Author: Ramdas Shenoy

Ramdas from stirfrymba talks to Hong Kong-based designer Mona Shroff. Mona launched her jewellery brand, Mona Shroff Jewellery, in 2011 after 18 years of experience as a designer creating in-house labels for Selfridges in London, Gallerie Lafayette in Paris, and 28 department stores in the United Arab Emirates. Tell us something about yourself, including what you do and how did you get to this position…the overall journey? Born and brought up in Mumbai ( Bombay )  am a Textile Designer by professional passed in scholarship from Sophia College Mumbai. Worked at Garden Silk one of the biggest textile houses in India…

Ramdas in conversation with Cristina — Coach, Trainer, Mentor & Author, Founder of CoachingEra, Coaching & Training in Italy & South Africa. On the idea of Life coaching and mentoring? Every individual will have a unique set of challenges…how to address it? I have been working in the corporate world for 30+ years in different managerial roles. I am a coach and a trainer and I support my coaching and training clients in their path of transforming themselves from the inside out. In partnership with them, I embrace the challenge to work on the internal and external results they want…

From being a Senior Research Director at Hansa Research Group  to Senior Faculty at Chidambaram Academy Of Performing Arts to running her own dance school Madhuryam in Chennai. Your life’s journey so far, the learnings, from a Corporate life to running a Dance academy and as an accomplished dancer –what is more fulfilling? I started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 6 and had my Arangetram (maiden stage performance) at age 13. After which, on and off with travels out of Chennai for my education, I was part of the dance dramas and group productions of my guru Smt. Chitra…

The woman who makes a beautiful woman look more beautiful and confident. Ramdas Shenoyy in conversation with Bia from Parfait Image Consulting. Mentoring beauty pageants — The story of how it all started I actually got into this, I started in the year 2015. So it is almost 5 years now. So the first pageant that I mentored is Mrs. India – I am beautiful which took place in Goa in 2015 and it was straight after I did my course in image consulting and after that, there has been never looking back. After that I have gone ahead, I…

Hiren Shah talks to Ramdas Shenoyy from Stirfrymba.com Q. How did you start the Trunkoz journey? What was your vision then…how far you have achieved your goals? I and my younger brother Ashish Shah were always tech enthusiasts. We founded Trunkoz in 1998 at a very young age with a focus to provide quality technology services to a global audience. Initially, we started with a website called indiafreemail.com. At that time, Indians living abroad who wished to communicate with their relatives in India faced a major problem. Communication was extremely difficult and time-consuming as it would take 30-40 days to…

Ramdas Shenoyy speaks to Fatema Agarkar on ACE and Ajit Agarkar’s vision. What inspired you to start the initiative of ACE? Ajit has been a sportsman all his life, and for him, it has taught him and given him everything he is today and this was us coming together to combine the value of sport and education. It combines my experience of working with families especially children having set up close to 40 schools now pan India to create a platform for children – be it in the school curriculum or after school hours or actually allowing them to specialize…

Ramdas Shenoyy in tête-à-tête with Jessie, CEO, Paul Writers ( the EX CMO, Wipro) You have been the face and inspiration to a lot of marketing professionals, what made you pursue a career in marketing? I actually wanted to be a computer engineer. I got a degree in computer science and joined Tata Elxsi. I happened to sit next to the marketing person – there was just one in those days – and thought what she was doing was so much more fun than my job! I volunteered to help out and participated in my first trade show as her…

The new challenges of new-age personalised communication– a marketing nightmare! The generation Z, iGen or Centennials are going to be the ones who are going to ask on all communication -WIFM. Marketing communication too, cannot be left behind, but in the mobile world where you are trying to reach specific individuals and not a category of people, the challenge is for the brands to capitalize on new opportunities and feed the individual consumers with information, personalized recommendation intuitive interfaces, more efficient services or just-in-time notifications—all these will be data-driven. What happens with so much data around, it becomes a nightmare…

Ramdas Shenoyy understanding new norms of leadership with Mr.Parthiban from Leaderonomics . Leaderonomics– what is it into, and how does it help organizations and individuals to achieve goals? Leaderonomics is a leadership development global organization operating in 6 Countries. We began with the purpose of transforming nations through leadership development. We believe that leaders from all communities can profoundly affect the social and economic health of their nation. With that social purpose in our DNA, we grew to become a self-sustaining social enterprise gaining vast experience in working with children, youth, university students, all levels of employees, management, and senior…

Ramdas Shenoyy from Stirfrymba.com in conversation with Mr. Kennedy Assistant Director, Employer Engagement at INSEAD, Singapore- world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, Being part of one of the World’s best B school, how do you see the Industry perception of programs offered? How relevant it is- considering industry requirements? Companies come to INSEAD expecting to hire talent who can fit quickly and seamlessly into their organisation. Thankfully this is the feedback we receive from our recruiters. Most of the time our students will have 6+ years of industry experience but may be looking to change an aspect of their career, whether…