has a career spanning over 30 years of versatile experience in key leadership positions with leading luxury hospitality brands, such as Bharat Hotels (The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group), ITC Hotels, Costa Coffee, The Park to name a few. His exemplary leadership characterised by excellent people management & team building skills drives the result-oriented, passionate and ethical work culture that he inculcates.
In his current role as Vice President Operations at The Lalit, he is responsible for ensuring consistency in hotel operations and high level of service excellence, coaching and managing diverse multi-cultural teams with large scale operations across 14 hotels within India and 1 in London in sync with established company standards and customer expectations. He also provides strategic and operational leadership to all hotels in developing, operating and maintaining hospitality driven guest experience. Dr. Rocky Kalra is responsible for the continued success of The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group through his strategic planning, ensuring margin enhancement and overall operational excellence.
Dr. Kalra has completed his Bachelor’s from Delhi University in Commerce and Business. He has also completed Business Administration and Management degree from Cornell University and is a Doctorate in Philosophy from Ecole Superieure Robert de Sorbon.
He is a certified Yoga teacher and a Psychologist. He has been doing personal and professional counselling for more than two decades to help his clients in dealing with their personal and interpersonal conflicts. He helps them improve their understanding of themselves, including their pattern of thoughts, behaviours, feelings and the ways in which these may have been problematic in their lives. Dr. Kalra specialises in various types of counselling that includes cognitive, Psychotherapy, mental health, personal, professional and interpersonal counselling.
Dr. Kalra, lays emphasis on his client’s unique life experiences, goals and works on a custom plan for their coaching and personal development, helping them improve, achieve results and free from issues and challenges through psychological strategies. He also brings a healing presence to his work through compassion, empathy, deep listening, communication skills, positive psychology, mindfulness and meditation.
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