With over fifteen years of #leadership experience across sectors, Kavitha is a training and operationsspecialist, #entrepreneur and #mother.She describes herself as a pragmatic dreamer, passionate aboutcreating an inclusive and sustainable eco system for #children with #specialneeds.In her role as Founder and Managing Director at Communicare Education and Training, she focuses on#earlyintervention for #children with #specialneeds and #disabilities through pre schools, conducting #training programs to #empower #parents, #educators and #caregivers of #children with#specialneeds, using the best #global minds and practises.A trained #dancer, she has been an evangelist of #alternativetherapies like #Music, #Dance, #Art, #SomaticTherapy, #Aquatictherapy and #Playtherapy for children with #specialneeds, organising various #workshops and #training for #corporations and #schools.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, expansion, sales and P&L ground up in Chennai, India.Here, she developed and implemented in-house training programs for a team of 170 employees and expanded the business to seven restaurants in two years.Kavitha has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and is also a certified PersonalCounsellor (Based on Robert Carkhuff Model of Counseling) and also a certified School Counsellorand Adolescent Counselor.She has numerous certifications which include Diploma in Learning Disorder Management and ChildPsychology (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 TrainingProgram for Parents conducted by IAHP in Delhi (What To Do program for a Brain InjuredChild),Certification in Adapted Yoga (Spiral Praxis, Toronto),Certification Course on Autism andCertification in Autism Movement Therapy, Level IIKavitha is passionate about dance and has formal training in Bharatanatyam and Mohiniattam stylesof classical dancing, Latin American dance and Indian folk. She lives in Mumbai with her husband andthree children.