The Ace Plus Program

Program Overview

Confidence and competitive spirit go a long way in carving out a successful person. Ace Plus is a personality development program meant for employees with zero to five years of work experience, Job seekers, home makers, second innings players, students or any person with any background who wants to achieve goals in career or in personal life. The program enables building a positive and success oriented personality.



Program Benefits
  • Heightened Confidence

  • Well rounded personality

  • Improved Conversation and Writing

  • Positive Professional Behaviour

  • Impetus to Career Growth


Program Highlights
  • Each participant gets special attention.

  • Inputs are customized to suit everyone

  • Multi-level intervention approach

  • Motivational inputs


Language Support
  • Every Skill Skool program has intrinsic language development elements. At Skill Skool, language learning takes place in the class room and at the language lab. Phonetics, diction, grammar correction, interaction, reading and writing and Business English are the skills acquired.

  • At Skill Skool, language learning takes place in the class room and at the language lab.

  • Phonetics, diction, grammar correction, interaction, reading and writing and business English are the skills acquired


Eligibility Criteria
  • Graduate from any discipline or any student studying in the final year of an Under Graduate or Post Graduate Course.

  • Admission is subject to entry level test and assessment

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Surhuda Kulkarni

M.A, M.A, Dip Td.
Founder

99224 08893

Surhuda Kulkarni, is the Chief Mentor and Partner at Marvellous Training Forum. Under Surhuda's leadership, Marvellous Training Forum follows a unique method of training employees and corporate professionals in the behaviour domain. Surhuda has trained more than 10000 participants from various sectors.

Surhuda Kulkarni is an entrepreneur, a corporate trainer, a motivational speaker and a media professional. She's a writer-journalist and has worked as a sub-editor with the Times of India, Bangalore. She has a total work experience of 25 years. She has also worked as a corporate writer with ad agencies of repute and Public Relations organizations and has lent her expertise to high profile individuals, political parties and many other clients in the field of PR. Surhuda has worked as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers. She has to her credit, an impressive list of high profile interviews for different publications. Surhuda has been a visiting faculty member at more than a dozen educational institutes across Pune.

She has delivered corporate training programs in sectors like Manufacturing, IT & ITES, Real Estate, Pharma, Agro industry and Education. She delivers programs for Customer Service optimization, Executive Transformation, Performance and Strategy, Business Communication, Teaching and Training Skills, Networking Skills, Training in media subjects.

Surhuda holds two Master’s degrees in Mass Communication and Journalism and two diplomas; Diploma in Training and Development, ISTD and Diploma in Performance and Strategy - XLRI Jamshedpur.

She also holds the following certifications:-

1. Direct Training Skills - Govt. Of India

2. Train the Trainer – Dale Carnegie

3. Business Communication - Dale Carnegie

4. High Impact Presentations – Dale Carnegie

5. Train the Trainer and Corporate Training Skills - Peak Performance

6. Master Trainer in IELTS - British Council

Sandeep Pathak

Senior Intervention Specialist

Sandeep is a professional corporate trainer and consultant with 20+ years of experience in Product Development & Project Management in IT, Logistics, Finance, Education and Consumer Retail. He has worked in the US and the APAC region for organizations like UPS, GE, Cendant Corp., Indus Software, Aptech, etc. His areas of expertise are Attitudinal Development, Behavioral Transformation, Etiquette, Communication, Teamwork & Leadership Development and Ethics.

Sethunath Ramaswamy

Senior Intervention Specialist

Sethunath, in his career of 25+ years, has led numerous high-profile client engagements in IT for organizations like CGI, Citibank, TCS and Cognizant. He has trained and nurtured countless teams across geographies like USA, Australia, Singapore and India. He coaches and mentors senior management and conducts programs on Leadership Skills, High Performance Teams, Program Management, Change Management, Competency Mapping, Strategic Planning, etc.

Vikram Chidgopkar

Senior Intervention Specialist

Vikram has worked in techno-commercial roles over the past 25 years across different industries for global businesses in Chemical Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering sectors. He has trained the sales force of more than 150 channel partners and 5000+ internal and external customers on product technology. Some of the programs he conducts are Basic Principles of Selling, Advanced Selling Skills, Sales Leadership Program, Presentation Skills, Sales Management and Value Selling.

