Skilling India in business and golf: Pramod Bhasin

He is amongst the iconic faces that created India's BPO industry.

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Pramod Bhasin Golf India

He founded his company in a parking lot in Chennai. He is amongst the iconic faces that created India’s BPO industry. He is hungry for change and looks for the first possible transformational idea in tech. Say hello to corporate golfer and a workaholic Pramod Bhasin. He is pretty serious about his business but when he does decide to laugh it off, it’s often a joke on himself.

“My biggest peeve is that some golfers get terribly obsessive about the game and get upset if you or they play badly. It’s only a game, take it easy!”

There is never a dull moment when you are playing golf with the animated and energetic Pramod Bhasin. We have known each other for many years yet playing together can often be a different ball game.

“I like to play with people who generally enjoy themselves on the golf course with a great spirit of humour, competitiveness and sport.”

But once behind his desk, he is a boss who understands the power of change and doggedly pursues it.

Best known for leading GE’s business process outsourcing arm Genpact and listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange, he is now engaged in search of newfangled ideas that can bring him joy for the next ten years. Having moved on from his Genpact days, Bhasin now is engaged in skill development.

“Can I do it again?” he asks rhetorically.

It’s never easy to leave big-company roles, is it?

“We underestimate how attached we get to a big fancy job. It’s so hard to let go.”
As we get on to the fairway, Pramod looks at the lie of the ball and draws an opportunity analogy: “How many people get a chance to create a new industry?”

Skills Academy, started in FY12, aims to provide employment opportunities to youth across the country. It has designed what it calls its ‘science of learning’ combined with an industry proven toolkit which helps match student aspirations with necessary skills required by the industry, build domain experts, enhance industry-academia partnerships.

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