Sunil George, the Founder Director of Stimulus Consulting, has over 18 years of experience in Management Training across a cross-section of industries.

In December 1996, he was nominated among the top 3 Human Resource Managers in India for the H & FS award for excellence in hospitality. In January 1997 he moved into Apex Training Services as a Trainer Consultant and was actively involved in customized Corporate Training in a variety of disciplines across the country. He is an MBA, and trains the best of Corporate Houses across Asia-Pacific.

During March 2004, he was awarded the Rashtriya Rattan Award from the Global Economic Council. During Sep 2008, he was awarded for securing the highest average score across Essential Skills conducted by GE Global Learning. He is also a 'CBA' - Certified Behavioral Analyst and facilitates behavioral analysis using DISC profiling

After being Crotonville Certified, he spends the majority of his time on Leadership projects across different GE businesses.

As a Consultant-Trainer he has worked with various businesses of GE, SAP, Schneider Electric, Intelenet, Lucent Technologies, Wipro, Hewlett Packard, TNT Worldwide Ltd., Honeywell Software, Cisco Systems, BPL, Aptech, Index Computing, Levis Strauss, Katera, Glaxo SmithKline, U.B group, Titan, Spice telecom, Standard Chartered Bank, Hutchison Max Telecom, Equinox Solutions, Infosys, Euro RSCG, Phillips, Deutsche Software, Eureka Forbes, Boyang Technologies, TVS Group, Bluestar, Verifone, Healthscribe, Grindwell Norton, Seven Seas Computers, Precision Tech Services, Satyam Computers, Hindustan Levers, Robert Bosch, UL, Yahoo, Shell, Qwest, Airbus, GXS, Synopsys, Ness etc.

He has also been training with some of our international partners in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Srilanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and China.

Languages known: English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam

He has over 28 years total HP experience and retired in July 1999. He has worked in several positions in Marketing, Support and General Management. Last position General Manager for south and General Manager Quality in HP India.

He was a member of the HP India Functional Management Team since inception for over 11 years. In HP Quality is responsible in leading process definition and integration, performance measurement, and driving improvements that result in increased customer loyalty and business results. He was part of the management team which supported and reviewed many process improvement teams in India.

Since 1999 he is perusing several independent assignments in the areas of Business Excellence. These include Leadership, Managing for Excellence, Business Planning, Customer Focus, Process Management, Process improvement, Six Sigma methodologies, Project Management, Surveys (Employees’ Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, Leadership Assessment, 360 Degrees), Communication, Team Work, Negotiation Skills etc.

He headed the team that spearheaded the preparation of the application for the CII Business Excellence Award in 1997. This is based on the EFQM Business Excellence Model. HP India was the first recipient of this prestigious award. HP India was also one of the HP sites to receive the HP President's Quality Award in 1998.

He is a senior assessor under the CII-EXIM Business Excellence program in India, since 1997. He has had the opportunity to be part of the teams that assessed such organizations as ICIM (Fujitsu), TISCO, HINDALCO, AT&S (Nanjangud), Tata Liebert (Mumbai), BHEL (Tiruchi), JVSL, Titan, L&T (ECC), NDPL-Delhi, GCPL etc. He has also been associated as an advisor at different times with Trigyn Technologies, Tecnova-Delhi, HP eGlobal, BHEL-Tiruchi, BHEL-PSNR, BHEL-Haridwar, Vestas India etc. as an advisor. He was part of the CII team which did an assessment of the processes in Tata Motors early in 2006.

Sudhir brings with him a rich experience of over 25 years in Sales and Marketing at Regional and National Levels with reputed Companies like Esso Standard Eastern Inc a subsidiary of Standard Oil of NJ USA, Indian Aluminum Co a wholly owned subsidiary of Aluminum Company of Canada, Rane, Amalgamations and Sahney Groups.

Levels with reputed Companies like Esso Standard Eastern Inc a subsidiary of Standard Oil of NJ USA, Indian Aluminum Co a wholly owned subsidiary of Aluminum Company of Canada, Rane, Amalgamations and Sahney Groups.

A Post Graduate in Marketing and Advertising he has been consulting companies since 1994, in the field of Engineering and IT Enabled Services.

Having attended Management Development Programs such as the Senior Management Program at IIM Ahmedabad & Marketing Strategy in Administrative Staff College of India Hyderabad, he now leads the Stimulus team as Head Organizational Development.

His areas of Core Competencies are Sales and Marketing, Marketing Planning, Budgeting, Financial and Management Controls, Increasing Sales Force Efficiency, Business Strategy and Marketing Strategy, Commercial Negotiations etc. He has conducted 'in house' training programs for Increasing Sales Force Efficiency, Marketing Communication, and Commercial Negotiations etc.

