Kartic Vaidyanathan

Co-Founder

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India21 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of LetUsPlayToLearn, enhancing learning through games.
  • Consultant at IIT Madras, focusing on joyful learning.
  • Author of 'What Toppers Don't Tell You'.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in educational gamification and corporate training.

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Skills

Core Skills

Coaching & MentoringGamificationProgram Management

Other Skills

Requirements AnalysisAccount ManagementGame DesignTeam WorkshopsIT StrategyRequirements GatheringTeam ManagementCommunity EngagementSocial NetworkingCorporate Social ResponsibilityCollaborative Problem SolvingCollaborative LeadershipChange ManagementTeachingTeam Building

About

At my best, 1) I would like to imagine myself living the tagline of NOKIA (Connecting People). 2) I love the Duracell-Canada (Winters Ad) and wish that world around me were like that and also help in enabling that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGxRLrjc7Z03) 3) Lastly my most favorite ad of 1980s - Tata Steel Jingles (इस्पात भी हम बनाते हैं - We also make steel). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYBkbYaCUuwi.e. I also make games and teach game building, but that is just one part of me. The other part is what the jingles ad says. make families and communities and societies happier. At my worst, I whine and groan, complain and get irritated at myself and others. And go into a shell. And I have come to realize that its ok. We are all human. We need to embrace ups and downs. And that is what makes us human and grounded. Hopefully with time, we get lesser affected by downs and start feeling gratitude towards all we have been gifted. About my work: I do miscellaneous things. After a 20 year stint in IT Majors Cognizant and Infosys, started feeling the need for social emotional skills and resilience building in myself and also young adults. Got the opportunity to do LifeSkills, HHS and LetsPlayToLearn Courses as Guest Faculty at IIT Madras. Right now, I am a part of National Chemistry Gamification Platform Building ChemAmaze as a part of CSR initiative. We plan to extend it to all subjects in the coming year to make learning joyful for kids I am also a consultant with CeRAI (Centre For Responsible AI) - IIT Madras, enabling joyful learning through games + also in the future building meaningful learning through the power of AI for the to be formed AI For Education CoE I also do corporate consulting, workshops, HR advisory on building engaging and purposeful workplace cultures and to move away from rat race, grading and bell curves, to enable people live their full potential. Recently I wrote a book "What Toppers Dont Tell You" and its video explainer can be seen from https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7392758705622196224/ My other areas of interest include IKS, Spirituality, Sustainability, Reading Useful Social Media posts and curating and forwarding them. I also love to hear railway station announcements like these - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRtaCjsv-cI My favourite movie is KungFuPanda

Experience

21 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
4 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Letsplaytolearn

Founder - LetUsPlayToLearn

Apr 2018Present · 8 yrs · Chennai Area, India

  • Play2Learn is an initiative to make learning simple, fun and enjoyable through games, activities and simulations. Intention is to help reduce dislikes, negative biases towards seemingly difficult subjects. Also tries to foster skills of collaboration, creativity, communication and critical thinking during the learning process.
  • Apart from this, provide consultancy to corporates on the following areas
  • 1) Employee Engagement,
  • 2) Performance Management,
  • 3) Fostering Innovation
  • 4) Fun at Work - Connecting Head & Heart
  • Also do workshops for working professionals in mid management on
  • 1) Skills for Personal and Professional Success
  • 2) Game Based Learning in the Corporate World.
Requirements AnalysisAccount ManagementCoaching & MentoringGamification

Thegamificationrepublic and play2learn

CoFounder

Jan 2018Aug 2018 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • TheGamificationRepublic helps in making concepts, knowledge transfers simple, fun and engaging for the Corporate World.
  • Play2Learn is intended to make the school subjects joyful to make them curious learners

Cognizant technology solutions

Director of Learning and Development (a.k.a Academy)

Apr 2017Jun 2017 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Working as a games based learning consultant to develop framework and a toolkit that provides a list of possible games that can help address the business training challenges like - simplifying complexity, overcome monotony, add fun and engagement elements to the learning process.

Cognizant technology solutions

2 roles

Director Operational Excellence

Promoted

Jul 2013Mar 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Practice Financial Governance, Program Management & Facilitation/Liasoning with associated functions like Staffing, Immigration, Finance, Risk Management. Key initiatives led during this period include
  • 1) Practice Margin Acceleration Improvement
  • 2) Travel Ready Associate Deployment Improvement
  • 3) Demand-Supply Streamlining of new joinees
  • 4) Margin Educational and Awareness Sessions- Learning Carnivals through games.

Associate Director

May 2010Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • Offshore QEA Lead for a few Large Clients in the Insurance space. Broad responsibilities include ensuring continuous customer and associate delight.

Sterling commerce

Senior QA Manager

Feb 2005May 2010 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Assure quality for a set of products related to Order Fulfillment by working with a variety of teams like quality assurance, development, product development, product support.

Yantra

QA Manager

Sep 2000Jan 2005 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Infosys

Software Engineer

Jun 1996Aug 2000 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Boston Area

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

PGSEM — Management

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

BTech — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 1992Jan 1996

P.S.Senior Secondary School

Jan 1987Jan 1992

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