Panel of Experts

Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness

Vibhu Nagral

Vibhu Nagral is a certified Health and Wellness and Lifestyle Medicine Coach with over 25 years of global experience in health education, yoga therapy, coaching, and counseling. She founded Choose to be Well 25 years ago with a commitment to enabling you to make the right choice to take charge of your increased wellbeing. We help you shape a healthy mind, build a fit body, retain mental agility, and transform your lifestyle so that you can Stay Sharp and lead an independent, healthy, happy life. Choose To Be Well (www.choosetobewell.org) has a collaborative approach called Circle of Health that you build with your doctor, your family, and health coach to achieve your optimum health, which we deliver with care, commitment, and confidentiality. With a career that spans both the US and India, she has extensive global experience in private practice, corporate and hospital wellness consulting, and workshops. Vibhu is a consultant and patient counselor for Healthspring, India’s leading nationwide chain of primary healthcare clinics, where she works with patients in the areas of cardiac rehabilitation, diabetes rehabilitation, women’s health, and depression under international guidelines adapted to local needs for effective outcomes.

Vibhu Nagral

Rachna Chhachhi

Rachna Chhachhi

Rachna Chhachhi, PhD, Holistic Nutrition, Certified Cancer Coach, is founder of RachnaRestores. She is a certified yoga teacher, and WHO task force certified in Malnutrition for infants and children. As a social health entrepreneur, Rachna specialises in reversal of chronic lifestyle diseases without medication. She gets invited to international medical & health conferences to share her case studies of disease reversal without medications across London, Europe, New York & Dubai, alongside medical specialists. She’s written 2 books, “Restore” and “You Can Beat Cancer”. Rachna practices across 27 countries to help prevent, manage and reverse lifestyle diseases like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, hormonal imbalances, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, acne etc. However, she is best known for her work with autoimmune patients, and she helps them reverse their disease, which rheumatologists say is impossible. Rachna has a health column with BusinessWorld Magazine. She has conducted over 500 health workshops and sessions for organisations. Rachna has been writing on health and wellness for 20 years. She has had health columns with Business Today, Outlook Business Magazine and TOI blogs.

Divya Chandra

Divya Chandra wears many hats, effortlessly inhabiting two different worlds; one in the arts, as Actor, Writer and Director and the other as the Project & Life Alchemist helping a global clientele; individuals, groups and businesses transform challenges into opportunities for growth, finding their authentic voice and all-round transformation. Now working with people from all ages and backgrounds, through her workshops, private coaching programmes and online school on Teachable she facilitates a more conscious connection with the self and helps participants tap and explore their aspirations and potential and find happiness. Her two worlds seamlessly collide under the banner of the Women of India Summit; the only platform of its kind, where a strong tribe of conscientious men & women work together to create empowerment, enlightenment and a better quality of life through webinars, quarterly workshops, online classes and an annual three-day summit. As the founder of The Women of India Summit, Divya curates a platform that addresses the ways women are kept disempowered and unhappy and provides guidance, insight, and tools that help women take control of their own lives.

Divya Chandra

Education
Education

Avnita Bir

Mrs. Avnita Bir is the Principal of R N Podar School, Mumbai. She is a graduate in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College and Post-Graduate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Mrs. Bir has worked in the field of Education for over three and a half decades. She has served as a member of the Governing Body of CBSE, the leading education board of the country. Mrs. Avnita Bir is the recipient of the prestigious National Award for Teachers (2009) conferred by the Hon’ble President of India. She has received the EQFI India Education Awards 2008 for Excellence in Education. She has also been honored by the President of Singapore for her contribution to the education sector. She was awarded the Microsoft Mentor School Award for Innovation in Education. Among many other awards and honours, she also received the FICCI Outstanding Woman Achiever Award for her work in the field of education. She was invited to Google, to speak at the Google Global Education Symposium at the Google HQ in Mountain View. She has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of Google’s GlobalEDU.org initiative. Mrs. Bir is known for her guest column on parenting for the Times of India group and has been covered widely in media like BBC, New York Times, Times of India, Times Now for her thoughts on education.

