Name: Anita Shantaram President : Rotary Club of Mumbai Bay View

Mrs. Anita Shantaram is Director of Grid Consultants Pvt. Ltd., She is the first women to be certified as Grid Instructor in India after successfully completing the course in USA. She holds a post graduate degree in Industrial Psychology from Bombay University. She has attended the Dale Carnegie course "High Impact Presentations" and Steven Covey's Time Management programme "What Matters Most" at Franklin Covey Institute, USA and has undergone "Train the Trainer" programme in Transactional Analysis.

A faculty member at Sydenham College, Mumbai for (BMS) on Communication skills and Organizational Behavior, she has earlier taught Psychology at Jai Hind College, Mumbai. She has recently started teaching at ICFAI Business School.

She has been a guest faculty to various Management Institute and has conducted more than 400 workshops on various topics such as:

Grid Seminars
Interpersonal Relationships
Public Speaking
Customer Service
Time Management
Stress Management
Managerial Effectiveness
Communication Skills
Self-Development
Presentation Skills
Work-Life Balance
Transactional Analysis
Written & Spoken English
Etiquette & Personal Grooming

She has conducted workshops in Dubai on Communication skills, Presentation skills and Time Management.
She has recently conducted 2 workshops for Intertec Systems Ltd., Dubai.
She is also facilitating outbound training programmes.
She has conducted workshops for various organizations such as Infosys, IDBI Capital, Ambit, Orchid Hotel, Reliance Industries, Bajaj Auto, Castrol, GHCL, CMC, JK Tyres, L & T, Godfrey Phillips, Crompton Greaves, RBI, Hinduja Hospital, and Bombay Hospital to name a few.
She has conducted Train The Trainer-for Customer Service for RKHS at various locations in India.
She is a panel trainer for BMA and FICCI.
Her articles have been published in BMA Review and the Times of India and the Self Development Magazine.
Her first book 'Speak Well Do Well' on public speaking skills has been well received. It is now in its 2nd edition.
She has also written in the book "Self Development for Sure Success".
She is currently pursuing her Phd from BITS Pilani.
She is a member of Bombay Management Association and a charter member of Rotary Club of Bombay Bayview.
She is a trustee of "Dr. P. N. Singh Foundation" which is conducting the "Leaders of Tomorrow Project" in 32 schools in Mumbai.

Why Jai Mumbai ?

Jai Mumbai is our small Tribute to the Martyrs who laid down their life fighting to rebuild Mumbai into a great city. Our Heartfelt Condolences to the families of all the Brave Officers and soldiers who lost their life fighting in a tragic and rather mournful incident this same day a year ago. The Sacrifices of the 14 policeman from the Mumbai Police and 3 from the NSG will always be remembered for a long-long time to come.

Today.. even after those hundreds of Attacks.. right from the 1993-serial-blasts to the 26th Nov 08 Attack on Mumbai.. people resumed their normal life style to their old fast-rush-mode again pushing each other in this Rat Race.. And we refer it as the "Spirit of Mumbai"or rather we want to call it the "Spirit of India". Hope this Spirit induces the responsibility factor within every spirited Indian.

We don’t have control in a democracy over our borders so we can never have the same security system or as tight border controls as those in an autocracy or dictatorship. Also, because of our democratic roots, there is always a fine balance between the state’s basic obligation to protect the life and property of a citizen and to protect individual rights. But we can do more elsewhere, if countries follow up the pledges they have made [on combating terrorism] with action. We have Security Council resolutions in place. We have to ensure they are implemented, so terrorists can’t hit and run across borders. There should be no sanctuaries. They should know they will be hunted down wherever they are.

We at Wockhardt Foundation through Jai Mumbai hope that this will also signal to the world at large that terrorism is a menace that has to be handled globally. It cannot be compartmentalized. This city will run in memory of those who lost their lives and for the heroes who helped us during those tragic moments of that terror attack. An event of this magnitude will be our first challenge in spatial management after 26/11. Partcipation here is not only for fitness or altruism, but also to exorcise the ghosts that the 10 machine-gun toting terrorists had set free on that fateful night of 26/11.