Avinash ananda
LEADERSHIP & HAPPINESS GURU
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About Avinash Ananda
"Lead yourself to your next level of success with happiness."
Avinash Ananda is an internationally renowned leadership advisor & happiness strategist. He is the Founder of Avinash Ananda Meta Mind International, which provides Leadership & Happiness-centric training solutions for enhanced positivity & productivity for individuals & organizations across the globe.
Hailed by the media and professionals as 'Leadership and Happiness Guru', Avinash's contributions have earned him international acclaim & several prestigious honors. Recognized at the House of Lords, U.K. Parliament by Lord Swaraj Paul & Virendra Singh, M.P., he was celebrated as 'THE WORLD'S #1 LEADERSHIP & HAPPINESS COACH' & ' 'INTERNATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR LEADERSHIP & HAPPINESS.' He has also been felicitated as the “#1 GLOBAL LEADERSHIP & HAPPINESS GURU” by His Excellency Yaqoob Al Ali from the Dubai Royal Family.
Over the years, Avinash has received numerous awards including 'WORLD’S LEADING BEHAVIORAL EXPERT & MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER”, and the 'ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP', He has been ranked among the and has been ranked among the '100 INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS OF INDIA" by White Page International & one of the “51 MOST FABULOUS GLOBAL HAPPINESS LEADERS” by the World HRD Congress.
Avinash is also an honorary recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award, the highest recognition conferred by Rotary International, , for his outstanding contribution to building international friendly relations, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Happiness-Centric Leadership & Transformational Coaching from Kennedy University, Paris, authorized by the French Ministry of National Education and accredited by QAHE.
With a career spanning more than three decades, Avinash has impacted the lives of over one million individuals through face-to-face coaching, seminars, and workshops across 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the USA. His participants include corporate executives at every level of management from more than 300 organizations, among them global giants such as Microsoft, Google, Marriott, LG, Cognizant, Reliance, Tata, Capgemini, IBM, Vodafone, & Amazon. A much-sought-after keynote speaker and executive coach, he has also personally mentored more than 1,000 leaders & trainers worldwide.
His clients include students, educationists, theater, sports & film personalities, C.E.O.s, security forces including the police, high court judges, government bodies / organizations, and major corporations worldwide. He has trained individuals from several organizations that span over 15 industries including I.T., I.T.E.S., Pharmaceuticals, Hospitality, Hospitals, Government, Banking, Education, Film, T.V., Advertising, Security, Edu-tech, Fin-tech, Chemicals, Manufacturing, Aviation, Tourism, Construction, FMCG and Retail.
Beyond his work as a speaker and coach, Avinash has founded and runs several institutions: the Global Academy of Meta Mind Alignment (GAMMA) for behavioral sciences research, the Management Institute of Behavioral Sciences (MIBS) for employee engagement & organizational excellence, the International Institute of Personality Development (IIPD) for youth empowerment, & Bubbles International for life-skills development in children. He leads a team of 40 motivational and behavioral trainers and coaches who are specialists in one or more of 10 core Meta Mind Leadership and Happiness skills, and related mindsets (also called Meta Skills).
Avinash’s academic foundation is in Industrial Relations and Organizational Behavior from St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore and several executive education certifications from other prestigious institutions including I.I.M., Ahmedabad. He was mentored for over three decades by Prof. Rooshikumar Pandya, a pioneer of the HRD movement in India and former Humanities faculty at McGill University, Canada.
He further trained with world-renowned experts including Richard Bandler (NLP), Edward de Bono (Lateral Thinking), Stephen Covey (Execution Excellence), Jack Canfield (Success Principles), Anthony Robbins (Peak Performance), John Maxwell (Leadership) & Harada Sekkai Roshi (Zen Meditation).
His diverse experiences include: being invited to a world leaders’ breakfast with President Obama in Washington D.C.; being the faculty for a Harvard Business School Publishing Certification Program on Strategy for senior I.T. professionals in India; teaching happiness to Dalai Lama monks in the Himalayas; addressing an interfaith conference in California on happiness for religious leaders; serving as visiting professor at universities across the world to shape thousands of next-generation leaders; and working with NGOs in India to build empowerment skills & self-esteem among street children, orphans, the physically challenged, and senior citizens.
A co-creator of The World Happiness Movement, Avinash’s mission is to ‘Make Happiness Go Viral’, by impacting one billion people with his teachings.
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Whether it is an internal strategy meet, a team-building off-site retreat, a business conference or an annual celebration event of over 5000 people, Avinash's ability to consistently 'WOW' his audiences and deliver tremendous value, makes him most sought after in the professional speaking and training industry.
Avinash’s teachings draw from a wide spectrum of spheres including time-tested eastern wisdom and the latest in western management thought. Avinash's teachings are practical, easy to implement, inspirational and life-changing. His style of training is very unique. It is fun, experiential, engaging, dramatic, interactive, fast-paced, motivational and infused with humor. He seamlessly blends theoretical concepts, business strategies, relevant real-life examples and individual action plans. He works at both the mindset and skill-sets levels aligning purpose to values, beliefs and behavior.
Using the latest in Neurosciences, Behavioral Economics and Positive Psychology, in his training, Avinash programs the sub-conscious minds of the participants with key learnings and take-aways while simultaneously engaging their conscious minds through game-based learning and improvised theatrical presentations for maximum impact and retention in minimum time frames. This assures a high return on training investment.
Avinash Ananda believes that for true alchemical transformation to happen in an organization, all employees at all levels must be trained, from CEO to the sweeper. To actualize this ideal, he partners with and consults for organizations to invest in setting up a measurable training system to develop leaders at every level of the organization and develop trainers within the company to sustain the effort of creating a culture of excellence over time.
TESTIMONIALS
“Avinash Ananda has been the inspiration and key catalyst to our starting the Agna Leadership Academy which I believe, is a tremendous long term return on investment for our organization. His contribution has been invaluable in the training of all our people. ”
VASIL NACI
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, President, AGNA Group, Albania, Europe.