Jerry’s learning journey as a Coach, Consultant and Learning2Learn professional!

Jerry began his training, consulting & learning professional career as an entrepreneur at age of 16 in 1987, and created an ethical trust-based relationship selling training program titled ‘Don’t just be a seller, be a trusted CounSELLOR” for sales teams that they trained, operated & managed for banks (credit cards, loans, & other financial products) and subsequently for insurance, telecom, FMCG, electronic goods, media, and other companies. For Jerry learning is not just a vocation or profession, but a passion to enable unlimited great potential in individuals, institutions and organisations everywhere. In his quest to get better as a coach, consultant, orator, trainer and mentor, Jerry attends atleast 3 new learning programs every year as a participant simply to listen & learn from gurus teaching different theme. He inherently believes in getting better every day so that he delivers the best programs for participants who attend his trainings and talks.

Anecdote 1- This is a short mail sent by a young student Mr. Nitish Naik who had just joined IDFC as a young management graduate getting set to embark on his career journey. Nitish is one of the few lakh participants, who Jerry has coached for Campus2Corporate prep over the past few years. “Hey Jerry! Nitish here I had attended one for your session in Mumbai Sofitel hotel on July 21st 2022 and it was just a wonderful experience for me something like an eye opener. I was just a shy kid and was sitting at the last chair you called me and told me to sit right in front of you was nervous at the but the moment you started talking I was blown away by the passion and strength in your voice and personality it was really inspirational and I did try to interact with you there with a few Q&A's felt really good in doing so too (you told us about your son, Hope he will become a wonderful lawyer). As the session was over, I did want to speak with you for a bit but saw you there with your suitcase ready to leave so couldn't get the courage to reach out for atleast a photo with you, but I did click a picture of the session. After that day I had a burning desire to find my interests in life or you can say my passion/purpose in life and after a few days I connected with you on LinkedIn and have been following you since but the one thing that really hit me like a lightning bolt piercing through my heart was when I saw your post on your beloved mother and I have no words on how do I say this but she passed away on 19th July 2022 and you were there 2 day later in Mumbai Sofitel hotel on 21st July 2022 with so much passion and just a very bright glow on your face with no hint of sadness, inspiring the room full of freshly graduated young generation about to embark on their first corporate journey. I was trying to send this message to you since last year but I didn't find the courage to do so, all I have to say is I was and I'm inspired by you and thank you very much I got to learn a lot from you. Hope we can meet again someday.”

Anecdote 2- This is a short convo 15 years ago between Jerry’s son Zorawar and his best friend in school (while being driven to school by his friend’s mother Shalini) at age 7+.
Arnav: Your dad does not go to office everyday like all others and travels all the time.
Zorawar: My dad does not have any office to go to and travels to teach people in offices all over.
Arnav: Teach people. Teach what?! People attending offices have all gone to school and colleges.
Zorawar: He teaches them skills that they don’t teach in schools and colleges.
Arnav: What does that mean?
Zorawar: He teaches them how to work better as individuals and teams.
Arnav: Ah, OK! Sounds great! So, what all does he teach them…
These 2 and other such anecdotes (as given above) related to Jerry’s learning journey and appreciative testimonials from participants over the past 3 decades reinforce Jerry’s spirit and inspire him to keep learning and getting better in every moment.

Jerry also keeps an open mind to learn from participants who share brilliant insights during talks & trainings he delivers. Like he always jokes with people who attend his talks and trainings “If you expect too much Gyan from me, that’s not happening as I follow a simple learning method based on this thought by Socrates ‘I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make you think” and that what I will be doing during our time to learn together and learn by osmosis for Learning2Learn. So, I will keep planting learning seeds, themes and ideas in the room and you will all share your insights, thoughts and ideas for action and we will learn from each other. So, while you have all come to learn from me by the end of the day, I will be learning a lot from each and all of you and then get paid for it. That’s the secret of my happiness. Now don’t tell the HR and Finance department I said that or they won’t pass my bills.” 🤗

Jerry’s mission in life is to enable each and all of us to become better versions of ourselves through continuous self-discovery, development and improvement in every moment and day. Jerry believes in leaving all of us whose lives he touches (through trainings, coaching sessions, inspirational talks, comedy, books, and writings) better than before to discovering ‘The Hero in Me’ and understand, unpack & unleash our unlimited heroic potential. Jerry is an internationally certified Leadership Learning expert and much sought Leadership Coach, Management/OD Consultant, inspirational orator, bestselling author & master Storyteller who brings talks & trainings to LIFE with TRUE STORIES of REAL HEROES. As a Leadership Subject Matter Expert & Master Mentor, Jerry has mentored and certified the master trainers chosen by HR and Learning & Development Departments of Fortune 500, MSME, UN, PSE, NGOs, Educational Institutions and other organisations.

