Testimonial

Corporate Clients Feedback for Workshops and Coaching

• BET Networks,Vice President of Consumer Insights and Business Strategy, Carol Cunningham “Thank you Gauri- I’m really enjoying the course Innovating with Data and our community conversations; I always leave with new ways to attack problems and form solutions. Appreciate that immensely!!”
• Cushman & Wakefield, Program Manager, Jacqueline Mattingly “Innovating with data Teaching lead Gauri: She gives me courage to tackle the assignments in the course and I always look forward to her live sessions.”
• Motivation Design Lab Tokyo Behaviour Scientist Tomomi (Ishide) Yoshimura “I am very grateful for this journey and excited to keep practicing creative change from IDEO U Accelerated Change Leadership in my work. Thank you Gauri Mohan, for your guidance, creating a safe space to be authentic, and amazing insights 🫶Thank you so much for your inspiring comments ☺️ ! I love how you created this course learner-centered, seeing people unseen, and listening to voices unexpressed. I learned a lot from not only the course material itself, but also how you guided us during the entire course, thank you !!!”
• Infosys OCM Consultant Silvia Bolvino “For IDEO U Change Leadership Program: I am grateful for the journey, for the inspiring people I met from all over the world and especially for our teacher Gauri Mohan, who guided us with continuous feedback, encouragement and positivity!“
• Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited, General Manager – Talent Management & Development, Koustubh Dutta “Gauri Mohan Thank you so much !! I loved the way the curriculum encouraged us to go beyond numbers and truly listen to the human stories behind the data. Excited to carry these learnings forward and continue innovating with empathy and evidence. Grateful to you and the IDEO U team for such a transformative journey!”
• Adani Karnavati Aviation Private Limited, Deputy General Manager, Agnelo Almeida “We had an amazing 2 day workshop on Design thinking with Gauri as the facilitator.
  Her in-depth knowledge and insights on the subject made each of us think from a different perspective (i.e. stakeholder or customer).
  Would surely recommend Gauri and wish her all the best in her journey that shapes young minds and entrepreneurs.”
• Grant Thornton, Strategy Engagement Manager, Vijita Salotra Kumar “I had the pleasure of having Gauri as a course facilitator and teacher in IDEO U’s “Innovating with Data” cohort. Gauri is an adept facilitator. She skillfully led our cohort through different learning formats over 5 weeks – well-balancing the structured activities while creating the space for discussion, clarifications and questions. The above is especially commendable as the cohort was live online with a diverse group of participants and a lot to be accomplished within a tight timeline. I felt engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the live sessions. In her teaching, what stands out is Gauri’s ability to create a sense of community. Her responsiveness to my submissions, sharing additional learning resources , providing relevant and timely feedback and pulling in other teachers to provide different perspectives helped accelerate and deepen my learning and insights from the course.I look forward to doing another cohort with Gauri soon!“
• Mrinalini Majumdar, UX Designer at OPTUM “I’m very grateful to my Teaching Assistant Gauri Mohan for guiding me through Innovating with Data course and for taking time out of the busy schedules to go through all my assignments and providing me with amazing feedback. I truly appreciate it. 🫡“
• Cerner Corporation Director, Learning Performance Jim Facinelli “Gauri, did an excellent job introducing our team to Design Thinking and I would highly recommend her approach to any company trying to learn and apply it. The 4 session experience was a great mix of theory, methodology, hands on practice and discussion which made the program very impactful to the group. We look forward to applying what you taught us Gauri. Thank you!”
• Deven Patel HR Head Robert Bosch Rexroth India Pvt. Ltd. “It was very fruitful two days of participation in Designing Thinking Workshop facilitated by you.I appreciate the way in which you conducted the whole workshop which made theoretical concept/topic very live & interesting.I thank you very much for your coaching & moderation which made learning easy & effective.“
• Rajendra Vasant Deosthale HR Head Bosch Electrical Drives India Pvt. Ltd. “Many thanks for your involvement in working with HR team of Bosch to introduce “Design thinking” to work for defining an HR policy. This was the first time experience for me and was impressed with method of diverging and converging ideas and implementations.”
• UNICEF BayoAdekola International Development Advisor “Great job and thank you for helping on Designing Strategy for UNICEF strategic challenge on how might we make life saving healthcare services accessible for children in communities”
• Digital Bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Behavioral Science Consultant Daniel Caceres Apolaya “Gauri is a very experienced and methodical mentor on the field of Designing a Strategy and having her as IDEO U coach was a great support. I’m currently managing a HR technological change in one of the biggest banks of Peru and she offered me not only great advice but also past insights on similar projects that she faced with valuable resources. I enjoyed our three 1 to 1 sessions because I could co-create solutions with her in a safety space getting honest feedback. Moreover our discussions were a reminder to put the user in the center of the change.”
• Bharat Petroleum Business Analytics & Insights Manager Avinash Das “Thanks Gauri for such a great design thinking workshop !! So much of your presentation was just what I needed to boost my change in mindset and working practices for understanding internal or external customer’s perspective. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your structured and collaborative approach to such a wide topic with key take aways which I can put into business practice.”
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited SAP Sales & Marketing Functional Consultant Prashant Kumar Choudhary “I attended Design Thinking workshops facilitated by Gauri on tackling Bharat Petroleum challenges and it was superb learning especially Journey Map for pain points of Business and Business user which made me think to focus on the actual problem of the Business to design the solution in an effective way. I was surprised that I designed a solution using Empathy Map, Journey Map, Ideations and Prototype using storyboard which I was not doing earlier and will be great approach in future as well which I am surely going to apply in my daily life.”
• Uipath Strategic Marketer Andrea Van Unen-Smith: “I attended the Certification Program in Design Thinking conducted by Gauri Mohan. Held virtually across multiple regions with attendees from different areas of the business, Gauri did a tremendous job in keeping us energised and engaged. She provided a forum where every idea was open for exploration and discussion – living to the Ideo model – and made this a valuable training session.”
• Espire Infolabs Project Manager Jonathan Isaac: “First ever training with 10% PPT and 90% practical sessions and scenarios…indeed it was a good learning….and we never felt that it was online….thanks Gauri.I loved the way the whole concept is being presented to deal with the wicked problems”
• Espire Infolabs Director, Rahul Prabhakar “Gauri did a fantastic job of imparting knowledge on Design Thinking. Personally, I learnt a great deal about Empathy, Emerging and Latent Needs of Customers, Journey Maps, Validating Assumptions, User Personas, How Might We Technique, Generating Non Obvious Ideas, Divergent Thinking, etc. This training will be immensely useful for my work.”
• JadeGlobal Sukanya Patwardhan Vice President Talent Development“Thank you so much for your excellent session on Design Thinking for our HR team and internship batch. You made complex concepts simple in an interactive manner with a real time exercise to solve a problem.(How might we communicate more effectively virtually?).Your examples on how design thinking is used in building products/services using virtual reality and augmented reality were spot on for our young IT professionals, you designed a session customised to the our needs. It demonstrates your commitment to give back to the young early career professionals.Very special thanks to you. We look forward to your continued support.”
• ATSGreens Group, CHRO Archana Kumar “Excellent way of working on our HR challenge with radical collaboration virtually and helps us explore the problem in a empathetic and creative way.It helps us to challenge our assumptions too.”
• Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, President and Global CHRO Jayaram Philkana “Thank you for facilitating the micro workshops globally for our global HR leaders.”
• NPCI, COO, Praveena Rai “It is very difficult for people to define the problem statement with benefits.Framing the right problem is the key. Thank you, Gauri. We’re all game to dive headlong into design thinking”
• Espire Infolabs Project Manager Vipul Mishra: “I Loved the way workshop was designed and executed, helped to build a better customer view.I love this DT session because now I can think out of the box and consider the end-user behavior while providing the solution and will try to implement these techniques in our work.“
• ATS Infrastructure, AGM HR, Bhumit Kamboj “Thank you for this experience. It takes into account, even minutest of the problems, while diagnosing”
• NPCI, Chief Business Development, Anup Nayyar “The insights that the interview gave with regards to the challenge. It helped me to understand the framework in which you identify a right challenge and how you craft the solution for the same”
• Espire Infolabs, Sr. Project ManagerJatinder Gandhi: “I loved the concept of design thinking which was new to me and had given a new vision in the analysing the things from customers perspective“