Avnita Bir

Executive & Leadership Coaching
Executive & Leadership Coaching

Tushima Mukherjee

Tushima is an independent coach and consultant, with a diverse portfolio built over 22 years of professional experience. Tushima has held human resources leadership positions at leading organizations across sectors like technology and BFSI, with complete talent lifecycle responsibility. Since 2015, Tushima has worked extensively in leadership development and coaching. She is certified in the Brain-Based Coaching for Results methodology. Tushima has built her experience on the foundation of Psychology and fundamentals of people management. She is certified and accredited in various psychometric assessments and coaching like Hogan Assessments, Belbin, MBTI, PPI etc. She currently coaches senior leaders across organizations and development foundations. Tushima has in the past and continues to consult with a wide range of organizations across sectors for Leadership Competencies, Job Evaluation and people sustainability practices. In her career so far, Tushima has worked directly with more than hundred leaders to enhance their thinking, skills and success through coaching. She is also a faculty member for the HRM&LR program at TISS Mumbai.

Tushima Mukherjee

Rahul Yadwadkar

Rahul Yadwadkar

Rahul is an accomplished Leadership coach, & organization development specialist who is associated with successful assignments in coaching and OD across multiple sectors like power, insurance, mutual funds, social development, plantation, healthcare, education, telecom, retail, textiles and start-ups.
Rahul has been a senior customer service professional with over 25 years of industry experience and is skilled in strategic customer relationship management, change management, leadership development and employee engagement & development with a strong systems orientation. Rahul has built his coaching and organization development expertise on the foundation of his experience in business operations under his direct leadership. He actively draws from his experience of executing various award-winning initiatives of organizational change and development while he was a part of the industry. He is certified and accredited in organizational development (ISABS) and coaching (CFI). As a Coach, Rahul specializes in beliefs, behaviour and perspective transitioning enabling leaders to accomplish career, role and emotional shifts.
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Coaching for Talent Development
Coaching for Talent Development

Sandhya Krishnan

Sandhya Krishnan is an ICF certified coach focused on productivity, wellness and mindfulness. She has over 20 years of experience across industries as diverse as law, the media, art, technology, retail, and wellness. Besides leading teams in various organizations, Sandhya has been an entrepreneur, corporate trainer with clients from pharma, hospitality and investment banking, a radio jockey, theatre actor, voiceover artist and writer. She has been trained in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and the neurometric tool MiND (from UK based MyBrain International). Sandhya has led content, technology and operations teams in the dotcom space and was instrumental in creating India’s first online campus recruitment interface for law schools. As a coach, Sandhya has worked with companies from different sectors like technology, insurance, development foundations and law. Sandhya is a graduate of the National Law School of India University. She has also been a part of executive education programmes at Harvard Business School and SP Jain Institute of Management and Research. She is a long-term student of the Vedanta Cultural Foundation and is trained in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hahn’s Plum Village practices.

Sandhya Krishnan

Nikita Singh

Nikita Singh

Nikita is an Organizational Psychologist from the London School of Economics, with over six years of experience in Talent Management and Leadership Assessment & Development. A large part of her work has been focused on leadership assessments followed by coaching and creation/delivery of customized leadership programs. In addition, she has worked extensively in the area of organizational design. She also has experience in the areas of assessing & defining organizational culture, conducing comprehensive HR diagnostics, as well as the design & execution of Performance Management frameworks for organizations. Her experience spans 10+ countries, and diverse industries, some of which include Manufacturing, Automobiles, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, FMCG and Retail. Her most recent role was at Korn Ferry, where she worked on a range of projects in the domain of leadership development, organization design and reward. She has completed Wellness Coaching certification, by the International Consortium of Health & Wellness Coaching (ICHWC). she also works with organizations in the area of integrated well-being, bringing together her expertise in the areas of social psychology, positive psychology and mindfulness/holistic wellness.

