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Dr Mohanakrishnan Raman
Founder and CEO
Dr Mohanakrishnan Raman
Dr Mohanakrishnan Raman (Known as Mohan) is an Industrial & Organizational Psychologist with Ph.D qualification. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Aries Consulting Group (ACG). He has 22 years of wide ranging experience in research, teaching, consulting, institution building projects and enjoys deep corporate exposure. He is passionate to contribute to higher education in management, social sciences and Organization Development Subjects. He was a Professor and Head of HRD and OD department from SDM – IMD, Mysore from 2004 until 2008. He started an Educational Trust called Foundation for Research, Education and Development (FRED), to offer courses on Social & Behavioural Sciences including OD, OB and Leadership. He had worked in Telecom, IT and Banking sectors. His corporate consulting areas are Family Business, OD Consulting, Innovation, Coaching and Organization Strategy.
Training and Development being his forte, he has enormous interest in OD, and behavioural science- based training and interventions. He had done Competency Mapping through Development Centre process for more than 1500 managers in a large private bank, as a part of major change management project in India. His strategy and OD consulting assignments include organizations in Construction, FMCG, Manufacturing, Education, Banking and IT sectors. He has been an invited speaker in various forums like CII, NIPM, IFTDO, ATDO, ISODC and IODA.
He has done more than 250 development workshops for various clients. He also has designed and offered open programs in the areas of Talent Management, Performance & Career Management Systems & Process and Personal Transformation Clinic to say a few. He was instrumental and offered leadership in organizing Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) in the year 2006, and as a result he was instrumental in Founding Asia OD Network (AODN), along with other notable OD leaders. He was also a Founder President of AODN for three years from 2007 to 2009. He had spearheaded and offered his leadership to the GODS in China in 2007 and 2008 in Thailand. Under his leadership GODS was organized again in 2009 in collaboration with Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Infosys Ltd at Hyderabad. He was also the conference chair for the IODA Annual conference in Mysore, India in August, 2016.
He has published a paper in well reputed European journal “Challenging Organizations and Society” 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2, titled “The Caste System in India – its Power in Organizations and Politics”. He also contributed articles / chapters in edited books.
He is currently the Vice President – Conferences and Events (2016-19) for International Organization Development Association (IODA). He serves as an Executive Board Member of IODA since 2007 to help the conference organizing teams in IODA across the world. He is a Director for Foundation for Research, Education and Development (FRED) in setting up educational institution. He is invited to be a consultant with Integrated Consulting Group (ICG) Austria, an involved in “Innovation Boot Camp” creating an innovation culture at the various ministerial departments of the countries Finland and Estonia. He has been a resource person for training in the area of “Smart Specialization” for the Government of Slovenia.
He was a visiting professor at the School of Psychology in Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW), Switzerland for the last few years. He is recognized as an Erasmus Professor to teach in Slovenian Business Schools funded by the Education Ministry of Education, Slovenia. His other interests are travel and wildlife and Environment Conservation. He was a Dean – Academics & OD for a large Educational institution in Mysore, India for the last two years.
Dr. Bhavani Mohanakrishnan
Director
Dr. Bhavani Mohanakrishnan
Dr. Bhavani M has M. Com, M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Commerce. She is a Post Doc Research Fellow of the Witten Institute for Family Businesses (WIFU), Witten, Germany. The Focus of her research is on the internal working of the business family and analyses the role of women in the family business – a cross-cultural and comparative perspective of India and Germany. She is also a Research Associate of the Foundation for Research, Education, and Development (FRED)".
She has 15 years of teaching and ten years of research experience. Her research areas are Human Resource Development and Entrepreneurship. She submitted her research report on “Problems and Challenges of Women Entrepreneurs in Mysore District” with funding from the University Grant Commission (UGC). She presented her research paper at the International Family Business Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) conference in 2022, Spain. She has presented and received the Best Paper Award for the article entitled “An empirical study on Traits of Women Entrepreneurs.” at the international conference organized by Jain (Deemed -to-be-University), India.
She got her Life membership in Indian Council for Business Education (ICBE), Annual membership of the International Family Business Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA). She is also a Guest Editor of 3D… IBA Journal of Management and Leadership, July-Dec 2021 Volume 13 – Issue 1, on the theme “Women in Focus: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Advantages.” She is also a chief editor of an edited Book on “Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector-Issues and Concerns” She has published research articles in various national and international journals.
