Santosh
Santosh, Founder of Soul Probe, holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Masters in Environmental Engineering) from the French Grande École, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, part of Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT). He studied at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid during his Masters’ programme. Santosh speaks English, French, Spanish and Hindi fluently. He is able to coach and facilitate workshops in these languages.
Santosh’s journey of self-discovery started from the dark night of his soul at the onset of his adult working life. For much of his twenties, he was on a personal voyage and mission to find answers and healing.
What came out of that search besides his own healing was the realization of his soul-felt mission to promote healing and flowering of human potential.
For teams and organizations, he nurtures environments, spaces and cultures for people to bring their whole, vulnerable and most authentic selves to have the conversations they wish they had but never felt safe to.
For society at large, he makes sense of fault-lines to heal divisions and polarization. He has facilitated conversations on inclusion, equity, race, religion, gender, class, digital access and mental health. He holds safe spaces for minority, marginalized and invisible groups to process their wounds and traumas and reclaim their dignity and agency.
An ex-strategist at the Singapore Economic Development Board (SEDB), Santosh teaches Innovation and gives talks on the future of economics and economic development; democracy; and public policy. He is involved in neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed community development. Santosh is passionate about the relevance of ancient, indigenous wisdom in modern life.
Here is a brief timeline of his professional
experiences and accomplishments.
As an organisational culture and innovation coach, Santosh blends ancient and indigenous wisdom to reimagine the way we look at humanity’s most pressing and challenging problems.
- As a gardener, Santosh nurtures corporate cultures for individuals, teams and organizations to bring their whole and authentic selves to life and work.
- As a mid-husband, Santosh’s life passion is in helping people give birth to their untapped purpose and potential.
A diverse and abbreviated list of organizations Santosh has worked with/in can be found here.
Santosh, a facilitator of wellbeing and personal growth, offers the following services to organizations, communities, and underprivileged segments of society:
- Life Review Retreats: Santosh helps individuals detach from the compulsive nature of the modern digital world. He guides them to discern the quiet, silent voice within, amidst the constant mental chatter. Through this process, individuals craft their life's mission and vision.
- Wellbeing Workshops and Retreats: Santosh facilitates these workshops, utilizing a trauma-informed approach to catalyze healing from within. As a yoga, breathwork, meditation, and mindfulness facilitator, Santosh supports both individuals and organizations on their path of self-discovery, inner work, and healing.
Santosh's spiritual journey began in 2012 when he read Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now." Since then, he has dedicated over 5000 hours to meditation and 1000 hours to yoga practice.
Santosh helped to start and nurture OPPi, a civic tech platform that channels the voices of citizens to key decision makers that could potentially usher in a democracy that is participatory and consensus-based.
He is passionate about healing the growing divisions and polarisation in our society. On his own, he developed an entirely new discipline, Social Seismography, that helps to facilitate difficult conversations with data.
As an adjunct teaching mentor, Santosh facilitates conversations on race, religion and gender at the Public Policy Taskforce programme at Singapore Management University.
From 2020 to 2022, Santosh has facilitated crucial conversations nationally on race, religion, gender, universal digital access and mental health among numerous other social issues. Refer to the following page for a list of notable projects:
Santosh helps leaders and organizations systematically design and develop holistic and integrated innovation engines and processes.
Santosh teaches Innovation at Murdoch University’s Executive Education Programme. He endeavours to be a bilateral bridge between academia and industry,
Santosh is fully conversant with all strategy and innovation frameworks such as Business Model Canvas, Scenario Planning, Dual Transformation, Jobs-to-be-done, Design Thinking, Blue Ocean Strategy, Google Sprint.
He guides his clients through an elegant process to frame the problem and select the right tool to solve the problem.
During his 5 years as a Futurist at the Singapore government’s Economic Development Board (SEDB), Santosh sensitized his senior management to future global economic trends and insights. With his deep foresight of how the world’s economy would change in the next 10-20 years, he was challenged to work on complex socio-economic issues such as jobs polarization and jobless recovery, circular economy and the future of work.
Santosh played a key role in facilitating strategic deep dives of Singapore’s Biomedical Sciences and Electronics industries as well as Singapore’s Networks and Connectivity Strategy.
As a Strategist, he applied economic complexity, network theory, and platform thinking to fundamentally rethink Singapore’s future economic development strategy.
The first P2P Lending startup, Full Circle, in Spain, led to the founding of Funding Societies Pte. Ltd, South East Asia’s leading P2P Lending company by his friend, Kelvin Teo.
The second startup was a P2P Forex and International Remittance startup. The startup was incubated at the Institut Mines-Télécom & École des Mines. TrustFer’s mission was to open access to interbank exchange rates to individuals and companies by minimizing cross-border transfers and re-routing them through local transfers.
Santosh was awarded the Singapore Economic Development Board (SEDB) scholarship by the Singapore government in 2006 to study in France and Spain. He holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Masters in Environmental Engineering) from the prestigious French Grande École, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, part of Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT).
Santosh specialized in Resource Conversion and Energy Efficiency (RC2E) during his postgraduate programme studies. The experience of learning how to design and develop wind and solar farms laid the foundations for complex systems thinking and dynamics.
Prior to his entry in a Grande École, Santosh underwent 2 challenging years of Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (CPGE) at Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris, France from 2008 to 20010.
Santosh studied Advanced Mathematics for 1 year at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain from 2011 to 2012