ABOUT OUR CATALYSTS™ (TRAINERS)
Udita Chakraborty has nearly 20 years corporate experience. She is an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. Udita is also an active theatre person. Her commercial directorial venture includes Mahesh Elkunchwar's PARTY in 2007 that played to full houses in India; in 2008 it went on to tour the UK. She produced and directed Can't Pay! Won't Pay!, that premiered in Kolkata in January 2011 in partnership with Ballantines; produced Pygmalion. Udita has done workshops under the aegis of Rudra Prasad Sengupta, acted under Ashoke Viswanathan. As a Rotary International Scholar, Udita has traveled widely and spoken on several current issues in the Rotary's USA and Canada fora. Udita is the Founder of NEEV and the LIFE through Theatre™ initiative is her brainchild.
Ashoke Viswanathan, a Film & Television Institute of India (Pune) graduate, is a three time National Award and an International Award winning filmmaker. He is a regular theatre worker, having acted in and directed more than 30 plays, notable among them being I.S. Johar's Bhutto in 1986. Viswanathan is a Charles Wallace Trust Scholar having represented India at the Cambridge Seminar on Modern British Fiction in 1997. Viswanathan worked in a BBC production, The Peacock Spring, Candle in the Dark. His film, Swapner Sandhane (Dream Hunt) had its European premiere at the Commonwealth Film Festival in Manchester (2002).
Malabika Bhattacharya has done Masters in Drama and Theatre Education from the University of Warwick, UK. She has worked in the area of transformational learning in the UK and India using drama methods. Malabika is also a singer and actor, having worked under reputed filmmakers and stage personalities.
L Mitra is a Masters in International Relations from Jadavpur University. Her core competencies are Soft Skills training, English Language Training, Accent Training (the UK & the USA), Phonetics, Workshops in Communications Skills, Presentation Skills, Voice Coaching. Mitra has also developed contents for eLearning courses across varied subjects- instructional manuals to language training.
S Chowdhory has more than 22 years training experience in the hospitality and retail sector. He was the training head of Vodafone, Modicare, Amway and The Park Hotel. Chowdhory has clocked more than 6,000 training hours. He is an MBA from National Institute of Management.
M Sarkar is a graduate from Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata. Sarker has 15+ years of experience in training in hospitality industries, hotel management institutes. Sarkar has delivered training on Livelihood Skill Development for 45 batches of students in Hospitality Skill Training. Sarkar has successfully conducted "Soft Skill Training for Base Line Staff in Service Industry" for 120 trainees with certification from the Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour.
D Chatterjee has 19 years of work experience in the Hospitality. Chatterjee graduated from the Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata. Devranjan has worked with the Taj Group of Hotels and The Park hotel. Chatterjee's core competency is Training in Customer Relations, Front Office Management, F&B Service, House Keeping. He also trains in Corporate Communications, Business Development and Personality Development. Among some of Chatterjee's achievements are ‐ upgrading staffing proficiency and staff skills at the Lake Club and Nicco Park, Kolkata.
Sreemanti Sen is an alumnus of Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata. She is an accomplished trainer, having more than 20 years training experience in Hospitality, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service in Financial and Hospitality industries. She is a faculty at NEEV Academy; conducts workshops for the schools. Sen has Insurance Faculty at the International Academy of Insurance & Financial Management. She is a certified trainer for Financial Services Specialist FSS (IN) and Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow LUTCF (IN) training.
SS Dawn is an IRDA Licence holder and has successfully taken the Licentiate Examination of the Insurance Institute of India, and AMFI-Mutual Fund (Advisors) examination. Dawn has more than 11 years experience in insurance training having worked with Bharti AXA Life Insurance. He imparted training both in technical and insurance sales. Dawn is also a Soft Skills and Personality Development trainer.
Suchishree Goswami, is a Masters in English from Delhi University. She was associated with VETA, British School of Language and Paradigm as faculty of English. Goswami's expertise is in conducting Workshops in Public speaking, Reading clubs, story telling, and trained groups in soft skills – both at the corporate and school levels. She also takes Communicative English training. She is a faculty at NEEV Academy.
