User:Vikaspchawda

Vikas Chawda is a Vadodara based corporate trainer and management consultant in the field of Innovation, Sales & marketing, Strategy, Leadership and Business Growth.

A Trainer, Mentor, Coach, Educator, Business Consultant and an Entrepreneur, INNOVATION is Vikas' passion. He is a founder of QUANTUM LEAP a Management Consultancy firm.

He is in the powerful team of National Innovation Council, New Delhi, constituted by the Prime Minister of India for creating a road map for innovations in India. Playing a national role, he has taken up key initiatives for fostering innovations under 'India Grand Vision 2020'.

As a secretary and founding member of Vadodara Innovation Council (VIC), he played a pivotal role in shaping VIC to be the first and the only city based innovation council in India. VIC vision is to make Vadodara - an Innovative City of India. In July 2014 at Chita, Russia, representing team India, won Innovation Award for India among 14 participating countries including Russia and China. 3000 delegates participated in this 5 days long event. This was organized by Govt. of Russia, Russian union of Youth and SCO Countries.

He was a jury for Kutch Business Excellence Awards 2013 by federation of Kutch Industries Association (FOKIA). Ernest & Young (E&Y) was the process adviser and a knowledge partner. Over 100 industries were evaluated on innovation and the its impact on 13 different categories.

He was part of Shodh-Yatra lead by IIM-A Prof. Anil Gupta, vice-chair National Innovation Foundation and a Member, National Innovation Council, New Delhi. The purpose of the Shodh-Yatra is to track, facilitate, felicitate grass-root, rural, agriculture innovations. In this Shodh-Yatra we walked around 80 Kms in 5 days visiting 35 villages in Punjab, India during December 2013 and January 2014. In this Shodh-Yatra we were 80 people from different walks of life out of which 6 were foreigners.

Rajasthan State Innovation Council invited Vikas for training Tod-Fod-Jod (TFJ) Mentors and conducting TFJ workshop and as a speaker during Seminar cum exhibition on Innovations on September 23rd & 24th, 2013 at Science Park, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

During 39th Jawaharlal Nehru National Science Maths & Environment Exhibition (JNNSMEE), organized by NCERT, Vikas conducted TFJ workshop for school students at Silvasa in December 2012.

For start-up 2020 competition for innovative start-ups jointly organized by NASSCOM, GESIA, Devang Mehta Foundation US and Faculty of Management M S University of Vadodara, Vikas was invited as a Mentor and jury in August 2013.

At Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA), Vikas has conducted 8 full day workshops on Innovation, Thinking out of Box, Sales & Marketing Strategies, Professional Selling for corporate and MSME professionals.

He has trained 15000+ professionals, workers, students, parents, trainees in areas like innovation, soft skills, strategy, sales & marketing, customer care, root cause analysis, value engineering, attitude, leadership, presentation skills, team building, personality development, MDPs in 300+ workshops for Universities, colleges, schools, and corporate e.g. ABB, ACC, Adani, ERDA, EIL, L&T, Reliance, GETRI, ITT, SPIPA, BMA, AMA, BDMA etc.

A Graduate Mechanical Engineer from India's premier institute REC / NIT with Merit scholarship and an MBA in Marketing with distinction, vikas was a visiting faculty for PG Management students at M S university Vadodara, WLC College of UK and IGNOU.He is on the Board of Entrepreneurship Development Cell at ITM University and a member at Entrepreneurial MBA Advisory group at Ahmedabad University.

Vikas is a lead actor in drama - a unique corporate comedy - exposing management blunders strategy goof-ups and organization behavior applauded by 150+ audience at Reliance, VIC, BMA, L&T and at Indian Institute of Management - IIM-A.