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ISABS and I

T.T. Srinath

In April 1994, I was pursuing a fellow program that was being offered for the first time by The Academy
of HRD, in association with XLRI and IIMA.

I was one among the first batch who had enrolled for this program.

The first contact program was organized in the IIMA Campus and among those who instructed us were
Udai Pareek and TV Rao.

Over an informal chat with Udai and a longer one with TV, both of them recommended I consider training
with ISABS.

I was given an introduction to PVR Murthy who lived in Chennai, the city I lived in too and PVR was also a
professional member of ISABS.

My first lab, the BLHP, I attended was in Mysore, where Yawar Baig was my facilitator.

Vish (G Vishwanath) was an intern at that event, and he was working with Ganesh Chella who was
facilitating a parallel lab.

I was admitted as a professional member of our community in 2000.

During the 6 years that I took to join our community I experienced various professional members in their
capacity as facilitators of either the labs and the journey I coursed through to gain professional
membership or as role holders, such as the Dean PDP, who was responsible to maintain the standards for

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