Mehul Dhingra

Hustling since 1996 Mehul Dhingra An inquisitive soul in the morning, food enthusiast by the afternoon, fitness freak by the evening & an active entrepreneur throughout. I’m an avid reader with a strong belief in personal growth through self education for continuous knowledge & skill enhancement. This is my life review. A summarisation of 23 years of my life. Each event was a teacher from the university of experiences. Shaping life,acquiring skills, building character, ensuing values. To bring me where I am in life, today. This is who I am, learning, failing & still hustling, each day. - 04 Entreprenuer at Heart. I ventured out when I was 14. Wildly optimistic. Hope is the key to a good tomorrow. Believe that work gives our life a sense of purpose. Afterall, we end up spending over 75% of our adult life working. Practical learner. Its pivotal to understand, theory cant prepare you for life. And, a decade of schooling followed by college isnt enough to render one smart enough to adapt to the highly dynamic environment of our world. This is Me.. 05 What do I stand for? I firmly believe in walking baby steps each day to reach the hilltop. The ideology reflects the need for a target, clear understanding of what is needed to achieve it, a bottomline strategy to break the task into achievable targets thus creating a sense of purpose and joy. After all its the journey that matters. True happiness steams from achievements. Seeing collective efforts translate into something meaningful is what drives me. With what I do, I seek to be challenged, perplexed, grow and be inspired. My Journey So Far. Formal Education Professional Experience Practical Education The societal Norms. School, College. Array of stints based on two operational ideologies. My learnings, failures, weaknesses and certifications. 05 Formal Education - High School Campion School, Bhopal Batch of 2014 Bacherlors of Commerce (Hons) Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai Batch of 2017 Young Leaders Workshop Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Session of November 2014 Management Students Workshop Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Session of September 2015 09 Certifications - 21st Century Entrepreneurship National University of Singapore Affiliation - September 2016 Certified Marketing Professional University of Waterloo - May 2016 Future of Corporate Travel - Southeastasia EDX - October 2019 Conflict Management Travelboutiqueonline - December 2019 Leadership in 21st century organisations Copenhagen Business School - April 2020 13 Head of Strategy, Entreprenuership Cell - NMIMS April 2014 - May 2015 Professional Experience This is where my fundamentals of establishing the new come into play. Luckily, the team that was formulated shared the philosophy of having a multi dimensional entrepreneurship cell that adds value garners opportunities and ecosystem to assist budding business minds. I overlooked the role of formulating the roadmap, key functions and ways to achieve the body objectives alongside identifying exposure and associations opportunities. In my capacity, I planned and executed multiple speakers sessions, mentor connects, Business plan competition and instated a guidance board. To connect the dots, a newsletter was incorporated alongside generating representations at multiple B school fests and competitions. 13 Founder & Team Lead - Project Malhaar February 2015 - February 2017 Professional Experience We see a dearth of two aspects within environment college cells, resources & ability to project change / impact because of it. I crafted this project to bring the forces of 13 college cells together with a singular program, common objectives, standard practices, access to globally recognised institutions and financial resources via government, private funding. The common objective? Promote sustanability, awareness and guide people with ways to reduce their individual carbon foot print I Lead a direct team of 17 individuals and roughly 500 volunteers indirectly. My role was to plan the project, design it's course of action, bi furcate jobs to be undertaken to the right division of departments based on each member's skill set and devise a monitoring plan to see the activities through. The work saw shining media coverage, active citizen involvement and established a community of like minded individuals who are concerned about the nature. 13 Expansions Director - Enactus NMIMS November 2014 - May 2017 Professional Experience Enactus is one of the most impactful global initiative aimed at achieving the right equilibrium for all stake holders involved. It acts as a fundamental driver in instilling the best of entrepreneurship and the concept of caring for society. The projects and challenges students undertake to solve a societal issue and engage with the target segment on a much more personal level, it gives them a chance to really widen their horizons. My role here was to create a scalability plan to achieve standard operational & outcome analysis measures keeping into factor geographical and demographical variance to maximise impact. I was also responsible for ensuring resource generation and associations for replication of projects in multiple cities. 