Dr. O P Goel
Dr O P Goel is the former head of Bosch India Foundation, CSR and Skill Development. He did his PhD in the area of Training and Development. During his 30 years of career in the corporate sector, he worked in different senior business management roles.
He headed Bosch Vocational Centre at Bangalore, until his superannuation in April’22, which runs the German apprenticeship training model for last 60 years. He also chaired various skill committees set up by CII and other industry associations.
Dr Goel has set up and headed Bosch Sales Training Academy for Asia Pacific region to train Bosch sales managers from countries like Japan, Australia, Korea, China, Singapore and Malaysia. A well-travelled person across the globe, he is specially passionate about Training of the trainers and the employment- linked upskilling of the youth.
BRIDGE, a short-term skilling program for school drop-out youth is the brainchild of Dr Goel. Under this program, 50,000 less educated, underprivileged youth have been trained and employed through more than 725 BRIDGE centres across the country.
Dr Goel was given a special privilege to brief Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi and Dr Angela Merkel, German chancellor about Bosch’s skilling initiatives and his scale up plans in the interest of nation building when both of them together visited the centre, then headed by him.
Dr Goel is a well-recognised Skilling Expert in India and is currently a visiting faculty in IIM Nagpur, Adviser to Bosch India, as well as the National Skill Development Corporation, which works under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt of India.