Shaping Leaders and Businesses: Corporate training and visiting faculty – Ananthanarayanan Venkateswaran
Bridging Academia and Industry: A Journey of Impact: Visiting Faculty, Trainer, and Coach: Driving Impact Across Industries
I contributed to the academic landscape and the corporate world as a visiting faculty, FDP / MDP trainer/masterclass/speaker/Corporate Trainer, and Executive Coach for a diverse range of programs during the past few months across various institutions 🌏 👨🏽🏫
From the intricacies of luxury management to the challenges of sustainability and circular economy management 💚, I delivered programs for various institutions for their MBA, EMBA, GMBA, PGDM, 👩🎓 Luxury Management, Retail Management, Hospitality Management and to the corporate world for programs on Women Leadership at Work👩💼, Healthcare Management, Sustainability & Circular Economy, General Management, Decision-making, RCA, Negotiation, Pricing, Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, Buyer Persona, Entrepreneurship and Customer Journey Mapping 📈
It was wonderful to engage with these bright minds (students, faculty, and industry professionals) and share my industry insights with case studies across 16 countries 🤩 and my journey as an entrepreneur delivering 💲 400 Million Dollars 🌟 in sales for clients across the globe.
This opportunity allowed me to bridge the gap between academia and the real world, and I loved every moment of this while engaging with so many organisations in different capacities. Some were very surreal, and some brought back vivid memories. 💗
Here are a few of those moments that truly stood out, ranging from lighting the lamp 🪔 at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Indore, to engaging with iconic academic Gurus and stalwarts such as Professor Dr. and Director Himanshu Rai Sir 🙏 Col. Dr. Gururaj Pamidi, interacting with the brilliant minds and amazing professionals at organisations such as Larsen & Toubro, Meghe Group of Institutions, Nestlé and meeting students, industry professionals at various institutions undergoing their MDP’s and students from across the globe pursuing higher education and dual-country management programs ranging from Italy, Switzerland, USA, UK, Ireland, Australia, Dubai and more!
A few aspects that stood out for me while delivering some of these onsite programs with a hands-on case study-based approach 🏫 📖 was the use of a flipped classroom model 💭 for a few of the executive education programs that allowed for higher levels of critical thinking and problem-solving skills 💯 and utilising a gamification approach to enhance engagement in complex topics for executive coaching programs for the Women Leaders, 👩🏻💼 improving knowledge retention and coming up with practical, real-world solutions to complex industry problems with real-time collaboration and innovative problem-solving techniques.
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Website – Published in the Harvard Business Review – Jan 2020 – Running into Dr. Philip Kotler at Work – 400 Million Dollars – Digital Strategy ROI – Published in the Harvard Business Review: Marketing in the Age of Connection (HBR Special Issue) Nov 2022 – Published in The Economic Times: ET Brand Equity: Understanding Customers: The Real ROI Success – April 2023 – Published in The Economic Times: ET Government – Industry 5.0: Next frontier in sustainable business, employee well-being, circular economy – ET Government May 2024