Theatre Based Facilitation
Theatre Based Facilitation

Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal

Mahabanoo is trained as a microbiologist and geologist, but in her adult life took up her first passion – performance. She is an actor, director and producer in film, television, theatre and radio with over 60 credits to her name in India and abroad. She is also a social justice advocate working diligently in the arenas of women’s empowerment and trying to end violence against women globally. Mahabanoo has just been awarded the Karmaveer Puruskar Maharatna Award (a Rex and UN initiative) for her work in women’s and girl’s empowerment and social justice. In 2018 she received the inaugural H.E.R. Award for her commitment to women’s empowerment. In the same year she also was honored with the inaugural W.O.W. (Women of Wonder) Award for exemplary women achievers in various fields. Mahabanoo is also the cofounder of The Make-A –Difference Foundation which raises funds and awareness to combat violence against women and children. Recently she was selected for a prestigious Summer Directing Course at Yale University (USA). She has worked with Indian and international luminaries such as Amitabh Bachchan, Prunella Scales, Richard Johnson, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Shabana Azmi, and the late Om Puri amongst many others. Some of her best-known films are: Black, The Sixth Happiness, Buddha Mar Gaya, Afterglow, Vintage Rusi, amongst many others. As the owner of Poor-Box Productions, one of India’s premiere theatre companies Mahabanoo has produced, directed and starred in some of India’s most critically acclaimed works and longest-running shows in English and Hindi including Shirley Valentine, Art, (W)Hole In The Head! and now in its seventeenth year in India, The Vagina Monologues (in Hindi and English).

Mahabanoo Mody

Sorab Wadia

Sorab Wadia

Sorab Wadia has performed extensively across North America, Europe and Asia as an actor and singer in an eclectic mélange of projects ranging from The Play of Daniel, a medieval music-drama, to the notorious Jihad! The Musical on London’s West End. Recent musical productions include in the North American premieres of Bend It Like Beckham (Toronto) with Gurinder Chadha and Monsoon Wedding (Berkeley Repertory Theater) with Mira Nair. In 2016 he was honored to play Shylock #1 & Gratiano in Karin Coonrod’s historic production of The Merchant of Venice commemorating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy. This production was later remounted at Yale, Dartmouth and Peak Performances in Montclair, NJ. He has toured internationally with The Kite Runner, a one-man adaptation of the novel by Khaled Hosseini, directed by Wynn Handman, and garnered rave reviews for his performance as Ali Hakim on the two-year Broadway tour of Trevor Nunn’s production of Oklahoma! TV credits include: Madame Secretary, Blacklist: Redemption, Law & Order: SVU, 30 Rock, and Chapelle’s Show. Off-Broadway: Babette’s Feast & I Spy A Spy, both at Theatre of St. Clements, The Tempest (LaMama), Bunty Berman Presents… (The New Group), and the New York premiere of Cole Porter’s Nymph Errant, in which he starred opposite Tony-winner Cady Huffman. Sorab received two Masters degrees in music from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Tennessee and trained as an actor in NYC with Maggi Flanigan, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest teachers of the Meisner Technique.

Swati Das

Swati is a theatre and film actress who has straddled the academic as well as the performative sides of acting. Her M.Phil. thesis was on Gujarat’s folk theatre form, Bhavai. Her upcoming films include ‘Jayeshbhai Jordaar’ (starring Ranveer Singh) and ‘Desert Dolphin’ (directed by Manjari Makijany). On the international front, she has performed in countries like Sweden and Czech Republic as part of international theatre companies. She did extensive training with the Act One theatre group and the Prague Shakespeare Company, performing in Europe a couple of years ago. One of her longest running plays in India is ‘The Vagina Monologues’ directed by Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal and Kaizaad Kotwal. She performs in both Hindi and English versions of this phenomenal play. She has also acted in many Hindi, Gujarati and English plays where she has worked with directors such as Lilette Dubey, Sunil Shanbag, Mahesh Dattani, Rajit Kapur and Manoj Shah. She has acted in films like ‘Bombay Talkies’ (directed by Zoya Akhtar), ‘Hindi Medium’ (alongside Irrfan Khan), ‘Beyond The Clouds’ (directed by Iranian director Majid Majidi) and ‘Space MOMs’(directed by Los Angeles based director Radha Bharadwaj). Her writing credits include a Doordarshan series titled ‘Yeh Hai India Meri Jaan’ directed by the national award-winning director Saeed Mirza. She has also written the screenplay for the short films ‘Grill’ and ‘Anaarkali’ (starring Ratna Pathak Shah).

Swati Das

Networking Advisor
Networking Advisor

Arvind Tandon

Arvind Tandon, fulltime networker, has built a landmark travel consulting business in last thirty-six years of his career. He currently invests his time in helping people create strategic and mutually beneficial business alliances. He is an active member of India Business Group for similar purposes. He has also conceptualized and hosted large training and learning events for corporates, offering individual practitioners, opportunities to make their expertise and services available for large organizations. Arvind plays a key role in helping various associations of businesses and various organizations reach us for our services.

Arvind Tondon