Founder Director @ Beyond Basics Learning made a strong business case today @ OGTC, an Annual conference around the incentivization of employees to treat them as important stakeholders and as great assets driving the future of any business enterprise.
I'm from a high-performance way, microfibers, and lingerie production background. So I'm from a production background. I have worked for 15 years. In the first 25 years of my workspace, I think the first 15 have been spent in the industry, based out of Sri Lanka, mostly in Hong Kong.
I have worked in at least 13 countries. And I have worked in the production. So I have worked with people at the grassroots level. And I still believe, and it's out of choice I am back in this country, I still believe as people we are sitting on a gold mine.
A lot of time is spent with the advanced innovation team in Nike, in Oregon, and a lot of time with Marks& Spencer. Those are the days when NLS used to be a brilliant brand. It still is for such a product.
We're also generators that brought in the bonding technology to you. So we were the pioneers, the team of us were pioneers in taking a shoe technology called the Bonding Artisonic Wearing, no-sore technology, and it converted it into a wearable product.
And my work as a head of that project was to take that product to the market. It took us a budget of half a million dollars and six months to take our bond prototype. So what you see nowadays in your bonded products, both in an inner way, performance air mostly, is the product of the work that we did way back in 2001, 2002.
So that's a little bit of my background. Then some out of choice and some out of a few personal decisions, I brought into a deeper development space almost about 11, or 12 years ago. And this also again happened accidentally.
So I'm an accidental facility tech, as I like to call myself. You know, I'm sitting, I have a 17-year-old, and he was about a couple of years old then, and a colleague of mine called me from the U.S.
and said, so I'm indeed, what are you doing? I said, nothing really, because this country holds, you know, this country couldn't employ me technically. And I'm talking about 2006, 2007. We didn't have technology.
So he said, OK, well, we can get you to train people. And you can start training people in the production and pre-production processes. And that was my first brush with train years ago. And it's been a tremendous journey, and I've been around different domains.
But this is my favorite domain I keep on coming back to because this is where I feel that a lot of impact and a lot of growth and a lot of potential still lives. Then Prashant and his team at Vernekur approached me last year.
The journey with OGTC started last year. I gave a talk on sustainability from the people's standpoint. And this year, I was asked to talk about incentives. And I said, lovely, there's a lot of best practices that I can share with you on this platform.
At the same time, maybe I can get a few.
Maybe I can plant some transformational seeds into the brains today. And transformation is what is needed. I was having a conversation over lunch with someone and I said, you know, we are sitting on a gold mine as a country.