Bhakti Karkare

Bhakti Karkare is a new age Learning & OD professional who believes that learning belongs in the flow of work and at the point of need. Bhakti’s mission is to help organizations translate and scale informal workflow learning into organizational capability. She specializes in bringing diverse cultural insights into designing and executing global learning and change interventions.

A facilitator at heart, Bhakti is passionate about the role facilitation plays in creating a learning culture and evangelises building these capabilities in others. Bhakti has over 10 years of corporate experience at global organizations like Amdocs and Fujitsu, where she has successfully managed complex and sensitive interventions.

Bhakti’s experience of having worked with learning teams across the globe has helped her develop an intuitive way to connect with audiences across cultures, generations and hierarchies.

Areas of Expertise

Adult Learning Principles| Facilitation| Managerial Development| Organizational Capability building |Workflow learning | Growth Mindset Practices| Learning Consulting|

Credentials:

• MBA in Human Resource Development
• Masters in Labor Law and Welfare
• Bachelors in Microbiology
• Dale Carnegie certified facilitator

– Teamwork Makes the Dream Work – 

Debra Hester

Mary Debra Hester-Clifton’s passion is for the art and science of personal transformation. She is a SHRM Senior Certified Human Resource professional and certified leadership and professional development coach and mentor who advocates empathy for grief and loss.

As founder and CEO of Mother’s Backyard, she developed two organizations and a MOVE Mapping™ approach to address the limited amount of ongoing support, resources, and structures in place for people struggling with traumatic loss and grief.

Under her pen name, Debra Hester, is the award-winning author of My Backyard Garden, A Memoir of How Love Conquers Grief.  Her book is the foundation for bringing awareness to understanding and moving beyond a traumatic event to #empathyforgrief and loss for self and others.

Debra is a skilled writer, facilitator, and visualist who creates and produces media, communication, marketing, and digital strategies that drive awareness to adoption for Mother’s Backyard and her clients’ organizational change initiatives. She has worked globally as a people and process improvement consultant and leader for organizations like KPMG, T.Rowe Price, Discover Card, ADP and Chase.

Credentials:

• M.A. Human Resources Management
• B.A. Broadcast Journalism
• Minor: Management Information Systems
• Social Media Marketing Certificate
• NABOB Media Sales Institute Fellow
• Corporate Coach U Certified
• MBTI Qualified
• Situational Leadership II & High Performing Teams Certified
• Management Mentor’s Program Manager Certified
• Senn Delaney’s Advanced Leadership Coach, Teambuilding & Culture Change Workshop Facilitator
• Development First – Management and Executive 360 Feedback Trained – Korn Ferry -Ninth House – PDI
• Jack Phillips Level 5 (ROI) Training Measurement