Asha Bhandarker is well known in the field of HR and Leadership Studies in India as a scholar, consultant and researcher. Prior to her current assignment as a Distinguished Professor OB at IMI-Delhi, she was the Raman Munjal Chair Professor of Leadership Studies as well as Dean Research and Consulting at MDI-Gurgaon.She has published 7 books and 40 research papers and cases in peer-reviewed, national and international journals. She was awarded the highly coveted Senior Fulbright Fellowship for research in the United States, where she studied the best business schools and their practices and pedagogies. In addition, she has, over the years, received the Best Paper award, Best Case award and the Best Teacher award.Over the last 28 years, she has worked closely with the corporate sector in the areas of training, organization development and capability building. She is one of a handful of professors working with board levels and top management teams of many organizations. She is a recognized HR expert and has been invited on many boardlevel HR committees. Dr Bhandarker is actively associated with professional bodies and has addressed participants of national and international conferences. She has widely travelled across the USA, Europe and Asia and has rich experience of teaching and consulting in India and abroad.Subrat Kumar is the CEO of People Labs, now a leading name in Experiential Learning interventions for corporate and higher educational institutes alike. An MBA from Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon and a FPM fellow from IMI New Delhi (thesis submitted), Subrat started People Labs Pvt Ltd in 2010 (then known as Cinque Education). Before that, Subrat worked as Brand and Sales Manager at Asian Paints. In his 11 years of entrepreneurial journey, Subrat has trained more than 25,000 students and corporate professionals. He has delivered learning interventions for companies across private and public sectors including Airtel, ADP, Axis Bank, GSK, Maruti, Trident, Asian Paints, IOCL, NTPC, Canara Bank, Union Bank, PNB, Powergrid to name a few. His academic clients include MDI, XLRI, NMIMS, IIM Kashipur, IIM Trichy, IMT, IMI, BIMTECH, FLAME University, NIRMA University, IIFM to name a few, wherein his interventions range across student capability building, faculty capability building and helping institutions prepare for accreditation and rankings. Subrat has also presented and published internationally. He was the only Indian at the ABSEL 2017 conference (largest conference in the world for experiential learning practice), wherein he presented two papers. His case study titled New Holland Tractors India: Community Management and Employee Relations has been published at Richard Ivey Case Centre. He has also published in SCOPUS indexed journals and contributed a book chapter titled ‘Humanistic Leadership and its impact on Organizational Effectiveness’ in edited book.
