Co-Founder & Partner
With over 25 years of experience in India and the global L&D scenario, Padmaja is recognized as a true value – enabler with leadership and consulting expertise in the areas of OD, Organization Strategy Mapping, Crafting Vision and Values, Business acumen, Women leadership development, Sales & Service Excellence, Executive and performance coaching for leaders and teams with leading clients across industries. She has personally trained/coached over a lakh of professionals in India, Europe, Asia and USA.
Her multifaceted personality along with extensive experience in women empowerment and women leadership development for various corporates, has led her to become one of the founding members/ Partners of WeMantra, that focuses on building inclusive and diverse ecosystems for corporates in India.
Padmaja is also the founder and CEO of Siksha – one of India’s leading consulting and training organizations that architects human capital development.
Among the many awards and facilitation Padmaja has received, prime amidst them are the National award bestowed on her in 2011 for educational excellence and the National Talented Ladies Award in 2006 recognizing her contribution in the field of Learning & Communication.
My thoughts on D&I : " Today’s talent is diverse than ever before. Our aim at WeMantra is to help organizations create an inclusive culture where one can thrive and bring their ingenuity to work. "
Co-Founder & Partner
Abha is a qualified Learning and Development specialist with a career spanning over 17 years. She brings with her a combination of business and training skills. She has developed business in her earlier employment in regions like Pune, Bangalore and Chennai. Her focus on apt training need identification and working closely with her clients gives her the additional leverage to design and deliver programs that have high impact. She is a founding member and partner of WeMantra.
Her journey from an employee to an entrepreneur was inspired by her role as a mother. She took a break from active career after her first child. She registered for her research program during this sabbatical to not only keep herself productively engaged but also to add value to her expertise as a consultant and facilitator. She restarted her career as an Independent Consultant continuing to work with reputed multinational and national companies. Inspired by her personal journey and experience, she co-founded WeMantra.
Armed with degrees in HRD and Psychology, Abha is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Management from IIT Madras. Her certifications span both the worlds - of academics and corporates. She is certified by UGC and has several training accreditations to her credit. She is a certified NLP trainer and coach and integrates Neuro Linguistic Programming in her facilitation. She is also certified in Transactional Analysis and other soft skills from various forums. She is trained on Instructional Design and facilitation skills from Carlton Advanced Management Institute, USA.
As an academician, she has extensively researched and presented papers in positive organizational behaviour topics like emotional social competence, thriving at work, building sustainable human resources, positive team climate and many more.
Abha has partnered as a L & D Consultant, facilitator and Coach with companies across industries like Ashok Leyland, Forbes Marshal, Diageo, Airtel, Deutsche Bank, Sundaram Fasteners, Michelin India, Murugappa group, IBM and Cognizant to name a few.
Abha’s core competencies include training need identification, content and instructional design and facilitation in various personal effectiveness topics, Sales and Leadership.
Abha has continued to chase her passion of extending support towards building a capable and inclusive work culture by founding WeMantra.
My thoughts on D&I : " Margaret Thatcher said 'Plan your work for today and every day and then work your plan.' This is one of the key philosophies I have built my career on. Many people were surprised when I quit a thriving career after more than a decade’s experience. It was not something I was forced to but a planned choice. I took the break to build on my knowledge base while being able to play the role of a mother satisfactorily. I have come across many successful women struggling to find their sense of balance and unable to relish their professional success as much as they deserve. I was fortunate to have the expertise and resources to plan my career and build a supportive ecosystem that could help me sustain it. This inspired me to work with working mothers to enable them to build their sustainable and supportive ecosystems and work with organizations to build an inclusive culture. "
Diversity is more than just tolerating differences. It is respecting, appreciating and understanding the varying characteristics of individuals.
Organizations that foster inclusive culture, celebrate and accept the differences of its people, have more workplace engagement, a bigger talent pool, higher innovation and valuable perspectives. Teams with more employee engagement have better retention, stronger revenue growth and higher profitability.
WeMantra offers solutions that are designed to make diversity work and. lets you explore diversity in a safe, positive, productive way.
Drawing upon our deep experiences of working with diversity, we partner with individuals and organizations who wish to effect a transformation for growth. We help create an environment where talented individuals can perform to their highest potential and lead the organization in achieving its milestones.
We focus on creating a positive and conducive work environment, that when embedded with trust and understanding, will leverage diversity to produce better products and services.
WeMantra combines learning and development with an eclectic mix of assessment, individual and group coaching and need-based experiential tools. This multi-pronged approach allows us to cater to diverse learning styles and customize the solutions to choose unique needs of organizations and its learners.
WeMantra provides solutions that lets you explore diversity in a safe, positive and productive way.
Enable individuals and organizations identify and break unconscious bias to build a diverse and inclusive ecosystem that unleashes potential.
Diversity is more than just tolerating differences. It is respecting, appreciating and understanding the individuals which resonates our core values.
We focus on creating a positive and conducive work environment, that are embedded with trust and collaboration.
Diversity is the face of today’s workforce. Our approach is holistic and comprises of end to end solutions from assessment, development, engagement to retention.
