Different themes; One objective
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Meaningful perspectives
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Friday, 17 Feb 2023 (6 pm – 7.15 pm)


5:30 PM
Registration & High Tea
6:00 PM
Welcome Address
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, MMA
Discussion on the theme of the book
The Power of your subconscious mind - Unlock your master key to success by Dr Joseph Murphy
Ms Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh
Business & Leadership Coach, Speaker & Author

Independent Director, IFB Industries Ltd
In conversation with Special Invitees
Ms Shoba Sridaran
Global Head - L & D, Bristlecone
Ms Uma Maheswari
DGM, HR – Caterpillar India P Ltd
Q&A Session
7:15 PM Vote of Thanks
Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh
Sangeeta contributes as a Business & Leadership Coach by enabling high performance and enhancing financial growth. Sangeeta is on a mission to enable, empower and elevate businesses with a purpose to serve entrepreneurs, leaders and teams to shine and succeed. She brings along rich corporate experience of twenty-five years with multinationals and her latest position was as the Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer of Dun & Bradstreet Technologies.
Sangeeta is a Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant & completed executive education from Harvard Business School. She's a High Performance Business Coach from the International Coaching Federation (PCC), TEDx Speaker & Bestselling Author of "What The Finance", "Get High" & "Where's The Moolah?"
Accolades received:
Nightingale Award by The Society of Auditors
Leading Woman Chief Financial Officer
Innovator in Finance

Awarded “100 inspiring authors of India” Outstanding Professional award by FICCI.
Sangeeta is a Professional Speaker at many national and international events, forums & Corporates on Finance, High Performance, Diversity and Leadership. She believes in value creation for her clients. She is an Independent Director on Corporate Boards.
Married to Sumesh, mother of two and balances her personal, professional, social and spiritual life as an Art of Living practitioner.

Shoba Sridaran
Shoba Sridaran is currently the global head of learning and development at Bristlecone, a Mahindra group of companies. She has over 25 years of work experience and has a UG in computer science from Chennai and a PG in Business administration from the US.

She started her career as a software developer and has worked for over 10 years in the US when her passion to connect with people and to learn brought her into the L & D space. Her unique meta comptency framework where competencies are chosen by employees based on the levels of work and goals recently won Bristlecone Gold award by the Economic Times.
She has been volunteering with the Art of living foundation for over a decade now and is currently the state teacher coordinator. Passion for making a difference is her mantra.
She lives in chennai with her husband Sanjay and 2 daughters Shreya and Shipra

Uma Maheswari

Uma Maheswari is a HR professional with over 2 decades of experience and has worked in global organizations in several capacities such as Organizational and Talent Development, HR Shared Services, Talent Management, Industrial relations etc. She currently leads the HR /IR function for Caterpillar India’s manufacturing plant at Thiruvallur, near Chennai. She is an extremely positive and empathetic person, loves to take challenges and an avid learner – formal learning, learning from people and through life experiences. She always focuses on providing exceptional value to business and, in that process, gets a little workaholic! She turns to good music, physical workouts, and mentors to keep balance.




