Vivek Nair

Associate Partner

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 5,000+ hours of training experience
  • Designed leadership programs for multiple industries
  • LinkedIn Top Voice in L&D
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Learning and Development expert with a focus on leadership training across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent DevelopmentLeadership DevelopmentCoachingTeachingCurriculum DevelopmentContent DevelopmentLearning DesignTraining DevelopmentProgram Management

Other Skills

Training & DevelopmentTeam ManagementInstructional DesignMentoringAdult EducationManagementProject ManagementCareer Development CoachingNeuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)Public SpeakingBusiness DevelopmentMicrosoft OfficePresentations

About

With a career spanning consulting, communications, and corporate training, Vivek is a distinguished L&D expert, trainer, and coach with 5,000+ hours of training experience. He designs and delivers bespoke leadership development programs, creates high-impact assessments, and conducts executive coaching sessions that empower professionals and organizations to achieve strategic growth. He has designed leadership programs across BFSI, TMT, Manufacturing, Retail, FMCG & Pharma industries. Recognized as one of the most sought-after trainers in Gujarat, he has led skill and behavioral training for thousands of leaders across industries. Holding a Master’s in Marketing, Vivek also advises professionals on LinkedIn personal branding, helping them establish credibility in the digital space. A LinkedIn Top Voice in L&D and blue badge holder, his insights have reached 3M+ professionals worldwide, shaping the future of leadership and learning. Vivek leverages this experience and brings rhetoric and theatrics into his sessions, striking a balance between knowledge and experience. An award-winning speaker, Vivek's love for public speaking helped him bag the prestigious NASSCOM award for Excellence in Communication Skills. He speaks at management conclaves and colleges on careers, and leadership-development.

Experience

Ey

Assistant Director - Talent Development

May 2025Present · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban · Hybrid

  • Plan, design, and deliver leadership development programs for leaders across service lines within EY GDS.
Talent DevelopmentLeadership Development

Antwalk

Senior Manager - Learning & Development (Leadership, Coaching & EI Programs)

Aug 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • 1. Partnered with 50+ CHROs & L&D Heads to diagnose skill gaps and develop 50+ leadership programs across BFSI, TMT, FMCG, and Manufacturing industries
  • 2. Lead a team of 7 across designing, customer success, and product verticals to deliver a seamless learning experience
  • 3. Designed 100+ skill and personality assessments, improving leadership pipeline readiness by an average of 13%
  • 4. Managed 20+ stakeholder collaborations, maintaining an 85+ NPS and 95% program completion rate across clients
  • 5. Conceptualized succession planning and productivity initiatives to build the AntWalk Capability platform for first-time, mid-level, and senior managers and create a learning repository of 100+ hours
Training & DevelopmentTeam ManagementInstructional DesignLeadership DevelopmentCoaching

Gsfc university

Assistant Professor Of Management

Aug 2022Feb 2023 · 6 mos · Vadodara, Gujarat, India

  • 1. Delivered 100+ hours of HR & Organizational Behavior modules for BBA students
  • 2. Designed 10+ online modules on the university’s LMS, improving accessibility
  • 3. Managed BBA program delivery, maintaining a steady NPS of 70%
  • 4. Led 30+ mock interviews and case discussions, boosting placement rates by 11%
  • 5. Supported the Associate Dean in academic operations to achieve an ISO 9001: 2015 certification
  • Also,
  • 6. Help students appreciate that buyers and sellers are humans and humans love to be wow'd
  • 7. Show budding marketing professionals the importance of having a sales experience
  • 8. Convince potential HR professionals that it is better to hire and retain than overhire and fire
  • 9. Train management students to be confident professionals who can ace presentations and interviews
MentoringTraining & DevelopmentAdult EducationCoachingManagementTeaching+1

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Manager - Content

Mar 2020Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • 1. Led Learning Design & Editorial for K-12 English & CAT products, impacting 10,000+ learners
  • 2. Managed content delivery across 3 teams, ensuring seamless execution from content creation to ingestion
  • 3. Designed 200+ assessments, curricula, and lesson plans, enhancing engagement
  • 4. Established content guidelines and conducted 50+ UATs, audits, and instructional reviews
  • 5. Implemented learner feedback, improving session NPS by 8%
  • 6. Conducted 20+ online English sessions, mentoring students for 12% performance improvement
  • 7. Partnered with HR to hire and onboard 60+ team members from scratch
Team ManagementCurriculum DevelopmentProject ManagementContent DevelopmentLearning Design

Career launcher

2 roles

Manager - Training & Development

Promoted

Dec 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • 1. Built the Vadodara center from ground up and contributed to Rs. 10 crore in revenues in 4 years
  • 2. Developed functional & behavioral training for 5,000+ professionals to enhance role readiness
  • 3. Lead ‘Campus to Corporate’ programs for 4,000+ students across Gujarat
  • 4. Delivered ‘Power Skills’ training for students, first-time & mid-level managers in 17+ organizations
MentoringTraining & DevelopmentCoachingContent DevelopmentTraining DevelopmentProgram Management

Assistant Manager (Academics & Communications)

Jun 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Taking a shift from a corporate to an edu-corporate that is as lean as one, I am entrusted with:
  • 1. Making aspirants believe that an expansive vocabulary isn't always expensive
  • 2. Writing advertorials and ensuring they are followed to a T
  • 3. Training students primarily in the areas of Language, Indian Polity, International Relations, Indian History & Personality Development
  • 4. Being the voice behind consumer touch points - both online & offline
  • 5. Liasoning with other educational institutes including schools & colleges on possible avenues of collaboration
Training & DevelopmentCareer Development CoachingCoaching

Ernst & young

Intern, Advisory Services

Apr 2015May 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai

  • 1. Migration Advisory Services for one of the largest Indian telcos - assuring maximum value from large scale OSS/BSS transformation
  • 2. Part of an on and off field asset audit team for a telecom infra giant at Maharashtra & Goa and Gujarat circles
  • 3. Building a repository of financial parameters for the valuation of a telco
  • 4. Secondary research on eMBMS and the various distribution models that could be adopted

Education

SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Marketing and Finance

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Gujarat Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Sabari Vidyalaya

Jan 1994Jan 2010

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