Uma Arora – IDAM Learning

Uma Arora is the founder of Idam learning, an organization committed to working with individuals and enterprises to create learning opportunities in the domain of change, adaptability, personal growth and leadership. Uma has rich experience in leading high performing teams in the area of Education, Information technology, Academic Testing and Business process Outsourcing Organisations. Her passion for people development led her to switch roles from business to education and training. She is also an accredited MBTI Trainer. Drawing upon her rich experience in the areas of business management, psychological testing and education, IT training and sales, she brings an interdisciplinary and result oriented approach to training.

She is a deep learner, Executive Coach and a group facilitator who blends her hard core business and operations experience with her deep knowledge and passion in organization behaviour and adult learning. She has facilitated interventions for some of the leading multinational and local enterprises in the areas of teaming, building vision, culture and values, coaching culture, skill building and leadership development.

Gagan Adlakha – Vyaktitva

Partner at Vyaktitva, a product of XLRI 1990, Gagan joined NIIT right after campus and believe it or not, in these job hopping times, thrived there for 14 long years. Though to be honest he did his share of job hopping within NIIT - getting to experience not only all facets of HR but also taking on business responsibilities. Unlike so many of us who get stuck into our comfort zones, he moved his cheese and opted for a regional business head role for NIIT Planet works focusing on providing the BPO industry with recruitment and training solutions. As an associate with Vyaktitva, his diverse experience enables him to bring to any assignment a penchant for making HR more business and bottom line oriented. Having focused on processes, Gagan doesn't believe in one-time interventions but rather in enshrining learning's for long-term business impact.

Vinaya Shetty – VIN Management Consultants Pvt Ltd

Vinaya has 18 years of experience in Human Resources Management, Strategic Thinking & Planning, Coaching & Mentoring.

Vinaya is an Associate of the Centre for Strategic Management, USA and is based in Mumbai, India. She has been invited by the Arabian Society of Human Resources Management (ASHRM)in Bahrain as a speaker in their international conference (April 2005),where she has along with Mr. Stephen Haines, CEO & Founder of Centre for Strategic Management coached the participants on Strategic Human Resource Management-the Systems Thinking approach. She has facilitated in sessions in Singapore & Dubai. The Centre has 20 offices in 38 countries and she is well versed at interacting with all the Global Partners. In January 2006, she managed the Global Partner meet in India. It was extremely well received.

She was a corporate senior HR Executive who pursued her dreams of forming her own consulting firm in 1996. Her firm, VIN Management Consultants Pvt Ltd, is a boutique HR service house. It commenced operations with the zeal to assist start-up companies in strategizing, implementing & institutionalizing their people and search practices. Hence, it was an HRO - an HR Outsourcing firm - much before the rest of India realized this tremendous potential of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

Vinaya has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (Honors) and a Master's in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (Tata Institute of Social Sciences). She has completed her Doctoral programme from SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. The title of her thesis is "Strategic Human Resources Planning-Systems Thinking approach". She is a MBTI certified practitioner, a Facet5 certified practitioner and certified Executive Coach. She has completed People CMM (version 2) by TeraQuest and on Strategic and systems thinking tools and techniques. Developed by Haines Centre for Strategic Management.