Siya Consulting
Thrive Professionally and Personally with Culturally Adaptive Training, Coaching, and Consulting
Who we are
Saumya Pant, Ph.D.
Saumya is a global expert in strategically integrating entertainment-education programs with community-based group listening and locally available health care services. She has also worked on mobile marketing and the emergence of Generation Y and Z in India. She has worked on several projects funded by several international agencies, including Population Communication International and UNAIDS.
Saumya’s scholarly work has been published in prestigious journals like Journal of Communication, Journal of Development Communication, and International Journal of Mobile Marketing. She authored the ‘international development theories’ submission in Encyclopedia of Communication Theory.
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Nagesh Rao, Ph.D.
In three decades of consulting and training in United States, India, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Argentina, and Norway, Nagesh’s work uses intercultural competence, cultural humility and intercultural listening to develop leaders in health, education and business. Nagesh’s clients include Fortune 500 corporations, Johns Hopkins Medical School, University of Groningen, Manipal Hospitals and other top corporates, educational institutes and community-based non-profit organizations.
Nagesh was senior faculty for two decades in the Intercultural Communication Institute. He is currently advisor and facilitator, Institute for Developing Across Differences (https://iddifferences.org/)
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