Ajit Pal Singh

Head India Business, Biocon Biologics

Dr. Jagmohan Singh

Rishi CEOs Coach, Head-Learning & Development and Digital Experiences, Wockhardt Ltd.

Sushil Barkur

Associate Vice President- L&D, TM and OD at Alkem Laboratories Ltd.

Sushil Barkur is an expert in creating and executing result oriented L&D, TM & OD strategy to support overall business strategy and business growth. He has 21 years of learning experience. He has proven expertise in setting up and running Integrated Talent Management department which includes Training, Learning and Development , Talent Management and OD interventions in large size Pharmaceutical Companies. Currently he is working as Associate Vice President; L&D, TM & OD function for Alkem Laboratories. He has spearheaded to win “Great place to work” recognition 3 times in a row and this year Alkem has been ranked 31st in Great Place to Work in India and rank in Asia .He is adept in using technology in Learning & Development space.
He has trained and coached people across Indian Sub-continent and Africa. He is passionate about enabling people to excel in their personal and professional lives.

Sushil Barkur is an M.Pharm, PGCHRM (XLRI), ICF certified Coach, Certified psychometrician, Certified Accelerated Learning Designer and Facilitator, Certified in Dr. Jack Phillips ROI model for L&D, Certified Facilitator of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Neuro Linguistic Practitioner master practitioner from American Board of NLP , Member of International Association of Facilitator (IAF) and Association of Talent Development (ATD).

Vishal Karad

Head HR, Gennova Pharmaceuticals

Manisha Vithaldas

Associate Director-Sales Training, Abbott

Developed and executed long term and short term trainingdevelopment strategies to create differentiation wrt people, brands, organisation.

Facilitated Change management post major strategic changes in organisation like Multichanel engagement, GTM1/2 (go to market strategy), division mergers etc.

Designed and delivered training journeys (3 months and beyond) for field force like Certification /Key talents which improved retention of high potential candidates, role shifts, improved productivity and helped in building leadership pipeline.

Digitalisation of learning system- technical and skill training - online courses for new comers / experienced / HIPOs etc

Deployed Integrated learning approach - blended learning through classroom , digital, various in house forums, telecon, use of AVs, etc.

Designed & Rolled out Competency framework, baselining & Assessments.

Developed training interventions for diverse learning groups, across all therapy areas, Trade business, Nutrition Market, Glass industry, Manufacturing plants etc.

Instrumental in establishing ‘Coaching Culture’ by designing and executing award winning programs

Established ‘Training function and processes’ in Vietnam Abbott Nutrition business- short term stint (6mnths).

Established training as a strategic funtion for building distinctive & engaged workforce.

Suresh Amin

Head HR, India Business, JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals

With more than two plus decades of experience in HR from diverse sectors & industries, Suresh currently heads the HR function for JB’s India Business operations.
In the past, Suresh was associated with organisations wherein he was part of their leadership positions at Cipla, Tata Motors, Hutchinson 3Global Services, Softcell Technologies and Aviva Global Services; after having started his career with Thermax.
During this diverse experience in Engineering, Automotive, Insurance, IT / ITeS and Pharmaceutical, Suresh has led some of the key change management initiatives complimenting the business strategies to achieve its desired objectives.
Suresh credits his partnership & association with L&D as a catalyst and later as functional head, have been the key differentiating factor between delivering the objective and adding value to the business.
With a post graduate qualification in Personnel Management Science, Suresh is also a certified Coach (CFP) and is keenly pursuing his PCC accreditation. He is already certified assessor & coach from Human Synergistics, UK on their Life Style Inventory (LSI) used towards building organisation culture.

Dr Sanjeeev Dixit

President HR, Cadila Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Sanjeev Dixit is an Acclaimed Global HR Leader, CHRO, Global Culture Coach, Speaker, Trainer, and author of the highly acclaimed Culture Transformation book PLAN C. However, he prefers to be called an “Ideapreneur”, as he has been growing personally and professionally by ideating and executing unconventional and path-breaking business transformation ideas.
As a global human resources leader, he has over twenty-two years of strategic corporate experience under his belt across various industries. He holds a doctorate in HR management and organizational development from the world-renowned Academy of Human Resource Development, Ahmedabad, India. He is also a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), UK, and a fellow certified practitioner in HR from the Australian Human Resources Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

Rituraj Sar

Vice President and Head – Learning & Development at Lupin Limited.

