Raghu Ananthanarayanan is a Post-Graduate in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.  He is a leading consultant to several blue chip companies - Indian as well as Multinational. He has devoted almost two decades to transforming the organisational culture of several leading organisations.  He is one of the founders of Sumedhas – The Academy for Human Context. He is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has taught at Institute of Rural Management, Anand, and Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore. Raghu’s present focus is in organisation design and change management. He has developed a unique methodology called “Totally Aligned Organisation” that brings together his understanding of Manufacturing Systems, Human Processes and Yoga. He has published a book (The Totally Aligned Organisation) where he has elaborated upon some of the key ideas from Yoga and process work that he has used in a management context. He has studied yoga with Yogacharya Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikarchari. He has taught yoga at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for a decade and published a world-renowned book on Yoga (Learning through Yoga). During this period he completed his post graduation in Bio Medical Engineering based on a study of Asana & Pranayanma in the therapy of Back Pain. He is a leading Behavioural Scientist and uses the Yoga Sutras as a basis for the "inner work". Raghu has worked with several NGO’s helping them in personal development and organisation development. He is also actively involved with reviving craft groups and theatre. He has been passionately attempting a convergence between Indian traditional wisdom and modernity. He can be contacted at raghu@totallyalignedorganization.com

S Badri Narayana is a mechanical engineer graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has worked in Sundaram Clayton Group, a TVS company for 14 years and in TTK Group for 6 years. During his professional career he has hand-on industrial experience in a wide field covering Business Deployment, Policy Deployment using the X-type matrix, Project Management, New Product Development using Quality Function Deployment, Techno-Commercial Marketing, Operation Management, Facility Management and Quality Assurance Systems. Badri has implemented Change Management, and best manufacturing and organizational practices in a wide variety of industries like Packaging, Engineering, Garment, Electronics FMCG, Pharma, Plastics and Consumer durables. He has conducted sessions in QFD at IIM Bangalore and has conducted a number of programs for various industries from FMCG to Engineering industries. He can be contacted at badri@totallyalignedorganization.com

K.S.Narendran specializes in the areas of Human Resource Development. He integrates the principles of Lean Management with HRD.  Through two decades of experience in the industry as a practicing manager and a consultant he has developed a strong anchorage in OD and culture building.  Naren has worked with Information Technology companies in the areas of Competency Assessment, Leadership Building, and Team Alignment. He is a Post Graduate in Personal Management and Industrial Relations, TISS Mumbai, and a Fellow of Sumedhas Academy for Human Context. Naren has held leadership positions in the HR function, focusing on OD and culture for a decade. He can be contacted at naren@totallyalignedorganization.com

Gagandeep Singh is the founding member and ex-Director of TAO Knoware.  An Alumnus of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Ahmedabad, and a Fellow with Sumedhas Academy of Human Context, Gagan works with global and Indian organizations on Alignment, Strategy, and Organizational Transformation.  He has consulted within the Information Technology industry and the Pharmaceutical industry where organizations are consolidating their global leadership. He is a visiting faculty to IIM Ahmedabad, FLAME, and IMDR Pune, and is a Consultant to National Institute of Design (NID). He also brings in expertise in the areas of marketing, sales, and sales systems. He has been a trainer in the area of management development for many blue-chip companies. Gagan focuses on the processes of organization alignment and culture. Gagan specializes in the areas of Strategy, and Marketing. He can be contacted at gagan@totallyalignedorganization.com

Vandana Menon is a Literature Graduate & a Post Graduate in HR from Madras School of Social Work. She has more than 8 years of experience in the field and has worked with organisations like Tube Products of India and RPG Paging Services. Her consulting experience includes transformation, turn around, organisation development & operational optimization interventions through an organisation specific Implement – Teach – Train and Transfer approach. Trained in process work, she also brings in expertise in HR Management, Organisational Diagnostics and Development & Development Centres. She is engaged in a project with the European Union that involves research into the working of Virtual teams. She is a trustee on the board of Koothu-p-pattarai, a theatre group in Chennai. She can be contacted at vandana@totallyalignedorganization.com

Sharbori Gomes is an OD Consultant, Executive Coach and a psychotherapist. A graduate from Calcutta University, she is an accredited trainer in Process Work and in Group Process Facilitation from ISISD, an accredited MBTI Practitioner and a Fellow of Sumedhas Academy for Human Context.  Her consulting career spans over thirteen years. Prior to her consulting career, she worked for sixteen years in ITC Limited. Her last position was Senior Manager of ITC Classic Financial Services Limited where she headed the sales and distribution efforts of retail financial products. She can be contacted at sharbori@totallyalignedorganization.com

Chitra R is an engineer, specialized in Printing Technology. She brings expertise in Quality Function Deployment, Five S and other lean tools and works on creating manuals (workbooks) enabling Teach – Train - Transfer methodology. She can be contacted at chitra@flametaoknoware.com