 Pallavi
Jha
Executive Chairmana
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd.
Pallavi Jha is the Chairperson & Managing Director of Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd a publicly listed company. Walchand PeopleFirst has international partnerships with some of the world's leading firms and brands such as Dale Carnegie, USA (training) and PerformanSe, France (Assessments).
Pallavi has diversified exposure to various
management practices in areas such as training
and development, HR, consulting and business
restructuring, and lobbying, covering a wide
range of industries from media, entertainment,
technology to the financial services sector and
the engineering industry. She has been recognized
by reputed institutions such as CII and FIE Foundation
etc for her outstanding contributions.
She has been a vocal spokesperson for industry
associations , and has chaired and moderated panel
discussions involving India's leading business
leaders. She has played a pioneering role in setting
up India's first Finishing School focused on soft
-skills training, the missing ingredient in the
talent development and employability challenge
confronting Indian industry. Additionally, she
has been part of women's groups which has encouraged
first generation women entrepreneurs into taking
business initiatives.
She has singularly led the India operations into
the fastest growing region for Dale Carnegie Training,
winning several global awards for service and sales
excellence. She has been a keynote speaker and
a panel member in various forums on business, HR,
training and leadership. She has also been Chairperson
of CII, Maharashtra Council.
She was Executive Director of India's leading
construction company, HCC, an erstwhile Walchand
Group company before starting off her own ventures.
She also worked briefly in market research at Feedback
Ventures and Proctor& Gamble.
Pallavi is an MBA from Syracuse University, New
York and a graduate in humanities from St Xavier's
College, Mumbai.
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 Sanjay
Jha
Executive Director
Walchand PeopleFirst Ltd.
Sanjay Jha is the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India, which has a global experience of having worked with over 400 of the Top Fortune 500 companies. In India, Dale Carnegie has worked with over 700 corporate firms and trained 90,000 Dale Carnegie graduates in the last six years.His area of professional interest and management science specialization includes leadership development, creating the vision and mission map and enhancing employee engagement. Sanjay is an Executive Coach and Mentor who has advised top management as well as senior political leaders.
Sanjay has often received an overwhelming feedback and recognition for his high-quality training and leadership talk . He is one of the senior trainers in the global Dale Carnegie Training network, and has addressed global audiences in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Singapore, Bermuda, Taiwan , Mexico and Toronto. He has conducted several corporate programs focused on executive development, advised companies on corporate image management, done executive coaching and consulted with companies. He has also addressed business schools, industry conferences and knowledge symposiums, and has also been engaged as a strategic consultant/ advisor on training to a leading political party.
He has made several contributions to mainline news and business dailies and magazines such as Business Standard, Indian Express, Financial Express, Hindustan Times, Mid-Day, Tehelka and Rediff. com, and appears regularly to air his views on print and electronic media.
He has founded one of the world’s leading internet portals called CricketNext.Com which was ranked once amongst Alexa Top 1000 sites globally, and is now part of the Network 18 media Group.
Prior to starting Dale Carnegie , Sanjay was instrumental in setting up the private sector mutual fund industry in India , having worked as a Senior Vice President with ITC Threadneedle Asset Management ( part of BAT plc, UK) , Vice President Alliance Capital ( USA), Bank of America and Senior Manager with ANZ Grindlays Bank. He started his career in sales with Bharat Petroleum.
Sanjay also co-launched a political blog called www.HamaraCongress.com during elections 2009 and plans to escalate it into a full-fledged portal with multiple new features in the future.
Jha completed his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and his Master’s in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune. He graduated with distinction in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune.
Sanjay has also written a cricket anthology, quiz books and published his first collection of poems.
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