Our Team

Rakesh Srivastava (IAS)

Chief Mentor

Rakesh Srivastava (IAS), a member of the 1981 Rajasthan cadre, has held distinguished positions throughout his career. He is widely esteemed for his unwavering commitment to public service and steadfast adherence to principles of integrity and honesty. Known for his compassionate outlook, he champions the cause of underprivileged communities and readily supports various social initiatives.
During his tenure within the state, Mr. Srivastava served in pivotal roles including Collector and District Magistrate in Dholpur, Tonk, and Udaipur districts. His contributions extended to leadership positions such as Secretary in the Irrigation Department and Transport Commissioner. Subsequently, he assumed significant responsibilities as Additional Chief Secretary in the General Administration Department and Cabinet Secretariat, and as ACS overseeing Tourism, Art, and Culture.
On the national stage, Mr. Srivastava contributed as Director and Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. From 2007 to 2012, he served as Joint Secretary (Ports) and later as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Shipping. In the period from 2015 to 2019, he served as Member Secretary of the National Commission for Backward Classes and as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Mr. Rakesh Jinsi

Chief Mentor

Specialties:

• Board Level Engagement
• Advising on
• Business Management & Strategy
• Organisational Development
• Change Management
• Operations
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Senior Management Mentoring
• Project Appraisals
• Not For Profit(NGO)
• Education(Schools and Vocational Training Institutes)

Mr.Jinsi an Electrical Engineer from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, has worked in leadership positions both at the corporate as well as Development sector with various organizations such as the Eicher Group, Hero Motors, Chase Manhattan Bank, New Holland Fiat Tractors to name a few from the corporate while in the Development Sector he has been at the Helm of International and National NGO’s. He has been at the Helms of an International Child Care organization looking after more than 30000 children through a unique residential and community programs. He has lead a Business School which aims to create inspired Business Leaders with high focus on Ethics and Values. Have been/am member of National Level bodies e.g. National Human Rights Commission, National Skill Development Corporation etc. Serving on the Board of few large organisations including a multi -national, an Independent Director and Member/Chairman of Board Committees. He has extensive exposure to working in cross culture environment, and handling large multi locational teams. He also works as a coach and Mentor for Senior Executives. He has travelled extensively to Western & Eastern Europe, U.S.A, Canada, Japan, Australia , Russian Federation & the Gulf countries.

Rajiv Khurana

Chief Mentor

International management trainer & consultant.

Venture Mentor.

Executive Coach.

Writer.

Social Entrepreneur

Rajiv is a transformations through co-creative energy of people for individual and organizational impact. An International Management Consultant, Trainer, Venture Mentor and Executive Coach by description, he is a well published writer, author and digital expressionist. He has been a TV and Radio anchor. He is also an inquisitive award winning photographer and a serious poet. He heads THE PERSONNEL LAB., Management Consultants, New Delhi. He has 5 years of industry and 33 years of consulting and training experience with a variety of MNCs and Indian corporate. He has provided consulting and training facilitations to American, British, German, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian, Mexican, Nigerian and Indian corporations besides working for other International UN bodies, funding organizations, Non-profit organizations, colleges and schools in India. He has authored 9 books. More than 2000 of his articles/columns have been published in English and Hindi national dailies. All major newspapers and magazines have given him wide coverage for his crisp and sharp thoughts on various people management subjects. He has been widely acknowledged in print, electronic and web media for the achievements in various fields. He works free for many professional bodies/NGOs for minimum 5 days per month as part of his personal social responsibility. Specialties: Core areas of consulting: OD interventions, Change facilitation, Management Development, Satisfaction studies, eLearning, Communication strategies, Buddy-mentoring, Systems strengthening, Digital training video films etc.

