Kartic Vaidyanathan — Co-Founder
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
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in educational gamification and corporate training.
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Experience: 21 yrs 1 mo
Skills
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Gamification
- Program Management
Career Highlights
- Founder of LetUsPlayToLearn, enhancing learning through games.
- Consultant at IIT Madras, focusing on joyful learning.
- Author of 'What Toppers Don't Tell You'.
Work Experience
LetsPlaytoLearn
Founder - LetUsPlayToLearn (8 yrs)
TheGamificationRepublic and Play2Learn
CoFounder (7 mos)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Director of Learning and Development (a.k.a Academy) (2 mos)
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Director Operational Excellence (3 yrs 8 mos)
Associate Director (3 yrs 1 mo)
Sterling Commerce
Senior QA Manager (5 yrs 3 mos)
Yantra
QA Manager (4 yrs 4 mos)
Infosys
Software Engineer (4 yrs 2 mos)
Education
PGSEM at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
at P.S.Senior Secondary School