Manoj Vasudevan (born November 17, 1973) is an International speaker, author, consultant and coach. He is the founder of Thought Expressions. Vasudevan is best known for winning the

World Champion of Public Speaking The World Championship of Public Speaking began in 1938 and has grown to over 50,000 participants in 149 countries in 2022. In its early decades, it was referred to as the Toastmasters Speech Contest. By the 1990s, there were about 10,000 particip ...

Toastmasters International Toastmasters International (TI) is a US-headquartered nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of promoting communication, public speaking, and leadership. History The organization grew out of a single c ...

in 2017.

Early life and education

Vasudevan was born in

Kerala, India Kerala ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

. He completed engineering in Electronics and Communication from

College of Engineering Trivandrum The College of Engineering Trivandrum, commonly known as CET, is the first engineering college in Kerala, situated in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. It was founded in 1939 during the reign of the Travancore King, Chithira Thiru ...

and thereafter completed MBA from

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. He currently lives in Singapore.

Career

Vasudevan started his career in 1995 as a software engineer and joined

PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers is an international professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is considered one of the Big Four accounting ...

Management Consulting Services as a principal consultant. He left PwC in 2004 to start his own company and founded Thought Expressions in 2008 to help people become speakers, leaders and influencers. Vasudevan has given motivational talks to multinational corporate houses for leadership, team-building, and personal breakthroughs. He authored the book Mastering Leadership The Mousetrap Way. Vasudevan is a professional speaker and coaches executives and entrepreneurs.

Awards

*World Champion of Public Speaking by Toastmasters International. *Top-25 Standup comedians at the International Comedy Festival in Hong Kong

Personal life

Vasudevan married to entrepreneur and author Sindu Sreebhavan in 1998. They have two children Advaith Vasudevan and Aditi Vasudevan.

References

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