Wednesday 22 August 2012

Dr. Ajit Kumar Kar


Dr. Ajit is an author, motivator, speaker & trainer by profession. He has more than a decade of experience in industry and academics i.e. in HRD, Training & Consultancy. He is currently associated with IMFA Ltd.- Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd. and heading the L&D Department as In-Charge (L&D) ,www.imfa.in. He is also the Co- Founder of CHRD (Consortium for Human Resource Development, www.chrd.in), a Not for Profit organisation of professionals, academicians and students those who are interested in or involved in Human Resource Management and development of people. He has worked for different international and national organisations in HR and HRD. Some of them include, Train Now, USA, TATA Sponge Iron Ltd., Wipro, TeamLease (Staffing Company), CallCare.Net (Training & HR Firm), IFLD (Foreign Languages), Hero Corporate Services, Lodha House, Aptech Pvt. Ltd, Sadyogi Technology, CSM Technologies etc. He is also an Advisor to "Ashrita Foundation", working in areas of providing Free Education & Health Awareness Programmes for the needy children.

He is an MBA in HR, PTHE & CTE. He has been honoured with Honorary Ph.D (Doctorem Honoris Causa) from FTU- Cal & completed NLP Foundation Diploma course under NLPh, USA and is also a Certified NLP Practitioner from NLP Goa. He also has attended DISC profiling session organized by The MindMasters & completed courses on HRM & Effective conversation from “Fair & Lovely Learning Foundation”. He is a certified Life Purpose Life Coach (Accredited) from Transformation Academy, USA & has Accredited Mindfulness Certification from High Impact Consulting, USA and completed course on Design Thinking from International Business Management Institute, Germany. Dr. Ajit also completed Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt E-Training from “Go Lean Six Sigma”. He has completed CTAA accredited Positive Psychology Diploma from Kew Academy, U.K & has an Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Practitioner Certification (accredited by CTAA as a QDLP programme) by Graham Nicholls - Emotional & Behavioural Therapist.  He is also a Practitioner Member of "The Complementary Therapists Accredited Association" (CTAA), UK. 

He has been a guide to students of IIM-Kashipur, IIM-Shilong, KSOM-KIIT University, GITAM University, SOA University, XIMB and XISS for academic activities & projects.  He has been conducting career counselling programmes for Focus TV, Pratinidhi, Prameya (Odia Daily) etc.  He is awarded with NAA Foundation Excellence Award-2016 for outstanding contribution in the field of L&D and received “Out Standing Trainer Award” from JCI in 2014. He has been nominated as honorary Vice President (Executive Training) for JCI.

He rendered consultancy services & imparted training to different organizations which include JINDAL Steels, Tcube, Wipro, Birla Global University, GITAM University, KIIT University, SOA University, FEDCO, Train Now & Akiko CallNet (Montana, USA), TATA Sponge Iron Ltd., TATA Power, BRPL, HINDALCO, COCA COLA, NTPC,NALCO, WBPO, L&T, TeamLease, CallCare.Net (Training & HR Consulting Firm), IFLD (Institute of foreign Languages and Dialects), Hero Mindmine (A subsidiary of Hero Corporate Services), Lodha House, Aptech Pvt. Ltd., Post Masters General Office (PMG), Ortel Communication Ltd., International Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), Amplux School of Management Studies, ICFAI Academy, Sambalpur Integrated Development Institute (NGO), Essel Mining (Aditya Birla Group), Kusuma Foundation (U.K), Servomax Telecom, etc.

He is a member of ecch (the Case for Learning), U.K, ISTD, NHRD, Harvard Business Publishing for Educators, Human Capital Institute – New York, etc. He received his special training on CRM, ELT (English Language Teaching) & N.A under Macmillan, IFLD, Train Now & Akiko CallNet (Montana, USA & XIMB) etc. He has completed STC in HRM at IIT (Kharagpur) and has become a part of various FDP, MDPs & EDPs. He has authored several articles & research papers. His recent article on “Role of HR in Analytics” is published in Business Manager – HR Magazine which is one of the top five periodicals published in India. Recently his name has been selected to the Jury Board of Brandon Hall Awards- 2019 which is one of the most credible & highly ranked international HR & Training Awards. His profile has been selected for GECL- 2019 Awards for Innovation in L&D.