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Lata Gwalani

Lata Gwalani is a behavioural and skills facilitator, and a motivational speaker. She has excellent people skills and is a coach and mentor par excellence.

Lata has a rich experience of 22 years, having worked in the fields of journalism, advertising, and technical writing. She spent more than 7 years in active journalism having written hundreds of articles on varied subjects. She then moved on to advertising, where she worked as a copywriter. Her last corporate stint was with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as a Technical Writer. Here, she was also an in-house trainer for varied workshops.

A soft-spoken and very intuitive person, Lata has a great insight into people psyche and behaviour. She brings with her a rich and varied experience of relating to people and reaching out to them in order to address various personal and professional issues. An emphatic speaker, Lata has an uncanny ability of simplifying the most difficult concepts with the help of simple and lucid examples. She is also an empathic listener, which helps her build bridges with people very soon.

In the last ten years, Lata has imparted training in the areas of Communication, Transactional Analysis, Business Etiquette, Emotional Intelligence, Neuro Linguistic programming, Motivation, Relationship, Leadership and Team-Building, Personal Effectiveness, and Time Management. She has conducted over 650 workshops and has trained over 13000 people. Besides corporate workshops, Lata also delivers lectures at various educational institutes and seminars, having covered a cross-section of people right from teenager students to retired professionals.

Lata is an Arts graduate and a postgraduate in Journalism and Communication. She has done an advanced course in French from the Alliance Franaise de Bombay and has also taught French.

Lata is an internationally certified NLP trainer, trained under Dr. William Horton of the National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Programming, USA.

Lata is a voracious reader and a prolific writer having written articles for various publications. She loves travelling and meeting people to learn more about their lifestyles and get an insight into human behaviour. She also has a passion for classical dance. She is well known in fine art circles as an accomplished compere and anchor.

Education > Colleges & Universities (Other) From classroom to career: The transition from school to the work world

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Metamorphosis Campus to Corporate In my experience as a corporate trainer, I often have groups of young professionals who have just stepped into the corporate world that is - straight out of campus. With stars in their eyes, they are eager to step onto the first rung of the proverbial corporate ladder. As our training progresses, and we begin to warm up to one another, I realise how disappointing and disillusioning the educational system is. I do understand that people coming out of college ought to be well versed in the theoretical and factual aspects of their subjects. However, the corpo...

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