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Sankar has more than 25 years of Human Resources and top management level experience in both India and abroad. He has worked in large Indian and multinational organizations across India, USA and the Caribbean. His work experience includes organization and leadership development, talent management and HRD. Sankar has been involved in competency mapping, development center designs and assessment of more than 7000 Managers in more than 50 corporations in India over the last 15 years. Sankar has more than 15 years of change management and organization development experience both as an internal and external consultant.

Sankar is a professional member of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS), NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, USA and The Appreciative Inquirer's Network (www.tapin.in). He was Past President of ISABS and TAPIN. He is also the founder of the Organization Development Certificate Program (ODCP) of ISABS. He serves on the academic council of this program.

Sankar's personal statement :

"Sankar" could be easier on your tongue and I also like to be addressed like that!

I grew up in a small town called Cochin in Kerala, India in a large family. Books like "Around the World in 80 days" influenced me and I dreamed of being a world traveler. I have achieved one-third of that by now, having visited 53 countries till date.

I seemed to have done everything else other than what I planned ? right from wanting to be a Doctor and then a Fighter Pilot to now being a Consultant! I had a great professional career managing many functions in Human Resources Management and rose to become a Director and Head of HR.

After 7 years abroad, I returned to India and created ChangeWorks in the year 2004. This led me to the world of consultancy, facilitating change management, leadership development and personal growth in India and around the world.

I have been a learner all my life, and I have spent the last few years studying Jung, Process Work and working with the personal and organizational shadow.

My current passion and obsession is the construction of a language that will allow accepting and celebrating personal, group and organization shadows. This work is a confluence of social construction approaches, along with Appreciative Inquiry, Jungian work and other approaches to personal growth like T-group and Percept psychology.

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Sharad is an HR professional with more than 30 years' experience having held senior positions in the field of Human Resource Management, Training and Organization Development. He is a professional member of Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science (ISABS), Qualified MBTI Trainer and certified CCL Coach.

Sharad's corporate career of 26 years ranges from pharmaceutical and Indian IT services organizations. His career gave him opportunity to manage all aspects of HR. He was always dedicated to human potential development in all the HR roles he held.

Sharad has extensive experience in organization development, leadership development, personal growth, leadership coaching and competency based talent development. He has developed competency models for organizations, designed and conducted development centers and coaching more than a 1000 executives over the years.

Sharad is a professional member of Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (www.isabs.org), a Board Certified Coach (www.cce-golbal.org) and work as Associate Leadership Coach with CCL (www.ccl.org).

Sharad's personal statement :

I am known for creating confusion around my name! My family named me Madhukar but always addressed me as Sharad! I like Sharad too!

In my high school, I dreamt of becoming a commercial artist but ended up getting a degree in Chemistry! Reading has always been my passion, as a teen I used to love reading crime thrillers and spy fiction. I continue to read spy fiction, history (20th century) and books related to psychology.

I am passionate about personality inventories and I have used them extensively in my consulting practice. I am one of the earliest persons, empanelled by Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), US, as Associate Leadership Coach in India. I extensively traveled abroad and worked with people from diverse cultures in many countries.

Presently, I am involved in going deeper in some of the psychometric inventories, T-group, and executive coaching. I am enthralled by the work of Robert Kegan on stages of human development and how it can enhance leadership development.

Wasundhara is a Medical Doctor turned behavioral scientist! She has an MD in Paediatrics following which she pursued an interest in Neonatology. She served as a Lecturer in the Department of Paediatrics for 10 years. She then became a founding trustee of an NGO called SNEHA (Society for Education in Health, Nutrition and Action). She later took over as its CEO and built the organization from 30 people to a 300 people organization, with many projects in the areas of women and children health in the city of Mumbai. She is now a trustee for the Fight for Hunger Foundation in India..

Managing a 300 people organization shifted her interest in leading and facilitating change. She then studied behavioral science, became a professional member of ISABS (www.isabs.org) and later earned certifications in Change Facilitation (Organization Change Facilitation Program), Transformational coaching (www.leadershipthatworks.com) and Appreciative Coaching (www.fielding.edu). She is now a faculty with 'Leadership That Works, India' an ICF recognized coach certification program and an Associate coach with CCL (Center for Creative Leadership - www.ccl.org).

She specializes in the use of Appreciative Inquiry as a method for both coaching and organization change which she is developing further along with Sankar, her life partner. Her current interest is in leadership development as a tool for changing the future.

She is a certified coach having coached more than 50 executives from various organizations and is keenly interested in working with women executives to stay and succeed in the workplace.

She is also a trainer for the 'Theater of the Oppressed'; a method to bring change into systems and individuals.

Wasundhara's personal statement :

I grew up in Mumbai, a child born to doctors. My mother's family is exceptional, where women have been educated and holding jobs for three generations and have each worked towards the health and empowerment of women and children. I realize now how privileged this makes me, and I suppose there was no escaping this legacy. My education and work as a Pediatrician and Neonatologist took me on this journey, from being a co-founder of two NGO's to women's leadership, and Conscious Leadership for a better world.

I have a love of dance, music, art and theater. I believe that human needs include growing intellectually, spiritually, as well as expressing oneself and telling that story so it can inspire others and facilitate transformation for individuals and the world. I try and take that to the work I do with people and organisations.