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Incorporated 2001

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In 2001 Nirupama Hukku started FiTA with a one-point agenda: to provide soft skills training to Indian corporate executives which would make them complete professionals.

Since then the company has grown from strength to strength, widening its scope of work and reaching out to a wide range of industries.

By 2003, FiTA had introduced nomination programs to provide companies an external forum for its employees. Nomination programs also helped smaller companies with fewer employees to access the learning at a more cost-effective platform.

By 2007, FiTA had on board a senior journalist and made a deep foray into language-based training modules and content development. FiTA produces content today that ranges from curriculum preparation for ITES and financial corporations to websites, media-ready articles and brochures.

From 2009 FiTA has added personal coaching and mentoring services too for executives at all levels, delivered by an ICF certified coach. It has an impressive roster of success stories in this space.

FiTA’s proprietary programs draw from the experience of professionals from various fields like education, journalism, and information technology. More than 60 man years of experience have gone into designing them. They are realistic and experiential in approach. They are rich in terms of situation analysis, case studies and discussions, keeping required theoretical information as a backdrop.

Soft-skills development enhances productivity and contribution to the company’s profits. It makes a regular employee an extraordinary contributor. FiTA programs are founded on this thought. It therefore has programs for senior, mid-level and junior executives, which are designed for long-lasting improvement and change.

FiTA workshops focus on
-helping the participant to identify need for change
-helping him to identify areas where change is required
– working along with him to formulate the solution and the way forwards

It believes in holistic development and the well-rounded professional personality.

FiTA has trained over 25000 professionals. Today, it offers services in: 1) Personal Coaching and Mentoring 2) Behavioural Skills 3) English Language Development 4) Student training (Interview Handling Skills)

Our team

‘Quality is a habit’

A postgraduate in Marketing Management from Bajaj Institute, Nirupama spent twelve years in the IT Education and Training industry before embarking on her own in 2001.
People development is her passion. She is:

An ICF certified coach (has successfully completed the Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP))
A certified NLP Master Practitioner. Her strength lies in the ability to go beyond what coachees feel are their limitations. She facilitates the self-discovery and development process with ease and a clear focus on the coachee’s takeaway.
A certified Psychotherapist.

Nirupama has successfully coached professionals across hierarchies. Her coachees include senior management members- MDs of drug and manufacturing companies, a German Expatriate Head of a pharmaceutical company, a VP of a UK based IT company, to name a few. She has also successfully coached many middle and junior level executives from industries like Finance, Education, Pharmaceutical and Construction.

She founded FiTA in 2001. Currently FiTA offers services in:
1) Personal Coaching and Mentoring
2) Behavioural Skills
3) English Language Development
4) Student training (Interview Handling Skills)

FiTA has trained over 25000 professionals in the last two decades, through corporate programs and open workshops.
Some of the organizations she has trained for are: Siemens, Siemens Information Systems Ltd., Datamatics, Oracle, AON Hewitt, Merrill Lynch, Tata Power, Vodafone, Vodafone Shared Services, Sandoz, Novartis, Abbott, Geometric, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Eclerx, Orange Business Solutions, ACG Worldwide
Nirupama is a Chevening scholar. She was awarded the prestigious Chevening scholarship for its program, Women in Leadership and Management. This was fully sponsored by the Foreign and Commonwealth office the UK government. She was the only entrepreneur selected across India. In the course of the scholarship she did her project on measuring the impact of training in partnership with EDS, Lucent Technologies

Her other achievements include:

She has authored the book – PERISCOPE (available on Amazon)
She has been a Member- Recruitment panel of Siemens Information Systems Ltd.
Faculty for the GMCS (General Management & Communication Skills) program for Chartered Accountants
Visiting faculty for the Executive MBA program at SIES College of Management, Institute for Business Studies and Research (IBSAR), Institute for Technology and Management ( ITM)
Writing for Hindustan Times, Times of India publications (Education Times, Economic Times, Ascent) Computers Today, Mid-Day.

“The only goal can be to better one’s best, one step at a time.”

A first-class post-graduate in English Literature from Bombay University, Charubala spent fifteen years as a full-time journalist in leading, mainstream publications- OUTLOOK, Hindustan Times, A & M. Here she interviewed several CEOs, business conglomerate owners and eminent personalities, spanning across industries and all walks of life.