Jerry received a nomination in March 2015, from a leading global Leadership and Management Education Magazine for the world's 10 most innovative coaches, a rating process conducted in association with the International Coaching & Mentoring Foundation and has been nominated for the same every year for the past 10 years.

Few (Just 15 and Jerry has done many more over the past 25 years) international Certifications: Indicative list to give you a feel of his investment for perpetual and eternal learning. Jerry attends 3 to 5 programs every year to keep his learning journey updated and current as he believes in giving the best version of himself and learning to people he learns with.

• Jerry is internationally certified and empaneled as a Leadership Subject Matter Expert with Franklin Covey Inc- USA, the world’s #1 leadership learning institute. Jerry is one of the few master trainers with Franklin Covey globally who facilitates and Trains the Trainer for all Franklin Covey programs including 4DX (4 Disciplines of Execution Consulting.)
• Jerry is internationally certified and empaneled as a Master Coach and Subject Matter Expert for Executive Coaching, Performance Coaching and Peak Potential with Neuro-Leadership Institute, Australia and USA, the premier coaching institution that specializes in Brain Based Coaching and has learned directly from Dr. David Rock.
• Jerry is internationally certified for Life Coaching and has learned directly from Dr. Peter Reding of Global Impact Coaching- USA.
• Jerry is internationally certified and empaneled with the American Management Association- USA and facilitates all their learning programs.
• Jerry is a certified NLP/ Gestalt subject matter expert and mater practitioner and has learned directly from Dr. Richard Bandler, Dr. John Grinder and Dr. Richard McHugh.

• Jerry is empaneled with ‘McKinsey and Co’, ‘Bain’ and ‘BCG’ for consulting programs, where they need his cutting-edge facilitation, visioning and interlocution skills.
• Internationally certified by ‘Peter Senge’ as 1 of the few chosen coaches for ‘The 5th Discipline’ courses focus on organizational learning and systems thinking.
• Conceptualised and seeded ‘The Heroic Imagination project’ with the legendary Dr. Phil Zimbardo.
• Jerry is a certified as Master Facilitator for Master Facilitation Skills by the Consultant Academy- USA.
• Jerry is a certified Master Facilitator and Subject Matter Expert for Enneagram Personality and Psychology learning from The Enneagram Institute- USA.
• Jerry is a certified for mentoring and has learned directly from Prof. David Clutterbuck of Clutterbuck, UK.
• Jerry is certified for Appreciative Enquiry and Strength Based Strategies learning from Dr. Venkat Pulla of Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice- Australia and Dr. Phil Zimbardo of Heroic Imagination Project, Stanford University- USA.
• Jerry is certified and empaneled by Manpower Group- HR consulting firm for several psychometric tests and assessment coaching which includes MBTI, DISC profiling, EIT, 16 PF, SJT, Hogan, Thomas PPA etc. Besides analyzing and assessing people based on the tests, Jerry also coaches’ people about how they can set goals and develop an action plan for personal improvement & transformation.
• Empaneled with Gallup Inc - USA as an assessor and master coach for Clifton Strengths.
• Personally mentored by ‘Barry Oshry’ for “The Organisation Workshop" which is a simulation designed to help participants understand how their behavior and the environment they work in affect each other. This workshop provides a framework for understanding how systems work and how to improve their effectiveness.

Leadership, Life and Executive Coach: For the past 36 years Jerry have been conducting leadership trainings and life and executive coaching for people working with several Fortune 500 and 100 companies. In his quest for learning and as a knowledge and wisdom junkie who wants to give the best to all people whose lives he touches in his talks & trainings. Jerry, not only reads voraciously everyday but also attends, learns, questions, researches, understands, masters and practices new teachings from several modern and ancient human and psychometric sciences from new teachers every year for continuous improvement. Some of the sciences he has learned and constantly researches, reviews and revises for continuous improvement are given below (Indicative list to give you a feel).

• Enneagram – The psychological study of personalities and why we do what we do.
• NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming and NLP based coaching.
• rain Based Coaching
• Neuroscience
• Life Coaching
• Executive Coaching
• Performance Coaching
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Transactional Analysis
• Mentoring
• Gestalt
• Logo Therapy
• MBTI
• Hogan
• DISC Profiling
• FIRO B Profiling
• Hypnosis Therapy
• The science of Kinesics (Body Language)
• ISABS ... and other applied behavioural and psychological sciences. I am a master practitioner of the Socratic Learning Method.

Programs Jerry specialises in as a leadership coach and management consultant
Leadership Training, Team Building, Ethical Leadership, Innovation, Creative Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Visioning, Strategic Thinking, Principle Centred Strategy, Strategy to Execution, Public Speaking, Presentation Skills, Communication Skills, Interviewing Skills, Project Management, Performance Coaching, Customer Centricity, Sales Training, Business Writing Skills, Inspirational Oratory, Motivational Talks and other related organisation/team developmental activities and games.

