Dr Rajeshwari Narendran has a Ph.D. in Management & an MBA. Andrew Towl Scholar- Harvard Business School (GloColl and CWW), Boston, USA & FDP IIM-A 2009. She is the first woman and youngest National President of the Indian Society for Training & Development, New Delhi, India (2013-14). She is first woman to be elected in any professional body in HR & Management Across Asia. . She is currently the National Council Member with Higher Education Council of Women International Chamber of Commerce and Industries, a State coordinator of All Ladies League. Recently she is a Board member to the Pravasi Legal Aid Cell for Gulf countries for supporting the working people of India abroad for rehabilitation, rights, dignity, safety, compensation, empowerment and mental moral support in distress etc. She is an external IC member for POSH in IIM Udaipur.

She is also an Advisory Board Member in many national & international organizations like Arogya World, Microlight Finance, and Rajasthan Council for Education Administration and Management. She is a Board & Advisory Member to the Association of Global Business, Research and Practice, USA, representing B schools of 119 universities from across the globe. She has actively participated in Feliciano Center for Women Entrepreneurship programs at Montclair State University, New Jersey. She has been nominated in national level committees by AICTE for PARAKH and Mentor Mentee programs and a speaker for Viksit Bharat Abhiyan.

She is the Director of NTPC School of Business, Noida, mentored by IIM A. She formerly was Professor, Head, and Director of MHRM in the Department of Business Admin. M L Sukhadia University, Udaipur; Visiting Professor to IIM Udaipur, IIM Ahmedabad and many Universities across the globe and former Director Academy of HRD. She has delivered Lectures and Training at Harvard Business School as well. She also has the rare attribute of being a Psycho Dynamic Analyst helping Indian Public sector giants like BOB, NTPC, DGH, Ministry of Petroleum, Accenture, Reserve Bank of India, NCFE, PGCL, Punjab National Bank, CII, Rubamin, RCFL, etc to hire and promote leadership pipeline and Training. She established the first behavioural lab in any university in India.

Her work for the emancipation of rural and tribal women and the Make a Difference (MAD) initiative for rural and youth development have been greatly appreciated by various State Governments and Govt of India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Middle East countries, to mention a few. She has motivated thousands of students and made a difference in social workers by contributing to self and social development and nation-building.

She is a coach, evangelist, and a great motivational speaker, and her immense positive energies inspire hundreds of thousands of women around the globe as role models. She has been leading the MDP for women entrepreneurs at IIM-U.

Dr Rajeshwari is a famous trainer/ HRD Consultant who has trained a record-breaking 1 Lakh plus aspirants in India and abroad. She has contributed to NSDC by developing Training Sector Skill Council modules and conducting many workshops.

National/International awards- ISTD National Fellow, Vivekananda National Award for Excellence in HRD & Training 2009, International Case Research Fellowship 2011 from SGBED, (USA), Maharana Raj Singh Award and Ambassador of Goodwill, GSE, California, NEBAA (USA) International Best Paper Award on HRD practices. Samarpan Award -excellence in empowering women. She was awarded the Super Achiever Award for women in HRD research and development for 25 years of contribution to the World HRD Congress. She received the “Global Award for Women making the world a better place to live” in Thailand in June 2018. She has recently been awarded Life Time Achievement as a Women Leader by NIFT and the Guild of Newspapers. She has been awarded a Certificate of Leadership by the Golden Book of Records and Human Rights International and SPAA for her poem on Arjuna Awardees of India. She was awarded Woman of Many Firsts by the Rajasthan Cricket Association and City Administration of Udaipur on 8Th March 2022. Hindustan Times 50 Iconic Women Leaders Award and Bharat Gaurav Samman are also scheduled to be bestowed upon Dr Rajeshwari.

She is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at IIM Ahmedabad FDP Conference 2023 & recipient of the first-ever Iconic Award for Academic Leader in honour of her academic contributions to research teaching and training in Human Resources at the 75th Year Celebration of one of the leading Universities in India Maharaja Sayajirao University (MS University), Baroda. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the 6th HR Excellence Award 2023 for her valuable contribution by PNGI Forum (Professional Network Group of India). She was awarded by the Women Economic Forum as Exceptional Leader of Excellence at IIM Kozhikode.

Research Publication/Articles-173+, Books- “Innovations in HRD and Training” Excel Books 2014 and 2021. She has written two chapters on Indian Women in Leadership and Asian Women Leaders, published by Palgrave McMillan, USA. She leads the Women in Power interview series in Business Manager, a popular Journal in HR/IR—and is reviewer in Sage, Springer, & Other prestigious journals.

She is also on the advisory editorial board of the International Journal of HRD Practice Policy and Research, UK; ECNR, Canada; and former Chief Editor of IJTD.

She has been a Board Member of the International Federation for Training and Development Organizations (IFTDO) and served as a member of the Developing Countries Concern Committee IFTDO representing UNO; she is a member advisor in the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry. She is working on the development of Women in Leadership and Diversity policies at the global level. She is also leading a project on an emotional abuse awareness campaign as per the UN women's mandate.

She is a certified practitioner from many global platforms who has experience in multiple behaviour therapies and personality coaching based on behaviour therapies.