Dr. Srikumar Rao

“Not a day passes without my profitably applying some lesson I learned”

Taking CPM was the best choice I ever made…took on a leadership role that my MBA enabled me to apply for but CPM enabled me to do…not a day passes without my profitably applying some lesson I learned from CPM…children apparently suffer less from having parents work away from home than from parents who are not present when they are home…CPM is helping me provide that presence…feel as if I have only just started this journey



Belinda Ioni Rasmussen

United States

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