Cerveausys Strategic - Management Consulting Firm in Pune

Mr. Bobby Kuriakose - Director HR – Forbes Marshall

Mr. Sachin Narke - Chief Learning Officer – Forbes Marshall

Ms. Sanyucta Chakravarti - Manager – HR & L&D – Forbes Marshall

We the Forbes Marshall are a leader in process efficiency and energy conservation for Process Industry. We have been listed several times among the Top 5 “Best Workplaces in India”, and first in the manufacturing industry by surveys conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute in association with Economic Times.

We consider our Diversity and Inclusion strategy as an important driver for promoting a work culture of performance excellence and holistic business growth. In line with this philosophy, we recently launched an initiative - SOCH with the purpose of unleashing leadership potential of the women executives in Forbes Marshall so as to enhance their impact and visibility in business success.

Dr. Soniya Yadwadkar and Team CerveauSys Strategic conceptualized, designed and implemented a structured learning intervention- Strategic Women Leadership Development Program for women executives in Forbes Marshall in alignment with the purpose of SOCH.

Dr. Soniya delivered this program in a most energizing, insightful and motivating manner. The program covered various concepts, topics and competencies that women leaders need to learn to increase their visibility and impact on business performance and also to lead happy and holistically successful life.

The program was highly appreciated by the top management, women leaders across various levels and has certainly contributed to our vision of creating a culture of diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity and performance excellence. We are glad to continue our association with Dr. Soniya and Team CerveauSys for our future strategic talent management initiatives.

Ian Pinto – Country HR Manager – Sandvik Asia Pvt. Ltd.

We appreciate the contributions of Dr. Soniya Yadwadkar as external facilitator in our frontline Leadership Development Program - SGL. Since 2014 she has co-facilitated more that five such intensive programs for our first time managers / leaders.

  Dr. Soniya's expertise of Management Science and Psychometric Assessments besides her wide exposure to industry enables her to provide an outside-in view on leadership. She is thus able to engage in positive discussions to bring out the best from the participants. On average she has received a score of 3.5/4.0 from our participants; who appreciate her subject knowledge and positive attitude.

  We are looking forward to Dr. Yadwadkar's continued involvement in our leadership journey at Sandvik.  

Govind Killa – Director – Egon Software Pvt. Ltd.

Kalpana Halgekar – Manager HR – Egon Software Pvt. Ltd.

"Egon Software Pvt. Ltd. (ESL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Egon Holdings SA, a Luxembourg based company. Egon Holdings (EHS) is a privately owned conglomerate with Interests in trading and manufacturing of Diamonds and Jewellery, Real Estate and Investments. Conducting operations in 13 countries, the Group has built a reputation, for service reliability and professionalism.

Considering criticality of Strategic Human Resource management to deliver service excellence, Egon Top Team decided to transform our existing People Management Policies and key HR Processes for creating customer delight and fostering motivating work culture. The project involved developing progressive HR policies, designing Competency Based Performance Management System and revamping critical aspects of compensation system to benchmark with market best. CerveauSys Strategic was also entrusted with Competency Assessment and conducting Performance Management Training for managers.

Dr. Soniya and her experts from diverse domains successfully completed the assignment by seamlessly integrating the various initiatives and phases of project to deliver best results. Dr. Soniya's profound knowledge and experience about various HR concepts, processes and systems helped us establish progressive and motivating HR policies and processes. It was our pleasure working with Team CerveauSys Strategic and we wish them good luck for future endeavours."

Ms. Aditi Warhadpande - HR Business Partner at Alfa Laval India

"Dr. Soniya and I worked closely during her consulting assignment of designing Career Planning Model for Alfa Laval. Dr. Soniya has demonstrated a high degree of expertise in her field and is extremely passionate about her work. It was enjoyable working with her. She works more like a Business Partner rather than as a Consultant".

Mr. Girish Sohani - President – BAIF Development Research Foundation

Dr. Soniya and her Team facilitated us mainly in the areas of Organizational Diagnostics, Strategic Planning using Balanced Score Card, designing Competency Framework and Competency Based Recruitment and Selection Process, Competency Mapping and Assessment for Senior Management Levels, Employee Selection Tests, and Process Training. Considering the large, complex and diversified organization like ours Dr. Soniya and her Team efficiently designed and facilitated various strategic HR and OD initiatives which are still implemented in our organization.

Mr. Ashvin Shah – Director and CEO

Mr. Dipen Shah – Director Business Services

We are Associated Manufacturing, a certified precision sheet metal components manufacturing company, having State of the Art manufacturing facility in Chakan, Pune are dedicated to providing most innovative and efficient turnkey manufacturing and designing solutions to create higher value for our customers. We engaged CerveauSys Strategic to help us foster strategic focus, implement strategic planning process to achieve sustained and profitable growth during 2014-2015.

