Chairman:

Dr. TV Rao:

Dr. Rao is the Chairman of T.V. Rao Learning Systems (TVRLS) and also works as a HRD & OD consultant to many organizations in India and abroad.

He is the founder President of National HRD Network & also Founder Director of Academy of HRD. Dr. Rao worked earlier at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad as a Professor for over 20 years. He also worked as Advisor in General Manager's capacity at BEML, Bangalore and served as Larsen & Toubro Professor of HRD at XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Dr. Rao pioneered HRD work in the country by setting up the first HRD department at Larsen & Toubro in the year 1975 (along with Dr. Udai Pareek). He has authored and co-authored several books in Management particularly in Organizational Behaviour, Entrepreneurship, Health & Administration, Education Management, Performance Appraisals, HRD & OD.


Advisory Board Members:

Dr. Udai Pareek:

Dr. Pareek is a renowned academician and a researcher - is a pioneer in the area of OB, OD and HRD and has played a crucial role in popularizing them in Indian organizations. He has served in the capacity of the Larsen & Toubro Chair Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He was the Chairman of the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur and also scientist - Emeritus at Indian Institute of Health Management & Research, Jaipur. He is also an adjunct professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA and visiting professor of management, MD University, Rohtak. Dr. Udai Pareek has authored more than 30 books, nearly 260 articles, papers and monographs in Indian and foreign publications. He has served on the editorial boards of well-known journals. He has also been honoured for his pioneering work through citations in India and abroad.


Dr. PVR Murthy:

Dr. Murthy a product of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta, has a Ph.D. to his credit from Gujarat University He headed the HRD functions at HMM and and Sundaram Clayton. For the past seven years, he has been operating as a Consultant to companies like L&T, Videocon, NALCO, VST, Dr. Reddy's, TVS Group, TCS, General Insurance Corporation, GEC Alsthom etc.

He has undergone training at NTL and also at Japan in TQM areas. He has presented a number of articles on HRD at various national and international forum. He served on the Academic Councils of Madras University, SK University and Academy of HRD. He is a founder member of National HRD network and is currently the Dean Consultancy of ISABS.


Dr. E Abraham, SJ:

Dr. Abraham a XLRI graduate has a Ph.D. to his credit in Psychology (HRD) from Gujarat University. He worked in various capacities including as Director of XLRI Jamshedpur, Joint Director of Academy of HRD, dean at XIM, Bhubaneshwar and is professor of OB, Board member of Association of Indian Management Schools and Board member of Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), Anand.

He has professional affiliation to a number of organizations at the national and international level. Dr. Abraham has a good number of researches and publications to his credit. At present he is a professor of OB at Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubneshwar.


Dr. K Harigopal:

Dr. Harigopal works currently as a Professor and Consultant at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Center for Continuing Education. Earlier he taught Business management at Osmania University. He has authored several books and has conducted several international programs on managing Change and Human Resources Development.

Dr.Mohan Thite:

Dr.Thite has a Master Degree in Personnel Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and a Ph.D. from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute and is currently a faculty member in the School of Management at Griffith University, Brisbane.

Dr.Thite has worked extensively as a Human Resource Management professional, particularly in IT companies in India, USA and Australia. His Ph.D. work on IT project leadership was a result of empirical research involving hundreds of IT professionals working for eminent IT organizations in Australia, such as EDS, IBM, DMR, Unisys and SAP.

His Ph.D. work received an international award from the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC, USA. He has published extensively in international journals on his work and is currently engaged in post-doctoral work to develop an empirically tested model for technical leadership, which he believes is essential, for the successful management of the core employees of the digital information era.

Mr. Kanta Rao & Prof. S. Ramanarayan are expected to join our board very soon.

TVRLS Team

Dr. Gopal Mahapatra – Fellow IIM-B, at present working as Managing Director, TVRLS - Bangalore. Prior to joining TVRLS, Dr. Gopal Mahapatra worked as GM-Corporate HR, BPL Ltd and as Head of HR at Gujarat Gas. He also worked as Corporate HRD Manager, INDAL, Calcutta and Bharat Electronics Ltd. before moving to Gujarat Gas. In his initial years he was a Faculty member at XIM-Bhubaneswar. Dr Mahapatra has worked extensively in the areas of Performance Management, OD, Training & Development, Assessment & Development Centres, TQM, and Employee Satisfaction Surveys. He has attended the Strategic HRM Course at the London Business School and the JUSE Program on TQC at Tokyo.

Mr. Raju Rao – Postgraduate in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur, worked as Personnel Manager, Torrent Pharmaceutical Ltd., and is currently Consultant and Director of TVRLS. He did his course in MBTI with Manasayan, and on consulting interventions at NTL, Bethel. He has a wide consulting experience in Assessment centers, 360 Degree Feedback and HRD audit with Alexandria Carbon Black, Egypt, Kewalram Chanrai group Nigeria, GVFL, Aditya Birla Group, NTPC, Tyco International, Neterwala group of industries etc. He co-edited the book on 360 degree and Performance Management Systems. He has been actively involved in ADC in BPL followed by a large number of assessors training and development center in NTPC. Besides 360 degree feedback, HRD Audit & Assessment & Development Centers (ADC) he also carries rich expertise in HR system building intervention

Ms. Nandini Chawla - An Electrical Engineer from Gujarat University & MBA from Narsee Monjee. She worked initially with TITAN Industries Ltd and later on with Indus League in the areas of Sales, Product Management & Marketing. Her experience provides a unique line management perspective to HR processes. In addition, she has also worked in the areas of Performance Management, 360 Degree Feedback, HRD Audit, Assessment & Development Centers and Training & Development.

Mr. Shishir Misra - A graduate in psychology followed by Masters in Human Resource Development & Management from Allahabad University. He carries around two years of organizational exposure working with research, consultancy and IT organizations. He is working as Associate Consultant and his areas of work include instrumentation, 360-degree feedback, Assessment & Development Centre, HRD Audit, Psychometric testing, developmental initiatives and organizational issues

Ms. Preeti Singh - A Masters in Psychology followed by Management Qualifications with specialization in HR from SCMHRD. Her area of work includes 360 degree feedback, Competency Mapping, Assessment Centers and Psychometric Testing.

Ms. Merlin George - A graduate in English literature. She has been one of the oldest members of the family and has worked with TVRLS for the past 7 years. She is Manager 360-degree feedback. She has acquired expertise in 360 profiling systems & has successfully managed 360 data for almost 60 organizations.

Mr. S. Santhanam - A graduate from Madurai Kamraj University (Tamil Nadu). He carries more than 41 years of administrative experience. Which accommodates nine years of experiencing with commercial organization & almost 32 years in academic institutions .He has worked for 12 years in MDP- Program administration and 20 years in Management Training Center (MTC). After superannuating from the IIM - A, he joined TVRLS In February 2002 as Manager - MDP to promote/support training programmes.

Former Employees:

M G Jomon
Santoshkumar
Shweta Pandey
Sabir
Tarranum Pathan
Vijayalaxmi Mandva
Taru Yadav
Soumya Dixit
Gautam Nanda
Radhika Meira
Sayantani Dutta
Derek D. Gomes
J. Annapurna

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