Potential to Performance
Helping individuals and organisations to Enhance their Performance.
As an advisor and consultant, we work with organisations to help identify the hurdles causing disruption or sub-optimal outcomes and provide recommendations to overcome them.
As a mentor and guide, we work with individuals to identify the limitations they may be facing in achieving their full potential. We work with the individual to gradually reduce the impediments.
As a speaker and author, we work with community to help in sharing and spreading of knowledge. We provide focused sessions such as guest lectures, experiential training, etc. We also chip-in as co-author or and reviewer.
We conduct a few theme based sessions to cater to specific needs. Each of these orientation sessions provide an overview of one of those sessions and help participant decide to choose one that closely aligns with their need.
We contributed our bit in the journey of
5+
Organisations
15+
Institutions
25+
Entrepreneurs
75+
Individuals
Advisor
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Streamlining delivery and operations
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Brining predictability in cash-flow
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Enabling students to be industry ready
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Expanding reach of traditional games
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Taking knowledge to the audience
Consultant
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Selecting a service partner
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Executing micro and small projects
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Fine tuning the course content
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Strategising for the future
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Evaluation and assessment
Mentor
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A Program Manager – New Jersey, USA
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A Product Manager – Chicago, USA
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A Content Expert - New Jersey, USA
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A Portfolio Manager – Mumbai, India
- A Delivery Manager – Bengaluru, India
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A Fine-art Artist – Bengaluru, India
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A Country Head - Bengaluru, India
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A Technical Manager - Bengaluru, India
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Career mentoring – 25+ individuals
Guide
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A medical student converting her idea to an app for benefit of other learners
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An engineer with 8 years’ experiences in non-IT aiming to get into an IT sector
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Career guidance to more than 15 individuals
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Theme-based tune-up sessions
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Get 25 hours a day (Time)
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Get 20% better every year (Productivity)
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Get ahead of the queue (Leverage)
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Starting the start-up (Structure)
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Extended Inning (Engagement)G
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Conquering Interview (Preparation)
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Speaker
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Strategic session for the leadership team
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Experiential learning for the sales team
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A tutorial at the Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2024)
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Leadership in Management Guest Lecture
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Focused session at established forums (PMI – Bangalore, IEEE – Chennai)
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Distinguished Guest Lectures and Software Engineering Lectures (IIIT, AIT, DSU, KSIT, VIT, and BGSCE – Bengaluru, VIT – Vellore, BIT – Sindri, Sandeep University – Madhubani, New Government Polytechnic – Patna)
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Panel Discussion (DCE – Darbhanga, Bridging Bihar – Bengaluru and Pune)
Author
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Foreword for a book 'Digitizing Software Knowledge for Software Development'
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Two weekly posts, Simplify to Amplify and Cheeky Bytes, on LinkedIn
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Real-life cases from professional life, Imitable Success Stories, on YouTube
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Sequentially Layered Iterative Model (SLIM) - A model for starting a startup
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Book published - 'Good Decision Bad Decision' by Trafford, Singapore in 2014
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Books under progress
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Dream Big Fly High
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Thirty Idiots on Murga Road
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The experts
Anil Kant Choudhary (AKC) is a Performance Coach with over 3 decades of experience in the IT Industry serving multiple domains and handling strategic roles. AKC has helped business leaders and executives succeed in their Business Initiatives. He focused on four core areas - Client Relationship, Profitability & Growth, Employee Development and Delivery Excellence. He now aims to give back to the professional community. AKC helps individuals and organisations to enhance their performance in the journey from Potential to Performance. He contributes like a catalyst to help nurture their potential and enabling growth. AKC acts as an advisor, consultant, mentor, guide, speaker, and author.
Krishnan Subramanian is a Management Coach with over 3 decades of IT experience working in multiple domains and multiple cultures. As a Management Coach, he helps organizations and individuals find breakthroughs and elevate their Operational Excellence. Krishnan brings his experience in Strategy, CXO Engagement, High performance leadership teams, Global Competency Centres, Operational Excellence, Distributed Global Delivery, Business Consulting, Process Consulting, Complex Outsourcing Deals, Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Emotional Intelligence, Culture and Change Management Initiatives, CSR, Coaching and Mentoring.
Saurabh Arvind is a Competency Coach with over 3 decades of experience working with Tata Steel, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra. He is focused on Delivery, Quality, and Training. As a Competency Coach, Saurabh helps in continuously improving skills and competencies. A learner for life, he avidly explores new areas of knowledge and introduce them to the recipient to achieve superior results. Saurabh brings his expertise of managing large and diverse portfolio of services (Total IT Outsource) in Global IT Delivery and Business Support Functions. He has played corporate roles in Learning & Development, People Supply chain, Quality Assurance, and Business Excellence.
The intent
At Upkaari, we take pride in being your trusted partner in the journey from Potential to Performance. We believe that Performance always lags Potential due to two types of diductors, Internal Interferences and External Constrains. We can aim to eliminate or at least reduce the gap significantly by Controlling Internal Interferences and Managing External Constraints.
Our aim is to help individuals and organisations enhance their performance. We approach each case by first understanding the reasons for the gap and then suggesting ways and means to gradually reduce it. We further suggest ways to nurture their potential to continuously improve performance.
We apply DIVE methodology, which stands for Discovery, Introspection, Validation, and Execution. Discovery helps to understand the gap, Introspection and Validation then identifies actionable steps to plug the gaps one after another, and Execution is the final step of applying the actions, measuring the outcome, and fine-tuning the approach.
Upkaari does not consider it as a one off event, but a journey where we help the recipient improve and keep improving over several weeks, months, and possibly years.
