Joint Managing Director, Brains Trust India
Cyrus MR Gonda
Cyrus MR Gonda is a life-member of MENSA life-member (the international society offering membership to individuals with genius-level IQ). He is a rank-holding MBA in Human Resources from NMIMS, Mumbai University. He is also a rank-holder in Hotel Management from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai. He has secured the A1 grade at BEC3 (Business English Communication, third and highest level) from Cambridge University. Apart from the above, he has acquired a host of other relevant diplomas and certifications.
He has wide and holistic work experience in front-end operational as well as administrative and executive positions, in the service as well as in the manufacturing sectors, in European, American, as well as Indian Fortune 500 multinationals, in India as well as overseas – in short, extremely broad-based corporate exposure.
In November 2023, he has been conferred the title of ‘India’s #1 Thought-Leader | Author | Trainer’ in the domains of Leadership, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience, Communication, Soft Skills – award presented by Shri Devendra Fadnavis (chief minister of Maharashtra) in November 2023. Cyrus is the best-selling author of over 20 books best-selling in the above domains (including at Crossword); the books being based on registered copyrighted Models developed and owned by him as IPRs. These registered and copyrighted Models, which are in the domains of CX, communication, critical thinking, sales, soft-skills, leadership, innovation – are highly practical with appropriate case-studies, games, examples and cases from across industries, and Cyrus himself conducts the training workshops he has devised based on them. The Models are based on sound principles of Instructional Design, which make for easy learning transfer.
Over the years, he has trained upwards of 1,30,000 C-suite executives, HODs, middle-management, senior Indian armed forces officers, and MBA students. He has shared the stage with celebrity trainers (including Ron Kaufman - Asia’s #1 authority on CX) and Indian Army generals and Indian Navy admirals. Cyrus has been invited to conduct trainings for the staff of over 300 organisations across sectors as diverse as Banks, FinServ/NBFC, Insurance, Real-Estate, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain, Courier, Airlines, Flight-Kitchens, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Healthcare, Research and Development, Automobiles, OEMs, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Marketing Communications, NGOs, Government/Public Sector, Audit and Consultancy, Armed Forces, Retail/Luxury-Retail, Event Organisers, Industry Associations, Digital Payment Providers, Cyber-Security, Premium Apparel and Lingerie brands, Telecommunications, Education, Media, and ‘Unicorn’ Start-Ups.
Cyrus is a hugely well-informed, spontaneous speaker, with a ready wealth of appropriate stories and anecdotes on every subject.
He has wide and holistic work experience in front-end operational as well as administrative and executive positions, in the service as well as in the manufacturing sectors, in European, American, as well as Indian Fortune 500 multinationals, in India as well as overseas – in short, extremely broad-based corporate exposure.
In November 2023, he has been conferred the title of ‘India’s #1 Thought-Leader | Author | Trainer’ in the domains of Leadership, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience, Communication, Soft Skills – award presented by Shri Devendra Fadnavis (chief minister of Maharashtra) in November 2023. Cyrus is the best-selling author of over 20 books best-selling in the above domains (including at Crossword); the books being based on registered copyrighted Models developed and owned by him as IPRs. These registered and copyrighted Models, which are in the domains of CX, communication, critical thinking, sales, soft-skills, leadership, innovation – are highly practical with appropriate case-studies, games, examples and cases from across industries, and Cyrus himself conducts the training workshops he has devised based on them. The Models are based on sound principles of Instructional Design, which make for easy learning transfer.
Over the years, he has trained upwards of 1,30,000 C-suite executives, HODs, middle-management, senior Indian armed forces officers, and MBA students. He has shared the stage with celebrity trainers (including Ron Kaufman - Asia’s #1 authority on CX) and Indian Army generals and Indian Navy admirals. Cyrus has been invited to conduct trainings for the staff of over 300 organisations across sectors as diverse as Banks, FinServ/NBFC, Insurance, Real-Estate, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain, Courier, Airlines, Flight-Kitchens, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Healthcare, Research and Development, Automobiles, OEMs, Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Marketing Communications, NGOs, Government/Public Sector, Audit and Consultancy, Armed Forces, Retail/Luxury-Retail, Event Organisers, Industry Associations, Digital Payment Providers, Cyber-Security, Premium Apparel and Lingerie brands, Telecommunications, Education, Media, and ‘Unicorn’ Start-Ups.
Cyrus is a hugely well-informed, spontaneous speaker, with a ready wealth of appropriate stories and anecdotes on every subject.