H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Founder, Art of living
H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (b. 1956, India) is a revered spiritual leader and humanitarian. His mission of uniting the world into a violence-free global family has inspired millions of people worldwide to broaden their spheres of responsibility and work towards sustainable peace.
In 1997, he founded the International Association for Human Values (IAHV) to identify and foster on a global scale the fundamental human values shared by all societies, religions, cultures and civilizations. In Asia, Africa and Latin America, IAHV is working with marginalized communities to promote sustainable development, and has so far benefited over 30,000 villages and trained more than 65,000 local youth.
Sri Sri is also the founder of the International Art of Living Foundation (IAOLF, 1981), which is dedicated to uplifting humanity and bringing peace at all levels of society, starting from every individual. The initiatives of IAHV and IAOLF, both volunteer-based charitable NGOs, have benefited people from diverse walks of life in over 140 countries.
A leading figure in human development and social transformation, Sri Sri’s multifaceted initiatives include conflict resolution, disaster relief, interfaith harmony, violence prevention, women’s empowerment, environmental protection, and education for all.
He is actively engaged in promoting dialogue and reconciliation in war zones and post-conflict areas across the world, including in Iraq, Ivory Coast, Israel/Palestine and Kosovo, and in conflict-ridden parts of South Asia (e.g. Sri Lanka and Kashmir). He has also designed a number of self-development programs that enhance well-being and foster human values.
Sri Sri is the recipient of numerous awards, including seven honorary doctorates, and state honors from the Governments of Russia, Mongolia and India, in recognition of his tireless service to humanity. He travels to more than 40 countries every year to share his message of social responsibility, and that all great religious traditions share common goals and values.
In 2003, he initiated the Ethics in Business – Corporate Culture & Spirituality dialogue series to examine ways and means of strengthening human values and ethics in business.
Mrs. Rajita Kulkarni
President
Mrs. Rajita Kulkarni is a humanitarian, an educationist, a writer, a leadership coach and a global leader. She is the President of the World Forum for Ethics in Business and a Board member in a number of non-governmental organisations at an Indian national and international level.
She helps organisations globally to achieve excellence in governance, finance and administration. She is committed to create global advocacy to inspire individuals and corporations to embrace an ethical way of life. She has been instrumental in leading a number of action-oriented initiatives towards this goal.
Apart from global responsibility of WFEB, her key current projects include the launch of the prestigious Sri Sri University in India, global design and roll out of the Transformational Leadership for Excellence program that enables leaders to unleash their full potential and overseeing the administration of over 510 educational institutions that reach education to over 6,000 children (including schools, a college of journalism, a college of Ayurveda and an MBA school). Of these 421 are free schools reaching free education and mid day meals to 43,450 children in 12 states of India.
Her expertise lies in leading large, multicultural, multi country, diverse teams to unleash their full potential and fulfill their vision. She is a certified leadership coach and has trained CEO’s, current and ex Heads of Governments, Parliamentarians among others to sharpen their leadership skills towards creating increased public value.
She travels the world addressing various international fora to advocate the message of excellence, ethics and human values. Before committing her life to society five years ago, Rajita was a banker for 18 years with Citi. She held many international leadership positions in her career, last of which was Asia Pacific Head for Customer Advocacy and Training for the Retail Assets Business where her portfolio responsibility was annual revenues of 750 million US dollars, 16,000 employees and over 800 branches across 12 countries.
Considered an expert in her field of Leadership training and coaching, she designed 85 management exercises and learning tools. She has won 17 awards for professional excellence in her field and has done training and development for over 100,000 participants from over 50 countries.
Dr. Rau Foundation
The foundation supports basic life needs for children from 0-16 years old living in the Third World, primarily by providing funds for medical help, for the prevention of diseases, for the promotion of family planning, the emancipation of women and for primary education.
The chairman of the Dr. Rau foundation is Peter Marti. He is the owner of Marti Communications AG, a digital communications group in Zurich/Switzerland. He acts also as board member of the International Association of Human Values and as an advisor to the “Art of Living” group. Peter Marti is Co-founder and partner of the “World Summit on Ethics in Sport“.
Christoph Glaser
Christoph Glaser is CEO, Senior Consultant and Trainer of TLEX Europe
Christoph has more than 15 years of managing experience, and has been serving in different business organizations and NGOs in capacities of CEO, Board Member and Managing Director. At the moment he serves as CEO for TLEX Europe and Managing Director for World Forum for Ethics in Business.
Christoph has conducted leadership, well-being, resilience, and ethics programs in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Over the last 13 years he has taught in over 50 countries at companies such as: Accenture, BCG, GE, Daimler, Shell, American Express, the World Bank Group and is also delivering TLEX Workshops as the Harvard Business School.
Christoph successfully completed his Master in Public Policy at the Humboldt-Viadrina School for Governance in Berlin. He graduated from the Business School Basel in Switzerland with distinction. Christoph is a certified executive trainer of the World Bank program “Greater than Leadership”, as well as an Integral Coaching Canada certified Integral Associate Coach and a certified Leadership Circle Profile Coach by the institute “The Leadership Circle”.
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