From the Classroom to the Boardroom — Our Journey

Rays Training didn't start with a business plan. It started with a simple observation.

After more than 15 years of delivering corporate training programs across China and the Asia Pacific — for organizations like FranklinCovey, the NeuroLeadership Institute, and Berlitz — our founder Shiv Kumar kept noticing the same pattern. Companies would invest in training, participants would leave energized, and within weeks, most of the learning had faded. The programs were polished. The content was sound. But something was missing.

What was missing was context. Too many programs were designed in a boardroom far from the teams they were meant to serve. The case studies felt borrowed. The examples didn't resonate. And the cultural nuances that shape how people actually communicate, lead, and collaborate in this part of the world were treated as footnotes rather than foundations.

In 2018, Shiv founded Rays Training & Consulting in Beijing to do things differently.

Every program we deliver starts with listening — understanding not just what your team needs to learn, but how they work, what challenges they face, and what success looks like in their specific context. From there, we design workshops that feel relevant from the first minute: built around real scenarios, industry-specific examples, and the cultural dynamics that shape your team's day-to-day reality.

We are not a training factory. We don't sell catalogs of pre-packaged courses. We are a team of experienced trainers and coaches who believe that the most effective learning happens when it feels less like a classroom and more like a conversation that changes how you see your work.

Over the years, we have delivered hundreds of customized programs for multinational and local organizations across China and the broader Asia Pacific region — covering everything from business communication and executive coaching to cross-cultural collaboration between Chinese, Indian, and global teams.

Today, Rays Training continues to grow through the same approach that started it all: go the extra mile, stay close to the client, and never stop making learning more practical, more personal, and more lasting.