Key Contributors
Dr Rumesh Kumar, PMP, PMI-ACP, CKM is the Founder and Managing Director of Sharma Management International. He provides consultancy in developing high performance organizational culture as an associate consultant to Denison Consulting USA.
He has been involved in designing and delivering customised corporate management training programs in a very broad range areas in management over the last twenty five years. He has guided hundreds of people in preparing for their PMP and Agile certification as a certified trainer and course facilitator.
Being an Agile Certified Practitioner he regularly conducts trainings on how to optimise agility in the workplace in order to overcome challenges associated with becoming more agile. In addition, he coaches large organizations in developing an maintaining and agile workforce.
As a Certified Knowledge Manager, he specializes in helping organizations manage their knowledge assets better. He provides training and consulting services in Knowledge Management as an Instructor for the Knowledge Management Institute USA.
Dr Sanath is a Certified Knowledge Manager. He is also the head of Knoco Malaysia as sole affiliate partner of Knoco UK in Malaysia. Knoco is one of UK’s largest and prestigious KM organizations. His doctoral dissertation that he completed in 2017 was in Knowledge Management with an emphasis on strategic enterprise wide tacit knowledge elicitation exercise.
Dr. Sanath has the distinction of having conducted KM consultancy and training over a broad spectrum of industries namely automobile, legal, higher education, training, media, software development and banking. His notable work includes KM policy and governance framework for the largest department of the Malaysian civil service.
Dr. Sanath has published numerous research findings on Knowledge Management research and practice over the last 15 years. His research focuses on contemporary and renewed approaches towards KM systems development, elicitation of tacit knowledge and KM systems frameworks. He has presented his ideas on many Knowledge Management practices in international conferences in Malaysia and overseas. He is also in the editorial board of European Knowledge Management Conference which stands as the longest annual KM conference in the world.
Dr. Randhir Pushpa is a:
- Knowledge Management consultant and researcher
- PhD in Knowledge Management
Dr. Randhir Pushpa is the founder and chief consultant of ACIES Innovations. He has worked extensively with organizations in areas related to employee productivity improvement, efficiency, effectiveness and continuous improvement.
Randhir previously worked with Wipro Technologies, Unisys, HPE and DXC Technologies. He worked in the Innovation team and Knowledge management function in these organizations and also led teams that developed AI-driven tools. The AI-driven search engine that his team developed for Application Support function of DXC was considered ahead of the curve.
Randhir did his PhD from Indian Institute of Science and has more than 19 years of experience in Knowledge and Innovation Management. He studied the innovative behavior of software product development as part of his doctoral work.
Randhir regularly publishes his research work and thoughts on Artificial intelligence, Smart Organizations and Knowledge management. He is part of Knowledge group of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and helps them evangelize concepts related to Knowledge Management. He also works closely with Knowledge Management Society-Singapore on Smart Organizations.
Specializes In;
- Conversational Leadership
- Organizational Leadership
- Knowledge Cafe Facilitation
David Gurteen is a keynote speaker and conversational facilitator. He works in the fields of knowledge management, organizational learning and conversational leadership. He gives keynote talks, designs and facilitates Knowledge Cafés and runs workshops around the world. He is best known as the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café – a versatile conversational process to bring a group of people together to learn from each other, share experiences and make better sense a rapidly changing, complex, less predictable world in order to improve decision making and to innovate. He has facilitated hundreds of Knowledge Cafés and workshops in over 30 countries around the world over the last 13 years. He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global network of over 22,000 people in over 160 countries and he published his regular monthly Knowledge-Letter that is now in its 16th year. He is the editor of the book Leading Issues in Social Knowledge Management published by Academic Publishing International and in June 2010, David won the Ark Group’s lifetime achievement award for services to Knowledge Management.
Specializes In;
- Training, Certificating & KM Leaders in US Government Agencies & all Major US Military Services
- Developed KM Institutes, KM Body of Knowledge, The KM Knowledge Maturity Model
- KM Consulting
Douglas Weidner is one of only a few pioneering KM practitioners since KM's earliest days. He is a respected KM consultant, trainer, columnist, speaker and mentor. Douglas developed the internationally acclaimed Certified.Knowledge Manager (CKM) and Master CKM Certification Programs in 1999 - 2001, based on his KM consulting and training experiences. He first taught the CKM in June 2001 and has trained over 10,000 KMers and Certificants worldwide, from both North and South America to Europe, Africa, the Middle-East and Far East and Australia. He has trained, certified and advised KM leaders in most every U.S. Government Agency and all major U.S. military services and joint combatant commands. Internationally, he has trained KMers from over 1,000 commercial firms and government agencies--to rave reviews. His focus is on the KM Institute's KM Body of Knowledge (KMBOK™), the Knowledge Maturity Model (KMM™), and KMI's much-expanded worldwide KM Certification offerings. He is an engineering graduate of the US Air Force Academy--MBA in Business Economics (UCLA), MSIE in Operations Research.