Saturday, June 27, 2009

Revathi Turaga Profile


Revathi Turaga is an International Trainer, Inspirational Speaker, Happiness Facilitator, Behavioral Coach and Innovation Consultant.

In addition to her corporate experience across India and North America, Revathi is also an accredited and certified Edward de Bono trainer in the concepts of Six Thinking Hats® and Lateral Thinking™.

Currently serving as the Vice-Chair of Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD)–Hyderabad Chapter, and the Joint Secretary for the Hyderabad Directors/CEOs Forum (HDCF), she is a life member of the International Association of Holistic Psychology (IAHP), NHRD (National HRD Network), & HMA (Hyderabad Management Association).

Revathi is a recipient of several international certifications in behavioral training including Crestcom® Bullet Proof Manager® Programs; Harvard’s Case-in-point Workshops; Dale Carnegie® High Impact Presentations; Emotional Intelligence and MSCEIT™; and all levels of Neuro Linguistic Programming™ Trainer Certifications from NFNLP, U.K. She is certified, trained and licensed by Leadership Guru Arthur F. Carmazzi to conduct international Directive Communication (DC) Psychology workshops accredited by American Institute of Business Psychology (AIOBP) and also in GAMMA’s mind set and skill set certification programs of Meta Mind Management™ for personal and professional excellence for achieving and sustaining a state of Excellence-centered Happiness™.

Revathi has also been certified and is licensed to administer and debrief internationally acclaimed psychological profiling tools and psychometric assessments like PAPI™, DISC™, MBTI®, Thinking Pattern Assessment™, SOSIE, 16PF®. She also writes articles on management behavioral practices for reputed newspapers, journals, and online magazines.

Revathi is also trained in School Psychology from IAHP and is a recipient of a Post Graduate Certification in Behavioral Sciences Training (PGCPBST) from Management Institute of Behavioral Sciences (MIBS), USA. She is also a certified Six Sigma (Green Belt) practitioner from GE, USA. Revathi’s academic qualifications include a Masters Degree in Psychology, a Post Graduate Degree in Management and a Graduate Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

A corporate trainer and consultant, Revathi has been personally trained and coached in various arenas by many internationally renowned trainers. Her trainings are exhaustive and include mindset management and skill sets enhancement training.

Revathi has had over 13 years of corporate training exposure in training more than 1,00,000 individuals from various organizations like Wipro, Satyam, GE, Novotel, Ashok Leyland, Times of India, Visaka Industries, Saint Gobain, NTPC, and NDPL among others and has worked in North America and India. She has also trained for organizations such as Nalanda – Times Foundation (an NGO for nonprofit learning) NHRD (National HRD Network), HMA (Hyderabad Management Association), IAS (Indo American Society), COWE (Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs), ALEAP (Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh), COD (Center for Organizational Development), IIIT (International Institute of Information Technology), SIBM (Symbiosis Institute of Business Management), ISB (Indian School of Business), University of Hyderabad, and ESCI (Engineering Staff College of India).

She has mentored over 400 participants and assisted them through a 6 month period of training on the methodology of cyclic learning and application, through a varied range of behavioral and personality concepts, to enhance their performance at work – aligned with the organization and business needs. One of her pet projects has been to teach facilitation and training skills to managers to enhance their managerial and facilitation capabilities. Revathi has also trained / mentored over 10,000 students across schools and colleges throughout the nation on all aspects of soft skills training to enhance employability and entrepreneurship for the youth through various international personality development programs.

Using unique training methodologies that blend impactful techniques like Improv Theatrics along with traditional role plays, simulations and case studies, Revathi conducts internationally acclaimed training programs cater to various behavioral and competency developmental needs of organizations and institutions in all areas including communication and interpersonal skills, relationship management, personal productivity, customer relationship management, leadership traits, public speaking, personality development, self awareness, and goal setting.