About Mihirini
Mihirini de Zoysa is the Lead consultant and founder of Corporate Druids (Pvt) Ltd., an organization specializing in Organizational Development (OD) and Human Resource Development (HRD).
Her formal education is in Economics (BSc), University of London and has recently obtained her MSc in Responsibility and Business Practices from University of Bath.
Her professional background ranges from software programming to systems analysis to Business Process Reengineering to counselling to OD and HRD. This eclectic background has given her in-depth experience of over 14 years in organizational transformation, change management, OD and HR training and development in diverse industries such as Insurance, IT, Garments, Publishing, Printing, Telecommunications, Banking, Plantations etc.
Her work in organizational development focuses on leadership transformation, strategy development, team development and team building, developing and implementing HR systems and processes and enabling organizations and employees to align their visions and values with each other.
As a coach and trainer, her main focus is in self development and leadership development, improving communication (inter-personal, cross-functional, horizontal and vertical) and in team building.
She is a well known facilitator, working with many business organizations and development organizations such as the UN, in facilitating these organization’s planning and review discussions, facilitating creative problem solving and visioning workshops.
She also focuses on guiding organizations and individuals to become responsible leaders in how they work and live to create sustainable futures. She uses her facilitation skills and her knowledge from sustainable environmental practices, social justices to create forums and spaces for organizations and individuals to work together to creatively respond to these issues.
Her current work and passion is to help organizations/communities develop spaces for authentic dialogues/for conflict transformation, to harness the power of diversity (gender/cultural etc.) to find creative, peaceful, sustainable and productive ways to work and live together.
At present her work in this area is focused in dialoguing with organizations and leaders on responding creatively, fearlessly, wisely and sustainably to the current economic crisis.
She uses participative and cooperative actions research and action inquiry methodologies in her work. She is also widely experienced in facilitating large group interventions and in the use of tools such as world café, open space, future conferencing and visioning processes.
She is also particularly interested in working with children and with youth to create awareness and educate them to create leadership initiatives amongst them.
She has authored and published a book of poems ‘I Can Fly’.
