Learning & Development: Reimagined.
Pravi Academy helps organizations optimize human performance at work.
Programmatic Design
Curriculum design, production, delivery, tools and assessment.
Extraordinary Content
Practical knowledge available in video, digital print, and audio.
Delivery & Instruction
In-person, live online, and asynchronous instruction for single individuals to entire organizations.
Tools & Assessment
Case studies, workbooks, frameworks, and assessment tools and services to build and sustain lifelong learning.
Motivation & Inspiration
Keynote speeches, guest lectures, and fireside chats that engage, enthrall, challenge, and move audiences.
Culture Kills (the competition)
Pravi infuses expertise on evaluating, building, or enhancing culture throughout its learning & development products and services.
A good strategy? It’s critical, but the right culture is more important every time.
Learning & Development: Reimagined.
In the midst of the rise of artificial intelligence, Pravi Academy works with organizations who recognize that humans are key to growth – not a cost to blindly be replaced by technology.
From high-growth companies to Fortune 100 conglomerates, small NGOs to universities, our suite of solutions optimizes the performance of people and creates a competitive advantage.
Pravi Academy creates and delivers learning & development products and services: curriculum, courses, seminars, coaching sessions, webinars, and tools.
Pravi Academy content, services, and tools develop the right mindset and provide the right skill set for humans to thrive in today’s rapidly changing workplace. They are created by leaders from some of the world’s top universities and most innovative organizations.
Pravi Academy works with Human Resource and C-suite leaders to transform organizational performance through people. It’s a whole new world. The Pravi Academy helps organizations thrive in it.
Leaders
We believe that – now more than ever - human capital is an engine to drive growth.
Our team possesses decades of experience creating and delivering world-class learning & development content, tools, and programs.
We know how hard it is for organizations to secure learning & development programs that are impactful, customized, and proven.
From program design to teaching tens of thousands; from launching conferences to leading workshops; from scaling executive education globally to pioneering online curriculum, we know this space.
Ready for something different than “the off-the-shelf” solutions available widely or the pricey consultants who come and go?
Meet Pravi Academy.
We get it.
Success driven by human performance, not policy.
For some, “human resources” suggests policies, paperwork, and process.
We are CEOs, leaders, professors, executives, entrepreneurs, and investors. Our belief is that investing in human performance isn’t something to be blindly delegated to HR: it is one of a leader’s greatest responsibilities and most critical keys to success.
The world is changing at light-speed. Is your team ready?
Expertise
Pravi Academy secures Uncommon Wisdom from extraordinary people and transforms it into practical knowledge to help organizations grow.
Expertise - and Pravi Academy offerings - range from products and services focused on an individual such as people skills to those focused on preparing to lead a team such as entrepreneurial thinking.
Our work spans topics such as infusing service excellence to thousands on the front line to succession planning for those in the C-suite.
PEOPLE SKILLS
People Skills – sometimes termed “soft skills” – continue to be the foundation of organizational success. 89% of hiring failures are due to a lack of soft skills, not a lack of technical skills to do the job. Every $1 spent on emotional intelligence training generates an average $4 return.*
Workforce Resiliency
Well-being
Emotional Intelligence
Adaptability
*Sources: Leadership IQ, TalentSmartEQ
ORGANIZATIONAL
SKILLS
Organizational culture is everywhere in the workplace. It’s often overlooked. 75% of employees say they would stay longer at a company that truly listens to and acts on their values. Companies that actively manage and nurture culture report 30% lower turnover.*
Aligning Values
Culture Kills
The Organizational Vampire
Winning the War for Talent
*Sources: PwC Future of Work Report, McKinsey & Company
SERVICE SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence is excellent at solving simple problems fast. But what about empathy? Trust? Emotional nuance? That’s where humans shine. And that’s why companies blending AI and strong human service skills see 3x higher customer satisfaction.* (note: this impressively self-aware description was generated by Chat GPT, with an assist from humans).
Hospitality Mindset
A.I. and the Guest Experience
Empathy
Anticipation
Sources: Microsoft, PwC, Oracle
GROWTH SKILLS
Growth necessitates the skills to understand, collaborate, and partner. Nearly 60% of executives say partnerships are essential to accessing new customers, markets, and innovations. Few individuals thrive only knowing his or her subject area. Only 1 in 5 employees understands how his or her work contributes to company success.*
Partnership Development
Revenue Rules
Plan for the Ripple
Business Acumen for Everyone
*Sources: The Economist Intelligence Unit, Deloitte
LEADERSHIP
SKILLS
What is leadership? It is the ability to influence, inspire, and guide others toward achieving a common goal or vision regardless of formal authority. Can it be taught? We’ve been doing so for decades using entrepreneurial mindset, systems thinking, authenticity, and proven methods that have impacted thousands.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Authentic Leadership
Succession/HiPo Planning
Systems, Design, & Critical Thinking
Products, Services
and Solutions
Pravi Academy’s suite of products, services, and solutions helps optimize human performance at work. We conceive entire programs – including curriculum, modalities, and instructors – based on organizational needs. Pravi Academy tools and resources include cases, simulations, role playing, feedback, and assessments that are proven and backed by results.
Design, populate, and deliver 360 degree solutions.
+ Curriculum, modality, interactive, on-demand
+ In-person or online
+ Capstone projects
+ Mentoring individuals
+ Training executives
+ Upskilling front line employees
Pravi products or in-house initiatives featuring credible, proven, and actionable content.
+ Cornell, Babson, HBS, Villanova
+ Graduate, skills-programs, exec ed
+ Leading NGOs
+ Fortune 100 companies
+ Entrepreneurs & investors
The professors you remember and the executive you follow brought to your organization.
+ In-person and online course instruction
+ Group facilitation
+ Individual mentoring and coaching
+ Subject matter contributions
+ Inspirational keynotes & intimate fireside chats
Online and offline resources to support individual and organizational performance.
+ Teaching materials
+ Case studies
+ Performance models
+ Frameworks
Insight into “what is” and analysis of the “why it is.”
+ Individual & organizational evaluations
+ Objective situational analysis
+ Snapshot of competitive environment
+ Engagement by leaders, researchers, and data scientists
The organization as a magnet not as a mandate.
+ Values, norms & incentives
+ Formal & informal influences
+ Informal and structured power
+ Work from home vs. hybrid vs. on-site
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Professor Bruce Tracey provides an overview of the Hospitality Mindset and shares why it is an imperative for all businesses.
Clients
Pravi Academy works with corporations, universities, high-growth companies, and associations.
EXECUTIVE
FORUM
Three illustrations of Pravi Academy work for a global services company, the world’s leading hospitality school, and an association with reach to businesses of all types throughout America.
With over 260,000 employees worldwide, Aramark selected sixteen participants from 10 countries to attend a three-day immersive experience in Dublin.
Designed. Built. Taught.
An inaugural summit for hospitality entrepreneurs including an Olympian & entrepreneur, industry icons, Professors, recent graduates and LinkedIn’s #1 Voice for Finance worldwide.
Conceived. Convened. Executed.
On-demand courseware to prepare people for the “future of work” available to 1,300 chambers of commerce, 9,000 chamber leaders and hundreds of thousands of businesses throughout the U.S.
Expertise. Level-up Content. Credibility.
Our Inspiration
Howard H. Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is the world’s most iconic professor of entrepreneurship. Described as a “a lovable insurgent, a revolutionary who has succeeded,” Howard coined what Inc Magazine proclaimed to be the “best definition of an entrepreneur ever.” He was the founding president of famed hedge-fund, Baupost. He was chairman of NPR and Harvard Business School Publishing.
Pravi’s origin can be traced to the relationship between Howard and one of Pravi’s co-founders, Eric Sinoway. Initially introduced when Eric undertook an independent study with Howard at Harvard, the two have collaborated for almost 20 years.
Howard’s Gift
Howard’s “uncommon wisdom” – and lifetime of experiences around the world – are captured in the best-selling book, Howard’s Gift: Uncommon Wisdom to Inspire Your Life’s Work, written by Pravi co-founder Eric Sinoway, after Howard survived a heart-attack that by all accounts should have been fatal. Howard’s Gift is sold around the world. Lessons from it are featured in Pravi Academy products and services.
Pravi means
“authentic.”
Pravi Corp helps organizations grow. In an uncertain world, our team is composed of extraordinary leaders from some of the world’s top universities and most innovative organizations. These individuals possess Uncommon Wisdom and long-term relationship based on trust. This wisdom and these relationships are brought to life by our three areas of focus: Learning & Development products and services through Pravi Academy; Partnership Development activity to accelerate growth; and organizational Advisory Services.
Learning &
Development
Pravi Academy provides world-class Learning & Development products, content, and services – from bespoke programmatic design to curriculum development, from creating certificates to transforming organizational culture. The bottom line? It’s all about the people.
Partnership
Development
Pravi conceives and executes partnerships to accelerate growth. We work with principals only – and use our long term relationships – to access decision makers that can drive revenue, create brand equity, or lower costs. Partnership development? It’s a niche – and we’ve excelled at it for years.
Advisory
Services
Pravi advisory services range from holistic design and build engagements to assistance with boards of directors and corporate governance. Do we advise? Yes. More than that, we execute. Think of us as a source of counsel and action.