Management Team
Dr. Suresh Gokhale
Founder and Director
Dr. Suresh Gokhale is MBBS, DCh and holds a Fellowship in sports medicine. He is a certified sports psychologist for over 50 years now. Dr. Suresh Gokhale has been actively taking lectures in schools and other organisations to help the students realize the importance of fitness and sports. He is greatly concerned with the stress taken by students before exams and hence advocates medical hypnotherapy to relieve them from exam related stress.
Mr. Abhay Joshi
Founder and Director
Mr. Abhay Joshi, has over 25 years of corporate managerial experience including ten years in training school and University students in Science, Maths and Engineering subjects at national and international level. An accomplished educationist, Abhay’s mentoring has transformed struggling students into confident achievers performing to the best of their abilities.
Mr. Madan Gokhale
Founder and Director
Mr. Madan Gokhale is USPTR certified and also ITF Level 5 tennis coach. He has completed his B.Com from BMCC college, Pune and has done his MBA from IME, Pune. He has over 20 years of experience in the tennis coaching sector and has been actively involved in coaching students of various age groups. Madan is involved in a special school based tennis coaching program where he trains the students in their school premises.
Mrs. Manjiri Gokhale Joshi
Founder, Maya CARE Foundation
Founder, The Vi Foundation
Founder, Elephant Connect
A Masters in Mega-Project management from Oxford University, Manjiri is former Head, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at Said Business School, University of Oxford and former CEO of Global Talent Track (GTT).
She continues to facilitate leaders in achieving their highest business outcome through leadership training, coaching and project management consulting through her company Elephant Connect. She is a recipient of the She Inspires “Agent of Change” National award in the UK for her work in nurturing a team of visually impaired/ wheelchair users to emerge as leaders who manage the charity she co-founded - Maya CARE. Maya CARE serves the elderly in 72 Indian, 4 UK cities and Nepal. She was honoured by Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson as one of 12 among 13,000 applicants selected by LinkedIn and Virgin Media to judge and mentor entrepreneurs for a £ 1 million fund. She was a mentor to the entrepreneur from Cambridge who ultimately won the contest in 2016.
Having spent the first decade of her professional journey as a journalist with the Indian Express, Dataquest and In Mumbai TV, she then held leadership positions in HR, Marketing and Corporate Communication at Zensar Technologies and ICICI Lombard.
She is a recipient of the British High Commission Chevening scholarship for Leadership and Management.
Manjiri has authored 5 books, three of which are used as the primary content for leadership training and the McGraw-Hill publication “Bosses of the wild” is in its 5th print run. More on the books on: https://www.amazon.in/s?k=manjiri+gokhale+joshi&crid=RW8LUGQUGVF8&sprefix=manjiri+gokhale+joshi%2Caps%2C94&ref=nb_sb_noss