Girish Vinayak Dharap
Founder & Director
Something About Me...
I am a result driven professional with over 15+ years of consulting and training experience. I have a successful track record of providing innovative trainings and advisory services in the area of overall organizational development. I have provided trainings pan India and few projects abroad, having delivered over 11000 hours of training conducting in the areas of Leadership development, Life skills, Soft Skills and theatre based workshops till June 2017.
Being a life skills trainer and coach I focus on giving people in the public and private sector the opportunity to sharpen their skills and improve their performance to build positive, steady, measurable results for their organization.
Education
- B.E (Civil) from MIT Engineering College-University of Pune
- MMS (Master in Management Science) (Merit List Holder) - University of Pune
Training Certifications
- Certified Facilitator from Dale Carnegie Training
- WCT (WNS Certified Trainer) (Certified)
- Certified NLP Practitioner from ANLP, India
- Certified NLP Master Practitioner, ANLP, India
- Certified Hypnotist, ANLP India
- Certified Advanced Life Coach, ANLP India
** Conducted over 500 different training programs/workshops while working with WNS & Hitachi Consulting with the Learning & Development Teams
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Professional Background
(Aug 2002 –Oct 2013)
- Sr. Learning Specialist, Hitachi Consulting
- Manager, WNS Global Services
- Business Development & Training Executive, Dale Carnegie Training
- Sales Engineer, Universal Construction Machinery
- Project Engineer, DD Associates Environmental Consultants
Established Nalanda Business Associates,a proprietary firm in December 2013
Head-Creative Learning, Infini Institute of Program Management, Pune (Dec 2013 onward) Developing and delivering creative learning programs for civil engineering students pursuing Post Graduate Diploma Program in Construction Management at Infini. Developing practices for blended learning approaches including classroom based, web based and other learning programs. Also heading Business Development function at Infini. Working closely with CEO for operational excellence, academic design and developing corporate relations.
Visiting & Guest Faculty
- NICMAR (National Institute of Construction Management & Research) Pune –August 2015 onward
- Infini Institute of Program Management, Pune – July 2015 onward
- DIMR,Pune – August 2017 onward
- MIT College of Management- 2007-2013
- MIT School of Business- 2012
Awards & Recognition
- Rank holder: 2nd in order of merit for MMS program, University of Pune & 1st in order of merit in INDSEARCH Institute, Pune
- NIRMITEE: Second prize -National Level Technical Paper Presentation competition
- Universal Construction Machinery: Best upcoming Sales Engineer
- WNS: Performance Excellence Awards
- Hitachi Consulting: Sparkle Award, Team Award
- Special Recognition: Lead facilitator across WNS for “Train to Retain” project in 2011-12, this program was the CEO’s key project and the aim was to reduce attrition by working closely with Business Units, vertical HR teams and other stakeholders. Was able to successfully deliver results & as an overall impact of the project, attrition was reduced by 6% ,saving huge cost for the organization. In one of the business verticals – Finance & Accounting(F & A), attrition was reduced by 11.3%
- Various awards at inter-college festivals for Drama & writing poems
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Interests
I am fond of travelling, exploring people and places, Dramatics, Reading, Writing short stories poems and also cartooning. Have received awards and accolades at various inter college festivals pan India.
I have done my theatre/drama training with Padma Bhushan Mr. Anupam Kher (Veteran superstar from Hindi drama and films) and Mr. Sharad Ponkshe (leading Marathi drama and film actor). I have also attended workshops with Padma Bhushan Naseeruddin Shah ( Veteran superstar and one of the finest actors in Indian films) and Padma Bhushan Late Pandit Satyadev Dubey (Theatre Veteran and one of the greatest theatre Guru in India). Attending these workshops helped me hone my communication skills, creativity, gave me confidence to perform and release my stress. I am learning Bansuri (Flute) from veteran Bansuri player Mr. Rajendra Teredesai (disciple of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasiya) in traditional Guru-Shishya parampara.
My professional work is highly inspired by “Theatre of the Oppressed” - a movement by the Late Augusto Boal - legendary theatre Actor, Writer & Director from Brazil.
"Hridayrang" was one of the programs conducted by me. Generally known as Kavya Darshan in Marathi, which effectivelly means "Kavita Vachan", we read "Prem Kavita" from poet Uddhav Kanade’s book “Hridyarang”.
This program was a big hit and got lot of press coverage. Some photos of this program are given here:
