Abhishek Thakore

Facilitator

Delivering results for clients Expertise

Mumbai, India
Tel: +91 9920279683
abhishek.thakore@kornferry.
com
Academic and Professional background
Abhishek brings in over 15 years of
experience in facilitation, design and
transformational exercises across various
sectors and geographies around the world.
In India, he has worked in sectors like
cement, auto ancillary, textile, retail and
telecom as well as in multi-business
conglomerates. His current work is around
facilitating learning journeys with executive
and top-teams of organizations around
themes of leadership and social impact.
His approach combines a strong pragmatic
focus on business along with insights into
learning and change. Through facilitating
grounded and challenging conversations,
he helps teams and organizations move to
the next level.
In addition to working with Hay Group,
Abhishek’s corporate experience includes a
short stint with Boston Consulting Group
(BCG) and Deutsche Bank (Singapore). He
has also done freelance work for a range of
Indian companies.
In the services sector he has done projects
with Future Group, Deutsche Bank (India),
Vodafone and Tata Indicom . He has
conducted assessment centers for several
organizations including Alcatel Lucent,
Marathon Builders and Zydus, .
His areas of expertise include facilitating
group processes, creating organization-wide
transformations and creating change in
complex systems. He currently channels a
large portion of his time catalyzing social
change
.

Abhishek is a Commerce Graduate with a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management,
where be was awarded the gold medal for the Best All-Round performance. He is trained in a range of methodologies
including Appreciative Inquiry, NLP, Integral Theory, Ontological approaches to leadership and theatre-based learning.
He is also a Vipassina meditator, Process-based facilitator and the author of 3 books on personal growth. He has a keen
interest in Indian / Oriental approaches to management and transformation.
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