CEO & Chief Transformation Officer
Described as “personable, insightful, effective, motivational and results-oriented” by his clients, Rajesh (Raj) Tedla offers wisdom, experience, and proven processes to move executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals to heightened awareness and effectiveness. As a coach and mentor, Raj respectfully provokes and partners with his clients to help each define and develop authentic, strengths-based success to transform the business. Since 1990, he has coached and trained more than 11,700 senior leaders and executives from GE, Diageo Group of Companies, DELL, IBM, Microsoft, AI Engineers, Sun Microsystems, Bank of America, Accenture, Deloitte, United Health, Pepsi, Avon, KPMG, Laticrete, iTi, ITC, Ash Brokerage, MedPro, Princeton Insurance, Jersey City Medical Center and manymore. Raj is an international leader who has traveled extensively to train executivesand managers in 38 countries.
CEO and Chief Transformation Officer of VRT Management Group, LLC, Raj’s expertise include leadership and organizational development, executive coaching, marketing, six sigma, Lean, and customer insights. He has researched, written, trained, and consulted extensively within these disciplines, as well as designed several high-impact programs, including:
- EGOS: Entrepreneur Growth Operating System™ - A unique program designed to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs and businesses who successfully transform their people and businesses for profitable growth.
- Executive Leadership Team (ELT) Coaching: A critical coaching program to transform CEO/Business owner and his/her C Suite executive leaders reach their full growth potential with tangible results and measurable effectiveness.
- Executive Excellence Coaching: a critical coaching program to transform C Suite, executive leaders, and managers reach their fullpotential one leader at a time.
- Corporate Growth Alliance: a “next-generation” corporate leadership development program.
- Business Growth Alliance: a transformation process to help entrepreneurs achieve break through results.
- Integrated Problem Solving: an innovative problem-solving method to help companies deliver faster, more successful businessresults.
- LSS 4.0™: a dynamic methodology to help companies harness the power of emotional intelligence and analytical tools to solve complex business problems.
- Leadership Development for Human Resources (LDHR): an innovative program to develop future strategic HR leaders
Raj’s passion and focus are on transforming small and medium businesses and their executives who want to take their business and their lives to the next level and has been actively working with business leaders and clients across 28 countries. His current focus areas are:
An exclusive program to help start-ups and micro-businesses with less than four employees.
An exclusive program to help small businesses with 34 employees or less.
An exclusive program to help small and medium businesses with employees between 35 and 500.
Raj, a certified business coach and business transformation consultant brings over 32 years of outstanding experience and expertise to everything he does. Before founding VRT Management Group, LLC, he was senior vice president, marketing/growth leader, Capital Markets, GE Capital. In his twelve-plus years with GE, he created, led, and implemented numerous initiatives that improved processes worldwide and enabled new revenue measuring in the millions.
- GE / General Electric Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Master Black Belt & Quality Leader
- John Maxwell Certified Coach, Trainer, and Speaker
- Certified Professional Behaviors Analyst
- Certified Professional Values Analyst
- Certified Professional TriMetrix Analyst
- Certified Professional DNA Analyst
- Certified Emotional Quotient Analyst
- Certified facilitator for Coach Clinic
- Certified facilitator for Career Coaching
- Train-the-trainer Certifications include:
- Lean and Six Sigma
- Change Acceleration Process
- Innovative Problem Solving
- Net Promoter Score and Voice of The Customer
- Facilitation Skills
- Strategic Marketing
- Job Benchmarking: “Hiring for Fit” solutions
- Behavioral Interviewing
- Job Benchmarking
- MBA Management University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
- MS Industrial Technology Alabama A&M University
- BE Mechanical Engineering Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
- Diploma in Human Relations and Technical Speaking Dale Carnegie Institute
- Core Essentials Coaching Program™ Coach University
- The Advanced Corporate Coaching Program™ Corporate Coach University
- Attended Several Management and Leadership Training Programs GE Corporate University