Charubala has been among the earliest Chevening scholars under the Chevening scholarship program offered to outstanding journalists by the Foreign & Commonwealth office of the UK government. She has since then received other awards and accolades including one for Woman of Courage. Her work has been used as research material in several books and is archived in the libraries of the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation and IIM Calcutta.

Teaching and training remained serious interests throughout until four years back when she took the proverbial plunge to go full-time down this road.
Language development is an area close to Charubala’s heart. She has, over the years, developed English language programs to suit the varying needs of technically competent people. Be it for scientists and researchers in the pharmaceutical industry, lawyers catering to American clients for back office operations or technical people in the paint industry – Charubala designs each of these to suit the industry need. Given her experience in a wide range of industries she uses industry and role specific language and phraseology in the programs. These programs incorporate not only the four language skills of speaking, reading, writing and listening but also focus on presentation skills and confidence building. She is a British Council certified language trainer (IELTS)

A Diploma holder from Alliance Francaise Charubala also enjoys teaching basic French.She has developed the comprehensive Media Training package where she has distilled her career’s experiences. The programme hence is dotted liberally with innumerable real examples; personal anecdotes and experiences where she can take you through the journey and point out the pitfalls and traps in the media landscape.

Her strength as a trainer lies in the fact that she is able to immediately tune into people and make them comfortable. She reflects FiTA’s philosophy of de-mystifying theories and presenting them in forms to participants that endear rather than create awe and fear. Her programs invite participation and encourage people to find their own solutions which empower them. She believes that a trainer’s job is to make people think in a particular direction and build their own success stories.

Charubala essays to practice what she preaches. She is constantly working at bettering her modules and creating packages that cut out the waste and deliver more than what was expected.

We at FiTA feel proud and privileged to have her as our Head-Training and Content

BOOKS THAT USE CHARUBALA’S JOURNALISTIC WORK

Power play: a study of the Enron project Abhay Mehta – Year 2000
Managing Political Risk by Marvin Zionis & Sam Wilkin
Marketing Research -Text & Cases 2E – Rajendra Nargundkar – 2003
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising & Globalization in Contemporary India – W. Mazzarella 2003
Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism – Rohit Chopra – 2008
Newspaper Marketing in India: A Focus on Language Press – N. V. R. Jyoti Kumar – 2003 Andhra Pradesh Year Book 1993,|
The Bioethical Vacuum: National Policies on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India & China- Research paper by Maragaret Sleebooom Faulkner, Reader, Deptt. Of Anthropology, Univ. of Sussex, U.K. & Prasanna Kumar Patra, Research Fellow@Intl Instt. Of Asian Studies, Leiden Univ. The Netherlands.
Activity-based Costing for Indian Industries – N. M. Panda – 1999 – Business & Economics|
Rural Marketing – Texts & Cases – C.S.G. Krishnamacharyulu & Dr. Lalitha Ramakrishnan

SOME PROMINENT PEOPLE INTERVIEWED PUBLIC FIGURES

Shashi Tharoor- Member of Parliament & former Under Secretary, The United Nations
Dr Kirit Somaiya- Former MP and current BJP National Secretary
Murli Deora-Former union minister of Corporate Affairs & cabinet minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas
Subir Gokarn- Deputy Governor, RBI. Former Head, Crisil’s research & information; Chief Economist, Asia Pacific – Standard & Poor
Ashok Ganguly- Rajya Sabha member. Former chairman HLL and board member, Unilever; former chairman, CBSE

INDUSTRY HEADS

K.V. Kamath- Non-executive Chairman, ICICI Bank.Chanda Kochhar-MD & CEO, ICICI Bank
Deepak Parekh- Non executive Chairman, HDFC, Padma Bhushan awardee
Keki Mistry- Director, HDFC and its group companies, Sun Pharma among others
H.K. Press- Vice Chairman, Godrej Consumer Products
Bharat Patel- Former P&G India Chairman & Managing Director
Pradip Shah- Founder & first MD, CRISIL
Lalita Gupte- Joint MD, ICICI Bank

BUSINESS OWNERS

Vijaypat & Gautam Singhania- Raymond Industries
Anand Mahindra- Mahindra & Mahindra
Harsh Mariwala- Marico Industries
Kishore Biyani- Future Group ( Pantaloon)
Sulajja Motwani- Kinetic Group
Anuradha Desai- Venkateshwara Hatcheries
Anu Aga- Thermax
Venu Srinivasan- TVS Motors
T.T. Jagannathan, CMD & member of the owner family.