Founder: About Mohini Mathur

Mohini Mathur is the founder and principal consultant of WINNING EDGE Training and Consulting. She is a practicing Corporate Trainer and a Human Resources & Organizational Development Consultant (HR/ OD) for over 23 years and has partnered with multiple organisations across industries for varied initiatives.
Mohini has a strong academic background :
  • Being a gold medallist in psychology, Mohini also bagged a national scholarship while pursuing her degree in Psychology from
    St. Xavier's, Mumbai (BA in Psychology 1992).
  • She pursued her Masters degree in MSW, in 1994 from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. At TISS, she received the
    'Best Student' award for select subject areas and has a strong foundation in social and human sciences.
  • Mohini is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), from The International Coach Federation ( ICF, USA )
  • A certified Neuro Linguistic Programming ( NLP ) practitioner.
  • Mohini is also a certified FIRO-B , DISC and Thomas Personal Profile Analysis ( PPA ) facilitator.
  • Mohini is a facilitator of Total Quality Management (TQM) frameworks, incorporated from Association of technical scientists, Japan.
  • Mohini Mathur was recognized as one of the 'Top Women Corporate Trainers' by the 'Women Entrepreneur India, Women in Business' forum in 2021. Featured in their May 2021, magazine Issue. Click

Mohini is known for her strength and ability to identify the unstated needs of her clients and design the best-fit solution to drive the desired results or outcomes. Her passion to Pursue Excellence stems from her foundation in TQM and her focus on continuous improvement.
Her vast experience, systemic approach and passionate client servicing helps her design and identify relevant frameworks, approaches or models to provide sustainable and effective solutions. All her solutions have a very strong orientation towards implementation ideas and making tangible differences.
As a facilitator, Mohini has been recognized for her ability to connect with audiences across levels with great ease. Her connect while coaching or facilitating top management and senior leaders is equal to her flair as a facilitator for large mid-level and execution teams.
 
  • With a keen interest to hone varied hobbies, Mohini is an active long-distance cyclist and takes thrill in the adrenaline rush of riding for kilometres at length. She is known to team with cyclist groups in the city for rides in and outside the city.
  • Rejuvenating herself through mesmerizing renditions of Hindustani classical music, is what keeps Mohini spiritually grounded. Having learnt classical music during childhood, she has developed deep knowledge of the art. Deciphering various ragas and singing her favourite 'bandishes' gives her a real high.
  • When not listening to music or riding on the streets of the city, she can be found testing her new recipes in the kitchen. She often teams up with other chef friends to experiment cooking a variety of cuisines. Mohini is currently working on publishing her cookbook themed 'Cooking like the restaurants'.

WINNING EDGE is a boutique firm, partnering with organizations and individuals in the areas of corporate training, Human Resources & Organizational Development (HR/ OD) consulting and executive coaching. Based out of Mumbai, it has a pan India presence and a global reach.
It was founded by Mohini Mathur, with the vision to facilitate organisations to build capabilities and leverage their strengths.
Client partnerships have strengthened over the years through diverse projects with the same client organisations and WINNING EDGE has grown solely through client referral.

Our Motto and Values

Since its inception, WINNING EDGE has followed its motto of Pursuing Excellence and is an integral part of the service delivery.
We apply this credo not just for our clients but also to ourselves and strive to go above and beyond in our solutions and offering.
The 4 key values we hold in WINNING EDGE that drive our actions are:

Excellence

We give our best and strive for our best
 

Commitment

We keep our word.
Always!
 

Integrity

We do the right thing and keep our clientb s best interest at heart

Impact

We strive to achieve
outcomes and
show results

Our Team

Mohini has a team of empanelled consultants and trainers who bring domain expertise and years of industry experience. Each associate consultant gets involved in specific interventions and projects and adds value accordingly. Our team of consultants are also certified in various psychometric assessment tools and offer their expertise as required.
Wanderstruck, Mumbai, is our official offsite and adventure activity partner for interventions or programs which require extensive outdoor management and activities. Their stringent standards of safety and quality ensure highest levels of participant comfort.
We also partner with other experts for activities like Drum circles and Theatre and Art related workshop themes. We become a one window shop for our client partners.

Our '6D Framework'

“Start with the end in mind.” - Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Our approach across all our offerings is result focused and linked to focused diagnostics and implementation.
Leveraging our 23 years of experience and success, we have defined our ‘6D Framework’ which illustrates our methodology, direction and focus.
1.  Define need and outcomes
  • Dig deeper to understand the origin of the need or development gap
  • Identify the desired outcome, vision or goal b  'the end result'
  • Recognize and define criteria or measures of success
2. Diagnose gap and focus areas of the intervention
  • Analyse the current reality; what is working and what is not
  • Identify varied factors that influence the challenge
  • Understand past actions or interventions undertaken
3. Design and customize
  • Define the objective, methodology and duration of the intervention
  • Ascertain the frameworks, constructs, tools and technology opportunities
  • Customize content and cases basis the organization and sector context
  • Identify learning that can be leveraged from best practices in similar industries/organisations
4. Deliver and drive initiative
  • Facilitate the intervention in a structured manner
  • Use of engaging, andragogy based, participative-delivery styles
  • Pre and Post audience engagement and implementation
MEASURE IMPACT
5. Decode impact and progress
  • Measure progress on the pre-set success criteria
  • Connect with target audience and stakeholders to assess impact
  • Reinforce success stories and realign to plug gaps
6. Deploy sustain and institutionalize
  • Identify existing systems or processes that can reinforce learnings
  • Facilitate transfer of learning from sessions to on-the-job implementation
  • Use of recall aids, coaching calls and partner with internal HR / line managers to sustain learning
  • Incorporate systemic changes to institutionalize learnings.
    Our WINNING EDGE '6D Framework' gives you a glimpse of the holistic view we adopt when we partner with
    any organisation to facilitate solutions.
    It enables us to grasp the context of the organisation in great detail and helps us make recommendations
    that will have great relevance and hence impact.