Raj Gavurla

Raj Gavurla came to America when he was four and a half with his mom and sister on a flight from Hyderabad, India to New York City. The first words he heard in America were dad saying, “Raju I bought candy!” Dad had a Hershey’s bar. A Hershey’s bar is still his favorite; however, he likes it with almonds. The next day they drove to Greenville, SC.

Since 2004 Raj has been helping people achieve their dreams and clear goals. He’s been in front of so many groups with people from different industries including individuals and their family, many types of organizations, many types of teams including owners, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, teachers, sports players/athletes, campers, patients, students, older population, community, schools representing the full spectrum of age (older generations to kids).

He has had success and adversity and responded living his greatest dreams, goals (self-empowerment), and entrepreneurial vigor to help individuals and their family, businesses, communities, and schools. Expert Speaking Professionally Raj has helped and continues to help inspire, educate, motivate, instruct, a little funny, passionate, and invigorate individuals, organizations, and teams to create and experience human performance/life development and breakthroughs; human resource development interconnected with your life, business, and sports (championships).

Whether you are nurturing, developing, building, and growing to make development and breakthroughs, Raj’s excelling expertise (experience, knowledge, skills), examples, and authentic stories (inspiring, educating, motivating, instructional, a little funny, passionate, invigorating) equip organizations to consistently perform creating and experiencing human performance/life development and breakthroughs; human resource development.

“Achieve the best, win, outcomes (the best, better results) interconnected with your life, business, championships, and no one loses unless there is violence (picking on, taunting, or physical) sustainably raising the standard of living.” – Raj Gavurla

Trade, business, community, healthcare associations, corporations, schools, sports teams, and government use his services, programs, and products. He applies his practical leading edge human performance/life development and breakthroughs research and performance process, Win Forward Human Performance/Life Pyramid, towards your organization’s success.

Author Raj is the author of seven publications Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Human Performance/Life Tools (workbooks), Innovation & Entrepreneurial Thinking Tools (manual), Winning at Entrepreneurship (book), is interviewed by the media, and has written expert articles.

Coaching, Training/Learning Sessions/Clinics, & Consulting In addition to speaking, he coaches, trains, consults, and advises entrepreneurs, small business owners, professionals, coaches and sports players/athletes (professional, semi-pro, college, high school, youth, recreational) with his Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Human Performance/Life Tools program. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies, mid-size, and small businesses.

Sports Before creating his own mental human performance/life services and programs, Raj learned from some of the best mental coaches, is a trained mental toughness coach, trainer, consultant, National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) mental toughness, Champions Mental Edge, and US Center for SafeSport trained. Raj helps and works with coaches and players/athletes (professional, semi-pro, student/college, student/high school, student/youth, recreational). He applies six years of practical leading edge research and performance process, Win Forward Human Performance/Life Pyramid, Thrive With A Win Forward Human Performance/Life Foundation Learning, Educating, Training Module, “The Zone & The Zone Effect” (optimal) performance mentality mastery tools.

Education & Training Raj is an avid reader and holds his Masters in Human Resource Development (Phi Beta Kappa, 4.0) and a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University, has worked as an adjunct professor, consultant, engineer, model, actor, and referee. He is involved in leadership, education, and healthcare initiatives. He is a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Senior Certified Professional, is achieving his experiential Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) from the National Speakers Association, and is an alumni of Leadership Greenville.

Giving Community Service He currently mentors a fifth grader and mentored a fifth, third and fourth graders at Pelham Rd., All Stars, is a Hall of Fame mental health facilitator, and is a very strong mental health advocate. He serves on a community board, state planning council, and other community organizations. He has a niece and two nephews that amaze him (my “The Zone Effect” moments).