Jerry is also and internationally certified coach and subject matter expert for

• Franklin Covey All Courses including 4DX consulting (1 of the 10 Subject Matter Experts empaneled with Franklin Covey worldwide, who specialises in all Franklin Covey programs)
• Centre for Creative Leadership
• Marshal Goldsmith Coaching
• John Maxwell
• Collective Leadership Institute
• Situational Leadership
• American Management Association
• Leadershape International
• Extraordinary Leadership
• Inspirational Leadership Group
• Commonwealth Youth Leadership Development Program (Created the Course and Coached The Trainers)
• UN Volunteers (Created the Leadership Development Program in the International Year of Volunteering 2011)
• Skill Share UK
• Edward De Bono All courses
• Ken Blanchard All courses
• Fundamentals Training Centre

Some salient features in Jerry’s learning journey

• Jerry is a certified master consultant and facilitator and have learned the finer nuances of consulting and facilitating in the course conducted by the Consultant Academy USA.
• Jerry also created his own courses on Coaching & Mentoring, Trust Based selling and Leadership. The books are being published by Simon & Schuster USA and Wiley.
• Jerry is also the only Leadership Coach, who was exclusively invited by the Armed Forces of India to be empaneled as their visiting faculty and leadership coach to train officers in the Army, Navy and Air-force.
• Jerry is engaged as a Coach with several Entrepreneurs, CEOs/ CXOS, movie and sports stars (including Paralympians) and a few young politicians and bureaucrats.
• Jerry is also engaged as a mentor with few new start-ups.
• Jerry is also empaneled with Speaker Bureaus like The Outstanding Speakers Bureau, New York Times Speakers Bureau, Economist Intelligence Unit, London Speaker Bureau and the International Speakers Bureau.
• He is also empaneled as a facilitator, consultant and coach with several organisations and consulting firms like Franklin Covey, Right Management, DDI, Bain & Co, McKinsey & Co and others.
• Jerry was also nominated as a Fellow by the International Association of Facilitators
• Jerry is empaneled as Guest Faculty with several schools, colleges and B-schools.
• Jerry also conducts a course on Ethical Leadership at The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) for future bureaucrats.

Besides learning directly from his mentors, Jerry insatiably researches ancient and modern human sciences. In his quest to add value to people who learn with him, Jerry who is a learning and human science enthusiast has read research material on ancient and modern human sciences from Enneagram to Epigenetics and several published books and unpublished manuscripts on self-learning, psychology, practical positive psychology, philosophy, anthropology, spiritualism, religion, mindfulness, leadership, neuroscience, management, business sciences, success and prosperity literature. He has also studied several autobiographies and ancient literature like Thirukurral, Vachanas, iChing, Ikigai, Uncommon Therapies etc. Through the learning from all these scriptures and in consultation with several learning professionals, Jerry has created the moJOsh Inspirator Leadership Learning Framework that consists of 0+ 3 moJOsh mindsets, 7 virtues and 21 powers, which are rooted in the 0 mindset, virtue and power of vulnerability, for working towards success in any dimension.

Jerry inherently believes that each and all of us human beings are blessed with heroic potential and through his years of research on Real Heroes for his books, has created the moJOsh Inspirator Learning framework and system that has benefited many over the years. The moJOsh Inspirator Learning framework is designed to simplify life, leadership and critical skilling lessons, for inspiring you to unleash your infinite potential to change your life and in turn to change the world for the better. “I change to change the world. I change to change the nation. I change to change society. I change to change everything. I change to change everyone.” is Jerry’s simple learning mantra.

The constant quest for learning to add more value to people who learn from him and exposure to people from several geographies, enables Jerry to extrapolate (extend and deliberate by inferring known and unknown values from trends in the recognized learning content, data and research) insights and lessons from all over the world during his training/ coaching sessions. This supports him to bring the learning to life with simple examples, stories and case studies from around the world and from several organisations.

In his penchant to enable people with social responsibility lessons and enable them to OWN THEIR INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, Jerry has incepted, created and promoted global movements like The Joy of Giving, Right every Wrong, One Billion Hungry (with the UN), International Year of Volunteering (with the UN, One Billion Rising, Karmaveer Chakra Global Awards (with the UN), REX-not just talks, ideas for action CONCLiVE and Swachh Bharat Mission.

Jerry has captivated audiences ranging from corporate executives to world leaders, teachers, parents, students and entrepreneurs around the world in conferences organized by the World Economic Forum, UN, Rotary International, Lions International, World Affairs Council, US Consulate, British Council, BNI, TiE, CII, FICCI, Young Indians, YEO, YPO, GMIC, Assocham, FISME and several premier Educational Institutions and businesses associations.