N Das has 20 years training experience in the field of Communication Skills, training in English language (pronunciation and accent), Soft Skills, Personality Development and Corporate Etiquette. Das also teaches students appearing for English language examinations conducted by Cambridge University, UK.
MM Reza – more than 18 years experience as teacher, trainer, in India & the UK. She is our Chief Grooming & Etiquette Catalayst™.
Moumita Dey‐ Dey is a soft skills trainer; having experience in training at BPOs and KPOs for more than 15 years. She is an expert in professional make‐up and grooming. Moumita has been associated with NEEV since 2007.
A Haider has 20 years experience as a corporate trainer, engaged in consulting corporate houses in the learning & development domain. He has trained in behavioral skills, Leadership, Team building, change management, Time Management, Motivation, Customer Service, Sales and Retail. Haider is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).
TRAINING ASSOCIATES: NORTHERN INDIA
Jayeeta Chakraborty is an NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) practitioner, a qualified ISO 9001:2000 Practical Auditor and a Certified TESOL Teacher from Trinity College London. Having more than 18 years experience in the Hospitality industry, Chakraborty worked as Training professional with Starwood in UAE and China; has trained the staff at SOS International Clinic, China. Chakraborty was the Training Director at Onyx Hospitality in India, Thailand and Maldives. Jayeeta is based out of Gurgaon and drives Neev's business and training in North India.
Carolyn Romer and Russel Romer have been in training and development. Their forte lies in training in the field of Corporate training, Front-Office management, Communicative English, Business English, Conversational English, Soft Skills, Personality Development, Counselling students. They work with the schools and institutions of higher education. The Romers are based out of Chandigarh and are our training associates for Northern India.
TRAINING ASSOCIATES: WESTERN INDIA
M Dhar is an MBA in HR and Marketing from XIMB and Gold medalist and national merit scholarship holder in Economics. Dhar has 12 years of industry experience in organizations like Infosys, Microsoft, BCG and Mahindra. Dhar is a Trained assessor with certification from KPMG, Counsellor and part time faculty in well-known B-Schools. Dhar is based out of Mumbai.
Ravi Mathur is passionate training professional, working with the objective of positively impacting people's life, having over 17 years of experience, including 10 years in training. Headed training function for an automobile giant & a Telecom Major in India. A Masters in Human Psychology with over 1000 days of training delivery experience, Ravi has been involved in end to end training operations, starting from TNI (Training Need Identification), solution construct, delivery, transfer of learning analysis etc. In his earlier job roles with leading training organizations of India, he had owned and created the training solutions for some of India's top 100 companies. Mathur is based out of Mumbai.
TRAINING ASSOCIATES: SOUTHERN INDIA
Rajesh Krishnan, has more than 15 years of training experience; conducts training programs for all levels for premier organizations and is also involved in Organizational Development projects. Rajesh is based out of Bangalore.
Jyothi Menon, has 14 years experience in the field of training in hospitality industry, sales and marketing and communications skills. Menon has also worked with various theatre organisations in key positions. Menon is based out of Chennai.
OUR PANEL OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
Dr S Sen is a PhD in Applied Psychology from Calcutta University. Sen has 22 years of teaching and administrative experience. Sen has been associated with Jyotirmoy School of Business, as Dean – Academics, Usha Martin Academy, as the Director- Academics; ICFAI Business School, Kolkata, (IBS-K) as a Faculty Member of HR and Soft Skills. Sen is very active in the theatre circuit as well.
T Chatterjee is a Member of the American Psychological Association (APA). Chatterjee is a Life Skills Trainer. A Masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, Chatterjee has vast experience in conducting Psychometric tests, Wechsler Intelligence Assessments, Achievement Tests, Bender Gestalt, Personality Assessment, Trauma Assessment, Self-esteem and Self-concept, Projective Drawing Techniques, Assessment for Depression, Stress, Anxiety, ADHD, Neuropsychological Testing, among other methodologies.
Amrita Chakrabarti is a trained practising Psychologist. She is experienced in workshops on parenting, counselling students & has worked at length with adolescent boys and girls. Amrita is a Special Counsellor at LASWEB (Legal Aid Services of West Bengal). She has written several articles on teenage problems, conducted workshops for Times Group & Hope Foundation on substance abuse and addiction.
