
The founders
A shared journey.
A simple purpose.
Meet Swapnil and Ruchira Kamat, the founders of India Meditation Center.

Swapnil Kamat
Entrepreneur
Best-Selling Author
Teacher
Swapnil Kamat is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and teacher who has spent close to two decades helping people learn, grow and make meaningful changes in the way they work and live. Over the years, he has established himself as one of India’s leading learning practitioners, having personally taught and facilitated programs for thousands of professionals and senior business leaders.
In 2008, Swapnil founded Work Better Training, which he grew into one of India’s leading corporate training companies. Work Better went on to train over 1 million professionals across 600+ organisations and 90+ cities in Asia, before being acquired by edtech company upGrad in 2021.
Over his career, Swapnil has designed and facilitated programs across leadership, personal effectiveness and human development for professionals and leaders from some of the world’s leading organisations, including BCG, Deloitte, HDFC Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, Coca-Cola, Sony and DHL. His work has also taken him to some of India’s leading educational and business institutions, including ISB, IIM, IIT, CII and the ET Young Leaders Forum.
He is also the author of The Wisdom of Balance and The Wisdom of Why. The Wisdom of Balance became an Amazon eBook bestseller and reached No. 1 in the Happiness and Personal Development categories.
Swapnil’s approach to teaching has always been built around one simple idea:
Take powerful ideas, remove unnecessary complexity, and make them practical enough to use in everyday life.
It is this philosophy that he now brings to his work at India Meditation Center — making meditation and timeless wisdom simple, practical and relevant to modern life.
Honours & Recognition
- Featured twice on the prestigious CNBC TV18 show, Young Turks, as one of India’s young achievers.
- Named as one of 40 Education Evangelists of India by Forbes Magazine.
- Authored over 50 columns for publications including The Economic Times, Business World, The Hindu, Huffington Post, and more.
- Led Work Better to be recognized as one of the four most promising start-ups to look out for by The Economic Times.
- Spearheaded Work Better’s recognition as Consultant of the Year in L&D for two consecutive years by leading business magazines.
- Labelled a Catalyst for Change by The Times of India for his contributions to corporate training.
AUTHOR & TEACHER
Books by Swapnil Kamat.

Ruchira Kamat
Entrepreneur · Business Builder · Yoga & Meditation Practitioner
Ruchira Kamat has spent over two decades building businesses from the ground up. She began her career in advertising and media, working with ELLE DECOR, before co-founding the online travel venture trip2Goa.com.
After exiting trip2goa.com in 2008, Ruchira co-founded Work Better Training with Swapnil. She played a central role in building the business, leading client relationships, business development and the customer experience as it grew into one of India’s leading corporate training companies. Before its acquisition by upGrad in 2021, Work Better trained over 1 million professionals across 600+ organisations and 90+ cities in Asia.
Yoga and meditation have been part of Ruchira’s life for more than 25 years. As an entrepreneur and mother, she knows that making time for yourself can be difficult when work and family both need your attention. Her own practice has shown her that meditation can fit into a full life and help bring greater steadiness to it.
At India Meditation Center, Ruchira brings together her experience of building businesses and communities with a long-standing personal commitment to wellbeing. She wants to help make meditation something people can begin easily, practise together and carry into their everyday lives.
Media & Recognition
Ruchira’s entrepreneurial journey has been featured in The Economic Times, The Times of India, Business Today and Businessworld, among other publications.
A note from Swapnil
For many years,
I never meditated.
It wasn't because I didn't believe in meditation. I simply thought it was complicated. I imagined it required a certain kind of person, a certain amount of time, or an understanding that I didn't have.
A series of coincidences eventually led me to learn how to meditate. And what surprised me most was how simple it could actually be.
I began practising meditation more seriously during the COVID period — at a time when my business was going through one of its most difficult phases and there was considerable uncertainty and personal tragedy around me.
Meditation didn't make those problems disappear. But it helped me deal with them differently. It gave me moments of calm when life felt chaotic, helped me step back from my thoughts, and brought a greater sense of perspective and balance.
I have continued practising meditation in different forms ever since.
And somewhere along that journey, a simple thought stayed with me:
If meditation could be made simple enough for someone like me to understand and practise, perhaps it could be made simple for millions of others too.
That thought eventually became India Meditation Center.