Dr. Manoj K. Dash

Senior Adviser

Dr. Manoj K. Dash is currently associated (part-time role) with Centre for Environment and Development (CED), Thiruvanthapuram, as Advisor - Strategy and Operations. His work areas in CED include Sustainability, Business & Environment and Urban Development. His domain includes both research and designing operational strategies for governments and businesses/ industry. Previously, he was “Head - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability” of Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) Ltd., a power generation company of the Government of Odisha (GoO). OPGC is a joint venture of AES Corporation, USA (a Fortune 200 Company) and the GoO. He was also the VP - Stakeholder Engagement of AES in India since 2014. Dr. Dash holds a Doctorate degree in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. A Business Sustainability and Social Development practitioner with cross-cutting experience in national as well as international levels, Dr. Dash in the past has worked with the ESSAR Group Foundation, the Rehabilitation Council of India (Autonomous Body of Govt. of India), SOS Children’s Villages of India, SOS-Kinderdorf International and the All India Radio (Govt. of India). He had been a member of the Sub-group on CSR of Govt. of Odisha; Steering Committee for ‘Development of Women and Children’ of the erstwhile Planning Commission of India and a member of the ‘Working Group on Female Foeticide and Infanticide’ of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). He has authored three books, few research papers published in books, journals and newspapers apart from authoring/ guiding a number of research/ evaluation (baseline, midline and endline) reports on a range of development issues including CSR/Sustainability, stakeholder engagement, education, sanitation & water management, disability, child labour and family empowerment. His latest book titled as: ‘CSR AS GAME CHANGER: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT HOLDS THE KEY’ was unveiled in December 2017. Dr. Manoj Dash has received many awards and accolades from authorities and institutions because of his fabulous contribution to CSR/ Sustainability/ Social Development work during his stints in AES/ OPGC Ltd. and Essar Group Foundation. He had successfully conceptualized, rolled out and executed several community-based projects in the CSR/Sustainability space which resulted in wide-ranging stakeholder appreciation as well as visible, positive impact on the communities and companies alike. Some images of appreciation received by Dr. Dash are presented in the next page. At present he operates from Bhubaneswar in Odisha and Faridabad in Haryana.

Ms. Seema Jairath

Executive Director

Ever since her childhood she has been a spiritual person with a concern for the society. So, after an initial four and half year stint at The Indian Express, she decided to work for a social cause, joining the development sector which was a rather obvious choice. She had lost her father to a long battle with cancer; and thus, she joined Global Cancer Concern in 2000 with the urge to give back to the society. Life followed and the desire to reach out to larger societal groups and varied beneficiary communities gave her reasons to work with numerous NGOs from across the sectors such as childcare, sanitation, housing, livelihood, environment and health to name a few. Over her 17 years of working in the development sector, she has worked for numerous European, US and other international NGOs and managed to have Partnership from across industries such as Dell, ONGC, Indian Oil, Coal India, Barmer Lawrie & Co, HPCL, Federal- Mogul, Oberoi Group, Taj Group, Air India, Indigo Airlines, United Airlines and so on. The vast experience of dealing with global & grassroots NGOs as well as multinational corporate giants gave her an insight into the inter-relation between these two crucial, yet opposite stakeholders of the development sector. After analysing the dynamics of NGOs & Corporate India in terms of present status of sectoral interventions, across many geographies and Corporate India's desire to help communities at large, it was felt that there is a genuine need for a social consulting firm to help NGOs & Corporate India to ensure inclusive growth with sustainable development for poor masses across various geographies  Her long years of work experience in the development sector has shown that there is a need to bridge the gap between NGOs and Corporate to ensure large scale poverty reduction & social development through sustainable models.  Currently, most of dedicated NGOs are grappling to offer time bound solution for community led sustainable development model. They need support for capacity building on aspects of program designing, team management and system development, whereas Corporate India is struggling with issues of finding efficient partners & timely implementation of CSR projects for offering model solutions to various issues which needs intervention. This aforesaid gap has led to genesis of "The Bridge". The Bridge would strive to become enabler for NGOs and Corporate India by adding value in their present endeavours of CSR programs. It is the need of the society. The founder wants to see both Corporate and NGOs working in tandem to transform the society in more responsive and transparent manner. She wishes that the Corporate look at CSR, as a strategic opportunity to get involved in governance of the country to have long term benefits, whereas NGOs should look at it as increased opportunities for system development and resource mobilisation leading to widespread transformation in lives of millions of poor families. They should jointly co-create and aim to replicate sustainable and scalable model.