Making Business Sense in HR

Understanding the Indian Psyche and harnessing its Positive Potential


Ashok is an Organisation Consultant who works with individuals, groups and organizations. He is deeply interested in Gender, Inclusion, Diversity, Culture, Leadership Development. Ashok has developed a framework and tools called the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM) for mapping individual orientation, organisation culture and the interface between them and is also the author of “Child Man – the Selfless Narcissist.

NHRDN Chennai Chapter
Presents
“Understanding the Indian Psyche and harnessing its Positive Potential”
Speaker
Ashok Malhotra, Organisation Consultant

At 07.00 pm, on Wednesday, 24th Jan, 2018
At Hotel Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.

Role of HR in Organization Change & Transformation

Shubha Kasivisweswaran, Head HR – TNQ Books & Publishing
Shubla’s jourrey in HR has been one of unlearning, as much as it has been of learning. Her experience in the line HR function started with Gulf Oil in Humbai in 1992 where she was an integral part of setting up the Personnel function. Crossing the floor to consulting, she has worked on her own, and with Cerebrus Consulting. After a stint managing multiple roles across India and Tunisia at SurGard, based in Bangalore, she now runs HR for 114 Books and Publishing, in Chennai, where she brings together her business skills with RR depth to help drive the organisation through a period of intense growth and change.

NHRDN Chennai Chapter
Presents
“Role of HR in Organization Change & Transformation”
Speaker
Shubha Kasivisweswaran, Head HR – TNQ Books & Publishing

At 07.00 pm, on Thursday, 23rd Nov, 2017
At Hotel Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.

Spirit of Mindfulness and Leadership

Research by Harvard Medical School and other university studies have confirmed that Mindfulness Meditation has changed the brain structure of the practitioners by increasing the grey matter in Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Pre Frontal Cortex, Hippocampus and other areas of the brain!
Why the above fact would be of interest to every leader working in the VUCA business environment?
Why would a business leader want to know about Anterior Cingulate Cortex. Pre Frontal Cortex. Hippocampus?
Want to know more? Please Join us!
Sounak is a practitioner of mindfulness and meditation. He first learned meditation at the age of thirteen. Early inspiration came from reading Swami Vivekananda, and the first integration of spiritual practices into work started in the beginning of his career, when he served social sector at the Himalayas. In the year 2006, he was initiated spiritually and continues to be a learner of the spiritual essence of both ancient as well as contemporary teachings from various traditions.
As an Organization, Learning & Leadership Development professional, he has 15 years of diverse experience in multiple industries and roles. He has worked and consulted with organizations such as CRISIL, IMRB International, Azim Premji Foundation, Adventity, ICRA McKinsey Knowledge Center, Nicholas Piramal,Sanofi Aventis and SICO Bahrain.
He led Youth Leadership & Community Development across India, co-founded strategic HR consulting firm, managed nation wide hiring and led Leadership Organization Development for US $ 600 Million Rene Group.
Sounak is management post graduate from IISW & BM, Calcutta and an alumni of Search Inside Yourself (SIY) Mindfulness and Neuroscience based Leadership Prograrn, which was born at Google and designed by world experts in the field, such as Daniel Goleman, Chade-Meng, scientist from Stanford and a Zen master.
He is the founder of ‘Hi Happy Monk!’ a Mindfulness based Leadership, Learning & Organization Development consulting firrn.

NHRDN Chennai Chapter
Presents, An experiential session on
“Spirit of Mindfulness and Leadership”
Speaker
Mr. Sounak

At 06.30 pm, on Friday, 27th Oct, 2017
At Hotel Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Mindful Tea & Networking is part of the experience!

NHRDN Chennai Monthly Meeting – Friday, September 22nd 2017

South India, especially Tamil Nadu has temples with walls that speak. They speak of how one can create an organisation or a legacy that can survive for a 1000 years and of what it takes to build a culture that can survive for more than 5000 years.
This talk will look at 3 insights one can glean to create/change organisational culture from techniques that have stood the test of time – literally!

Listening to 1000 year old Walls speaking

Pradeep is a graduate from the London School of Economics and JNU. He has more than 2 decades of experience especially in learning and development. In Infosys he managed L & D for more than 40,000 employees around the world. In McKinsey he worked with clients across Asia to increase revenue, reduce costs, enhance customer experience by working on behaviour change.
Using traditional Indian philosophy, art, music and literature, he has improved revenues by as much as 300cr in 2yrs. He partners with mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik on bringing philosophy and mythology into leadership sessions with his own expertise of Indian history.

NHRDN Chennai Chapter
Presents
“Listening to 1000 year old Walls speaking”
Speaker
Mr. Pradeep

At 07.00 pm, on Friday, 22nd Sep, 2017
At Hotel Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.

HR Analytics The Hype & The Reality

Bringing data science to HR

This month’s meeting will be followed by the Annual General Meeting of the Chapter, which is open only to Members.
Pramad Jandhyala is Co-Founder at LatentView Analytics where she has helped build LatentView from ground up, anchoring key roles in strategy and execution to guide Latentvies’s rapid growth and recognition including the Deloitte Fast 50 (for 7 years in a row) and Frost & sullivan Analytics company of the Year.
Her Specialities include Organization Building. Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Getting Things Done, Change Mgmt by helping others win. People Leadership Pramad an engineer from BITS Pllani and MBA from IIM-Calcutta

NHRDN Chennai Chapter
Presents
“HR Analytics The Hype & The Reality”
Speaker
Pramad Jandhyala
Co-Founder at LatentView

At 07.00 pm, on Wednesday, 30th Aug, 2017
At Hotel Savera, Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai, Mylapore

P.S.
Registration Fee of Rs. 400/- will apply to Non-Members attending the program.
Networking over tea begins at 6.30 pm.