Lokesh’s ability to connect with people has helped him in delivering a talk or conduct a training or a workshop on multiple subjects with ace. His clients and their teams loves the energy, belief and confidence that he builds in his sessions. Lokesh creates sessions for the topics that you want for your teams. All the sessions are customised and aligned to your objective and outcome that you are looking for your teams. The uniqueness about Lokesh’s sessions is the 100% participation by the audience. His presence of mind, command on the subject, sense of humour and the ability to connect his audience helps him deliver engaging, interactive and effective sessions. Some of the sessions that he has done are listed below to give you an idea of the line of work he loves doing. 

We all can do with a dose of motivation at regular intervals. Life at workplace is always pulling you from all sides – be it Family, Supervisors, Clients, Timelines, Targets – everyone wants a piece of you resulting in disturbing your peace. We all are so stretched and stressed trying to make all happy that it starts to affect both mind and body. The internal leadership despite their abilities and motivation are discounted by the people as they hear them day and night. As they say “Ghar ki Murgi, Dal Barabar” or Familiarity breeds contempt or Self possessions are always undermined. Motivational talks are like fueling the tank or charging your equipment for it to keep working. A session that would use real life stories of my journey from Nowhere to Somewhere coupled with my experience as a Senior Leader and Head of Business Development. In last seven years I have built the amazing way through storytelling that would motivate your people to deal with situations, challenges, failures and transform them as warriors. The session would draw stories and experiences from the attendees as well to make it engaging, interactive and effective.  

I learnt very early in life that Life without Dreams & goals is like playing a football match without a goal post. During my working years, one common point that most of the colleagues across departments used to discuss was – If the organization grows, we will only get the basic increments and incentives. It is the senior management that will take home all the biggies. This always resulted in people not giving more to their work and efforts. I remember always highlighting to my team about only if they excel and achieve their professional goals that they have a chance to make personal dreams & goals a reality. The session on Dreams and Goals is all about making your people realize the following – @It is important to have dreams and goals both professionally and personally. @Without achieving professional goals, you can never fulfil your personal dreams. @One needs to give more than 100% at work to achieve what one wants to achieve. @Important to have the belief, mindset and capacity to deal with challenges and failures to make dreams a reality. The session concludes with an activity that would help them write their professional and personal dreams that will keep reminding them till they make them a reality. An activity that will bring smiles, emotions and a childlike energy.  

An organization is as good as the team that it has. A captain also is as good as his/her team. Do you feel that your organization has a strong team culture. Is there a bonding and camaraderie between members of various departments or each department is only focusing on themselves? Do they have each other’s back? Are the people in the same department working as a team or all are working in their siloes. An organization success not only depends on the qualification and fitment of the people but also how well they are working as a team. As someone who was leading teams in his corporate avatar, I understand the power of team culture and bonding. Yes, every person has to deliver what is expected from them but to become market leaders and fight tough competition, one needs a team and not individual stars. Like in cricket, stars could win you few matches but definitely not the championship. The 1983 winning world cup team of Indian cricket had average abilities for the matches as compared to other teams but they had one very strong tool – They played as a team and achieved the impossible. The session through engaging talks and activities will help people understand the power of team work and for them to succeed they not only need to be a team player in their own department but also in the company as a whole.

People in an organization are working for money. Rest all reasons are secondary. A person works for 12 to 14 hours daily to make their financial situation better and achieve the financial goals. However is there money working as much as they are working? The probable answer is BIG NO. The financial stress has a huge negative impact on the productivity of the individual thereby effecting the growth of the organisation. Large reams of paper have been written through various surveys about the impact of financial challenges on the productivity at work. To be at peace and give 100%, every person has to manage his/her money well and make it work. The session would make the people be more aware about financial wellness (Goals and Protection), its importance and how to be financially well. The session would help them understand their relationship with money and Why they need to make their money work. Help your team achieve Financial peace and improve the productivity.

The supervisors and managers in the organization are so caught up with the daily work and firefighting that they seldom have time and space to reflect on the current strategy, business plans and the growth. This results in either growth getting stagnant or fall in employee’s satisfaction levels or both. Just assessing the progress of the goals for the year can only take them to the goals but not to the bigger agenda of higher growth, happy employees, delightful customer service and higher shareholder value. To achieve these and much more, the leadership team needs to take time and dive deep into their current status and what will it take to grow and the areas to grow.  The workshop would be customized depending on the outcome the organization is looking. It would be a combination of discussions, role plays, activities and openness to discuss and chart the action plan. We have seen the companies benefitting immensely from the workshop and seen a shift in the mindset and working of their leadership team. 

Stories people remember but data they tend to forget after a point. However, if the data is presented with stories, chances of the team retaining the information increases manifold. Similarly simple sales talks or lots of data or words like – this product is good will not help you seal the deal with the customer but if you incorporate stories in your conversation and information, you would increase the chances of the deal manifold. Stories are as old as human civilization. Our ability to construct and tell a story decides the quality of connect we develop with the other person. Storytelling has always been relevant in personal conversations but now even at work place you cannot do without incorporating stories in your talks and presentations. Whether you are presenting to your team or to a set of investors or to a customer, your ability to converse in story format will set you apart from the commoners. Ask yourself – how often you say… oh wow that was so wonderfully explained or there are some who make it compelling for you to buy the products and services they are proposing. The reason is that someone is a better storyteller. The session would help both individuals and teams to learn the art of storytelling through talks, role plays and activities and make them a part of one’s conversations and presentations.

How long you have been dreaming about standing on a stage or in front of people and present your talk and get an applause. How long you have been wanting to share your story but not taking the first step? Do you suffer from stage anxiety and fear? Do you feel you are not good enough? Do you really want to own the stage? If the answer to all the above desires and fear is yes, then you need to Join me for a session on The Art of Public speaking confidently. Learn what goes into becoming a public speaker that audience would like to listen, that would make them connect, engage, interact, laugh, cry and ask for more. 

Once upon a time I too was suffering from big stage fear and used to run away from the venue minutes before my name was announced. In last 20 years, I have done live TV, have conducted more than 500 investor and distribution sessions, spoke at TEDx, AWWA Jaipur Litfest, Curated and helped more than 150 speakers who went on to speak at TEDx, PechaKucha, Asmita and many other prestigious platforms. You could be the next one.