Ketaki Malhotra

Founder, Istaka Consulting

Ketaki is an HR professional with over 25 years of experience across various aspects of Human Resources. With deep expertise in Talent Management, she has been instrumental in building client organization's capability and also partnered to create organizations capable of delivering on the company's goals.

Ketaki founded Iṣṭaka Consulting, a people development firm, in 2009. Ketaki leverages her experience both as an HR and Performance enhancement practitioner, as well as consultant and advisor to help clients design culture related or targeted leadership development interventions including leadership assessments as well as action learning programs. She delivers workshops that enhance people management skills with the added focus on helping organisations build a culture that is aligned with their vision and goals.

While working in the Industry, Ketaki has built the multi-location launch team for Max New York Life's business; this team was acknowledged as one of the best in the country. She also designed and developed the MIS system for the HR department as well as contributed to an ISO certification.

Given her strong business focus, she successfully delivered on her role as the business HR head for 3 of GE's commercial finance businesses. She was a core member of the GE India team that led campus hiring as well as an HR black belt project.

She was engaged in leadership hiring and assessments through her extensive work at Korn/Ferry International.

She is a certified Hogan assessor as well as an accredited Facet5 user, both being internationally recognized assessment tools used for leadership and managerial talent needs. She got accredited as a Master Trainer by SHRM India for their 'HR Next' program. She is also a Goldman Sachs ISB 10K Women scholar.

As a Hogan Assessor and Coach, she has worked with many Multinational and large Indian companies to help senior leaders develop deep self awareness and guided them through their individual development journey. She is also passionate about mentoring management students and is aligned with SOIL for the same.

An Erickson Certified Coach and a Board member of the ICF Delhi NCR chapter, Ketaki is also a certified NLP practitioner from the School of Excellence.

Ketaki has been part of a first-of-its-kind initiative, an all-women forum: "SAARC Women's Initiative for Peace and Prosperity" - a global forum for giving expression to women's vision of a non-violent, constructive and prosperous world, through development of education and economic independence for women.

Ketaki is based at New Delhi. Her family comprises of her husband and two daughters.

Meenakshi M. Singh

Meenakshi M. Singh is a rainbow woman. She is a prolific poet writing in English and Hindi, published author of two books "Soulful Symphony" & "Aawaz" and her body of work is published in various national and international anthologies, a mom, entrepreneur, and a certified creative writer. Recently she won three awards in 2015 for her contribution in writing and teaching, Magicka Women's achiever's award and Pride of Women award by Aagaman group and Sashakt Nari Parishad - Pride of nation award. She was one of the host in Delhi Poetry Festival 3 having Javed Akhtar, Muzaffar Ali, Prasoon Joshi as guests.

Meenakshi is Masters in Software systems, an IT professional with rich corporate experience of 10 years working in various MNCs. Being a Deputy Manager in an IT firm, she got her ultimate promotion in being a mother of twin daughters. After 10 years of rich IT experience as a software professional, Meenakshi found her true calling of life in writing and is passionate about the power of written word.

Her first poetry book "Soulful Symphony" published by AuthorsPress and BTB got released in 2013 which is available on flipkart, Amazon etc. and is receiving rave reviews from readers. Her second book "Awaaz" is a poetry collection on the contemporary society and women centric subjects . Meenakshi believes that poetry is a strong medium to uplift the sensitivity level of the society towards getting closer to being humane. She deliberately uses simple expressions and satire in her poetry to reach to many hearts. Aawaz is also available on all online portals like Amazon, Flipkart etc.

Her English and Hindi poems are published in various national and international anthologies - In Timeless Voices, Inklinks, Blueprint Review, In Our Own Words, Lovelets , Melange, Shodh Disha, Social Potpourri – An anthology, Purple Hues, Just For You, My Love, Resonating Strings etc.

She is the founder and CHO (Chief Happiness Officer) of "creativeHappiness", an organization focused on fostering creative expression and motivating the spirit of reading and writing. Her mission is to harness the power of expression to connect people across the globe to improve their own lives, their communities and the planet. She is conducting creative writing workshops in Gurgaon as a mentor for all age groups to promote consciousness for creativity. She has been polishing personalities by nurturing their expression. Her customized creative writing course "FIND YOUR VOICE" is well received by students of all age groups from 7-70 years. Many women have been benefitted and few of her "Find your Voice" young students are getting published in an anthology to be released soon in Delhi Poetry Festival, 2015. She is also the founder of creativeHappiness Book Club, having 800+ members, anchor of NCR Writers group as well as NCR Poets.

She is also a theatre actress, and has performed in various theatrical plays. She has contributed and written for Chitrashala – A Museum for Indian Culture and Heritage based near Nainital. She is also a Reiki practitioner , winner of many writing contests and a shopaholic housewife. She has won the best story prize published in "Under The Banyan Tree", first prize winner of Sunlit Hearts Crusade, Valentine Poetry competition by Poets Corner, Humor Contest by Women's web,Ocean to Ocean, Follow your Heart contest etc.

