About Us

Our People

We have cumulative experience of 200 years and have trained over 7000 people. Some of our team members are:

Uma Arora

Uma is the founder and chief facilitator of Idam Learning. She is a deep learner, Executive Coach and a group facilitator who blends her hard core business and operations experience with her deep knowledge and passion in organization behaviour and adult learning.

She has facilitated interventions for some of the leading multinational and local enterprises in the areas of teaming, building vision, culture and values, coaching culture, skill building and leadership development.

She has over 23 years of experience of leading high performing teams in diverse range of industries in the areas of Education, Information Technology, Academic Testing and Business Process Outsourcing Organizations. She has worked in business and operations roles in organizations like Daksh (IBM) as Resourcing and Training Director, Baltimore based Prometric as Country Operations manager and Aptech Limited as Associate Vice President. She has certifications in ‘Building leadership through Appreciative Inquiry’ and ‘Organization Development theories and practices’ from National Training laboratory, US. She has been trained in ‘change management’ by Edgar Schein. She is an accredited MBTI Trainer, certified assessor, certified in Facet 5 and 360 degree instruments and has several other certifications including the one in spiral Dynamics and facilitation and coaching from Centre for creative leadership.

Uma is also deeply interested in social projects and is one of the trustees of ‘India Vision Foundation’, a non-Profit organization that runs education, healthcare and economic welfare projects for rural children and women. She holds a Post Graduate degree in Chemistry, an MBA degree from Faculty of Management Studies, India and a Degree in Law from Delhi University, India.

Jasmine Khattar

She is a Gold Medalist in Masters in Psychology. She has 25 years of experience working with children and adults. Her area of expertise is performance enhancement and emotional intelligence in which she has multiple certifications in India and abroad.

Some of the assessments she has developed expertise in are: Intellectual Evaluation, Personality Evaluation and Achievement Testing amongst others.

Aparna Mehra

Aparna is a Psychologist with her masters degree in psychology, advanced Diploma in Guidance and Counseling from National Institute of Public Cooperation and child Development. She is deeply interested in working in the area of self and relationships as they are the most troubled areas in our lives be it our boss, parent, friends or partner.

She works with children and adults using the psychodynamic orientation. She has experience of working as a counselor in multiple organizations and schools. She has conducted many workshops for various age-groups which include Organizational Communication, Stress Management, Parenting and Emotional Empowerment and Life skills. She has experience in conducting psychological and psychodiagnostic assessments along with vocational testing and guidance for adults and children.

Associates

Satish Koshal

Satish holds an engineering degree - B.Tech.(Hons.), from IIT Kharagpur (1970). He is a Fellow, Institution of Engineers (India) - Computer Engineering Division; Senior Life Member, Computer Society of India; Life Member, Indian Society of Training and Development (ISTD); a Certified Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Institute, USA; Certified Internal Assessor for Tata Business Excellence Model (equivalent of Malcolm Bal ridge model); Certified Lead Auditor for Information Security Management System - ISO / IES/ 27001. He is pursuing his academic interests as a registered scholar for PhD program in 'Developing customer relationship index for mobile telecom users using system dynamics approach'. at IMT, Ghaziabad, Delhi.

Awarded Tata Group Northern Region Forum Innovation Day "Hercules League Award 2007" in April 2007 for innovation on associates 'feel-good@work-place' which resulted in improved employee and customer satisfaction and improved productivity in the workplace.

Jenny Sarang

Jenny is a Graduate in Business Finance from University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. and holds a Post Graduate Degree in Management Studies from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. As an American, after living in India for more than twenty years, Jenny brings a cross cultural blend of Indian, American and international perspective and experiences.

Jenny was with GE for nearly ten years in three different GE Businesses. In her last role, she was the Operations Leader of the Business Leadership Skills division of GE Corporate India. She is also a certified GE Crotonville faculty on Facilitation, Influencing, Hiring, Coaching, WorkoutTM , Change Acceleration Process, Advanced Leadership and Building Essential Leadership Skills. She is a certified assessor for MBTI Step I & II as well as DiSC.

Neety Singh

Neety is a specialist in communication and soft skills. She has more than ten years experience of training a wide range of people in the services sector. She has worked with one of the largest airlines in the world, has worked with an ITES company and has been a TV anchor on one of the leading TV channels. She also has passion for interiors and the art of making jewellery. She is a post graduate in journalism, has several certifications to her credit and most importantly is a free spirit who is a role model for all her students.

Cynthia Chan

Cynthia is an executive coach based in Hongkong. She has 16 plus years of people and organisation development experience with big name multinational organisations in IT, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. She has managed pre and post merger organizations; designed and delivered leadership and management development programs and other learning solutions. She has also developed and implemented organization/cultural change initiatives. Her portfolio also included performance management, career management, teambuilding, and leadership assessments.

Cynthia is certified to administer CCL 360s, MBTI and DISC personality assessments. She is a graduate of Coach U and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches. She is a member of the Asia Organization Development Network and the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resources Management (HKIHRM). She is also an adjunct coach at the Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL).

Cynthia has a Bachelor of Commerce with highest honours from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Having lived and worked in Canada, Hong Kong and travelled extensively in Asia, Cynthia works well with multicultural teams. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and functional Mandarin. Cynthia is also active in volunteering and mentoring young leaders.

Alliances

Rescon Partners

Rescon Partners is a reputed consulting firm which enables its clients attain leadership position by providing business solutions supported by facts and robust research.

India Vision Foundation

India Vision Foundation is a non-Profit organization that runs education, healthcare and economic welfare projects for rural children and women.

Elements Training & Advisory Services

An organization focused on providing employability and advisory services to the banking services sector. It focusses on providing job-oriented trainings to freshers / candidates aspiring for entry-level employment in the banking and financial services industry, and also offers training programmes to banks customized to their needs.

Consulting Tools - ATS

ConsultingTools is a provider and developer of innovative, high-quality people and process solutions for consultants and business professionals working with individuals, teams and organisations. We have parterned with Approach Talent Solutions for using Consulting Tools products in 360 degrees feedback and psychometric tools like Facet-5.

Our Values

Idam Learning Methodology

• Adults learn when they want to learn
• Adults learn on their own, you can't force them to learn
• Adults learn when they go through an experience
• Adults learn when they reflect and introspect
• Adults learn when they read inspiring stories
• Adults learn when they experiment with something new
• Adults learn from role models
• Adults learn when they watch others
• Adults learn when it makes sense to them
• Adults learns when they resonate with the new learning

Which of the above statement is true??

Chances are more than one statements is true for a lot of us. We use an experiential learning model which involves a good mix of activities (both indoor and outdoor), role plays, exercises, self assessment instruments and video films.

We support our learning with carefully chosen research work and models (behavioral, psychological, leadership and management). Our work is based on sound organizational behavior principles.