executive Coach and Mentor who has advised top management as well as senior political leaders.
Sanjay has often received an 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. He has also addressed business schools, industry conferences and knowledge symposiums, and has also been engaged as a strategic consultant/ advisor on training to a leading political party.
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, Tehelka and Rediff. com, and appears regularly to air his views on print and electronic media. He has founded one of the world’s leading internet portals called CricketNext.Com which was ranked once amongst Alexa Top 1000 sites globally, and is now part of the Network 18 media Group.
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) , Vice President Alliance Capital ( USA), Bank of America and Senior Manager with ANZ Grindlays Bank. He started his career in sales with Bharat Petroleum.
Sanjay also co-launched a political blog called www.HamaraCongress.com during elections 2009 and plans to escalate it into a full-fledged portal with multiple new features in the future.
Jha completed his MBA 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. Sanjay has also written a cricket anthology, quiz books and published his first collection of poems.
Ravi Sekhar Vice President-Training Quality & Development Dale Carnegie Training India
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 :
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