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Vijay Padaki

Vijay Padaki wears two caps with equal facility. He has been active in the theatre for over fifty years. He has been a management professional for over forty years.

Vijay is a psychologist and behavioural scientist by training, and is a founder-director of The P&P Group, a management resource centre that has programmes of consultancy, research and training in the areas of Organization and Institutional Development. A good part of the work of The P&P Group is devoted to the effectiveness of non-profit organizations, especially in large development programmes.

Among his earlier assignments he headed the Human Resources Division of India’s oldest    co-operative R&D institution, Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association (ATIRA), which also helped set up the first Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Later, he was a member of the founding faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, the founder of a Centre for Management for the textile industry in Ahmedabad, and a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to initiate a programme in R&D Management. He has been a Senior Associate at National Institute of Advanced Studies from its earliest years.

His team at The P&P Group was responsible for the country’s first position paper on Corporate Social Performance. (The emphasis on Performance takes it beyond conventional CSR.) The presentation in Mumbai was sponsored by the Confederation of Indian Industries. The policy research project was commissioned by a consortium of five development agencies of international repute – -	Oxfam (UK) -	ActionAid -	CRY (Child Rights and You) -	Centre for Environmemnt Education -	Consumer Education and Research Centre

Vijay was responsible for creating the field of Institutional Development in India, seeking theoretical premises and working methodology for promoting inter-organizational collaborative processes in large, complex organizational systems. His pursuit of strong theory-methodology links is reflected in his book publications:

Padaki, Vijay and Vaz, Manjulika. Institutional Development in Social Interventions: towards inter-organizational effectiveness. New Delhi: Sage, 2003.

Padaki, Vijay and Vaz, Manjulika Management Development in Non-profit Organizations: A Programme for Governing Boards.Sage, 2005.

Padaki, Vijay (Ed.) Development Intervention and Programme Evaluation: concepts and cases. New Delhi: Sage, 1995.

Bridging Theatre and Management

Vijay bridges the realms of Management and Theatre in a lot of his work. For instance –

-	He was a Trustee of Sanket Foundation, which has built a new theatre in the city of Bangalore, Ranga Shankara.

-	The India Foundation for the Arts invited him to be a “mentor” in management for theatre groups supported by them.

-	His work in developing the field of Theatre-in-Management is recognized internationally. His continuing interest in training methodology has led to a great deal of innovative cross- fertilization between theatre training and organizational / management development.

-	He is currently spearheading a new programme in management development for organizations in performing arts in India and developing countries.

-	He was invited by the John F Kennedy Centre to serve as an Advisor for the India Festival, scheduled in March 2011. The Kennedy Centre is also considering the possibility of an association with the Academy of Theatre Arts in Bangalore in developing an Arts Management course in India.

-	He was invited to assist the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (supported by the Government of India) as an external consultant in the organization’s strategic planning and organizational restructuring process. He has also helped in developing a Theatre Appreciation programme for CCRT’s work in the Indian school system, which includes an extensive teacher-training programme.