Raju Bannur

IT Business Leader and IT Sales Effectiveness Coach and Mentor

At MTF, Raju is an Advisor on Business-centric Solutions design and architecture and Sales effectiveness coach and mentor for IT companies. Over more than 25+ years in the Consulting & IT industry, Raju has delivered tangible value across Business P&L Management, Solutions definition and development, new business sales, account management, pre-sales & Delivery of Consulting, IT and BPO services. Raju has worked in multiple geographies for a number of years including continental Europe, UK, US, Singapore and India. As the Chief Solutions officer at Polaris Consulting & Services Limited, he was responsible for identifying, conceptualizing and developing industry solutions and delivery capability globally. As a Vice President at Infosys, he held a number of responsibilities including portfolio management, new business development, niche solutions sales, pre-sales, etc. At IMR (now part of CGI) and Tata Consultancy Services, he played a primarily Delivery role. He now works as a consultant and advisor with IT and Consulting companies on their solutions responses to complex opportunities as well as coach and mentor their pre-sales, solutions and sales teams to increase their sales effectiveness in this increasingly competitive market..

Shruti Nargundkar

Advisor, English Language Development Courses

Shruti is an education innovator, quality and compliance consultant based at Melbourne, Australia. She is the founding Director of NEXTEXT, a vocational education and quality and compliance consultancy that assists registered training organisations with their compliance, quality management and registration with the National VET Regulator requirements. As a manager with over 30 years of experience in education English Language, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education in Australia and other parts of the world, Shruti assists RTOs with Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) as well as with the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA). Over 9 years experience as an entrepreneur, CEO and founding Managing Director of Education Access Australia and Melbourne Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, a major private CRICOS RTO with an approved capacity for 2,200 international as well as several hundred domestic students..

Indraneel Kulkarni

Outbound Program Specialist

Indraneel is an independent herpetologist, eco-diversity researcher and trainer on ecology workshops. He specializes in complementing text book education with his on-field ecology learning for students, teachers, tourists and corporate professionals. Excellent knowledge and experience in general outdoor interpretership as well as an extensive knowledge base of the flora, fauna, general biodiversity and places of historical importance makes him an expert in ecology and archaeology trainings. Indraneel is associated with government, semi-government and private organizations like Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park and Research Centre, Pune, Indradhanushya, run by Pune Municipal Corporation, Katraj Snake Park, Pune, The Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre for wild animals run by the Herpetological Society. He also runs a rescue helpline for wild animals in Pune and has rescued varied species of animals in distress from snakes, birds, monkeys and an elephant too!

Sandhya Bhat

HR Advisor & Consultant

Sandhya has more than 16 years of experience in HR, across IT services and product firms, manufacturing and construction firms. Her expertise is in understanding the organization's specific needs and requirements, organizational culture, business direction etc and then translating it into customized, simple yet effective systems. The gamut of her services include both strategic and transactional business needs of an organization from organizational development to employee engagement and retention strategies and employee surveys, recruitment assistance and other activities.

Pratiksha Chavan

Executive, Administration & L&D

83083 22793

Pratiksha is a graduate in computer applications. She manages the overall administration, accounts and office affairs. She takes care of admissions, students’ records, managing session schedules, allotting assignments, conducting activities and taking care of the entire L&D backend operations. The training activities conducted by Pratiksha are very effective and are well received.

Vishal Bhore

Admin Assistant

Vishal, the office and administrative assistant at Skill Skool is in charge of hospitality, housekeeping and facility management. He also helps in accounts and administrative maintenance.

Gouri Shahapurkar

Executive, Sales & Marketing
Yoga Trainer

90110 53996

Gouri is a post-graduate in HR. she is a certified Yoga and stress management trainer. Gouri is responsible to drive in nominations and sales at MTF for all corporate and retail programs. She conducts office yoga, dance therapy and stress management sessions at MTF. Her sessions get a lot of appreciation from participants.

Brij Mohan Mishra

BE, MPM, PGDF, Dip.TD

83083 22793

Brij Mohan Mishra holds expertise in Placement Training. He is associated with MTF as a visiting faculty. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from SIBM, Pune. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in Training and Development, from ISTD New Delhi, MPM (Masters in Personnel Management) from University of Pune, Bachelors of Engineering (Mechanical) from NIT, Raipur. He is former Chairman, Pune Chapter, ISTD and Faculty at ISTD, Pune Chapter. He is a seasoned Aptitude trainer and has trained more than 50000 students in various domains in the last 25 yrs. He is an expert in Test Prep, Career Guidance and Placement Training.