Arpita Verma, PCC

Founder, Wizdem Coaching

She is a transformational speaker and a gifted orator, capable of inspiring and encouraging people to higher ideals and thinking. She has become a giver of hope through her words.

She has more than a decade of experience in conducting educational and training workshops for institutes, corporates and world-renowned forums, like, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA), TEDx, Jamia Islamia, American Centre and others, wherein she endeavors to spark passion, deep discussion and transformation in students and professionals from varied backgrounds. She is a specialist in motivating, coaching and training people how to become more inspiring and influential, both in their personal and work space. Her approach helps people step beyond their comfort zones to become more effective speakers and presenters, who stick in the minds of their audience, long after they have left the room.

Coaching and Transforming the Lives of others, are a part of her life-long obsession with happiness.

Today, she is Internationally recognized for her ability to Energize, Entertain & Empower and has the honor of sharing the stage with eminent personalities like Prabhu Chawla, Kiran Bedi, Sonal Kapoor and many others.

She is the inspiration behind the world-acclaimed Unknot the NOT™ philosophy, on which

Wizdem Coaching

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Shailaja Ranjan Raj

Training Specialist

Shailaja is a Certified Trainer from NIS Sparta (Leading Training Company in Asia).

His expertise is in the areas of Personal Effectiveness, Management Development, Managerial Effectiveness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Problem Solving Skills, Customer Service, Team Building, Communication Skills, Presentation Skills, Selling Skill, Sales Effectiveness, Motivational Workshops and Operational Excellence.

Shailaja Ranjan Raj brings with him a varied corporate experience along with a strong, interpersonal and human relations aptitude. He has evolved himself as a HR professional by being immensely involved with numerous projects in the Areas of Human Resources in Manufacturing, FMCG, Engineering as well as IT industry where he has had the longest stint. He has been proactively supporting, educating, and empowering executives, line managers and others to enhance performance within the organization. In his career he has worked with Escorts (Ford Tractors), Blue Star, Mahaan Foods, Steria, Keenes India and Network Programs India. In his last assignment with Braahmam Net Solutions he headed the Soft Skills and HR e-learning Division as a Learning Manager and was involved with creation of Training and Development modules with extensive use of Technology. PC Quest rated these modules as of high quality.

Shailaja has supported HR Consulting Assignments for both mid size and large size organisation like Schleicher India, Sukam Power System, Controls and Switchgears, Geoffrey Philips, Indian Technological Products and Tata Tele Services. He has also handled independent L&D assignments in this period.

Shailaja is a Learning Partner with ICICI Bank. He has done extensive training programs for companies like Nalco, NTPC, CRY India, Grasim, Onida Electronics (Noida), Thomson Press, Union Bank of India, Sukam Power Systems, Castrol India, Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, Larsen and Toubro, SAP India, United Breweries, Indo Burma Petroleum, Indian Technological products, ICICI Prudential, Reliance Telecom, MS Chola Mandalam, A .T Kearney Consulting, Ceat Tyres (RPG Group) and Coca Cola. He has expertise in the areas of Behavioural Skills and Soft Skills Training. He has Conducted Development Workshops in the areas of Supervisory Development and Management Development. He has also facilitated Culture Building Workshops (Values and Work Attitudes) for a few Public Sector Undertakings.

An avid Toastmaster and a Certified Competent Communicator.

Ajay Chaturvedi

Advisor

Besides serving on boards of several companies, Ajay is an ex-Citi where he served in Strategy and Sales positions in Cards and Consumer banking verticals. Ajay began his career with IBM Consulting in the US and has over 14 years of experience in Management, Operations and IT Consulting across Financial Services, IT and ITeS industries in US, UK, and South East Asia. Prior to Citi, Ajay was the Transition Leader at Global Vantedge, a company that was a pioneer in many ways besides being the first offshore receivables management provider. Ajay is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and a Graduate in Management of Technology from the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ajay truly believes in the power of cost effective innovation on all aspects that will lead to value creation across the world, especially in India and supports the Socio-Capitalistic business models as the drivers of inclusive growth. He also thinks that the real growth in rural areas across the world and in India is yet to come and is possible only when we get into the real fabric of the country and not just overlay thoughts and patterns from the developed nations. A voracious reader, an avid golfer and an ardent traveller, Ajay spent almost a decade living in the US and across the world and now lives in Gurgaon. Most recently Ajay was awarded CNN IBN Youth Icon / Young Indian Leader of the year.