C. SURIYAPRAKASH, PhD, Professor of Human Resources, Jansons School of Business, has International Accreditation as Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA) in the organisational field. He is a Master Practitioner in NLP. He has over two decades experience in the industry, teaching MBAs, and industrial training, counselling and consultancy. His specialties include Organisational Behaviour, Applied Behavioural Sciences and Human Relations Development. His current research interests are on personality and leadership studies from the Indian philosophical perspective. He is a faculty of Asha Counselling and Training Services, Coimbatore and Former-President of TA Study Circle of Coimbatore. He was the Co-chair of Training Standards Committee, Training and Certification Council of Transactional Analysts, USA (T&CC). He was Vice-President-Operations (2007-2009) and Vice-President, Research and Innovation (2010-2012) of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA). Currently he is President of the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) and Secretary, South Asian Association of Transactional Analysts (SAATA).

Suriyaprakash co-founded Relations Institute of Development, in 1995, to provide Organisational Development Training, Coaching and Counselling. He has trained thousands of managers, executives, factory employees, teachers, students, social workers and parents and logged over 10000 hours of teaching, training and consultancy using TA and allied models. His specialty in organisational development, with TA includes, creating awareness, leadership, team building, problem-solving, conflict resolution, group dynamics, communication and motivation.

He is part of a team facilitating groups of professionals in Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hosur, Mumbai, Delhi, and Calicut preparing managers, trainers, consultants and counsellors for the international accreditation as Certified Transactional Analysts in the field of Organisational Development and Counselling. He has also trained in Bangladesh and Ukraine. He regularly participates and presents papers in national and international conferences.

Recipient of the Muriel James Living Principles Award 2013 of the ITAA, his passion includes study in the fields of personality, leadership and Indian philosophy.