• Indian Oil Corporation Limited HR Naveli Singh “Thank you Gauri Ma’am for conducting this excellent workshop on ‘Innovative Solutioning through Design thinking’. The participants found the workshop deeply engaging and educative. The variety of activities conducted by you and the amount of enthusiasm that you garnered in the participants is really appreciable.Some more feedback: ‘Excellent Workshop’, ‘Training Program was very Effective’”
• ATS Infrastructure, DGM HR, Mudit Ahuja “It bring in radical collaboration even virtually”
• NPCI Head – Business Development (Corporates & Banks) Rajeeth Pillai “This was a much needed session for the product since over a period of time, the mindset or the thought process had got rusted & no new idea was coming out.Thanks Gauri”
• IndoGermanChamber of Commerce,  Director, Rucheeka Chhugani “A wonderful workshop by Gauri, insightful and engaging. The Comprehensive workshop approach to the entire process was easy to grasp the idea behind the philosphy. Kudos!”
• NPCI Incharge Debit & Prepaid, Deep Sood,“Simplicity of concept explained, Clarity of delivery of each module & Design the whole problem statement”
• Axis Bank General Manager Rockey “Ahas: can be applied across challenges and departments in an organization and looking forward to apply in more such areas”
• RituKumar, L&D Sr. Manager,  Geetanjal Aggarwal “Theoretically, I knew the basic concept of Design Thinking, however, it was through this engaging workshop led by Gauri Mohan that I understood the process of creative problem solving under ‘Design Thinking’ and its impact & implementation. A wonderful learning by the instructor and the peers!”
• ATS Greens, Payroll Head, Krishnavir Singh “Your Online workshop was very effective, impactful and had fun”
• RBL Bank AVP- Client Services Pooja Rajput “Thanks Gauri. It was indeed a thoughtful session. It really helped us to think to the core of the issues and design the solutions accordingly.”
• Union Bank of India General Manager P. R. Singh “It helped not only to design solutions for the challenges in hand but also learnt many things to implement in other challenges in my organisation”
• ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Manager RajKumar Bhatia “Deeply Insightful workshops with real case studies and great experience applying on real challenges across NPCI products”
• State Bank of India Technical Manager Deepika“Ahas have been the tips and toolkit takeaway to be applied in future challenges and highly motivational”
• NPCI Senior Vice President – Products and Innovation Vishal “I liked Identify Extremes and build for them.I always felt that we should ignore extremes and build for masses.This session gave me a different perspective.”
• NPCI NETC Product Manager Mandar Deshpande“Many time what we see as business problem is not the actual problem. Design Thinking Methodology is one of kind which helps you to identify the root cause of the problem from the lenses of all the stakeholders and a very structured approach to come up with solutions. Thanks Gauri it’s was very insightful session.“
• ATSGreens HR Sakshi Kushwaha “The importance of empathy while trying to understand the problems of other  departments at our workplace is very impactful”

