Committed to Care
TEAM
COMMUNICARE
Our Values
As an organization we will be caring in our relationships, progressive in our outlook, respectful in our interactions, empowering in providing the best services to children and caregivers, dynamic in our approach and bold in our dreams for the child.
- Our team is like a big, warm family, dedicated to providing personalized care and support for each child
- We believe in creating a nurturing and supportive environment where children can thrive and reach their full potential.
Kavitha George
Joji George
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FOUNDER
I'm Kavitha
Founder & Managing Director
Kavitha George is a strong advocate of being a force for impactful social change.
With over fifteen years of leadership experience across sectors, she is a training and operations specialist, entreprenuer and mum, who describes herself as a pragmatic dreamer, passionate about creating an inclusive and sustainable eco system for children with special needs.
In her role as Founder and Managing Director at Communicare Education LLP, she focuses on education and training programs to empower parents, educators and caregivers of children with special needs, with the aim of advocating inclusive education and awareness about early diagnoses and intervention through education.
She has been an evangelist of alternative therapies like Music, Dance, Art therapy, Somatic Therapy, Aquatic therapy and Play therapy for children with special needs, organizing various workshops and camps for special children.
In her avatar as Vice President at Hyson Restaurant Pvt Ltd. (Franchisee Partners of Yum International for KFC), Kavitha was the first woman manager to set up and lead the overall operations, sales and manage P&L for Yum! ground up in Chennai.
Here, she developed and implemented in-house training programs for the team of 170 employees and expanded the business from the existing three restaurants to seven restaurants in two years. She aso Initiated and implemented the concept of ‘branded service’ to optimize customer experience at KFC restaurants.
Prior to this, Kavitha worked with Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training both as Business Training manager and centre manager.
In her role, she streamlined operations and processes across their centers all over the country.
Kavitha has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and is also a certified Personal Counsellor (Based on Robert Carkhuff Model of Counseling) and also a certified School Counselor and Adolescent Counselor.
She has numerous certifications which include Diploma in Learning Disorder Management and Child Psychology (College of Allied Educators, Singapore), Certification in HANDLE Introductory Courses, Level 1 & 2 conducted by Compassionate Therapy & Training Centre (Australia) conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Certificate for participating in the Glen Doman One week Intensive Training Program for Parents conducted by IAHP in Delhi (What To Do program for a Brain Injured Child),Certification in Adapted Yoga (Spiral Praxis, Toronto),Certification Course on Autism and Certification in Autism Movement Therapy, Level II
Kavitha is passionate about dance and has formal training in Bharatanatyam and Mohiniattam styles of classical dancing, Latin American dance and Indian folk. She lives in Mumbai with her husband and three children.
I'm Joji
Co-Founder and Head of Strategy
Joji is a seasoned business leader with over 15 years of experience in media, broadcasting, sports, brand management, entertainment, digital and live events, globally.
He has worked with companies like MTV Asia, Astro, Yahoo!, Percept Sports & Entertainment, Sony Music, UBM (Informa Markets) and WWE India, before being a consultant to leading media entities in developing new revenue models.
As head of WWE India, he fast tracked the growth of WWE in the Indian subcontinent through live events, television shows, digital and social media, WWE Network and consumer products business to make WWE the preferred choice of sports entertainment for Indian youth.
As Managing Director of UBM India, Joji was responsible for building a powerful business intelligent B2B events and digital company, comprising of exhibitions, conferences, business intelligence, digital media and publications. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive Officer of Percept Sports and Entertainment, India’s leading Sports and Entertainment Company. He led the programme and management of the Indian International Film Festival, in association with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Joji was the Executive Vice President at the Global Brand Forum, a global strategic advisory, specializing in positioning and profiling countries, governments and corporations using brands as a powerful tool for organizational transformation.
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CO-FOUNDER
Joji was formerly the Brand Director and Programme Marketing Director at Astro (Astro All Asia Networks Plc), the region’s leading integrated cross media company based in Malaysia and has worked with Yahoo! South East Asia and with MTV Asia LDC Singaporas Director, Business Development (Licensing & Merchandising).
He started his corporate career with Sony Music in India and was part of the core team that set up the company. He was executive producer of two of the highest selling albums for Sony Music.
Joji graduated with a distinction in economics. He is a Fellow of Wharton Business School University of Pennsylvania and has an AMP (accelerated development program) from the University of Chicago- Booth School of Business.
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ADVISOR
I'm Dr. Prathibha Karanth
Director at The Com DEALL Trust
Dr. Karanth is a Speech Language Pathologist with over 40 years of experience in several national institutions in India.
She has worked extensively in the areas of adult aphasias, acquired dyslexias, learning disability, specific language impairment and communication in autism/pervasive developmental disorders. Her work covers the clinical aspects as well as research and training.
Dr. Karanth is the Founder Director and Managing Trustee of The Communication DEALL Trust, our resource partner.
Dr. Karanth has written 3 books over 70 peer research and scientific papers and has presented over 250 papers at various seminars and conferences around the world
Dr. Nivedita Joshi Dr. Ingla
Meet our founders
Kavitha George
Founder and Managing Director
Kavitha George is a strong advocate of being a force for impactful social change.
She is a training and operations specialist, who is passionate about creating an inclusive eco- system for children with special needs.
She focuses on education and training programs for parents, educators and caregivers of children with special needs.
She is also certified Personal Counselor. She has numerous certifications which include Diploma in Learning Disorder Management and Child Psychology (Singapore), Certification in HANDLE Course,(Australia), Certification in Adapted Yoga (Canada), International Certification Course on Autism and Certification in Autism Movement Therapy.
She currently lives in Mumbai with her husband and three children, of which, one is a special child.
JOJI GEORGE
Co Founder and Chief Strategy Officer.
Joji is a seasoned business leader with over 18 years of experience in Media & Entertainment, Broadcasting, Sports, Branding, management, Digital and Live events, globally.
He has worked at senior leadership positions with companies like Sony Music, MTV Asia (SEA) Astro (Malaysia), Yahoo! (SEA), Global Brand Forum (SEA), Percept Sports & Entertainment, UBM (Informa Markets) and World Wrestling Entertainment, India. The last three stints were heading these companies in India.
He is passionate about diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is a proud Dad of a special child.
Joji is a Fellow of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and has an AMP ( Accelerated Development Program) from the University of Chicago- Booth School of Business.
