LEADYNE - Key Persons
Dr. Madana Kumar, PhD, is an industry veteran with close to 4 decades of Industry Experience in organisations like Bharti, HCL, IBM etc.. He is a passionate student, thought leader and practitioner of Servant Leadership. His passion is in evangelizing Servant Leadership (a topic he chose for his Doctoral dissertation) in all types of organisations, including Corporates, Educational Institutions and Social Sector organisations. Madana is recognized as a Thought Leader, Strategist and Mentor, in the fields of Learning & Development and Leadership. He is currently shaping and implementing the Talent Development strategy of a Digital Services company, UST Global, to accelerate its transformation, bring in significant business impact for the organisation. He is also spearheading the implementation of Servant Leadership as the overarching Leadership philosophy all through the organisation. His efforts have brought several national and international laurels to him personally (eg: CLO of the Year, Global CLO of the year, Talent Development Champion of the year etc) and for the organisation (Several Brandon Hall awards, ATD Awards, Learning Elite Listings etc). He is a much sought-after speaker at Tier 1 Management Institutes in the country, and a prolific writer in several national and international magazines on the Topics of Learning Strategy and Servant Leadership.
He holds a PhD in Business Administration. He has dual bachelor Degrees , a B.Sc (Physics) and a BE from Indian Institute of Science. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and Certificates on Leadership awarded by the Cornell University , USA.
For his Doctoral work, Madana studied the application of Servant Leadership in Indian NGOs.
Dr. Pearl John is a well-regarded leader in the assessment and leadership development space. He has served in 28 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Pearl brings sharp insights into leadership behaviors and has facilitated coaching sessions for the top leadership including Managing Directors of reputed organizations such as HSBC, Philips among others. He also serves in the Boards of organizations including the Logos Management, Young Soul Foundation, World Vision International et al.,
He provides the technical architecture for client-specific solutions and engages in end-to-end conceptualization of the design and implementation of assessment and development interventions for top and senior management levels. Pearl conceptualized DISCOVER, an approach to coaching. Further he has institutionalized PROGRESS, a framework for developmental dialogues to facilitate individual Development planning. His role includes engaging with clients at the CXO level to present our solutions and generate buy-in as also facilitate enablement of the internal team and the associate network.
Pearl served as the Consulting Director in SHL, a global consulting firm where he served as a member of the India Leadership Team and the Asia PS Leadership Team. Prior to that Pearl was with Taj Services Ltd, where he was Corporate Manager -Training & Development, having joined the hotel company Taj Group as Quality Facilitator. That followed his first employment, as Consultant with an affiliate of Taj Group, Headway- The Human Resources. He has held several portfolios within the Taj, including Recruitment, Quality, Training and Generalist HR. Pearl was responsible for streamlining learning and development, talent management and organizational effectiveness. He conceptualized and implemented a range of behavioral interventions including team building and leadership enrichment programs.
Pearl has facilitated CEO talent review sessions to enable well thought through talent decisions for critical high impact positions in client organizations. He helped shape future leader identification and development programs for HiPos through an integrated learning journey encompassing assessment center, classroom interventions, action learning, coaching and mentoring
During his career, Pearl has worked with a number of blue chip organizations across industry verticals that have included automobiles, aviation, BFSI, breweries, coal, FMCG, hospitality, healthcare, IT/ITES, manufacturing, NGOs, petroleum and natural gas, pharmaceutical, power, railways, research, retail and sugar.
Pearl holds a Postgraduate Degree in Industrial Psychology specialising in Organisational Behavior and a Doctorate in Leadership. He speaks English, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.
Joe is a serial entrepreneur, award winning businessman, and author of the critically acclaimed book Entrepreneurial DNA - named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of top business books to read in 2014. He started his first company at age 23 and had distribution on 4 continents with over $10 million in sales volume by age 28. Since exiting that company, he has started up and grown businesses in industries ranging from lead generation to professional services. His technology company - a SaaS provider - grew to over 18,000 paying customers before his exit. Today, in addition to serving on several boards, he is Founder & President of G3X Group, a consortium of brands focused on the development of young athletes, real estate properties, and growth-minded organizations. The industry-defying revenue growth of the G3X organization is testament to what Joe teaches, and is an ongoing case study of what is possible when servant leaders are developed with an entrepreneurial mindset. Joe has been featured on the TED stage as well as on Fox News, CNN, network TV and the Wall Street Journal as a subject matter expert in various business categories. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two sons.
Job Titles:
- Associate Certified Coach
- Consultant to the U.K
- Leadership Coach
Rahil is a Leadership Coach who has acquired experience across various fields, countries and cultures throughout the years. As a leader in one of the most influential philosophical organisations in the world with thousands of centres costing over $800 million dollars in investments, programmes and events - training, mentoring and coaching individuals and teams spanning the UK, Europe and the USA was a vital ongoing practice for Rahil at senior levels for continued success and growth. Whether its coaching teams to raise funds and implement multimillion dollar projects or coaching individual entrepreneurs and business leaders to enhance personal performance, Rahil's coaching enabled anyone who crossed his path to unlock their full potential, craft a growth chart and ensure it was achieved, both personally and corporately. After a well deserved gap to diversify in other fields to develop other skills, Rahil is re-building his coaching portfolio of business leaders in the UK who have business with high net worth individuals across the globe.
Rahil is also an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and qualified through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). The ICF is the world's largest non-profit coaching association with over 41,000 members across 145 territories. ICF maintains high standards for professional coaches worldwide and requires ICF Credentials to be renewed every three years. It is the only globally recognized professional coaching credential. During the first half of the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Rahil offered 100 hours of free/token priced coaching to 19 clients in various spheres of influence across the world via zoom to help shape their personal performance online.
Rahil's biography - Found By Love was published in 2016 and has sold just over 10,000 copies and is translated into 8 different languages which entails speaking engagements in various countries across the world. He has travelled extensively throughout his life across the U.K., USA, Russia, East Africa, South Africa and India as well as over 400 trips across various European nations. Rahil's ongoing East-West exposure allows him to have access to a variety of cross-cultural insights. Authors such as JK Rowling and high profile statesmen such as the Crown Prince of Kuwait have picked up Rahil's biography over the past few years.
Currently, Rahil is also a consultant to the U.K. government, European Parliament and certain NGOs in India and its diaspora's culture, ethics and religion and how they play out within contemporary geopolitics. After speaking in the European Parliament in March 2021 he contributed to various key resolutions on human rights, freedom of religion and media that the EU presented later to the Indian government on May 8th at the annual EU-India Summit.
He also consults churches in the west on various matters.
Rahil lives in Oxford, United Kingdom with his wife Szabina. They love travel, art, film, history, philosophy and theology. In his spare time Rahil enjoys writing short stories of transformed lives.