Program 4 Dialogues
Team of Mentors
A number of senior experienced leaders – both men and women will be available to share their perspective and experience. These mentors are based in different geographies around the world and therefore mentoring sessions will be arranged based on mutually convenient times.
Anu Bora
Anu is an Executive Director with Client Associates, India’s oldest and largest multi-family office firm. She has over 23 years of experience in the areas of Personal Banking, Private Wealth and Family Offices. She is a graduate of IIM, Ahmedabad (Batch of 1998) and has in the past worked with ANZ Grindlays Bank, Standard Chartered, American Express and ASK Wealth Advisors in a variety of roles. Her interests include yoga, spirituality, psychology and music.
Gayatri Varma
Gayatri is a global executive with over 28 years of HR experience in varied industry sectors across India & international markets. Her passion lies in assisting businesses transform their Human Capital & People Capability to achieve strategic & disruptive shifts in scale or scope.
She has been in global leadership roles – most recently, she was with UnitedHealth Group (UHG), a Fortune #10 managed healthcare & insurance company. She has also held leadership roles at Bharti Airtel and American Express. Under her stewardship Amex was consistently recognized as an employer of choice over multiple years
Gayatri is passionate, driven and empathetic with a strong appetite to drive business evolution at scale. Her personal focus has been the fostering of cross-cultural sensitivity in the global corporate environment as well as supporting women leaders navigate the workforce effectively.
Gayatri is an Engineering Major from BITS, Pilani and a has Management degree from IMT.
Geeta Jain
Geeta Jain is an experienced business leader with a proven track record of over 27 years in managing large organizations and leading diverse functions including Operations, Client Management, Financial Planning & Analysis, Project Management and Consulting. As CEO of CWT India (2011-17), Geeta led a 1400+ team delivering “best in class” employee engagement, customer retention and business results.
Kanwal Walia
Director, Client Services
Dynamic, disciplined and diversified Senior Executive and mentor with over twenty years of experience as a successful strategic operations and relationship management leader across several continents. Creates opportunities and inserts herself as a solution oriented professional and colleague. Her focus over the past couple of decades has been geared towards mentoring women to take on leadership roles and driving their careers forward. Being a storyteller of her past experiences sets her up for candid discussions with her mentees. This has been her passion in her professional and personal life.
Other Interests
- Cultural experiences (travel/reading/networking)
- Playing a variety of sports, horseback riding/swimming/yoga
- Volunteering focused on child education, UNICEF Ambassador within her organization
Monika Saxena
Monika heads a learning organisation called 90 ten Training & Consulting. She has set up this organisation with the vision of achieving high return on the investment made in learning interventions by the organisation that she partners with.
Monika has more than twenty five years of experience comprising of a very interesting mix of Sales, Consulting, Training and Organizational Development in organisations like Samsung, American Express and NIIT. This rich experience helps Monika in synergizing ideal with the pragmatic while providing solutions and facilitating learning interventions.
Monika over the last several years has been engaged in mentoring young women professionals formally and informally. She brings in her practical experiences of managing a fulfilling career in the corporate, entrepreneurial experience and experience of managing a generation Y and a generation Z children at home.
Vinay Chhaya
His mission is to inspire, empower and equip people to unleash their potential and accomplish success while maintaining work-life balance.
Global Executive Leader. Collaborator.
Mentor & Coach.
From his earliest days teaching high-school students to achieve goals, to becoming highly successful global executive leader; there is one thread of commonality that runs through his life – coaching & mentoring! Vinay is a strong believer in achieving great outcomes via collaboration across stakeholders, keeping maniacal focus on purpose and most importantly ‘developing team into highly effective leaders’. Being an artist and an engineer, has enabled him to strike a balance between rational (process) and emotional (people) – a combination ever so crucial to create high performance teams and drive greater success. You may read more about his professional journey, here www.linkedin.com/in/vinaychhaya
Raja Sekhar Reddy
Founder – Squaremeal Foods Pvt Ltd
Founder – Ekalavya Education & Research Foundation
Founder – BizSR Advisory Pvt Ltd
PGDM, IIMA (1994), BTech, IIT Kanpur (1990), CSE. Experience ranging from Business Creation, Incubation & Growth, Corporate & Strategic Planning, Organisation Development, Hospitality, HR Operations, Knowledge Management, Training, Business Process Reengineering, Information Technology, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Project Management, and a Teaching experience.
Founded Innovsource(2004), grew the company to be India’s 4th largest staffing company and exited. Founded Indian Staffing Federation – an industry body for the staffing industry.
FoundedSquaremeal Foods(2015), runs three restaurants -Mirchi& Mime (fine-dine contemporary Indian cuisine) and Madeira & Mime (resto-bar, serving Multi cuisine food), served exclusively by speech & hearing impaired (SHI) wait staff.
Founded a non-profit, Ekalavya Education & Research Foundationthat works towards sustainable employment of speech & hearing impaired through vocational training. (Ekalavya.Foundation)
Founded BizSR, that helps incubate, curate and groom start-ups forearly stage seed-funding from angel investors.
Neeta Mathur
A post graduate of IMT, Ghaziabad 1995 batch, Neeta completed her under graduation from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi University. Having a major in HR, she worked as an HR Generalist with South-Asia’s leading engineering consultancy, before starting on the journey of freelancing in HR initiatives.
As a HR specialist, she has been involved in strategic and results-oriented Organizational Development & Change Management initiatives, Performance Management, Assessment Centres, Management Development including conceptualizing and delivering training programs for enhancing individual / organizational effectiveness.
She is a certified POSHA educator. During her tenure as an employee, she was nominated as Head-Women Forum of the organization. Currently, she is involved as being a visiting and adjunct faculty in various prestigious business schools.
She completed MA (Psychology) in 2015 and is a certified Coach and practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).