Management Training

Dr Mathai Baker Fenn Cell: +91-974*-******

Bangalore Email: ******@***********.**

Profile in brief:

Psychologist with Masters and a Ph.D. In Psychology from IIT Bombay

Nine years as Faculty in XLRI, Jamshedpur

Visiting faculty, SPJAIN Centre of Management, Dubai and Visiting Associate Professor, American University

of Armenia among others

International Experience teaching and training in Europe and Middle East.

Worked with many of India's top companies

Excellent Communication Skills (takes sessions for school children as part of the ACE Club)

Academic and Industry Experience. Broad range and a strategic perspective, giving an overall view of

business and industry

Currently CEO and Principal Consultant, The Talkshop, a Knowledge Management firm.

Teaching experience with students that are primarily engineers, many from IITs

Career Milestones:

2007 Present: CEO and Principal Consultant, the TalkShop, a consulting firm that I set up in 1996.

www.thetalkshop.in

1998 2007: XLRI ( http://www.xlri.ac.in ) Jamshedpur Professor

1996 1998: The Talk Shop Partner and Principal Consultant

1994 1996: Free Lance Consultant, Bombay

1993 1994: Research Controller, FOREFRONT Business Integrated, Bombay,

1989 1998: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay

Details of Experience

Function Details

Academic

(2008 Present) Designed and Coordinated the functioning of ACE CLUB, an activity of Talkshop

aimed at supplementing school education with field based experiential learning.

(2006, 2007) Conceived and Coordinated Stirring Research Conference held in association

with Goa University

(2007) Visiting Professor, GITAM Institute of Management

Organizational Behaviour

Consumer Behaviour

(1998 2007) Associate Professor and Coordinator, Organizational Behaviour Area, XLRI

Required workload: Three full credit courses along with two short duration training modules for

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the industry.

I taught courses in Consumer Behaviour, Organisational Behaviour, Organizational Theory and

Management of Relationships

Additional Sessions about twenty sessions every year in other training programs for the industry.

Coordinator of the Business Management Review Committee 2000 2002

Designed/Coordinated training programmes for specific industry needs.

Teach Organizational Behaviour courses in the online (satellite based)education programme run

by XLRI HECL

Coordinator for the GLOBE project, a cross cultural study of leadership across 64 countries,

anchored by Prof. Robert House, Wharton Business School, USA

Visiting Faculty American University of Armenia

(2004) Organizational Behaviour and Leadership II

(2005) Advertising, Business Ethics, Consumer Behaviour and Leadership II

(2007) Organizational Behaviour, Leadership I, Leadership II, Negotiation Skills, Business Ethics

Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar (www.ximb.ac.in)

(1999,2000) Credit courses in Marketing Communications

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (http://www.mica.ac.in)

(1996) Workshop: Understanding The Emotional Environment

(1997) Course: Social Trends and their Relationship to Advertising

(1995) OD consultant for Welspun Industries and was instrumental in crafting their motto and

Consulting

and Training logo seen on their website. (http://www.welspun.com/ )

(1995) An HR Audit to examine the HR assets of the firm and build efficiencies in the

organizational structure. ADF Foods Ltd. ( http://www.adf foods.com/ )

(1996) Presented a proposal for community based, paid for, healthcare services and got funding

for healthcare project from a Dutch Government through Center for Development Studies,

Trivandrum ( http://www.cds.edu )

(2005) Was the first external trainer for Virage Logic, Yerevan, this was also the first training

initiative by the Business School of the American University of Armenia in Management

(2005) OB training program for Bank of Muscat (http://www.BankMuscat.com)

Was the coordinator for HCL Training Program at XLRI for four years. Was involved in designing

and execution of training programs for many blue chip companies while at XLRI.

(2007) OD Consultant for Oxygen, a design firm ( http://www.findoxygen.com )

Women in Management, a training program conducted for women executives in partnership with

KC College of Management Studies, Bombay 4th and 5thAug 2007

Mentored a team of former students for the Armenian National Business Plan Competition,

Yerevan (Oct 18, 2007), which was awarded the second prize

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Connecting Communities a training program conducted for End to End Marketing Solutions, Dec

15th, 2007(2009) Training for HR employees of Mahindra Automobiles on Psychological

Foundations of HR,

(2009 June) Conceived and conducted Wings A two day residential workshop on making the

transition from school life to college life for students of Class XII.