Our strategic approach is custom made to suit the diverse culture of your organization and support in navigating the changing environment. Therefore…
Assessment
Training
Coaching
Consulting
As an initial step in diversity management we use a mix of globally standardized assessment tools along with our specifically designed in-house qualitative and quantitative surveys.
The assessments help identify strengths strengths and provide opportunities - for personal and professional development.
WeMantra helps create a culture of D & I in your organization. Our flexible solutions cater to your current and future D&I goals.
Our Custom Solutions
Sensitize the workforce on the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at the workplace
Manage unconscious biases
Identify individual and team barriers to inclusivity and provide skills to overcome these barriers
Promote an inclusive culture through internal branding exercises
Create an emotionally intelligent workforce
Develop women employees across all levels
Reputed research states that organizations that foster inclusive culture, promote higher employee engagement, retention and a positive work climate.
WeMantra offers an eclectic mix of coaching and consulting solutions such as,
Inclusive Dialogue Series from Leaders to across organization
Cross industry panels and events
Design and craft D & I playbook/handbook
Develop, coach and mentor high potential women talent
Coaching managers of expecting and returning moms (MAT/PAT Coaching)
Facilitating inclusive Mentor-Mentee dialogues
Co-Founder & Partner
With over 25 years of experience in India and the global L&D scenario, Padmaja is recognized as a true value – enabler with leadership and consulting expertise in the areas of OD, Organization Strategy Mapping, Crafting Vision and Values, Business acumen, Women leadership development, Sales & Service Excellence, Executive and performance coaching for leaders and teams with leading clients across industries. She has personally trained/coached over a lakh of professionals in India, Europe, Asia and USA.
Her multifaceted personality along with extensive experience in women empowerment and women leadership development for various corporates, has led her to become one of the founding members/ Partners of WeMantra, that focuses on building inclusive and diverse ecosystems for corporates in India.
Padmaja is also the founder and CEO of Siksha – one of India’s leading consulting and training organizations that architects human capital development.
Among the many awards and facilitation Padmaja has received, prime amidst them are the National award bestowed on her in 2011 for educational excellence and the National Talented Ladies Award in 2006 recognizing her contribution in the field of Learning & Communication.
My thoughts on D&I : " Today’s talent is diverse than ever before. Our aim at WeMantra is to help organizations create an inclusive culture where one can thrive and bring their ingenuity to work. "
Co-Founder & Partner
Abha is a qualified Learning and Development specialist with a career spanning over 17 years. She brings with her a combination of business and training skills. She has developed business in her earlier employment in regions like Pune, Bangalore and Chennai. Her focus on apt training need identification and working closely with her clients gives her the additional leverage to design and deliver programs that have high impact. She is a founding member and partner of WeMantra.
Her journey from an employee to an entrepreneur was inspired by her role as a mother. She took a break from active career after her first child. She registered for her research program during this sabbatical to not only keep herself productively engaged but also to add value to her expertise as a consultant and facilitator. She restarted her career as an Independent Consultant continuing to work with reputed multinational and national companies. Inspired by her personal journey and experience, she co-founded WeMantra.
Armed with degrees in HRD and Psychology, Abha is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Management from IIT Madras. Her certifications span both the worlds - of academics and corporates. She is certified by UGC and has several training accreditations to her credit. She is a certified NLP trainer and coach and integrates Neuro Linguistic Programming in her facilitation. She is also certified in Transactional Analysis and other soft skills from various forums. She is trained on Instructional Design and facilitation skills from Carlton Advanced Management Institute, USA.
As an academician, she has extensively researched and presented papers in positive organizational behaviour topics like emotional social competence, thriving at work, building sustainable human resources, positive team climate and many more.
Abha has partnered as a L & D Consultant, facilitator and Coach with companies across industries like Ashok Leyland, Forbes Marshal, Diageo, Airtel, Deutsche Bank, Sundaram Fasteners, Michelin India, Murugappa group, IBM and Cognizant to name a few.
Abha’s core competencies include training need identification, content and instructional design and facilitation in various personal effectiveness topics, Sales and Leadership.
Abha has continued to chase her passion of extending support towards building a capable and inclusive work culture by founding WeMantra.
My thoughts on D&I : " Margaret Thatcher said 'Plan your work for today and every day and then work your plan.' This is one of the key philosophies I have built my career on. Many people were surprised when I quit a thriving career after more than a decade’s experience. It was not something I was forced to but a planned choice. I took the break to build on my knowledge base while being able to play the role of a mother satisfactorily. I have come across many successful women struggling to find their sense of balance and unable to relish their professional success as much as they deserve. I was fortunate to have the expertise and resources to plan my career and build a supportive ecosystem that could help me sustain it. This inspired me to work with working mothers to enable them to build their sustainable and supportive ecosystems and work with organizations to build an inclusive culture. "
It's all about gaining exceptional influencing skills to persuade others, gain insight into one's own persuasion style and overcome barriers to influence others.
Learning new ways of leading and enhancing current leadership, increase self-respect & self-esteem.
Expand one's capacity to influence with both internal and external clients. Participants were equipped with practical skills, tolls & strategies.
Having a productive and positive team highly enhances the organization’s morale, motivation, communication flow & productivity.
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339, 6th Main, 14-B Cross, Sector 6,
HSR Layout, Bengaluru
Karnataka 560102, India
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