13 Product Development and Delivery - Customer First April 2016 - April 2017 Professional Experience A batchmate's stellar vision to bridge the customer engagement and analysis gap for small businesses to drive growth with understanding of the market, consumer. Customer first, as the name suggests, is a unique customer relationship management system that allows merchants to engage better with their customers and in turn gain meaningful insights and trends. Major responsibilities that I undertook as a part of my job role were: 1. Designing the flow of in store digital engagement plans 2. Define service pricing 3. Standardise Operational formats 4. Identify industry specific requirements 5-Standardise engagement modules 5. Define sales plan and channels 6. Review performance cyclically 7. Process of data analysis During my stint at customer first, we grew from zero to 140+ businesses on annual retainer services with over 45000 users engaged. 13 Team Lead #REWARDS April 2016 - April 2017 Professional Experience I personally have a theory about entreprenuership. In my opinion, there are two broad ways to go about identifying what to work upon and how. First is innovation, identifying the need to build an offering never seen / heard of before. Second is corrective/ transitional emulation. The focus here is to identify an existent offering and add more value to it / re design it to serve and better fulfill your target market for instance an offering in the US needs to go this route to serve the Indian market. #Rewards was my first solo stint built around the concept of pushing consumerism and bringing the multi brand retail loyalty, incentivistion program to tier 2,3 cities in an economical yet effective manner.Its formalised and organised the loyalty benefits approach to help service providers reach out their target market at a fraction of the marketing cost and provides a suitable platform for them to engage, assist and support further driving consumer loyalty. We launched a beta offering for 6 months working with 40+ stores followed by a full fledged launch in 2016 with over 450+ outlets including the likes of Marriott, Toni & Guy further converting to over 40,000 memberships sold in the first year. It ran its course in 2018. 13 Founder | Experience Director - The Steaming Mug Cafe April 2016 - April 2017 Professional Experience Co working spaces are the powerhouses of ideas, innovation and provide a supreme ecosystem for startup growth. Shouldn't they offer exclusive boutique cafeteria's to unwind and enjoy unique offerings? After all, each entrepreneur puts in an honest days effort into their work. I conceptualised steaming mug to complement the growing co working space fad by offering end to end kitchen and cafeteria outsourcing to develop a cost saving & hassle free experience for the host and tenants. The first outlet was incorporated at S.PACE Bhopal in July 2017 serving over 180 pax daily. I passed on the operational responsibilities to existing team in December 2017 to focus on other commitments. Joint Managing Director | Head of strategy board Traveza Global Travel Ventures 13 December 2017 - Present Professional Experience Traveza is a young travel management company delivering strategic travel management services & agency operations tools to organisations of all capacities, domains and is regarded as the fastest growing travel enterprise across central India with operations and clientele in 20+ cities across the nation & over 4 countries worldwide. Our unique value proposition & service differentiator factors focus upon superior service realisation, re selling & flexible redemption with augmented customer oriented financial parameters clubbed with a minimalistic booking experience. In my capacity as group head, I lead a team of 41 individuals under an array of 3 product offerings, 5 departments and a network of 2800+ travel agencies with a unique mission of building a multi faceted domain leader in the industry. 13 Head - Corporate Sales at Yumzy - X Professional Experience June 2021 - Present At Yumzy-X, we take pride in casting our offering & Service folio as digital - hyper local ventures enabler. In my operational capacity, i head corporate sales & strategic alliances for the company, alongside undertaking the role of city operations head Gurugram. These experiences have shaped my philosophy for work. These are principals around which my working style revolves 01 02 03 Being aware is the key. Aware about yourself, team, role, duty, market so on and so forth. Learn to say no. Ethics reflect in your product / service. Formulate clear values and if you have the ability to walk away from a deal because it doesnt feel right, you'll do wonders. - Learn to listen. Not hear, listen. Ensure collective growth. Learning never stops. Nurture leaders. Lead by example. Complaining is a sign of weakness - Own up your mistakes. Decisions arent right / wrong. Ego is for fools. Adaptability to changing times and scenarios is pivotal. Enjoy. Genuinely. 07 Value I bring to the table Experience Diverse self starter on ground experience in all business functions. I might not always have the answer to what is to be done, but I for sure would always know, what not to. As they say, we are the mistakes we've made. Skills and Strengths Broad array of honed and tested skills with ability to use them around my own strengths to deliver maximum output. Ethics & Enthusiasm Love for the game and clear set of principles that define every action. When the going gets tough, these two pillars ensure you survive. How to reach me? Mail Phone - -