Devika Arora is the founder of Magic Mind, India’s first self discovery and self care platform that focuses on holistic coaching, goal clarity and finding one’s purpose. Magic Mind also hosts India’s first e-support group about mental well-being and emotional mastery strategies to curb stress and anxiety. Devika is the Vice President of the WICCI Bangalore City Council-Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a honorary member of Women Economic Forum. In 2019, the company was honoured with NCCN Excellence Award for Social Impact. In 2020, Devika was given the Habit Hero award for her work during the pandemic by Harappa Edu. In 2021, she was 2 time awardee at DivHERsity Awards for Magic Mind – top 20 SMES and for self – top 20 diversity champions in India. Prior to working in the healing space, she has 10 years of solid work experience in the visual arts and entertainment industry with the likes of GoPro, Telefonica, MPC, Lush, Alienware, PUMA and TEDx. She sports a strong portfolio of work and branding, with a deep underlying understanding of what makes people tick. Her first entrepreneurial venture 420/ Char So Bees in 2011 was a highly successful event space in Calcutta India that promoted fresh talent from across the country. Devika is a creative entrepreneur in all rights and believes in the power of community to sustain any company. She has a BSc. in Entertainment Business, a Masters in Design and is currently pursuing her second Masters program in psychology.
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University: Indian Institute of Management Banglore
Chandra Nataraja
Rohit Kauntia
Being at the helm of 2 organizations, one of which is a legacy business, and the other being the brainchild of 3 like-minded groupies, I find myself highly engaged among elevating people. I eat ideas for breakfast, most of them served by insightful companions. This has given me the handy tools of positive attitude, uplifting mindset and an inspiring community – everything you need to grow beyond your limitations.
I have found that, when you persistently annoy life with your craziest ideas, once in a while she will let them happen. So, why live a drab life when you can make it crazy exciting, right?
Having gained so much in life, I now long to extend my theory of happiness beyond my inner circle and help those struggling to find long lasting fulfillment and joy in their lives. Now, having found a definitive formula and a method behind this madness called Life, I want to use up every opportunity to be of help. If you are cringing for peace, finding your personal purpose or discovering the true meaning of happiness, then I can sure be of some help. Again, I am not restricted by tags of a coach, mentor or guru. Rather, call me a friend who has been where you find yourself, and found his way to freedom!
Apart from business and life, I enjoy working with social and government organizations which works towards self and nation building. I’ve also been lucky to represent India at various world events like the G-20 Summit, inspiring others and showcasing Indian leadership and managerial skills across the globe.
Manish Jain
Manish Jain has an immense experience of 23 years of working at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). He joined SCB in the year 2000 and has worked in various geographies in India (Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata) and across variety of corporate banking client segments (SMEs, mid-size corporates, large local corporates, multi-national corporates and financial institutions). His responsibilities ranged from credit analysis to sales & client relationship management to team management. In his current role, He is responsible for developing and driving strategy, priorities and sustainable growth of the Commercial Banking business in India. Commercial Banking client segment includes mid to large corporates. Prior to joining SCB, Manish has worked in GE as Senior Black Belt – Six Sigma, in Ernst & Young Consulting as Senior Consultant and Maruti Suzuki as Vendor Development Manager. He’s an MBA from IIM Bangalore and B. Tech from IIT Delhi.
Nischal Gupta
Gayatri Subramaniam
Aditya Shamsher Malla
A Hotel General Manager with pre-opening, conversion, renovation, repositioning and rich Sales & Marketing experience. An alumnus of premier institutions like IMT Ghaziabad (PGDEM – Human Resources) & University of Delhi (BA Honours in Economics), I have enriched my knowledge with a Strategic Business Leadership course from ISB Hyderabad and a Strategic Management course in Luxury & Lifestyle Business from IIM Bengaluru (2019). A seasoned Hotelier with two and a half decades in Luxury hospitality, and over a decade in Leadership roles. I have worked in a diverse culture and even assisted in creating it in a Conversion environment. Specialties: #Cultural competence #Strategy & Leadership #Renovation and relaunch #New Hotel opening and Critical Path. #Repositioning #Operational Excellence #Revenue and yield management #Financial Management #Training and Development
Rohit Beri
Prahlad Tanwar
Prahlad is an Executive Director at KPMG and leads strategy consulting engagements focused on the transport and logistics sector. He has led several assignments for leading logistics companies and Ecommerce retailers in India focused on growth planning, project management, M&A and diversification themes and is recognized as a leading logistics advisor.
Prior to joining KPMG, Prahlad spent over a decade at the A.P Moller-Maersk Group across various geographies including India, USA, Germany and China. Prahlad’s core competencies include driving commercial transformations focused on top-line growth, business diversification strategy, product development and new market entry.
Shashank Sharma
An alumni of IIM Bangalore and Drexel university, USA. He is the Executive Director at SK WORLD. Under his leadership, SK World has scaled as one of the market leaders in India for exports of Natural stones with slab/tile & cut to size of granite, marble, Sandstone, quartzite etc. He pivoted their state of the art infrastructure and machinery. Initiated a brand SKineer for Indian market and built quarry division. Also transformed business digitally by building an in-house ERP. SK World caters to all your natural stone needs of slabs/tiles from Granite, Marble, Slate, Quartzite, Sandstone, Limestone & Stone mosaics. The company is well equipped for cut-to-size projects, Vanities, Counter Tops etc. SK has done many projects including Hotels, Malls, Apartments, and Hospitals etc. all over the world through our distributor network. Their granite plant, International Stones is well equipped with imported plant and machinery, adopting the latest technology for cutting and polishing.