I am excited to launch the inaugural show of Leader’s Talk with Anand Pillai.
Anand will be entertaining a few questions from the viewers, so send us a tweet using the hash tag #Leaderstalk. Watch the interview here!
Anand Pillai is currently the Sr. Executive Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at Reliance Industries Ltd, He has been recently appointed to become a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on New Models of Leadership 2011, given his thought leadership in the field of Leadership & Innovation.
With more than 29 years of rich experience in the corporate world, Anand has handled challenging assignments in general management and as head of operations in companies such as TATA Group (10 years), Hughes Network Systems and Bay Networks , HCL and now with RIL. His passion for training and working with people led him to take on this role in developing the human capital. Anand has been involved in transformational training actively for the past 10 years and for the past 25 years as part of his management responsibilities. Anand has been a much sought after speaker in many national and international forums. He has been the distinguished speaker at the Fortune Innovation Forum in NY, USA (the only non American speaker to be invited), at the Fortune Global Forum in New Delhi, NASSCOM, ISTD, CIO Summit -London, Great places to work conference -Singapore, World’s most democratic work places summit- Las Vegas, World HRD Congress, CII, etc.
His leadership and strong vision has succeeded in bring many accolades and recognition to the company, like
- “Excellence in Training” for 07-08 & 08-09, at the Asia Pacific HR Excellence Awards
- “Contribution to the Field of Global Training and Development” & Outstanding contribution to the field of Education, at the Global HR Excellence Awards-2009 and 2010,
- Award for Talent management, Innovation in Employee Retention & Career management,Excellence in Training & HR Leadership award at the Employer Branding Awards.
- He has also been recognized as “HR Professional of the Year”2008-09 and also given the HR Leadership award at the Global HR Excellence Awards and Pride of the Industry at the Star of India awards.
Anand has been featured in the book “Leading with Wisdom” along with 30 other leaders(Steven Covey, Abdul Kalam to name a few) in the world. He is also featured in a new book “Open Source Leader” published by Penguin Publications.
You can connect with him here –
Website: http://anandpillai.in/
Blog: http://anandpillai.in/blog/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/anandpillai
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/anand.pillai1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Anand__Pillai