(2009 July) Gateway Induction Training Programme for MBA Students, SB College,

Changanassery.

(2009 July) Consultant for a Project on STUDY ON MINING ISSUES, ITS IMPACT ON THE

LIVELIHOOD AND WAYS TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT with Parftners In Change, Delhi

(2009 August) Gateway Induction Training Programme for MBA Students, KCCMS, Mubai

(2009 October) Consultant for the Project on RESEARCH ON INDIAN TNC'S OPERATIONS

OUTSIDE INDIA ON CSR, Partners in Charge, New Delhi

Presentation,

Honorary Membership of the Association of Humanistic Psychology 1987 2007

Publication

and

The Synthesis of Science and Art. Paper Presented at the Students Conference Organised at

Professional

Loyola College, Trivandrum, Dec. 1985

Memberships

The drug Use or Abuse: Who decides? Paper Presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the

Kerala Manasastra Parishad, January, 1988

History and Philosophy of Science International Summer School Organised at the Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore, March, 1990

Protestant And Catholic Epistemologies Abstract Accepted for the Fifth Forum of The Person

Centred Approach, Netherlands, July 1992

The Talk Shop, A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy Paper Presented at "New Vistas in

Humanities and Social Sciences", a seminar organised by the Department of Humanities and

Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, June 1993

Kerala: Business Outlook Lecture at the Commerce Faculty DevelopmentProgram, MG

University, Edathua, Kerala, August 1997

Knowledge as a core asset in the Internet Age Lecture at Xavier Institute Of Management

Education, Bangalore, October 1997

View Point, The Role of Emerging Trade Unions in Kerala Indian Express February, 1998

Heart of Business Lecture at the Department of Management Science, Mahatma Gandhi

University, Ettumanur, Kerala, March 1998

Marketing Healthcare Services : Presentation at the consultation workshop organised by the

Christian Medical Association and the World Council of Churches at Tata Institute of Social

Sciences, Bombay, October 1998

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Interpreters of the Internet, paper presented at the Fourth Annual International Business and

Economics Conference at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin,October 5 6, 2001

The Enchanted Woods: Cosmology, Metaphors and Truth on the Internet, Paper presented at the

Second International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, October 10 14,

2001, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis St.Paul Minnesota, USA.

Cross Cultural Perceptions Of Ethical Business Practices: An Exploratory Study Marketing

Management Association 2003 Spring Conference, March 12 14,2003, Palmer House Hilton,

Chicago

Organizational Design under Post Modernization Vipin Gupta, Mathai B Fenn and Ancheri

Sreekumar, Article in Transformative Organizations, A Global Perspective, Sage Publications,

2004

Why We Do What We Do." Talk at IDC, IIT Bombay, March 2005

Contemporary Challenges For Qualitative Research" and " Performative And Non Positivistic

Approaches To Business Education" T A Pai Management Institute, April 2nd, 2005

Challenges of Qualitative Social Science Research and "Work Motivation Beyond Homeostasis",

Goa University, March 29th, 30th 2005

Patients as Customers, talk at Manganam Mundakapadam Mandiram Hospital, Kottayam,

Kerala.

Performative Aspects of Social Science, invited talk at the national conference of the Indian

Council for Philosophical Research, Goa University, 2007

Gateways of India, A paper submitted for the conference, Finishing School: A Solution to

Employability at TISS, Bombay on June 11th 2008

Session Chair and Paper Presentation (Death of the Engineer) at International Conference on

Brand Management, Nov. 21 22/ 2008, IMT, Gazhiabad

Fenn, M.B (2010) NGO'S TOOLKIT ON PARTNERSHIP WITH BUSINESS ; Partners in Change:

New Delhi. (Private Publication)

Education

1989 1998: Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

(http://www.iitb.ernet.in )

1984 1986: M.A. Psychology, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India

Special elective courses in

Education

Cognitive Psychology and Psychology of Consciousness

Qualification

Regular courses in Advanced General Psychology, Research Methods,

Psychological Testing, Personality, Clinical Psychology and Current Trends In

Psychology

1981 1984: B.A. Psychology, University of Kerala, UC College,. Alwaye, India

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