Dilip Patel

Dilip Patel
Senior Facilitator and Course Director at Initiatives of Change, (Panchgani, Maharashtra) and IC Centre for Governance (New Delhi), Certified Zentangle® Teacher, TEDx Speaker, Mindset Mender, and Happiness Coach

Dilip Patel is an Electrical engineer with PGD in Aircraft Design from IIT (Madras), an entrepreneur, a trainer, a learning facilitator and a counsellor.

After serving HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) for a few years, and running a manufacturing industry for over 25 years, He decided to devote his time in paying back to the society he had received from.

Thus, he got associated with Initiatives of Change, an International Organization, and IC Centre for Governance bringing about change in individuals and organizations, and has been, since the last 21 years, facilitating learning in the field of attitudinal and behavioural change for Corporate and Government officials at all levels.

He has been training officers of the IAS, IPS and IFC cadres, Corporate senior managers and owners of SMEs, Educators, Principals and Teachers, workers and students.

He has developed a unique process called ‘Life Balance Sheet™’ which helps one to take charge of one’s life as its CEO, and bring about the changes towards happier and more meaningful life. He is working on bringing out a book shortly on Life Balance Sheet.

JOG with the POT is another unique game created by him to learn, in a fun filled way, the importance of Character and Competence in developing leadership at work, as well as in personal life.

Both, Life Balance Sheet as well as JOG with the POT have been used in over 1000 learning programs with great success since the year 2012.

In Karnataka, India he had spearheaded facilitation process of learning for cultural change, through Initiatives of Change, a few years ago, for the entire BESCOM organisation with over 11500 employees covering Lines men to the Chief Engineers. Later he also spearheaded similar process for 2500 Asst. Professors of Govt. Degree Colleges across Karnataka. The central theme of these programs has been to enhance happiness index of the individuals.

He has had an opportunity to train 10+ professional trainers in Mexico to be able to conduct a program called ‘Heart of Effective Leadership’ in the years 2016 – 2017

He also developed interest in a very unique emerging art form called ZENTANGLE® method which is fun, easy to learn and meditative in nature. He introduced it in India for the first time after becoming a Certified Zentangle Teacher in 2012. He has been teaching this method to people at all levels as a mindfulness tool to de-stress, relax, create focus and for many other benefits. He has given a TEDx talk on the topic and benefits of Zentangle.

He had an opportunity to teach Zentangle method to the inmates of a Rehab centre in the US in the year 2017 with great success.

Has started adopting ONLINE platforms for offering training, coaching, counselling and mentoring. He is involved with IC Centre for Governance in building an online Community of Ethics to improve the ethical stance in governance of the country.