Kishore Gandhi
Founder & Director
Kishore is a strong believer of the innate capability in people and that it needs to be nurtured by an enabling environment. This is the keystone principle with which he operates as a person and a professional. Kishore is known for his style of empathetic inquiry, creating climate for insights, facilitating self-directed learning which naturally empowers people for personal and professional growth.
From early in his childhood, Kishore had always been fascinated about people, psychology and group dynamics that he observed in his surroundings and developed a deep desire to explore the realms of self and others. Although he chose a career as an entrepreneur in manufacturing and industrial products, his foray into people and organization development as a vocation emerged out of his early life experiences.
Kishorea??s consulting work has been in Leadership, Management and Organization Development, facilitating organization change processes and coaching for 10 plus years. He has worked with corporate, public sector and social development sector.
Kishore is a Professional Member of Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Sciences (ISABS). He has been on the staff of Group Relations Conference.He possesses broad understanding and experience in applying different learning methodologies in designing and delivering interventions. He facilitates unstructured, semi-structured, structured, experiential programs and workshops.
Methodologies: T-groups, Group dynamics, Group Relations Conference (Tavistock model), Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology (OST), Future Search Conference and World Caf??.
Accreditations & Certifications: FIRO-B, MBTI; Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance System (San Francisco, USA).
Kishore maintains a vehement affinity to simplicity, approaches everything with childlike curiosity and novelty of thought. This is also implied by his diverse interests in his life that span across sports, eastern philosophy, Jungian depth psychology, social change movements, politics and dance. He is an avid practitioner of Ashtanga yoga.He is married and lives with his spouse and two daughters in Bangalore.
Meenakshi Vijayasimha
Founder & Director
Meenakshi believes each one of us has an innate potential and capacity to achieve what our hearts and minds desire if one is passionate, focused and committed. She enjoys enabling this discovery in self and others in her work as a Learning and Development Professional.
A multi-cultural life experience and her education ranging from Microbiology, Genetics, Zoology, and Computer Programming to a HR degree and applied behavioural science have shaped her learning! This learning spirit helps her to research work or subject topic, processes on people and Systems. Her keen interest in understanding people lead to her present career. Previously, she has been a sales and marketing professional for six years in the Indian Automobile and Advertising Industry.
She has facilitated many programs in Interpersonal Effectiveness and Life Skills, and is now specializing in coaching.Meenakshi is currently pursuing her Professional Development at the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Sciences (ISABS), India partner for NTL, US.
Methodologies: T-Group, NLP, TA, Group Relations Conference (GRC), Tavistock Model, Jungian Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry (AI).
Accreditations: She is certified practitioner of Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance System (San Francisco, US) and also a certified Intensive Coach Trainer (ICT) from Neuro Leadership Group.
She is passionate about dancing, adventure sports and Basketball. She is trained in Carnatic Music and a Bharatanatyam Dancer. She loves travel. She is married and lives with her spouse two kids and a dog.
Neela Kishore
Founder & Director
Pursuing ideas and converting them into reality energizes Neela. She believes that every individual pursues his or her passion and grows to the degree that one is willing to risk. Embracing change and challenge makes moments palpable in her view. These tenets are anchored in her work with self, people and organizations in realizing their higher potential.
Her 20 years professional experience has spanned across Sales, Marketing, Human resources and co-founding Advayaa??s Human Capital consulting practice. In her HR career as a leader, Neela partnered to co-create high performing value based organizations with enabling people practices in companies like Juniper Networks and Cisco in India, while collaborating across multiple cultures. She has managed country HR operations, Talent Management, HR business partnering, Learning and Development, Inclusion and Diversity, Total Rewards.
As a Talent development leader, she has designed and led several workshops on leadership, managerial effectiveness; Employee engagement, Career development, financial acumen; Inclusion and diversity.Her stint in sales and marketing experience has given her deep insights on brand value, creating employee and Employer Value proposition.
Neela is a Professional Member of Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Sciences (ISABS), India Partner for National Training Laboratories (NTL) a?? USA.
She is an Academic Council Member for the ISABS ODCP program.
She enjoys creative cooking with her children, jogging with her pup, listening to Indian classical music and meditation. She practices Ashtanga yoga. She enjoys reading on management, Jung and Systems thinking. She lives with her spouse and two daughters in Bangalore.
Nivedita Saxena
Senior Consultant a?? Talent Systems
Nivedita is a HR professional with 7+ years of experience in HR function. She has held different roles being a HR Business Partner, Recruitment & Selection, Training & Development, Employee Engagement & Employee Connect, Performance Management, and Rewards & Recognition. She has also worked on end to end HR consulting projects and worked in different industries which include IT, ITES, Architecture and Social Enterprise. In her career, she has worked with Gensler Architectural, Infosys, HP and Milaap Social Ventures.
Nivedita holds an MBA in Human Resources & Marketing, and is a Science graduate. Her zest for exploring self and unquenchable desire of learning makes her a unique professional. Nivedita Has started her ISABS journey by completing BLHP and she is aspiring to move ahead.
She is an enthusiastic traveler, a passionate Madhubani painting artist and lives in Bangalore with her spouse who is an HR professional.
Sowjanya V
Senior Consultant
Sowjanya is a Senior Consultant (Talent and OD) at Advaya Humanistic Systems.
She is passionate about enabling individuals and teams to achieve their fullest potential. And believes success in any organization would be realized by bringing together an effective interplay of people capabilities, processes and systems.
She has over 6 years of experience in Human Resource Management and brings a strong professional expertise having performed various roles such as HR Business Partner, Consulting and OD. Before Advaya, she has worked for organizations like Wipro Technologies and SHRM(Society for Human Resource Management).
Her areas of expertise include Change Management, Competency Modelling, HR Transformation, Design &delivery of Learning Solutions, Global HR, Talent Management, PeopleLeadership, 360 Degree Feedback, Leadership Development, Strategic HR Business Partnering and HR Operations. She has experience in IT sector and has worked with telecom, retail, shipping, and BFSI sectors during her consulting stint.
Sowjanya has a post graduate degree in Human Resource Management and Labor Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She holds GPHR (Global Professional HR) certification from Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). She has embarked on a journey to build a strong foundation in behavioural sciences through Human Process Labs from ISABS. She is also certified in Appreciative Inquiry practicum.
Sowjanya is a seeker for truth and authenticity and defines herself as a a??Learner for Lifea??. She is an avid reader, is passionate about dance and music and is a certified practitioner of Zumba fitness.