Swapnil Kamat
Our Experience
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Agriculture
- East West Seed
- Golden Agri
- Solis
- Sonalika
Automobile
- Ashok Leyland
- BMW
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- Tata Motors
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- Volvo Eicher
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Banking
- AU Small Finance Bank
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- Yes Bank
Chemicals
- Hicare
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Conglomerates
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- Essar Group
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Consumer Durables
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E-Commerce
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Education
- Atharva College of Engineering
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- Gujarat Gas
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Event Management
- 70 EMG
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- Maximum Mice & Media Solutions Pvt Ltd
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Engineering
- Atlas Copco
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- Thermax
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- AB InBev
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- UB Group
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- BNP Paribas India Solutions
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- Fullerton India
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- HDFC Limited
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- National Payments Corporation of India
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- Shriram Housing Finance
- SMERA
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- Tata Motors Finance
- Ticker Plant
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FMCG
- Britannia
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- Abbott
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- Cox & Kings
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Insurance
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Logistics
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Management & Advisory Services
- Alvarez & Marsal
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- Dalberg
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Manufacturing
- ACG Inspection
- Aditya Birla Ultratech
- Alfa the UV Group
- ALS
- Anchor Electrical
- Apollo Tyres
- Armstrong
- Ashish Life Science
- Bajaj Electricals
- Bharat Udyog Limited
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- Excel Crop Care Limited
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- Widex
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- 9XM
- Cheers Interactive
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- Jagran
- Messe Munchen India
- Nagra Kudelski Group
- Perfect Relations
- PVR Cinemas
- QED Communications
- Sony Pictures
- Tata Sky
- Turner International
- UBM
- Viacom 18
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- Axis Mutual Fund
- Baroda Pioneer Asset Management Company
- Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund
- Canara Robeco
- Franklin Templeton Investments
- Funds India
- Kotak Mahindra Mutual Funds
- Quantum Mutual Fund
- UTI Mutual Fund
Other Organisations
- Altor Executive Search
- Diamond Producers Association
- Embassy & Consulates of Belgium in India
- ISKCON Mayapur
- Sodexo
- The Swiss Laundry
- US Consulate in India
- Veolia Transdev
Real Estate
- Aakriti
- Alliance Group
- Ashiana Housing
- Godrej Properties
- JLL
- K Hemani
- Kalpataru
- Omkar Realtors
- Prestige Constructions
- Sanghvi Group
- TAIN
- Tata Realty
- West Pioneer
Retail
- Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail
- Anita Dongre
- Being Human
- Bestseller
- Creative Lifestyle (109F)
- Croma
- D’Décor
- Fabindia
- Forevermark
- HNI India
- Manyavar
- Metro Shoes
- Monarch
- Pantaloons
- Relaxo Footwear
- Reliance Retail
- Shoppers Stop
- Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri
- The Mobile Store
- Titan
- Trent Limited
- Tresmode
- Van Heusen
- XYXX
Shipping
- CSAV
- Mazgaon Dock Limited
Telecom
- ACT Fibernet
- Buongiorno
- Tata Communications
- Vodafone
- WNS
Textile
- Bombay Dyeing
- Grasim Industries
- Impulse India
- Jockey
- Raymond
- Welspun India
Testimonials
Swapnil effortlessly connected with his target audience. He achieved this by creating a feeling of “let’s work this out together”, rather than a “this is your problem, here’s the solution, now go implement it”. He is down-to-earth and approachable, keeping his communication style simple, real and pragmatic. He uses an interesting combination of intellectual stimulation, situational responses, in-class assessment and practical review to raise self-awareness and bring about a lasting change in the way we think/act.
Swapnil was able to easily connect and make us realise some fairly basic yet powerful things about ourselves, which, if tweaked just a little bit, could yield big results. Most of us retained and implemented the learnings from his session with very good results, not only for our own productivity and effectiveness, but for our hotel as a whole.
Swapnil has conducted several programs for the Mahindra Group in his inimitable high impact style and we are very happy with the results. He believes in cutting through the clutter and getting straight to what is really required to achieve breakthrough results. His workshops are a great blend of theory, practice, examples, exercises, reflections and action planning. The Work Better team ably supports him with strong follow-up activities to ensure retention and practice of the learning. I would strongly recommend that companies looking for a robust L&D intervention, partner with Swapnil and his team.
Swapnil has understood our business, our needs and the profile of our employees perfectly. Every program that he conducts is practical with ready to use solutions that participants have found extremely useful. Not only in facilitating the workshop but also in pre program understanding and post program support, he exudes a high degree of enthusiasm and energy. His passion for his work and his genuine interest in addressing participant’s challenges is evident. It has been an extremely enriching experience to work with Swapnil & Work Better Training.
Swapnil has a natural flair for training and ensures participant interaction during his sessions. The most important thing, I believe, is he brings credibility & comfort to the participants while discussing any topic. I have found my association with Work Better extremely fruitful and enlightening. There is an edge to partnering with Work Better Team for their simple yet innovative ways in which learning is made sustainable by the team; be it through the post-training snippets or sharing interesting articles.
Addressing Swapnil as a ‘trainer’ might not be justified – for he is a professional; who through his workshops, chariots each member in the audience towards self-realization.
He is one with and among his audience, on the similar platform: thus making one categorically understand that being a better individual is no uphill task but one must be willing, be aware of the tiniest of factors involved: be ready to accept and overcome shortcomings.
Using no great management ideals, Swapnil has expertise in conveying his message in a straight manner and simple to comprehend and imbibe – thus reaching out without imposing his thoughts - he takes you to a point of finesse and leaves it for you to decide your course.
I would also like to mention here that he is not alone but has the support and motivation from his entire team.
Our team stood to benefit immensely more so because he did not only preach but practised the same – which was evident in our association with him and his team right from the beginning.
Swapnil’s training workshops are creative, full of practical ideas and connect instantly with the audience. The post training reach out to the participants is also exemplary and helps them think and apply learning from the workshop to their jobs easily.
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