| FRED will strive to maintain its highest standards of education and research by having the association of the most respected and eminent academicians and research experts, drawn from different continents, in its Advisory Council. Dr R. Mohankrishnan, who has specialized in OD intervention techniques and practice and has also worked in different industries, will be the Member Secretary of the FRED Advisory Council. |
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| 1. DR. K. SREENIVASAN |
| Dr K Sreenivasan, is the member of the Committee of Management, Kirloskar Investments and Finance Ltd., appointed by the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka since 2001 to till date.
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| He has held a number of important positions in the Government of Karnataka and Government of India. He worked in the Cabinet Secretariat, New Delhi for nine long years. He worked as the Chairman and Managing Director of the Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation for four years. He was promoted to the rank of Inspector General of Police in the year 1989 and appointed as Member, Efficiency Audit and Vigilance Bureau, Karnataka State. He was promoted as additional D.G.P, Crime and Technical Services and as D.G.P Prisons. As DGP Prisons he brought innovative reforms in the Prisoner’s Life. In 1996 he was appointed as DGP and Chairman and Managing Director of the Police Housing Corporation. He later became the Director General of Police, Fire Force, Home Guards and Civil Defence. In 2001, he became the Director General and Inspector General of Police, Karnataka State, Bangalore. |
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| He holds Honours degree in Physics and Mathematics
and Masters degree in Mathematics. In 1963, he took up the Combined
Civil Services Examination held by the U.P.S.C and was selected to
the Indian Police Service. He secured the 5th position in the All
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| As a man of knowledge seeker he took up further studies and completed his doctoral degree in Industrial psychology for which he was awarded the PhD by the Mysore University in 1988. He has a Bachelor’s degree in law also. |
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| He was a Member of the Syndicate of the Bangalore University during which tenure he was made the Chairman of the Affiliation Committee |
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| During his work in the Police Department, he was awarded the President’s Police Medal for meritorious service by the President of India on the 26 January 1997. |
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| He has also engaged himself in a number of social welfare activities. He is the President of the Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA), the Chairman of Shree Ramanuja Seva Trust which provides Hearse services for the citizens in Bangalore, and the Chairman of Shusrutha Voluntary Blood Bank. He is the Chairman of the Hosur Animal Welfare Society, Tamilnadu. |
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| His hobbies include gardening and Astrology. |
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| 2. Mr. Padmanabhan |
| V S Padmanabhan, with over
five decades of hands-on top management experience is a graduate
of Calcutta University with Industrial Organization and Economic
History as majors. His career includes diverse disciplines like marketing,
rural marketing, business and organization building/development,
corporate communications, corporate identity, public relations, advertising
and sales promotion, airline, tourism, education and more. Inducted
to the PRCI Hall of Fame he is also the recipient of the PATA Award
for promoting tourism in USA for India, IAA's India chapter President/World
Committee Director and also leader of India delegation to the World
Advertising congress to Tokyo and Sydney, a
founder of Advertising Standards Council
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| He is President of the Bangalore
Ad Club, recipient of award of recognition from
the Madras Ad Club, member and awardee of AMIC,
Director of PRCI and its Awards
Committee Chairman, author, IEC Consultant to
World Bank aided IPP III, Karnataka, Social Forestry,
documentary film
maker, Originally created and appreciated worldwide
INFLIGHT MUSIC and a lot more. He was a gazetted
visiting professor
of the Mysore University, a member of the Center
for Technology Development, an Adviser to FRED...
Extensively traveled in India and the
world over, he played I Division and University
Cricket, tennis and table tennis. He worked in
Calcutta, Chennai,
Delhi and finally in Bangalore where he retired
as MD of Marketing Consultants & Agencies |
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| 3. Prof. John D Adams |
| Ph.D (USA) Professor, speaker, author, consultant and seminar leader-has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession since 1969. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting. John has served as the Co-Chair of the Executive faculty and the co-chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is a guest faculty member at the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in the Sustainability program. He has written many books and articles in reputed journals.
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| His latest book, Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness, is the culmination of several years’ research, speaking, and writing. This project began while he was the chair of the sustainable development task force at The World Business Academy (1990), and developed through numerous public presentations throughout the 90s. |
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| John is founder of Eartheart Enterprises, an international speaking, publishing, and consulting business. His clients have come primarily from the health care and high tech areas, including work with (Health Care) the NIH, the NHS in the U.K., Holy Cross system, Sisters of Mercy system; and (High Tech) Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Sun Microsystems, Naval Air Systems Command. |
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| John has also previously served as Manager of Organization Consulting at Blue Shield of California; a manager in executive development and in workplace effectiveness at Sun Microsystems; Director of Professional Development at the NTL Institute; and as a Visiting Lecturer at The University of Leeds (U.K.). He has written prolifically in the areas of health and stress management, personal effectiveness at work, and change. John’s earlier books, Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, are widely held as defining a new role for the Organization Development profession in a rapidly transforming world. |
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| 4. Dr. Ulla Nagel |
| Is raised in East Germany and is the founder
(1992) and owner of IPU Dr. Nagel & Partner Company-Innovative HRD
and Business Development. She is the current
President of International Organization Development
Association (IODA). The IODA president will
sit as a governing council member in FRED and
as and when there is a change in the leadership
it will also be changed in FRED. |
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| 5. Mr. Noble Kumavu (Ghana) |
| Noble is a psychologist with a post-graduate
specialization as an Organization Development (OD)
Consultant. He divides his time between Africa, USA and Europe,
undertaking
relevant organizational Development (OD) & Management Development
Consultancy, Training and Research assignments or
strengthening the capacity of local consultants to do so. In
addition to this
active consultancy and training responsibilities,
he is the Chief Executive of OCIC International. He is also the
Coordinator of
the OCIC-UCC OD Consultancy Skills Training Programme. |
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| 6. Dr.K.C. Soares (USA) |
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Kennette C. Soares known as KC is an Executive
Director- Smith Soares Associates . Her company is into International
Management,
Organization and Professional Development Consulting
Services. She has worked extensively in about 35 countries with rich
knowledge
working in various cultures. She lives in USA
and has offices in USA and Brazil. She is the founder and honorary
member of International
Organization Development Association (IODA)
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| 7. Dr. R.Mohanakrishnan |
| R Mohanakrishnan is a Ph.D in Industrial Psychology. He has 18 years of wide ranging experience in research, teaching, consulting, institution building projects and enjoys deep corporate exposure. He had worked in Telecom, IT and banking sectors. His corporate consulting areas are OD and HRD. |
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| Training and Development being his forte,
he has enormous interest in OD, and behavioral science- based training
and interventions. He had done Competency Mapping through Development
Center for more than 1500 managers in a large private bank, as a
part of major change management project in India.
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