With no one to guide me in my studies or career, I was an ordinary rural Indian child with no ambitions or goals. Nobody would have believed me if I had said, “I will become a Global Professional Speaker one day”.
Vivekanandan Sir is the one who changed everything in my life. He was my Tamil teacher in High School. We speak the Tamil language in Tamilnadu – a southern state of India. He pushed me into elocution and debate at school, and I picked up speaking as a passion. I won many School, Town, and District-level contests. Speaking led me to read, and reading became my passion.
I spent holidays reading Tamil books and magazines in the local government library. Literature, science, politics, philosophy, self-help and leadership were my dearests.
I loved Physics in school and went on to study Electrical Engineering. In college, I was only into technical education. Four years passed with little speaking, debate, or arts and culture.
I landed up in Bangalore – the Silicon Valley of India, to work for Philips – NXP Semiconductors as an Engineer. Swanand Kulkarni – one of my managers, introduced me to Stephen Covey, Tony Robbins and Brain Tracy.
When I decided to become a Corporate Leadership Educator and Professional Speaker, I did two important things in my life.
First, I joined British Council to learn the English language. Second, I became a member of Toastmasters International to learn Public Speaking.
After four years at NXP, I worked as a Principal Engineer for a US-based Multinational Company, Qualcomm.
With over eight years of work experience in technology, I joined a German Automotive major, BOSCH as an HR Manager.
I pursued speaking and training while still working at these large global organisations.
Now it’s more than 20 years into the Corporate World and 8+ years into the Speaking and Training Business. I’ve spoken in several countries including Singapore, Sri Lanka, France, Russia, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Dubai and Bahrain.
My mission in life is to help organisations build their leadership pipeline. I believe that there is a huge scope of leading corporates to effectively invest on their managers and leaders in building
Ok…ok, I know it’s going long….!
I’ve had many more exciting incidents from my life journey. Let’s meet sometime over a coffee, and I would love to share them with you.
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