PEOPLE SPACE - Key Persons
Professor M.S. Rao, PhD is the father of 'Soft Leadership' and founder of MSR Leadership Consultants, India. He is an International leadership guru with 39 years of experience and the author of 48 books including the award-winning See the Light in You .
He is a C-Suite advisor and a sought-after keynote speaker globally. He brings a strategic eye and long-range vision given his multifaceted professional experience including military, teaching, training, research, consultancy, and philosophy. He is passionate about serving and making a difference in the lives of others. He trains a new generation of leaders through leadership education and publications. His vision is to build one million students as global leaders by 2030. He has the vision to share knowledge freely with one billion people globally.
He advocates gender equality globally (#HeForShe). He was ranked #1 Thought Leader and Influencer on Culture Globally by Thinkers360. He invests his time in authoring books and blogging on executive education, learning, and leadership. Most of his work is available free of charge on his four blogs including http://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com.
He is a prolific author and a dynamic, energetic and inspirational leadership speaker. He can be reached atmsrlctrg@gmail.com.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Organizational Psychology at Queen Mary
- PS Contributor
Rob Briner is professor of organizational psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and also scientific director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management. His research has focused on several topics including wellbeing, emotions, stress, ethnicity, the psychological contract, absence from work, motivation, work-nonwork and everyday work behaviour.
Beyond academic research Briner helps practitioners and organisations make better use of evidence, including research evidence, in decision-making as well as encouraging academics to make research more accessible.
He has written for and presented to practitioners on many aspects of HR and organisational psychology and is now involved in many initiatives aimed at developing and promoting evidence-based practice. He has received several awards for his work in this area including the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2014 and topped HR magazine's Most Influential Thinker list in 2016.
Briner is author of What is employee engagement and does it matter? An evidence-based approach which he also presented at the Employee Engagement Summit.
Job Titles:
- Non Executive Director of the CIPD
- PS Contributor
- Writer and Contributor
Shakil Butt (FCIPD, FCCA) is a values driven, accomplished, award winning HR professional, with over 20 years of experience leading an award winning global HR team in a multi faith, multi ethnic and multi-cultural environment.
Now working as an independent consultant, he was the director for human resources and organisational development at Islamic Relief Worldwide, one of the largest global relief and development charities in the UK. The charity works in over 40 countries, with a diverse and culturally rich workforce. The charity went through rapid change and growth during which time he led an award winning team, was shortlisted as HR director of the year and awarded HR's Most Influential for two years consecutively.
Originally working as a qualified accountant, Shakil spent his early career in the private sector before later moving into the charitable sector. In 2009 Shakil had a career change and became qualified as a HR professional. These two professional disciplines mean that he has a more holistic perspective being adept with the two most important factors in every organisation, its' people and its' financial resources. Shakil particularly enjoys developing managers and is an accredited ACL and ILM trainer as well as being a qualified MBTI practitioner.
As a non executive director of the CIPD, Shakil brings challenge and support to the senior leadership team working strategically, managing risk, compliance and safeguarding the assets of the charity to meets its legal obligations. In addition Shakil is the Honorary Treasurer for the CIPD, chairing the Audit Committee and sits on the Remuneration Committee.
Shakil is a regular writer and contributor featuring in a number of HR publications and speaks at HR conferences internationally on various topics ranging from strategic HR to Values. Shakil has reviewed books by leading HR practitioners and sits on a number of judging panels for HR best practice awards.
As a member of the regional leadership team working with Mosaic, part of the Prince's Trust, Shakil works with young people in education to raise their aspirations, self-confidence and employability. Shakil was awarded Mentor of the Year 2017 for his contributions to date as well as being nominated for BVSC Community Volunteer of the Year.