Kishore Kumar Thakur is an ICF credentialed executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development professional with a mission to help people perform, lead, and live with purpose. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has worked with professionals across industries — helping them develop clarity, confidence, and emotional balance to thrive in complex corporate environments. Blending insights from coaching, mindfulness, and leadership, Kishore created the Corporate Athletes Framework — a holistic model that integrates performance, leadership, and personal growth through three essential roles: the Player, the Captain, and the Coach. His work emphasizes that sustainable success requires more than skill — it demands energy management, reflection, and alignment of purpose.Kishore is a strong advocate of coaching-based leadership and continuous learning. His facilitation style combines practical wisdom with empathy, making his workshops deeply transformative.Corporate Athletes! is his invitation to professionals everywhere to redefine success — not as constant effort, but as balanced excellence rooted in awareness and meaning.

Captain Utpal Haldar is a Master Mariner with over three decades of commanding some of the world’s sophisticated ships across international waters. A lifelong sailor, scholar, and mentor, he has spent his career not only navigating oceans but also guiding young mariners through the deeper currents of life. His mentoring goes beyond nautical charts, embracing the timeless wisdom of the sea to teach principles of resilience, leadership, and purposeful living.An MSc graduate in Marine Operations Management, Captain Haldar has been involved in maritime research, ship safety systems, and crew development. His passion for learning never anchors — he continually upgrades his knowledge, exploring new technologies and trends in the ever-evolving shipping industry.The Captain’s Code is a distillation of hard-earned lessons from stormy decks and calm horizons alike. Through vivid storytelling and sea-borne metaphors, he offers a navigational guide not just for seafarers, but for anyone seeking a richer, more meaningful life.Today, Captain Haldar continues to mentor, write, and inspire — proving that the sea doesn’t just make sailors; it shapes thinkers, teachers, and timeless storytellers.

Kishore Kumar Thakur believes that conversations can change everything — if we’re willing to listen long enough. A leadership coach, facilitator, and storyteller, Kishore has spent years helping leaders and teams rediscover the lost art of reflection — the pause between doing and being, the space where clarity lives. His work draws deeply from philosophy, psychology, and lived experience — weaving together stillness, awareness, and action into the language of modern leadership. Through his writings, workshops, and dialogues, he invites people to slow down, to listen not just to others, but to the quiet voice within. The Stone and the Pond is more than a book to him. It is a mirror — a reminder that every word we speak, every silence we hold, and every act of attention we offer creates ripples that touch lives we may never see.

Manan Bajjaj is Founder and Director of Tresbon Consulting Solution and Services Pvt. Ltd and System Consulting Mastery Hub and is a certified Trainer, Coach and Consultant in the field of Food Safety, Quality, Environmental, Occupational health and safety, Social/ ethical compliance in food, packaging and allied industry. Manan Bajjaj is lead Instructor for USFDA FSMA for Human Food Course, BRCGS London Certified Professional and associated with FSSAI as NLRP.Manan Bajjaj is also a Numerology Expert and Coach and practicising Numerology for last 2+ years and helped many of his clients to get result by aligning the numbers and helped them in navigating the life through Numerology.For many years, Manan lived a life of a Management Consultant and gone through lots of good and bad patches with gains and losses. His hard work, resilience, enthusiasm, and conviction brought him a long way. However, he supported transformation at various clients and that is what keep him always confident and motivated.His past self-experiences and observations of the depth of pros and cons of being a consulting, motivated him to help industry and the people, this book "System Consulting Unlocked" is one more addition to those initiatives.His latest book " Navigate life through Numerology" is a guide for people who want to know how Number can impact the life decisions and their life implications. It is not about predictions rather it is about understand how we can nivaigate our life in a better way by knowing the number and then aligning our decisions accordingly.Manan has 20+ years of experience working with various clients. Since 2007, he has trained over 10,000 people and helped more than 200+ clients to achieve good results. His vision is to empower as many people as possible as good and great consultants and also equip as many organizations as possible, to have sustainable systems with long term objectives.He loves to listen to music, and spend time with his family. The purpose of his life is to make a sustainable impact on businesses and people and be known for his work.

Rishabv Gupta is a passionate investor, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of the stock market. He believes that “Wealth creation doesn’t start in the market — it starts in the mind.”Coming from a middle-class Indian family, he grew up hearing the same advice many of us did — “FD kar lo, safe rahega.” But his curiosity led him beyond traditional savings into the world of equities — a world that changed the way he thought about money, risk, and growth forever.Over the years, he has studied the journeys of India’s greatest multibagger companies — Titan, Infosys, Asian Paints, DMart — and distilled their success into simple, actionable insights that anyone can apply.Through The Stock Market 101, he aims to make investing approachable, not intimidating; relatable, not technical. His mission is to help everyday investors — students, professionals, entrepreneurs — understand that creating wealth is not about luck or tips, but about mindset, discipline, and patience.When he’s not analyzing charts or reading annual reports, you’ll find him mentoring young investors, writing about financial psychology, or sipping chai while thinking about his next big idea.

Marcus Santiago was born and raised in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 1979 before attending art school at The Kubert School in NJ, USA to learn how to become a professional illustrator with the aim of drawing comics and graphic novels.He moved to India and worked various office jobs while doing art on the side.He started “Useless Facts, Badly Drawn” on Instagram in 2019 as a way to keep practicing digital art regularly. With a following on Imgur.com and other places, his audience slowly grew until he felt enough comic strips had been drawn that he could finally release it as a physical book.At the heart of Useless Facts is the idea that all knowledge is interesting, fascinating and fun, even the “useless” trivia– in fact, especially the useless trivia!Marcus continues to live and work as an artist in New Delhi, India with his long suffering wife, motorcycle, and two rambunctious pet turtles who won’t stop nagging him for even more food.