Dr. Ajay Shrivastav is the founder of Anexion Transformation. He is a seasoned professional with over three decades of success in a variety of roles and organizations, including Technology, Service, Sales, Operations, and Human Resources. He has worked in a variety of top positions, including COO, Regional HR Head, and National Operation Head. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) from the International Coach Federation (ICF), with over 2,500 hours of leadership coaching experience. In August 2012, his research paper on coaching competencies was chosen and published at the Annual Coaching Conference. In January 2014, his interview was published in the ICF Newsletter.
Dr. Shrivastav has earned several certifications, including Fellow in Strategic OD, Strategy Consulting by IIM Bangalore, and Certification in Design Thinking from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is also certified in a number of international psychometric tools, including the Saville Assessment, the MBTI, the HPTI, the FIRO-B, the FIRO-Business, the Human Potential Assessment Trait, Emotional Intelligence, the PPA-HJA (Thomas DISC), the General Intelligence Assessment, the Strong Interest Inventory, and others.
Anexion Transformation
Anexion Transformation is a leading Learning and Organization Development (L&OD) firm that uses the ROPPETM (Result Oriented Process and People Engineering) Model to focus on Process and People Engineering for organizational excellence.
Anexion Transformation, which was founded in 2012, works with businesses to provide high-performance solutions through a variety of learning and organizational development initiatives. With a presence across India and a worldwide reach, the company is headquartered in Noida.
Anexion Transformation offers services in 2 verticals:
OD
- Setting Vision, Mission and Values
- Creating Strategy Map
- Driving Performance Management
- Designing Competency Framework
- Competency Mapping
- Assessment Development Centre
- HiPo Development
- Executive Coaching and Mentoring
- Succession Planning
L&D
- Leadership Development
- Managerial Effectiveness
- Individual Excellence
- Sales Excellence
- Customer Service Skills
Difficulties of the Industry
According to Dr. Shrivastav, as being in L&OD Space, the company faces the following challenges.
- Getting the right people in the team – In the absence of any authentic certification process, most of the people think they are trainers / consultant. Most of them lack customer orientation and right competency. The market is becoming more and more complex. Whatever worked yesterday may not work tomorrow. This calls for constant upgradation of knowledge and skill. Getting the right Consultant who can invest on their self-development, think from Client’s point of view and provide business solution is real difficult thing today.
- Making Clients see the value we deliver – Development is a slow process. It requires consistent efforts and genuine commitment. Many a times, clients look for quick fix which may solve today’s problem but create a bigger one.
“Our motivation comes from our clients’ getting benefits from our solutions. In both training and consulting, we look at the business challenges and work out real time solution,” mentions Dr. Shrivastav. “We always look at the problem from clients’ perspective. And, that helps us. Even during the pandemic, most of our clients have achieved better financial performance than planned. They see value in our services and they don’t let us go. What could be a better motivator than repeat business?”
Milestones in the Journey
Anexion Transformation started with 2 clients in 2012. Now, towards the end of 2021, it is a team of 25 senior consultants with 104 clients.
The organization has been continuously upgrading itself with respect to its services since 2012:
- 2012 – Leadership Training
- 2013 – Executive Coaching
- 2014 – Assessment Centre
- 2015 – Psychometric Tools
- 2016 – Competency based Interview process
- 2017 – HR Consulting
- 2018 – Product Mix OD & L&D
- 2019– Business Expansion in UAE
- 2020 – Online tools
Proficient Group
The team at Anexion Transformation is thoughtfully picked and groomed. All of them are passionate professionals with over two decades of experience each. Dr. Shrivastav emphasizes, “When we compete with bigger names in the market, we always look for ways to provide solutions which a normal trainer or consultant is not able to do.” He sees this approach as the best motivator and it helped the team get selected among various competitors.
Aspire to move into Value Adding Services
At Anexion Transformation, each team member is assigned to a project that he or she is passionate about and for which they have the necessary knowledge. The crew is motivated by deadlines and a desire to surpass the expectations of clients.
Dr. Shrivastav’s vision for the company is to be the preferred choice of organizations for unleashing their leadership potential. He further adds, “We have been pursuing it passionately, which is resulting in a very high percentage of repeat business.” The organization aspires to move more into value-adding services, which helps the client increase the ROHC (Return on Human Capital). The team finds that it is very important for them to help the clients exceed their business performance by using the right people processes.
Find the Gap to Fulfill
Expectations are rising in tandem with the economy and industry. The only piece of advice Dr. Shrivastav has is to keep your brain clear and focused. There is a market in every market, and there is a market in every space. Entrepreneurs entering this field, he says, should engage in self-development so that they can provide value for their customers; the market will always welcome them.
