Bhavesh is the most under-qualified person you can find to be training or conducting workshops! By traditional measures, he is not your “typical” trainer.

For example, he does not have a Ph.D. in Organizational Development, nor does he have dozens of years of experience speaking and training.

He has spent more time out the field, in the trenches, working in the corporate world, doing the kind of work that his workshop participants do, than in a laboratory, a classroom or in academic pursuits.

Deeply self-conscious and terrible with people at first, he used many of the principles, practices and concepts taught in our workshops to develop himself into an accomplished speaker and an engaging workshop facilitator and trainer.

In his personal life, Bhavesh still struggles with some of the “Self Mastery” concepts he teaches in his workshops. That’s why, instead of being a know-all, be-all preacher, Bhavesh can be that who the participants can relate with as “one of us.”

By education, he is an Electrical Engineer (Bachelors in Science, graduated Cum Laude in 1990) from New Jersey Institute of Technology. There, the Dean of Humanities Department handpicked him to minor in Arts and Humanities for the unusual spark he demonstrated in the area. He spent thirteen years working with the corporate America: as software engineer, account executive, project manager, quality assurance director, consultant and an Internet Entrepreneur.

While receiving multiple awards in his career positions, he always gravitated towards the “soft issues” that affected people, businesses and societies. For example, at IBM he led the Defect Prevention Process (inspired by Dr. Edward Deming) efforts. At Hughes Network Systems and eon Corporation, he led software project managers and engineers to better quality of software. In these projects, Bhavesh had many opportunities to try out the various concepts that he now teaches in his workshops.

Bhavesh’s life-passion is to study and experiment with new ideas, concepts, and models in human effectiveness and their effects on business organizations, institutions and society at large. For him, his work is an instrument to achieve something greater than himself, not just a job. Bhavesh chose his current profession not because it pays the most or it’s the most glamorous thing to do, but because he believes that that’s how he can make the biggest impact in the world.

If you haven’t it figured out yet, Bhavesh is a geek when it comes to his “other” pursuits in life. He spends a lot of his “spare” time studying literature from a wide variety of sources including not just the popular, contemporary business press but also the gems of forgotten wisdom thousands of years old.

Through AMBICA Training and in pursuit of his long-term goal of establishing 1000 Libraries around the world in the developing countries, he contributes his time and energy to projects that inspire people to study and create their lives.

Through AMBICA, Bhavesh has helped such organizations such as Hughes Network Systems, USA Waste Services, Energetics, Inc., Bayesian Systems, Inc. Shreve and Associates, IIT Research Institute, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and Borders Group, Inc.

Meet Our Experts

ROGER K. ALLEN, Ph.D.

Education: M.S.: One year graduate study in Organizational Behavior, BYU. Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota.

Roger served for ten years (1980 – 1990) as President of The Human Development Institute and provided psychotherapy, seminars in personal development, and consulting/training to businesses in principles of leadership, trust and culture change. Roger managed a staff of 12 people as well as an extensive volunteer network. He became best known for the life changing impact of his seminars which have been taught hundreds of times to thousands of participants in numerous cities around the country.

During and since his tenure with “HDI”, Roger has provided consulting and training to help many large and small organizations become high performing. He uses a “whole systems” approach to change which begins a comprehensive analysis of the current performance of the business and then tailors his interventions to meet the needs and expectations of the organization. Roger has helped such organizations as AT&T Capital, Coach Leatherware, Honeywell, Ashland Chemical, Merck Pharmaceuticals and U.S. Forest Service achieve significant productivity gains through such interventions as clarifying their strategies, streamlining their designs (processes, systems and structure), developing their management teams, and creating cultures of meaningful employees involvement. Roger offers his services in Spanish as well as English.

Roger is married with three children and enjoys running, skiing, backpacking and reading.

PRESTON C. POND

Education: Masters degree in Organizational Behavior, BYU.

Bachelors degree in English, minor in Japanese and Asian Studies, BYU.

Internal Experience: Preston worked as an Organizational Development Manager for Proctor & Gamble for several years, involved in new plant startups and collaborative work redesign efforts in the U.S., Japan and Mexico. Then as Director of Organizational Development for Clark Equipment Company, he spearheaded socio-technical systems redesign efforts in both union and non-union settings. He worked internally at the plant, division, and corporate levels.

External Experience: As an external organizational consultant since 1985, Preston has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S., Mexico, Japan and Puerto Rico. He has lived both in Japan and Mexico, and enjoys working in English, Spanish and Japanese. Consulting with large and small organizations, he has implemented organizational design and team development strategies at all organizational levels. He has also been instrumental in the collaborative redesign of traditional union organizations, and helped redesign a variety of corporate professional groups. Some recent projects include: redesigning AT&T Capital’s government business units; helping Space Shuttle Operations move to self directed work teams; supporting the U.S. Forest Service in the redesign of 19 California Forests; the restructuring of Coach manufacturing and distribution locations, and the design of Product Development and Sales for hallmark Japan.

Preston is married with four children. He enjoys family, skiing, reading and music.