Rituraj Sar has been involved in Lupin’s journey of growth by 10 times over 10 years as its Vice President and Head – Learning & Development. A USD 2 Bn Company today with 20,000 people in over 100 countries. Awarded nationally and internationally, with IIM Ahmedabad writing Case Studies on Lupin.

Rituraj has a Bachelor's degree with honors in Chemistry, a Diploma in Pharmacy and Masters in Marketing Management from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He has attended several other Advanced Management Programs from IIM Ahmedabad.

Rituraj has been awarded for sterling contribution to People Development by the magazine - The Human factor. He is also invited to be on the Academic Council Board of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University. Besides this, he is also on the Board of Studies of different Universities. He is regularly invited as Speaker on various forums of HR and Business.

He has led Learning & Development function at Lupin to earn Lupin a place in the Top 3 Private Sector Companies across all sectors for the Best Learning & Development Practices by BML Munjal Awards in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Under his leadership, Lupin has also consistently earned the rank as among the Top 2 Biotech and Pharma Companies in India as per Great Places to Work Survey conducted in partnership with Economic Times consistently over last many years since 2011. Various L&D initiatives have been honored with the prestigious Chief Learning Officers’ Award from Tata Institute of Social Sciences for several years since 2012. Another prestigious honour is the Global Leadership Award for Training & Development from World Training & Development Congress for 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. Among the international accolades, the ATD (earlier ASTD) Awards in Washington DC rated Lupin amongst the Top Companies in the world for the world class L&D work 5 times since 2014. IIM Ahmedabad has written 2 Business Cases on Talent Management practices in Lupin first in 2010 and then again in 2015. These are being taught in the MDP sessions over there.

Chinmaya Mohanty

Associate Vice President & Head HR, Akumentis Healthcare Ltd.

M.A. Ravichandran

Business Head, Engineering Services, Softcell Technologies Global Pvt Ltd.

A Transformational Change Leader and a highly experienced Engineer, presently leading Softcell’s Engineering Services Business Unit. In this role, he has engaged in orchestrating turnaround of many reputed enterprise customers through innovative use of PTC’s digital technologies, in the PLM, IOT and AR space.

Having over three decades of experience in leading R&D, QA & manufacturing teams of a reputed Diesel engine manufacturer. He analysed, scripted and and successfully saw through a massive PLM transformation across the organisation. This adoption of digital technologies with high degree of effectiveness is one of the popular `turnaround’ case studies published with PTC.

His remarkable ability to spot opportunities to create value for organisations, build and coach teams and generate results beyond stated expectation in the Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supplier Engagement, Supplier Improvement & Service spaces is well known.

Santosh Dayal

SR. GM & Training Head, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Harsh Monga

Director & Head - Sales Training, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.

Sachin Gaur

Global Head - Learning & Development, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

Kannan R

India Skills Training Lead, Pfizer

Janardhanan Narayanaswamy

CHRO, Eris Oaknet

Anindya Bhattacharyya

Head Commercial Training Excellence, APAC, Baxter International Inc.

Ashish kumar Jha

Co-Founder and CEO, Vani.coach.

Harpreet Pannu

Head Sales and Marketing Academy, Cipla Learning Transformation specialist

Amit Garg

Unlearning Coach & Corporate Trainer, Kushalta Pvt. Ltd.

Amit Garg is an MBA from XIM, Bhubaneswar, batch of 1995-97. He majored in Sales & Marketing. He has worked in the corporate world for 13 years in companies like HP, ICICI Lombard, Reliance Retail etc. He was in sales and has handled team size up to 600 people. His last profile was National Head - Agency channel. He is also a Reiki Master, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP follower and a Naturopath. He heads Kushalta Pvt. Ltd, which improves profitability of organisations on measurable metrics by changing behaviour of leaders/teams, using Mind Techniques. Customer include Maruti.

Shiladitya Mallik

Chief Business Officer and co-founder of SmartWinnr

Shiladitya Mallik is the Chief Business Officer and co-founder of SmartWinnr. He has 20 years of experience in technology and learning. He led Executive Education for international business in ISB Hyderabad for many years. Now as part of SmartWinnr, he advises global Life Sciences companies in driving knowledge and productivity of sales teams.

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Twitter Handle: @leadbetter2day