In today's episode, I have the pleasure of inviting Niket Karajagi. Niket is a Mechanical Engineer, MBA in International Business Management, Author, Tech-Educator, Podcaster, Blogger, ICF accredited Business Coach, and an Organization Development facilitator. He has over 25,000 hours of consulting and training experience while having contributed to over 175 organizations worldwide. He has trained and coached well over 2,00,000 leaders and managers globally in various behavioral and management areas. He has designed and implemented over 120 training titles and OD interventions for organization scale-up, change, and transformation. He regularly contributes to technology, manufacturing, automotive, information technology, FMCG, logistics, financial sector, telecom, services, pharmaceutical, realty, and media houses. His body of knowledge is now under patenting after having been through successful implementation and validation. He is a certified coach for Marshall Goldsmith's renowned Stakeholder Centered Coaching Process and 360-degree assessment to Global coach Leaders of Future competencies. He is also a certified MBTI, FIRO-B practitioner, a DISC assessor & trainer, and a Saville Certified Assessor with International Accreditation. He is also a certified Emotional Intelligence and Appreciative Enquiry practitioner.

Niket is Certified in Entrepreneurship from WhartonOnline and Certified in Design Thinking from the University of Virginia. He has over a decade of rich and diverse corporate experience in various senior management positions in India and overseas. In addition, he is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) certified by The National Federation of Neurolinguistic Psychology, USA.

As an entrepreneur, he founded Atyaasaa Consulting Private Limited, Pune, India, to contribute to Indian business and people's needs. He is actively involved in developing skill-sets at the grassroots levels like academic organizations, SME's and NGOs worldwide. Atyaasaa also has global partnerships for people and organization development. Thus, Atyaasaa is a strategic human development partner to top-notch ethical brands worldwide. Atyaasaa as a brand is a journey of "Awakening Human and Business Excellence" through training interventions, coaching, research, people, and business consulting.

He also founded Atyaasaa Consulting Foundation to contribute to society's intellectual development at large at the bottom of the pyramid. His thought is that empowerment must commence at the grass-root levels. The foundation works in the area of development of blue-collared workforce and education projects with Academic Institutions.

Niket also founded AtyaasaaOnline to pioneer a Tech-Education initiative in the area of Management & Leadership Behaviours. It intends to create a borderless learning portal to take knowledge beyond boundaries. AtyaasaaOnline also contributes to learning and development as a differentiated blended learning portal.

Niket has authored Zen the Essence of Excellence in Leadership, which is available as an eBook on Amazon and the Atyaasaa Publication Portal. The book brings the aspect of Spiritual Quotient to Corporate Leaders. It is a book that can be read repeatedly, and his Zen sutras create varying Zen moments of truth in each read.

In the process of evolving as an entrepreneur, he is incessantly burgeoning into various verticals related to the people domain and focussed on the creation of a global OD brand, "Atyaasaa," which essentially means facing the "Truth."

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