Global connectivity, smart machines, an unprecedented torrent of data and processing capabilities and new media are some of the key drivers reshaping how we work and the skills we need to be successful in the 21st century.
As smart machines replace humans in some tasks and augment them in others, organizations will have to rethink the traditional career paths and prepare their employees for a highly volatile and complex business environment. Consequently, Learning & Development needs to evolve to move in tandem with our changing world.
This is why SoaringEagles Learning Pvt. Ltd., an innovative talent development company, focusses on building these 21st-century skills which make employees future-ready and energizes them to deliver accelerated growth. SoaringEagles also works with individuals to help them be more successful by equipping them with these 21st-century skills and making them purpose-driven and confident.
SoaringEagles has developed a unique and result-oriented approach to delivering desired behaviour change. Their approach is premised on cognitive behaviour techniques, motivational counselling and experiential learning. The effectiveness of their programmes is evidenced by the quantifiable results SoaringEagles provides through pre- and post-programme assessments and behavioural surveys. Participant feedback is also a testimony to the transformative nature of the programmes conducted by SoaringEagles.
A Social Entrepreneur
A seasoned facilitator and speaker, Sonali Sinha, the Founder & CEO of SoaringEagles, has over 22 years of experience in entrepreneurship, investment banking, and the social sector. She combines her deep interest in psychology with her extensive and diverse experience to deliver highly effective programmes. She is also a business coach offering highly effective coaching to startup founders and CXO level executives.
Academically she has a stellar record having done her Economics (Hons) from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Right after her MBA, Sonali jumped into investment banking as an equity research analyst with SBI Capital Markets (SBICAP). Then from research, she moved into the M&A and Advisory vertical at SBICAP and worked on some marquee transactions and even contributed to policy-making.
From SBICAP, she moved to Ernst & Young in the transaction advisory services vertical. This gave her an opportunity to work with many multinational clients and lead many transactions which included fundraising, acquisitions, joint ventures and India market entry assistance.
After 16 years in investment banking Sonali felt the need to give back to the society and so she joined an NGO which she led for three years as a CEO before starting out on her own with SoaringEagles. This platform gives her an opportunity to combine her strong interest in psychology and research with her innate ability to design programmes that help people achieve desirable results – thus impacting lives positively.
Sonali has been an Independent Director on the Board of STCI Primary Dealer Limited for several years. Her articles on learning & development and entrepreneurship have been published in prestigious publications like Entrepreneur, India Today, Your Story, Huffington Post, SME World, Education Insider, etc. In 2016, Sonali was awarded the Women Leadership Achievement Award at the World Women Leadership Congress & Awards for her contributions to Learning and Development.
Redefining Learning & Development by Delivering Superior Programmes
Some of the key skills essential for thriving in the 21st century are emotional resilience, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, persuasive communication using new media, authentic leadership, change-readiness, learning agility and personal effectiveness. SoaringEagles offers a range of innovative learner-centric programmes that are geared towards developing such skills.
SoaringEagles has worked with leading companies such as SBI, Essel Propack, TATA Trusts, Accenture Operations, Aditya Birla Group, JSW Steel, Intuit, Keller India, Visible Alpha and so on. Participants for the career advancement training for individuals come from leading companies like HSBC, Citibank, PwC, Reserve Bank of India, Trident Hotel, TCS, Max Bupa, Maersk, Borosil, HDFC Mutual, Infosys, ICICI Prudential, Capgemini and so on.
The high impact corporate training programmes offered by SoaringEagles includes Building a High-Performance Leadership Team, Enhancing Emotional Intelligence at Work, Building Collaborative Teams, First Time Manager Training, Persuasive Communication Skills, Strategic Thinking, Delivering Superior Customer Value, Strategic Planning & Organization Culture, etc.
For individuals, SoaringEagles offers programmes such as ‘Advanced Personal Leadership Programme, ‘Lakshya Career Advancement Programme’ and ‘Advanced Public Speaking and Presentation Skills’ which empower working professionals to move up the corporate ladder.
SoaringEagles has also made a strong foray into diversity by conducting several sessions for leading companies like Accenture and Intuit for bringing back talented women to work after a break. Such sessions have received tremendous feedback and many participants have managed to get a good break with leading companies.
Tackling Challenges with Decisive Strategies
As a bootstrapped startup, the biggest challenge SoaringEagles has faced has been to acquire individual customers on a very small marketing budget. However, the operations of the company have grown on the strength of the quality of the programmes offered and the value delivered to the participants. At present, SoaringEagles is recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Promising Learning & Development Consultants in 2017 by Consultants Review Magazine.
What differentiates SoaringEagles from its competition is their strong learner-centric approach based on cognitive behaviour techniques and motivational counselling. The programmes arouse an intrinsic motivation to learn so that the participants are able to absorb more from the programmes and become lifelong learners. Unlike most other training organizations who depend on a panel of freelance trainers for meeting their delivery requirements, SoaringEagles works only with full-time in-house learning facilitators. Their training content is developed in-house through in-depth research in positive psychology, cognitive behaviour techniques, motivational interviewing, and the science of learning which enables them to provide world-class training, consistently.
Future Ahead
Today, SoaringEagles is emerging as one of the most innovative content development and learning & development consultants in India. Sonali states while discussing the future of the organization, “We are developing engaging eLearning content and clubbing it with virtual live instructor-led sessions, thus reaching out to a larger, geographically diverse audience. We see technology playing a very important part in helping us reach out to larger audiences and providing a personalized learning experience.”
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SoaringEagles: New-Age, Nimble-Footed Organization Making Businesses Future-Ready
