Ravi brings years of experience as a manager, entrepreneur, consultant and social change agent. He has lived, studied and worked in the US and Asia, and brings an intimate experience of both the corporate and social sectors. Ravi is one of the co-founders of Appreciative Inquiry Consulting (AIC), LLC, a global network of 100 consultants using appreciative inquiry. He continues to play role in introducing this approach in Asia and Africa.
Over the past fourteen years, he has been engaged by both corporate sector and the aid and development agencies in Asia and Africa. In all his consulting engagements Ravi brings a practical blend of approaches from the world of business, social change, and eastern spiritual disciplines.
Examples of Consulting Engagements:
Since the summer of 2001, he started consulting with the UN’s HIV/AIDS special initiative to help develop leadership competencies, build coalitions, craft innovative strategies, develop transformational skills among a diverse group of professionals, coach media and communication professionals in constructing new approaches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa, Asia and the Carribbean.
In late 2002, Ravi left JMJ Associates where he was a senior consultant. JMJ Associates is globally known for creating unpredictable results in two areas: large capital projects execution and safety performance. Ravi was involved in the design and implementation of the most “holistic” safety engagements in JMJ’s history.
From 1998-2001, one of his most challenging engagements was a groundbreaking UNICEF/Columbia University project in South Asia. Over a period of 30 months, he introduced a very innovative and successful approach to initiate and nurture organizational change in government hospitals in South Asia. (The approach included Appreciative Inquiry plus other methodologies.) In addition he also trained a network of in-country facilitators to replicate and scale-up the project. During the same period, he was also engaged by DFID, the official aid agency of the UK , to work for a similar project in Nepal.
Other work experiences:
Over the years, Ravi has been active as a social entrepreneur. He co-founded a citizen’s organization called Kathmandu 2020 to re-vision and co-create a new future for Kathmandu, where he grew up. A more well-know case was the campaign to shift Nepal’s hydro-power strategy, and in the process triggered a critical change in the way the World Bank does business. Two decades ago, he was involved in a volunteer based organization called The Hunger Project to educate and enroll citizens around the world be more pro-active in addressing hunger and starvation.
He has an MBA from the University of Delhi, and was educated by American Jesuits in a missionary school, St. Xavier’s, Kathmandu.
He continues to study management, leadership, organizational change and what can be learned from Buddhist practices.
Ravi is married with two children, and is a lifelong student of yoga and meditation.