He has trained with companies like Hewlett Packard, Tata Teleservices Ltd., Spice Telecom Limited, Larsen & Toubro, Automotive Axles, Redington India Ltd., Mandhana Bournemann, etc.

Languages known: English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Konkani

Kiran Somanath comes with 14 years of experience in varied fields of the Hospitality Industryand Training and Development. After acquiring a Diploma in Hotel Management, he joined as Lobby Manager at The Holiday Inn Resort in Goa, and later, at Holiday Inn, Bangalore. During his tenure there, he took over the reins of the Training Department from Sunil George.

In 1997 Kiran joined the Taj Group of Hotels as a Training Executive attached to the Corporate Training Cell for Southern India. With the Taj Group he rendered his services at various units, including the Taj Exotica in Sri Lanka. Here he headed the Front Office Department, and also actively contributed to the overall training of the employees. He was also entrusted with the special task of training the staff and executives at the Samudra in Colombo, which was preparing then to play host to the seven Heads of State and other dignitaries attending the SAARC Summit in July 1998. He was also appointed as the Quality Co-ordinator for The Taj West End in Bangalore.

He now heads the training operations at Stimulus. He has trained with companies like Wipro, Hewlett Packard, GE Transportation, Honeywell Software, Cisco Systems, Infosys Technologies, Philips Software, Softline Solutions, Robert Bosch, Healthscribe, TVSE, BPL Telecom, Crompton Greaves, BPL Connect, TNT World Wide Ltd., Spice telecom, Mahindra & Mahindra, Shopper's Stop, Motorola India Electronics, Deutsche Software, Intel, Ampersand, Customer Asset, First Ring, Siri Technologies WNS- Speedwings (a sister concern of British Airways) etc.

He is also a certified faculty for Accenture.

Languages known: English, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam

Sumathy Haridas joins Stimulus Consulting as a Consultant with an overall experience of 15 years. During this period,she has been closely associated with Training and Development.

Apart from her experience in training, Sumathy has had exposure into a variety of industries in India as well as abroad. A graduate in Life Sciences, she has worked with the Allied Health Institute of Kuwait University as a Research Assistant for five years. Later she joined the HR team of Kothari Group in Chennai, which was into international exports. At Kothari, she was in charge of the HR functions of the corporate office.

Before transitioning into full time training, Sumathy has also worked with Toys Kemp Pvt. Ltd. as Deputy General Manager, Franchise. In this capacity, she was in-charge of coordinating the business among all the franchisee stores across India. This also gave her a platform to conduct various training sessions for the sales force within, on different sales related modules.

Sumathy’s career as a full time trainer consultant started with Accord Consultants, one of the pioneers in soft skill training; and later with Peak Performance Trainings Pvt. Ltd. as Manager-Training. This experience has provided her the opportunity to work with some of the reputed Indian and multinational corporate houses. Some of the companies she has been associated with, are: Infosys Technologies, Hewlett Packard, IBM, ABB, Fidelity Group, Symbian, HAL, Swiss Re, Conexant, Ashok Leyland Ltd., Jain group of Institutes, LuK India, St: Gobain, Air Tel, Tory Harris, Flextronics and Cap Gemini.

Some of the workshops she has been conducting with these companies are: Business Communication skills, Interpersonal Relationships, Presentation skills, Corporate Etiquette, Customer Focus, Working in Teams, Time Management, Cross Cultural Sensitivity, Creativity and Innovation, Achieving Business and Personal excellence and Conducting Effective Meetings.

Languages Spoken: English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam

Miskin comes with a wide ranging experience and exposure in various sectors. For eight years he was associated with the Banking industry where he was actively involved in mentoring and in-house training and development activities. He developed and delivered modules on Planning, Advances, Customer Handling and Personal Effectiveness for freshers and middle level officers.

He has been a successful entrepreneur thereafter accumulating an enviable experience in organization-building and management techniques. He was frequently invited by his alma mater as a resource person to share his rich experience with the outgoing students during "First Generation Entrepreneur Program".

Training and people development being his passion, he returned to this field. During his association with different training organization, he has delivered programs on Effective Communication Skills, Time & Activity Management, Presentation Skills, Team Dynamics, Language Skills, Interpersonal Relations, Assertiveness Training, Customer Orientation and Campus to Corporate.

He has trained a wide spectrum of participants from sales personnel, engineers, professionals to businessmen across a host of institutions and corporate houses. A few of them include: Perot Systems, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, SAP India, SAP Labs, Wipro, Larsen & Toubro, Novartis, Infotech Enterprises Ltd, Tata Teleservices, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Microfinish Valves Ltd., etc.

He has been a national champion in Public Speaking.

Languages known: English, Hindi, Kannada and Marathi.