Ganesh Mandadi is an author of “Your Life Graduation” book, a TEDx speaker, an entrepreneur by profession, a philanthropist by heart, a farmer, and a motivational speaker by passion. Prior to his entrepreneurship pursuit, he gained over 17 years of a highly rewarding and successful corporate career in Financial Services and IT domains. To his credit, he has extensive global working experience in over 10 countries including India, the United States, Thailand, UAE, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, and other Middle East countries. His life journey spanned from a difficult childhood, a school dropout in Grade 8 due to prolonged financial distress in his family and he had a complete disconnect from formal education for over 7 years and struggled for basic survival for years, spent his teenage years in full-time farming.
He reconnected to formal education by pursuing graduation through distance education and his regular MBA from Madras University, which was the turning point for his professional career. His school dropout life phase ignited his passion and obsession towards continuous learning and he firmly believes in progressive transformation. He acquired over dozen professional certifications, key among them IMA’s CMA, PMI’s PMP, IIM-C’s EPBA, NLP Practitioner, and multiple IT certifications.
He is a nature lover, deep rootedly gravitated towards farming, which is an inherited legacy. It is also his passion to live, strive and spread the essence of “A Day in Farmer’s Life” at least once a week to express gratitude for this Nobel profession and to uplift the self-esteem of the farming profession which is at stake in the modern world.
The COVID-19 pandemic days unlocked his intuitive life meaning and reinvented his life purpose and personal vision “To impact and inspire people towards the excellence for the true-life fulfillment and contentment in their lives.”
His book “Your Life Graduation” is part of his personal vision. He is on a mission to strive and spread wisdom to everyone by unfolding people's life treasures in all the life fulfillment empires. He strongly believes in “Giving Back” to society and nature in all possible forms, which he walks the talk from a young age. His philanthropic vision is to life coach and uplift at least a few hundred underprivileged school dropouts, who are reeling under life struggles like his past.
His mission is to devote at least one-third of his active hours to impact and transform peoples’ lives across the world through his life lessons and wisdom without any monetary desires in true philanthropic cause to make this world a better place to live.