A journey back into the corporate world..

It’s been many years since my last blog post and I was fondly reading some of my old posts and reflecting on the journey.

The one thing that I am really glad I did is start a company when I was in my 20s, I believe that’s when risk taking ability and passion is at its highest. I am so proud of all that we achieved at Kern - from starting a company passionate about Instructional Design and learner-centric to evolving into an eLearning company, to being the first company in India to win a Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Award in the Blended Learning category, to a transition to a Learning Solutions Consulting firm. The launch of our product – Lionsher, a SaaS-based assessment platform was a crazy roller coaster ride. In a sense, it feels like we did it all. I also cherish our experiments on Second Life, Web 2.0 and Mobile learning. Thank you Geeta, Ripul, Archie, Yatin, Nishana, Sampada, Rahul and the countless others who have been part of this Kern journey.

Unfortunately all of it did not translate into commercial success and a heart-breaking decision was made to shut down the company in 2013. It’s been over three years and in that time; I’ve moved to a new country and rejoined the corporate world.

As a start, it’s only apt that I change the title of this blog from Stratosphere (Strategic not Static – startups and more) to reflect this next phase where I am back in the corporate world – building on my experiences as an entrepreneur and growing and learning each day.

The journey back into the corporate world has been interesting – I’ve been lucky to work on projects close to my heart such as on-the-job learning, social learning and innovating to move learning beyond formal /structured learning (still an important piece). And recently, I’ve moved into the space of employee engagement which is evolving very fast – exploring real-time, cutting edge listening and analytics strategies to measure and enhance the employee experience.

I plan to be more regular with blogging from here on, so watch this space.