CerveauSys conducted organizational diagnostic to understand strategic strengths and challenges of our organization. Integrating the results of diagnostics, CerveauSys Experts implemented Vision, Mission and Values development initiative. CerveauSys Strategic implemented scientific strategic planning process and helped us in defining our strategic goals using balanced scorecard framework. CerveauSys identified the gaps and challenges that may create impediment to strategic execution and recommended specific initiatives and ideas for performance improvement.

The Strategic Growth Planning Initiative provided us valuable grass root level data pertaining to stakeholder’s perspective, business environment, growth opportunities, strengths and weaknesses of various organizational systems/processes. This exercise enabled our teammates to engage in healthy brainstorming sessions, ideations leading to greater awareness and motivation.

During our association with Team CerveauSys Strategic, we found Dr. Soniya and her teammates knowledgeable, friendly and result focused in their approach. They were able to build healthy rapport with teammates at every level, which helped us knowing the strengths and weaknesses of our team, which in turn helped us in defining a long-term growth plans for them.

The initiative facilitated by CerveauSys Strategic helped us in achieving steady and profitable growth in the subsequent financial years. We would be glad to engage Dr. Soniya and her Team for any such further strategic projects that may be necessary in the journey towards our mission.

We wish Team CerveauSys Strategic Success and Prosperity in Their Future Endeavors!!!

Dr. Charudutt Apte - Chairman and Managing Director Sahyadri Hospitals Limited.

Dr. Soniya successfully completed the turn key assignment of establishing entire HR strategy, Process and systems foundation during our organizational transformation from a single speciality small hospital to a multi-specialty tertiary care flagship hospital in Pune. We highly appreciate the way she grasped the business dynamics and challenges of healthcare organization even when this was a completely new industry for her. It was a pleasure to see her working with people across various organizational levels and seeking their wholehearted support for all her management initiatives.

Mr. Supal Shah - President Finance and HR, Sarjak Container Lines Pvt. Ltd.

It was pleasure working with Dr. Soniya and CerveauSys Strategic Team. For the assigned project of developing Performance Management System (PMS) for Sarjak Container Lines, Team CerveauSys was able to quickly diagnose our problems and was able to design a model that would be best suitable to achieve performance objectives of the company.

Dr. Soniya's in-depth knowledge and multicultural working experience has helped us in effectively getting acceptance to the new concept, across various verticals of our organization. She was able to involve all brains across organizational hierarchy and was able to guide them to the right direction leading to timely completion of this project.

Let me take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Soniya and Team for successful completion of the first project in Sarjak. We are confident that Dr. Soniya will continue to guide us to improve our management processes and practices even in the future. I wish all the best to Team CerveauSys.

Mr. Atul Alurkar - Founder Director Eilisys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

I can definitely say that I'd recommend CerveauSys to anyone. CerveauSys helped us establish formal Organization Structure and HR processes. They are Knowledgeable, Energetic and Self-motivated.

I was also impressed with their Project Management Skills and Communications abilities. While working with CerveauSys, I got a chance to be challenged in my assumptions and see our situation from a different perspective.

Overall, I enjoyed working with CerveauSys, especially Dr. Soniya…they helped us create value for employees.

Mr. Devesh Rajadhyaksha - Board Member and Director 21st Century Informatics.

Head Quartered in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), ours is a global Healthcare Informatics Solutions company having Operations and R&D facilities India. Dr. Soniya worked with us as management consultant to create a cohesiveness work culture during our post-merger integration phase. We found her to be a very "hands-on", friendly and motivating professional whose expertise in business strategy, HR and OD helped us during crucial stages of our business growth.

Mr. Bighna Nayak - Managing Director

Ms. Aradhana Thakur - HR Head

Dr. Soniya conducted Employee Engagement Diagnostic exercise in our organization. We found that she has the capability to develop a thorough understanding of the organization within a short time and formulate the exercise based on the client's actual requirement. During this project she showed comfort and flexibility in fine-tuning her concepts and methodology to align with our needs and integrate desired changes. Dr. Soniya's detailed analytical report and recommendations helped us understanding our employees' feedback and take corrective actions in the focused areas.

Mr. Rajiv Doshi - Managing Director CoreCentric India Limited

When we commissioned Dr. Soniya Yadwadkar to assist us in creating our HR Policies Handbook, we had many ideas but did not know how to articulate them. Dr. Soniya spent time understanding our needs and the vision we have for the short to medium term and, based on that, compiled a concise handbook that can be easily understood and well implemented. We found her approach to be very methodical and professional and it was a pleasure working with her on this project

Mrs. Manjusha Bhave - Managing Director Carotino India Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Soniya is very friendly and has deep knowledge about her subject. We had engaged her as business consultant. We observed that great results, expertise and high integrity are the top qualities in her."