Mr. Sunil Chandak is an international award-winning trainer, mentor, motivator, and educator in the field of Entrepreneurship. He has personally guided over 68,000 individuals through various training programs and helped them to start a business over the last 35 years. He has influenced over a million aspirants directly through various workshops, events, public shows, boot camps, TV shows, radio channels, YouTube channels, interviews, and guest appearances.
One of his quotes is “Passion & Innovation blended with a positive attitude can take you to a new altitude.” and he has followed it throughout his life. His passion for helping people start their entrepreneurial journey and constantly innovating his training modules with the latest market trends has helped ‘Udyogwardhini’ being recognized globally, which he founded in 1995.
His mission is to reach out to millions of people and change their lives and make them self sustainable in life. His life journey is truly an inspiration to all the youth who believe in themselves and want to be a “Trend- Setter” rather than a follower.
Mr. Chandak originally hails from Nandgaon. His family ran a traditional grocery store. Sunil managed the grocery store and at the same time educated himself up to B.Com. His father wished for him to manage the family’s traditional business. But Sunil wanted to do something different. He felt that along with himself, he should generate employment for others too. Accidently, everything happened as he desired. This story is quite interesting.
Mr. Chandak sought admission for MBA at BYK College. As part of the management course, he had to attend a seminar on entrepreneurship in Mumbai. The then director of MITCON, Mr. Ranade, addressed the seminar which left Chandak deeply inspired. He directly met Mr. Ranade and asked him, “Sir, I want to be an entrepreneur, what should I do?” Ranade told him to join the entrepreneur training program of MITCON. As a part of his MBA, Chandak had prepared a Project on the theme ‘What is the policy of the government on marketing’? Hence while appearing for an interview at MITCON, he answered all the questions with ease and he got the job easily.
Initially, Chandak was sent by MITCON to Ahmedabad for Six – month training. Under the program, he had to deliver a lecture on a subject every week. Since Chandak was a man of few words, he encountered difficulty while lecturing. When his boss came to know, they summoned him and asked the reason. Chandak told them that his family did not have the tradition of Learning, so how can he teach? But his bosses did not listen. The matter came to such a pass that Chandak decided to quit the job. But it was not easy either. Since he had executed the bond for the job, he was told to first pay Rs 2 lakh and quit the job.
But then Chandak accepted all this as a challenge. He met the best lecturer in the training camp. He learned the techniques of lectureship and practiced them intensely. His hard work finally paid off. And in a short time, Chandak became the best lecturer of that training camp.
After the conclusion of the training camp, he was sent on tours. Entrepreneurial Development programs of MITCON were organized all over the state. His Duty was to visit the district, hold entrepreneurial development training camps, and inform participants about the various schemes of the government. From 1985 to 1989, Chandak traveled all over Maharashtra. In the meantime, he organized a training program for women in Nashik in 1987 and invited the then industry minister. At the Programme, a Special Announcement Was Made about allotment of land was allotted as announced, and later on, the state Entrepreneurship Development Training Center Programme was also established. Some employees of MITCON were shifted to this center and the work was going in full swing. But in 1994, Chandak met with a serious accident and was the bed – period, he started thinking about the pros and cons of continuing with this government job. He realized that their many limitations in the present job and also that he could not give practical knowledge to the aspirants who wanted to start their own trade or industry and it was during this period that he started toying with the idea of launching a new business.
Chandak got completely healed after three months and quit the fat- salaried job. He opened his own institute and named it “Udyogwardhini.”
“Every great achiever is inspired by a great mentor”
While an idea is a backbone of establishing a startup, guidance, and expert management is the key to sustaining it; it is important to leverage the knowledge of experts in the industry to avoid pitfalls and develop an effective growth strategy. A mentor is one who believes in his students, gives them confidence and moral support and nurtures ideas and turns them into reality, Mr. Sunil Chandak exactly fits into this definition. He Has trained more than 1,00,000 students and has turned 60,000 to entrepreneurs. He also provided linkages to his students and guided them to establish their business. He also personally funded some of his students for their setting up startups.
Through Udyogwardhini, Mr. Chandak has launched various training programs which are first of its kind in Maharashtra and India. His signature two days residential achievement motivation training workshop has been a life-changing moment for many attendees. He has launched programs in various fields like Printing, Mobile handset repairing, Food, Solar, AI, IoT, Real Estate, Construction, Financial products, Import-Export, etc. He promoted the 1st Women Industrial Zone in MIDC in Maharashtra and 1st Industrial Premises Co-Op. Society in MIDC in Maharashtra. He developed practical training programs in the construction industry in association with Ashoka Buildcon Ltd.
Mr. Chandak is quite social. He always strives to contribute to society. He consistently devotes his time and energy to causes and initiatives that he is passionate about. These range from rural education to promoting a healthy body, mind & spirit, to nurturing and developing young talents.
He was the Chairman founder Secretary & now Patron of “Vanbandhu Parishad Nashik Chapter”. Vanbadhu Parishad is an NGO that runs 430 one-teacher schools in Nashik in tribal areas and 52000 schools all over India. Under the leadership of Mr. Chandak, this NGO has raised huge donations for social welfare purposes. He donated and organized a Ram Katha of spiritual leader Morari Bapu in Nashik during 2003 Kumbh Mela. He has been invited to various Social/ education Organizations where he promotes entrepreneurship.
Mr. Chandak is a self-made man and he himself has proved to be a successful Entrepreneur. He not only heads Udyogwardhini but he has also expanded his business in different horizons. He is a founding partner of Achira Exports through which he helps local farmers export their products globally. He is Director of Saiganga Apparels which is Raymond’s custom tailoring and training hub. He also manages the Ashoka Training Institute in partnership with Ashoka Buildcon Ltd. to provide practical onsite training in the construction and real estate industry. He also runs Online Terminal of Motilal Ostwal to provide a platform for stock trading which has 200+ client base.
Mr. Chandak is a family man. He loves to spend time with his family, a loving wife, a gorgeous daughter, and a curious son who makes a perfect square. But his family extends beyond this as he also considers his students/staff and all those who are directly or indirectly connected to him. Mr. Chandak follows spiritual leader Morari Bapu and his principle ‘Truth - Love - Compassion’. You will also find him traveling around the world, listening to Kishore Kumar songs, and playing with his grandchildren.