She is based in Gurgaon with her husband, raising her twin daughters and herself. At present, she is writing her third book, a romantic fiction novel to be published soon.

Sandhya Pathak

Sandhya is a Corporate Trainer and Communication Coach who brings with her almost 13 years of extensive experience in facilitation, coaching, content development, training design and delivery. She has worked closely with training teams to conduct need identification coupled with gap analysis to develop customized programs and content that supports overall corporate objectives.

She specializes in the delivery of Business Communication, Presentation Skills, Customer Service, Negotiation, Interpersonal, Personal Effectiveness and Time Management Programs. Her practical yet personalized approach creates a proper synthesis of learning and training objectives with learners needs. She has been certified through Lead Training Train the Trainer Program in New Delhi.

Proven in conducting pre-process, induction, soft skills, product and culture training, she has been always applauded for her connect with the audience, high energy levels and ability to motivate learners. Her stint with global brands in the corporate sector across industries has provided a practical and hands-on approach towards soft skills training that is not dependent on theory and content alone but is more customized to meet client and individual needs.

Apart from training delivery her initiatives in process improvement, developing appropriate training intervention for improved customer satisfaction scores, managing quality and compliance standards on the operation floor has made her a versatile entrepreneur with expertise in Customer Service, Customer Satisfaction, Quality Check Mechanisms and Process Enhancement Initiatives

Sandhya holds a post graduate management diploma in Marketing and is a certified NLP Basic Practitioner from Alpha-Stars Academy.

She is a certified Voice and Accent trainer conducted by Lead Training, Delhi- TTT Program She has also been trained on Accent Neutralization, US and UK culture through Next Academy, Bangalore and L& D Team, American Express.

She has completed her Advanced Diploma in Professional Development in Training through American TESOL Institute and pursuing her certification in leadership behaviors.

Sandhya is the Co-Founder and Lead Trainer of Drishtikone Consulting, Gurgaon.

Drishtikone's mission is to empower mothers, women, teachers, and trainers; since they are instrumental in the shaping the lives of millions of young budding leaders.

Sandhya has mentored many women professionals, she has coached them personally to work on their innate passion and create a powerful image of theirs.

She has the credit of launching few flagship programs like Communication to achieve 3I'S – Impact, Influence and Instill, Self -Mastery -Road to Personal Effectiveness, Be the CEO of brand ME- Personal Branding in Gurgaon.

She has designed, developed and conducted Train the Trainer Programs for Aspiring Trainers as Lead Facilitator.

She has successfully completed many batches of Spoken English with Global Accent Programs for Women in Gurgaon for the last two years. She regularly conducts Personal Coaching Sessions for Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs with special focus on Grooming, Business Etiquettes and Impactful Presentation.

She has been training trainers with techniques of connecting to the audience for positive learning. She infuses positivity, hope and direction in them with her undying spirit of achieving Personal Excellence.

She is also the Founder of the online group- Teachers –Building Blocks of Nation which connects teachers and educators to create awareness and importance of Life Skills Training for them.

She is an active member of groups like Personal Branding for Women on LinkedIn to learn & share innovative ideas for women entrepreneurs to establish their Personal Image.

She has recently been associated with NGO's like Win green, Buzz aria and Paathshala for varied training initiatives for illiterate and semi-literate women.

Sandhya Pathak has been keenly interested in women's overall personal development, and has encouraged and fostered ways and means for women to become independent and empowered, regardless of their social strata.

She has been advocating the philosophy of creating 'ME' time for women in many forums, blogs and write ups. She strongly believes that an individual who loves oneself and understands self-worth can be the torch bearer of love, positivity and happiness.

She has authored many articles on how to create 'ME 'time for self, how to create that personal brand and personal effectiveness.

Besides being an NLP Practitioner, Certified Soft Skills Trainer, Accent Trainer, TESOL Certified Trainer, Personal Communication Coach, A Motivational Leader, and Lead Teachers' Trainer;

Sandhya is passionate about food and travel, photography and fashion.

She is an avid reader and thoughtful writer cum blogger.

Her vibrant & colorful personality, her never give up spirit and positive aura has been an inspiration for many professionals.

Teenu Bawa

Qualified and certified Image Consultant from the Image Consulting Business Institute and trained under the curriculum of Conselle Institute of Image Management,USA.

Also a certified Soft Skill Trainer with a certification in Train The Trainer(TTT) from Image. Consulting Business Institute,which is accredited to National Board for Education and Training(NABET)and Scottish Qualification Authority(SQA)

My work spans across the fashion and corporate world. I have been helping provide a uniquely personal and professional appearance,including importance of first impressions,Image management for corporates,Vocal and Verbal communications,Corporate Etiquette,Body language etc.

Apart from this I ve done trainings in web designing and fashion designing and never stopped learning what ever came my way!

We do one on one consultations, group workshops, corporate trainings and work with several large NGOs. Some of them include Literacy India, Bagiya and Neev.

Had a wonderful experience training at one of the biggest global consulting firms on importance of first impression, image management, pulling up the casuals with the help of art of accessorizing.