Dr. Rakesh Godhwani is the founder of SoME, School of Meaningful Experiences that offers programs for working professionals, managers, leaders from corporations, governments, NGOs, academic institutions and entrepreneurs on Six Cs namely, confidence, communication, curiosity, creativity, collaboration and competence.
He is also an Adjunct Faculty of Communication at IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad University. Besides this, he has also taught at IIM Trichy, IIM Udaipur, IIM Vizag, IIIT Bengaluru and Indian Institute of Science. His courses also run at various corporate L&D programs like ISRO, HPCL, Deloitte, Tata, Perfios, Reverie, BetterPlace, upGrad and so on.
Rakesh has written four books till now. His fourth book titled “Public Speaking Kaleidoscope” was released by Business Expert Press USA in May 2017. His earlier book “What to Say and when to Shut Up!” was published by Penguin Random House in November 2014 and translated in Marathi in 2017.
Rakesh launched his online course on EdX and IIMBx called “Effective Business Communication” designed for learners around the world. His YouTube channel and social media presence is quite strong because of the admiration he has created for himself on the world of communication in India.
Rakesh is a much sought after keynote speaker in various industry and education forums. His talk at the IIMB Vista 2018 has crossed 1.8Million views till now. He has a popular channel on YouTube called “Conversations With Rakesh" where he takes questions from audiences and releases a video every week”. Besides this, Rakesh also volunteers as a counsellor at Vishwas Society for Mental Health in Bangalore.
Prior to this, Rakesh has worked in Wipro, Intel and Qualcomm in various profiles ranging from product marketing, sales and business development before he took the plunge to pursue his passion in teaching and writing. He earns a fraction of what he used to but lives a million times better.
He is an alumnus of NIT Karnataka (BE Computers, 97), IIM Bangalore (PGSEM, 2004), and Cardiff Metropolitan University (PhD, 2018).