Arun Profile

1. Arun Vishwanath
E-mail: arun@trainersforum.in / arun.vishwanath@gmail.com
Mobile: (+91) 99201 40053 / 89760 24046
ARUN VISHWANATH – EXECUTIVE COACH, HR CONSULTANT & LEARNING FACILITATOR
Arun Vishwanath is a passionate HR professional who has his interests in Executive Coaching, HR and
Learning & OD interventions. In his corporate work experience spanning over 20 years, he has worked
in hotels, cruiselines, retail and other service industries. Arun has been involved with development
and deployment of HR & Learning strategies for some of the biggest and well-known organisations.
He has worked in the areas of Business and Service Excellence. He is a certified Assessor for IMC
RBNQA Business Excellence which is based on Malcolm Baldridge criteria from the US and has been
an Assessor for the Affirmative Action programme of the Tata group.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Arun was the General Manager – Human Resources & Organisational Learning at Infiniti Retail –
Croma – A Tata Enterprise prior to starting on his own. Handling the Corporate HR and Organisational
Learning initiatives of a young Tata company, with a team of over 50 HR & Learning professionals.
Prior to joining Infiniti Retail, Arun was Head - Training, at Raymond Retail, part of the Raymond group.
Responsible for conceptualising, designing and implementation of the Learning, Training and
Employee Development initiatives at Raymond Retail. He was also Corporate Head of Training and
Development with RKHS (now Sodexo). He has worked as “Hotel Services Trainer” with P&O Princess
Cruises for 6 years. Prior to this, Arun has worked in the hospitality industry as a Training Manager,
Lobby and Restaurant Manager with Holiday Inn hotels at Pune and Hyderabad.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
 Certificate of Coaching – Institute of Executive Coaching & Leadership – Australia
 Business Excellence Assessor – IMC RBNQA based on Malcolm Baldrige criteria
 M.Sc. – Psychology from Madras University & Hotel Management Course from IHM
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Founder – Trainers Forum – the largest Trainers network in India reaching over 20,000
members through various social media platforms
 Founder President – The Bombay Toastmasters Club
 Founder - Book Lovers Club
 HR Leadership Award – World HRD Congress – 2013
 Super Achiever Award – Indira Business School – 2012
 Best Performing team – Raymond Group Excellence awards – 2011
AREAS OF INTEREST
 Talent Assessement
 Succession Planning & Talent Management
 Leadership Development
 Employee Engagement & Organisation Effectiveness
 Business & Service Excellence
SELECT CLIENTS
 Shoppers Stop, Everstone Capital, ITC Hotels, Brinks, Welingkar – WE School,
Drive India Solutions – DIESL ( A Tata group company), ISS Facilities Management,
Ajuba Solutions (BPO), Pravin Electricals, Tata Chemicals, Indospace Developers,
Madhavbaug Clinics, Arvind Ltd.,
 Associated with Great Place to Work Institute, C2C – Concept to Competence,
Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC), Pune & IIT Bombay.
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