• NPCI Incharge AePS operations Rajesh D “I like the module & examples given in a course.This will really help me to work on new solution which will be useful for organization and customer”
• NPCI, Incharge Tokenization & EMV, TAP&GO, Sudeshna Ghosh “The way the full session has been coordinated and explained.Our perspective in designing got completely changed.There are several aspects to be taken care for a succesful design, what was not known”

• Accenture Consulting Managing Director Capability Network India Manoj Munjal “Pearls of wisdom shared by you have energized our talent and stimulated them to think “beyond.”
• NPCI Lead IMPS Priya Darshini “Visual representation of the DT approach while exploring the challenge & practical examples that were shared.”
• RelianceADA BRPL Sr. Manager L&D-HR Shruti Murthy “Understanding your consumer which was covered extensively with activities was the best part of Design Thinking Workshop.”
• Srini Srinivasa Sr Director, Murphy USA and Ford Former Strategy head“Gauri is an excellent communicator with a strong persuasive capability which helps get everyone on board quickly. She thinks outside the box and has used her innovative ideas to build innovation enabler environment at Ford. Culture, coaching and idea to ideation are some of the areas where she contributed significantly to build this environment. She demonstrated strengths in research, analysis and building strategic future scenarios. She is nice team player and has helped the team with all her strengths to achieve the final goal. She requests and provides objective feedback consistently to improve herself and other team members. Gauri is a great addition to any team looking for research analyst and strategy scenario builder along with excellent persuasive communication capability“
• Accenture Consulting Talent & Development India Managing Director Kala Venkatesh “Thank you for sharing valuable knowledge and experiences in area of Design Thinking.”
• Domion Construction Project Head Malik Nashiz Naseem “Indepth and Diverse examples along with activities conducted by trainer.”
• BIRA91 HR Sales Capability & Development Deepak Mudgal “Empathy by Journey Map and Trainer’s knowledge along with experience to relate and explain the topic was perfect.”
• Tata Communications Government & Smart Cities Projects Manager Ashima Bhagat “Design Thinking phase wise approach with complete focus on consumer centricity was well covered in the workshop”
• NPCI Sakthi Krishnan Lead NACH & CTS Operations “Understanding the right problem is the most difficult job – known after this workshop only”