Anand Srivastava Director, M/s Competitive Foods Ingredient limited (CFIl), Hong Kong, delivered a motivational talk on ‘How individuals can impact society’ in HEC auditorium among the young executives of the corporation.
SK Pattanayak, Director (Finance)/HEC, welcomed the distinguished speaker and motivator Anand Srivastava.He also welcomed Ravinder Verma, Chief Vigilance Officer / HEC for the motivational talk. In his welcome speech Pattanayak said that Anand Srivastava is a very informal and a self made personality.The main thrust of the motivational talk would be “how an individual can make a difference in his organization and have an impact in the society”.
He further added that Srivastava had over 25 years of senior level experience and the M/s CFIl based in Hong Kong was established by him.He had worked with world renowned companies as Pepsico, Dominos Pizza, Compass Groups and Delmonte foods in the food and supply change functions.Working in 14 countries in different senior level positions had made him hold 3 world records in sourcing and project supplied change. SK Pattnayak inform that Anand Srivastava expert in organic and bio chemistry spent his childhood in HEC Colony and passed his higher secondary school from Vivekanada Vidya Mandir, Sector-II and that he is an M-Tech in Bio-chemical Engineering from IIT, Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion Srivastava made a very unique presentation showing the different ways and means through which an individual can become a agent of change for the betterment of the society at large while also being concerned about the individual career and growth prospects. Augmenting his presentation with real life situation and experiences in education, old age, orphanage, child labour etc. he said that though we all have an usual ability to face up to stark reality “Creating a single powerful attribute:Tough Minded Optimism could make things turn out right.
Srivastava motivated the executives to be involved in continuous learning, having a compelling vision, learning from others and to reinvent themselves.He said that each one should take time of reflect and think, use the context of their lives and not surrender to it, create new context, new ways of doing and being. This would definitely prove to be a major enabling factor for bringing about a change in the society.
AC Deogharia, General Manager/HRD proposed the vote of thanks and expressed his gratitude to Anand Srivastava for having agreed to deliver the motivational talk to the young executives of HEC. The program was compered by S Subramaniam, SDGM/HRD.