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It was proud moment for India in Toranto, as Dr. Shailesh Thaker has received Global Gurus award in Canada. For the past 10 years, the Global Gurus Online List has been ranking the top 30 of the world’s best experts in various fields like Leadership, Coaching, Organizational Culture, NLP and more based on the criteria of:
- Public opinion – 30%
- Originality of ideas – 30%
- Impact of original ideas – 10%
- Practicality of ideas – 10%
- Presentation style – 10%
- Number of publications and writings – 5%
- Guru factor 5%
This year first “Corps d’Elite” award was given to Dr. Marshall Goldsmith who will be supporting the event by presenting awards to the world’s best trainers, speakers, and consultants like Ron Kaufman (Customer service guru), Jason Jennings, Chester Elton, John Baldoni, and, Dr. Shailesh Thaker (Leadership gurus), Arthur Carmazzi (Organizational Culture guru), Jonathan Low ( Hospitality guru), John Mattone and Rhiannon Rees (coaching gurus), and many more.
The Global Guru List is compiled of 16 categories from Motivational Speakers, and Startup gurus, to Leadership and Organizational Culture gurus from around the world, not only English-speaking countries like the US or UK. It is the ONLY list that acknowledges non-engilsh speaking gurus and gurus in third world countries making an impact for their contribution to the world.
Dr Shailesh Thaker is a globally renowned leadership guru and management thinker. In a career spanning over three decades, Dr Thaker has contributed immensely as visionary guru, trainer, coach, mentor, writer, orator and councillor contributing across the world. His mission of life is: “To selflessly help humanity use its potential a 15 % more to achieve all goals of life.”
Dr. Thaker has contributed through research on Cognitive Thinking and Creative Writing On Children of 14 years & was the first to be awarded PH.D by SP University in this field in the state. JCI University, USA awarded him with International Training Fellowship (ITF-94) in South Korea for contribution and learning methodology in adult learning and development. Dr. Thaker became the third person in SAARC countries to have received this prestigious fellowship. As a mentor, Dr. Thaker contributed by conducting 18,500 hours of training and development through 1,850 management workshops that was attended by 1,90,000 participants across all continents. Not less than 62 nationalities have been benefited through him. He has influenced vice- chancellors, missile scientists, Navy officers, IPS officers, jurists, judges, HR professionals, doctors, journalists, and principals, directors of colleges, CEOs, managers & executives. Dr. Thaker, as visionary thinker, dreams to see India as the top most nation of world.
He has made a blueprint for 30 areas like GDP, economy, youth, skills, and start up, power, water, green energy, happiness, education and health. Most sound and research based work had affected WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS INC, Canada. . A research work in all formats attracts regular readers through the world and his blog has traffic of more 10,000 per day from across the globe. Dr. Thaker keeps pursuing work with non-profit objectives and all income from his latest book INDIA @ 2050 would be donated to Indian Council of Social Welfare for youth and woman development To make India better, as a coach,
Dr Thaker has created 500 soft skills trainers across India in last 27 years to develop, design and conduct training programs in rural and urban India by involving team of trainers to shape youth and young professional. Dr. Thaker as thinker has been invited at several prestigious conferences in all continentals to spread Indian wisdom, values and culture. He visited Japan, Korea, Africa, Canada, USA, Singapore, UAE, Qatar, and Pakistan to share practices of Indian wisdom, ethics and values in his lectures. German philosopher Dr. Charles Savage has described him as “co- mentor and co-coach of earth’.
Dr Thaker has authored 64 books IN ONE YEAR And GUNESSESS WORLD RECORD is confirm for the same in the year 2017. Dr. Thaker was listed in top 30 leadership professionals of the world for the year 2015 and 2016 and had trained more than 20,000 managers personally in workshops and seminars. His thought provoking lectures inspire young executives, experience managers and proven CEO to perform better and use potentiality at fullest to lead over. His co-coaching and co- mentoring work to make planet better to live had benefited more than 400+ organisations in India and world. Dr Thaker joined the Gujarat Technological University as honorary director of IEVBC-GTU. He invited more than 100 world-class trainers and thinkers to develop leadership skills among principals and directors of colleges and institutions without any commercial charges. The biggest university of Gujarat was benefited by the leadership excellence meet and ethical dilemmas conferences for years.
