Dr. Akshay Kumar

Akshay is a Director and Senior Consultant at Ask Insights. Akshay has also been Tenured Senior Lecturer and Module Leader at The University of East London, UK. A PhD in Clinical and Positive Psychology, he has also been an academic faculty member and head of Self-Growth at IIIT Delhi University (A State University), where he received University Teaching Faculty Excellence Awards 5 years in a row. He currently is also a visiting professor at The Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women.

Akshay is a Senior fellow of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR, Government of India), and has been involved in various International research projects. He has been awarded certificates of research by Defense and Research Development Organization (DRDO, Ministry of Defense), Indian Army, Indian Council of Medical Research and more. He has also been appointed as the Honorary Psychologist and Executive Member of the Disciplinary Committee of Haryana Police (Indian Police Service).

He is an Expert Consultant at Centre for Global Inclusion, USA – Working of 2021 Version of Global Diversity Equity Inclusion Benchmarks (GDEIB). He has also presented numerous keynote research papers in international conferences, including – The American Psychological Association (APA) Conference, San Francisco; International Congress of Psychology, Prague (ICP); Middlesex University Business Conference, London; United Nations Conference, New Delhi; Forum on Work Place Inclusion, University of Saint Thomas, Minneapolis, USA; National Academy of Psychology, New Delhi; American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham); Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)etc.

He has several accepted and published Journal Publications in International Journals like Nature; IE EE Xplore, Harvard Business Review, Coaching Perspectives, International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences; Business World; Delhi Psychiatry Journal; Journal of Positive Psychology; Journal of Psychology and more.

Akshay is also a member editor of The Delhi Psychiatry Journal (A World Health Organization indexed journal).

Akshay has been awarded the Emergent Psychologist Award by The National Academy of Psychology and he has also been listed as the one of the top 10 Psychologists of India by LBB India. He is a Licenced Clinical Psychologist, trained in several modalities like CBT, Clinical Hypnosis, Neuro- Linguistic Programming, Mindfulness, Positive Psychological Interventions and Clinical Interventions. Akshay is one of the pioneering professors to bring Positive Psychology and The Science of Happiness to Indian Universities, an extremely popular module.

He is a consultant, coach and trainer to leading organizations. Akshay and the Ask Insights team have trained over 40,000 people in the space of D&I which is the largest in India, among the highest in the world. Some of those organizations are Google, Amazon, NatWest, PepsiCo, Coca- Cola, SAP, Vodafone, Walmart, Microsoft, Concentrix, American Express, Aditya Birla, Yum Foods, Ernst&Young, TATA, Cairn-Vedanta, PwC, State Bank of India, Diageo, Flipkart, Reckitt- Benckiser, Thales, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, Intel, IBM, Lenovo and more.