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Mr. Narasimhan
S. Lakshmi Narasimhan
Founder, Ignite Insight LLC
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PDFS Lakshmi Narasimhan is the Founder of Ignite Insight LLC a New York City based consultancy, which specializes in Group Executive Training, Coaching and Consulting. Mr. Narasimhan teaches Financial Management related courses during Spring and Fall semesters as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University, Jonathan M Tisch Center for Hospitality.
Prior to founding his company, Mr. Narasimhan was the Vice President Finance of an award-winning Hong Kong headquartered luxury hotel chain - Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts. He has more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry (14 of them in a senior corporate level) and has held diverse portfolios from a hotel Financial Controller to a group level Human Resources position, head of Corporate Internal Audit and head of Corporate Financial Systems. His career is epitomized by new and challenging roles.
Mr. Narasimhan has designed and developed a series of 2-Day Finance Courses titled Optimizing Hotel Profits for non-financial managers in the hospitality industry, which he delivers personally. The unique aspects of the course presentations are jargon free, simplified financial concepts, use of visual teaching methods through color, shapes and movement to reinforce and cement learning, practical exercises in budgeting and financial analysis and many more. Read testimonials about his courses. His online academy Profits Master Class offers courses that are self-paced, easy to understand in an inter-active, blended learning environment.
Mr. Narasimhan's special interest is in the gamification of instruction. He has developed a complete card game (with a 75-page Player Manual) which teaches the principles of revenue yield management and related topics with all the benefits of a game environment. The game makes you the Revenue Manager of a fictitious hotel allowing you to take all the decisions that a typical Revenue Manager of a hotel takes to optimize revenue yield. He also blogs about hotel, restaurant revenue management and profitability.
Mr. Narasimhan published his first book: Discover the Genius in the Mirror - You are an Einstein waiting to be discovered - an exercise book on how to discover your own genius through introspection. It is available on www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com both in print as well Kindle/Nook formats. His free monthly newsletter Voyages of Discovery is dedicated to empowering individuals discover the genius in them.
Please visit http://www.ignite-insight.biz for more information.
Linkedin Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/slakshminarasimhan/
Mr. Narasimhan can be contacted at +1 201-253-5000 or [email protected]
