Raman Nanda has served with a large MNC as Country Head and President in his last assignment, and with business groups like Tata’s and Murugappas in key functions including Marketing and Sales, HR, Finance, External Relations, and Corporate Planning, as well as on the Boards of Tata group companies. He has also worked extensively with start-ups.
Raman has been active at various fora, including Corporates, Industry Associations and at Rotary Clubs.
Raman received his B Com Hons degree [Gold Medal] from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He has been in corporate life for a while, working with stakeholders globally. He is currently a Speaker, Mentor, Coach, and a Consultant.
During his full-time assignments, he had several opportunities to interact with customers and business partners from US, Europe, Japan, Korea, and China. He has made presentations at a global level e.g. to the worldwide head of General Motors Purchasing at Detroit, and won large businesses- including 100 mn USD business in a single meeting.
Raman is currently Visiting Faculty at Flame University. He has addressed students at educational institutions like EDII at Ahmedabad. And at IITs and others for Campus recruitment.
He has taken Masterclasses on subjects in Leadership, Personal Mastery, Understanding the Customer and Scaling up the Business.
Raman’s strength lies in understanding the audience’s expectations and mood and crafting and delivering power-packed presentations with wit, fun and clear deliverables.
Some of the topics are as follows :
- Work-Life Harmony
The Great Resignation has shaken up the world. Employees and Employers both are giving a serious look at what they are getting out of each relationship and assignment.
In such a situation it’s good to start from the basics. We need to understand better why we are in this world, what is important to us, what are our priorities, and what can be done so that we maintain positive energy in ourselves and in our team members.
Raman shares tips for handling these better in various ways including goal management, time management, and reflections.
- Living a Balanced and Meaningful Life
‘What got us here won’t get us there’…[a book and a quote by Marshall Goldsmith].
We all need to find meaning in our lives and there are frameworks to help us decide the relative importance of various things and where we stand vis a vis our aspirations.
There are mantras that can be implemented for different aspects of our life-the professional, financial, emotional, spiritual, relationships, and health and wellness.
- Understanding, Growing and Scaling up the Business
It is important to understand the business model of your business, how it makes money and how interconnected all aspects of the business are.
The Business Model canvas is used as a framework for this purpose.
Scaling up needs building clarity on the business essentials, taking the risks and building an entrepreneurial culture in your organization.
The 6 major areas to focus on building explosive growth and the 10 Rockefeller habits are covered with a lot of examples.
- Leadership and Personal Mastery
Everything begins with us, our leadership capabilities and personal mastery.
There are also different leadership models and you need to choose the one that suits you. Which one is it?
- Understanding the Customer-The new ABC with a Human Dimension
The old ABC in Sales was Always Be Closing, and the new mantra is Attunement, Buoyancy and Clarity.
Selling involves understanding the human dimension more and more as the power has moved from the seller to the buyer in the last decade or so.
From Caveat Vendor [Buyer Beware] it has moved to Caveat Venditor [Seller beware] as there is an urgent need to rethink how we handle the customer and his/her expectations in this last decade of lack of information asymmetry between buyer and seller. “
