Yogita Ahuja
Founder & Chief Storyteller
Yogita is the Founder- Director of I Nurture Me Learning Services, a registered company and its unit STORYCIRCLE- A dedicated Centre for Storytelling & Training in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She is Storyteller & a senior consultant in the Corporate Leadership Training & Coaching industry. She comes with more than 17+ years of work experience, training & coaching business and educational leaders.
Yogita is a Post Graduate in Training from the Indian Society for Training & development (2007) and completed her PG in HR Leadership with top honors in 2011. She is also an Executive Coach & a Life Coach and closely works with senior industry leaders, students and educators, to help address their behavioral challenges by personally coaching them. Yogita is currently the Chairperson for CII_YI’s Youth vertical called ‘YUVA’ which focuses on skill building and industry exposure for the post-graduate and under graduate students. Also, she is on the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Gujarat region panels like Skill Building, Industry-Academia partnerships etc. Her unique programs like ‘The Business of Storytelling’, ‘Leading Self & Others’, ‘Building High Performing Teams’, ‘Business Communication & Presentation skills’’, ‘Resume Writing’ have been extremely well received amongst the corporate world and management students. She uses some powerful techniques like ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ and ‘Story Telling’, to help her participants become more self -aware and thereby start their transformational journey.
Storytelling is both her passion and forte and Yogita loves to focus on the application of Storytelling as a medium of communicating values, knowledge sharing and capability building. She has participated in National and International Storytelling festivals, Learning Concerts, Corporate & Educational conferences – both as a performer and workshop facilitator, in the process- building a strong expertise in this area. Therefore, having conducted a myriad set of workshops and events across audiences as diverse as young school children to senior corporate leaders and having seen the impact that it has created on her audiences, Yogita aspires to create and share her skills with as many people as possible in order for them to also benefit from the Art of Storytelling & its wide range of application.
Focus on Personal Learning- Developing Subject Matter Expertise:
- Completed Post-Graduation in Training from The Indian Society for Training & Development- 2007.
- Completed 120 hours of English Language Trainer certification from TESOL, USA 2015
- Underwent Personal Coaching in Storytelling by Dr. Eric Miller- Director, World Storytelling Institute- 2015
- Attended Beginner’s Certified Course at Kathalaya International Academy of Storytelling, Bangalore- 2016
- Participated in Storytelling Program by Storywise, Singapore, 2017
Yogita’s Industry Network & Association:
- Visiting Faculty for ICFAI Business School, Shanti Business School & Ahmedabad University.
- Chairperson for CII-Young Indian’s Youth vertical called ‘YUVA’- for Skill Building (2018-19, 2019-20)
- Member of Federation of Asian Storytellers (FEAST) & Indian Storytelling Network (ISN)
- Member of Early Childhood Association, India
- Mentor for Storytelling at Octopod – an Indian e- learning organization
CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified Trainer and Facilitator- CAMI, U.S
- DIP TD- Indian Society for T&D
- PG- HR Leadership- SOIL
- Accredited Psychometric Practitioner- Caliper, Australia
- Large Scale Interactive Process (LSIP)
- Certified Storyteller – India, US & Singapore
- Executive & Life Coach- Grow More Coach Avenues, India
- TESOL Accredited English Trainer
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Storytelling based workshops
- Leadership development Programs
- Personal effectiveness & Business Communication
- Program for Sales & Marketing Managers
- Assessment/ Development Centers
- Change Management
- Building High Performing Teams Intervention
- Train the Trainer Programs
- Cross Cultural Sensitization workshops
- Vision & Values Deployment programs
- Executive & Life Coaching
CLIENT EXPERIENCE
Corporate Sector:Colgate Palmolive, JP Morgan, Hitachi, Adani enterprises, Deutsche Bank, Baxter India, Bosch India, Mahindra group, Volvo Eicher, Durian Laminates, Pavit Tiles, Gopani Products systems
DHL, Maruti Suzuki, EMC software, Indian Hotels Ltd, Tata Steel, Vodafone India, Coca Cola India, Polaris, Infotech Enterprises, DB Schenker India, Bajaj Finserv, Lodha Group, Adani Gas Ltd etc.
Education Sector:Ahmedabad University, ICFAI Business School, American Embassy School, New Delhi, School of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon, Visamo Kids Foundation, Ahmedabad, Toddler’s Den- AIS, Zydus School, Red Bricks, Udgam School- Ahmedabad, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI University), New Delhi etc.