Meet Chandramouli Venkatesan
Chandramouli Venkatesan has a strong corporate track record of over twenty-five years. An alumnus of Anna University, Chennai, and XLRI, Jamshedpur, he has worked in a variety of sectors in different roles. He started his career with Asian Paints in 1991 and worked across sales and marketing during his tenure there which lasted almost a decade. Post a brief stint in GE capital, he worked with Onida as VP, sales and marketing, for four years. After that he joined Cadbury in 2005 and worked there till 2016. Over that time Cadbury metamorphosed to Kraft Foods and Mondelez and his last role there was as managing director for India. In his decade-plus time there he has worked in a variety of areas including strategy, marketing, HR and general management across India and Asia-Pacific. He has now joined Pidilite Industries as CEO, special projects, with the mission to create and set up a new business for them.
Chandramouli is a B Tech (Chemical Engineer) from Anna University, Chennai. After completing his PGDBM from XLRI in 1991, he joined Asian Paints wherein he spent close to a decade in Sales and Marketing. Thereafter, Chandramouli had stints in GE Countrywide Consumer finance and Mirc Electronics Limited (Onida) post which he joined Mondelez International in 2005. In Mondelez, he had varied range of roles spanning Strategy, Innovation, HR, Marketing at Asia Pacific level regional roles culminating in being the MD for Mondelez India.
recently released a book titled 'Catalyst'. It's a simple, non-threatening, 'first principle'-based series of lessons on career management and professional success. In the author's words, the book is "a tool-kit and guide from a practitioner's point of view".
Interests: Golf, Social impact
Vision: To create lasting business and societal impact, to be a transformative change agent.
Chandramouli is a B Tech (Chemical Engineer) from Anna University, Chennai. After completing his PGDBM from XLRI in 1991, he joined Asian Paints wherein he spent close to a decade in Sales and Marketing. Thereafter, Chandramouli had stints in GE Countrywide Consumer finance and Mirc Electronics Limited (Onida) post which he joined Mondelez International in 2005. In Mondelez, he had varied range of roles spanning Strategy, Innovation, HR, Marketing at Asia Pacific level regional roles culminating in being the MD for Mondelez India.
recently released a book titled 'Catalyst'. It's a simple, non-threatening, 'first principle'-based series of lessons on career management and professional success. In the author's words, the book is "a tool-kit and guide from a practitioner's point of view".
Interests: Golf, Social impact
Vision: To create lasting business and societal impact, to be a transformative change agent.
Suggested Speaking Topics
Principles for Success in Careers
This keynote is based on two successful Books- Catalyst and Get Better at Getting Better. Success in careers is based on effective management of 3 levers:
Audience: This is for anybody working towards a career. People working in large companies, small companies, startups, self-employed, professionals can all benefit from this. Equally these principles are applicable to both juniors and seniors as well as across functions and industries.
Audience size can be small or large for this including conferences with 100’s of people
Duration is between 60-120 minutes with a ideal of 90 minutes excluding any breaks.
The session has a Q&A in the end and the extent of interactivity can be varied based on requirements.
Customized keynotes based on Client requirements
The keynotes here are based on client requirements. It can be either based on organisation requirements or can be based on conference themes etc.
Some of the topics I have covered are:
Audience: No restrictions and governed by client requirements.
Duration is between 60—120 minutes excluding breaks.
Interactivity can be built in to the extent considered necessary based on Client discussions.
This can also be converted in a half day workshop model if found suitable.
This keynote is based on two successful Books- Catalyst and Get Better at Getting Better. Success in careers is based on effective management of 3 levers:
- Getting better continuously
- Effective Career Management
- Effective Life Management
Audience: This is for anybody working towards a career. People working in large companies, small companies, startups, self-employed, professionals can all benefit from this. Equally these principles are applicable to both juniors and seniors as well as across functions and industries.
Audience size can be small or large for this including conferences with 100’s of people
Duration is between 60-120 minutes with a ideal of 90 minutes excluding any breaks.
The session has a Q&A in the end and the extent of interactivity can be varied based on requirements.
Customized keynotes based on Client requirements
The keynotes here are based on client requirements. It can be either based on organisation requirements or can be based on conference themes etc.
Some of the topics I have covered are:
- Driving business growth/principles of growth, scaling businesses.
- Strategy- Development, alignment and execution.
- Organizational transformation and change(this can be customized to specific change requirements)
- Leadership principles
- Organizational and personal values- role of values, how to build and how to embed.
- HR transformation. How to make HR impact the business?
- Innovation
- Dealing with challenging times.
- Unlocking the power of “You”
- Effective Sales professionals
- Marketing and the art of brand building
- Consumer and Customer centricity
- Preparing for a digital future
Audience: No restrictions and governed by client requirements.
Duration is between 60—120 minutes excluding breaks.
Interactivity can be built in to the extent considered necessary based on Client discussions.
This can also be converted in a half day workshop model if found suitable.
