Curating Young Leaders (First Time Manager)

Niket Karajagi is a business psychologist, coach, and an organization development facilitator. He has over 25,000 hours of consulting and training experience while having contributed to over 175 organizations worldwide. He has trained and coached well over 2,00,000 leaders and managers globally in various behavioural and management areas. He has designed and implemented over 120 training titles and OD interventions for organization scale-up, change, and transformation.He contributes to technology, manufacturing, automotive, information technology, FMCG, logistics, financial sector, telecom, services, pharmaceutical, realty and media houses regularly. His body of knowledge is now under patenting after having been through the process of successful implementation and validation. He is a certified coach for Marshall Goldsmith’s renowned Stakeholder Centered Coaching Process and 360-degree assessment for coaching on Global Leaders of Future competencies. Niket today is implementing various change management and business scale-up interventions in European organizations. He is also a certified MBTI and FIRO-B practitioner, DISC assessor, and a trainer. He also has the International Saville Accreditation to run their psychometric tools.

Niket is a Mechanical Engineer by education with a rich and diverse corporate experience of over a decade in various senior management positions both in India and overseas. His successful career map includes tenure ship as a profit centre head, direct and institutional sales, marketing, customer support, advertising and product management, business consulting, channel management, franchise management, managing large-scale operations, training, and human resource development. His corporate career comprises of start-ups and business turn around and transformation.

As a corporate and business professional his strategic experiences are shaped by the contributions to the Trinity of Corporate Social Government enterprises. He has undergone training in the USA in “Process of Selling a Change.” He is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) certified by The National Federation of Neurolinguistic Psychology, USA. As an entrepreneur, he founded Atyaasaa Consulting Private Limited, Pune India for contributing to Indian business and people needs. He is actively involved in developing skill sets at the grass root levels like academic organizations, SME’s and NGO’s worldwide. Atyaasaa also has global partnerships for people and organization development.

Thus, Atyaasaa is strategic human development partners with top-notch ethical brands worldwide. Atyaasaa as a brand is a journey of “Awakening Human and Business Excellence” through training interventions, coaching, research, people and business consulting. Atyaasaa’s tree of knowledge is crafted by his passion for creating business excellence through transformational OD interventions. As a professional coach, he is committed to developing his protégés as growth enablers for their organizations. As a mentor, he acts as an alchemist of human and business excellence. He inspires the spirit of passion and imparts the necessary life skills to emerge as a powerful change agent.

Niket believes in research-based scientific and systematic approach towards coaching and training interventions. Hence, his interventions always start with an in-depth protégé profile analysis based on validated behavioural diagnostic techniques. Furthermore, diagnostic tools and manager input are regularly utilized by him for customizing the implementation strategy and staged inputs for each protégé. He has a support team that specializes in designing and developing coaching and learning strategies.

The andragogy (adult learning methodology) used by him is a blend of diverse methods like multimedia, discussions, case studies, simulations and self-initiated insights. To make the process result oriented, very specific, time-bound goals are determined for the protégé which is reviewed by him periodically. Being fundamentally ROI oriented, he believes in the quantitative measurement of the coaching and training effectiveness. He has a large inventory of customized coaching and OD intervention models exclusively for top executives and key talent.

In the process of evolving as an entrepreneur, he is incessantly burgeoning into various verticals related to people domain and focussed on the creation of a global OD brand “Atyaasaa” which essentially means facing the “Truth.”