Eeshan is a writer, researcher and management consulting professional. He has thrived for over 25 years helping organizations build strong healthy teams and deliver multidimensional solutions to real-world problems. With PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, he led the team that deployed one of the first significant Federal financial websites on the public Internet, processing over $39 billion in transactions annually for over twenty years. At IBM, he led teams in Washington, D.C., Orlando, and New Orleans providing IT support for long term recovery and mobile housing operations after Hurricane Katrina. Later, he helped build the US National Health Service Corp’s Division of Program Operations from the ground up, serving as the inaugural Division Director through an audit and massive expansion of the program. He worked from 2012 to 2020 for the nation’s banking regulator as a Senior Manager managing Agile software development teams building and operating money laundering mortgage regulatory enforcement systems to support the Bank Examination staff hard at work to fulfill the mission of the agency.
Growing up moving between the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and civil conflict in Sri Lanka gave him a unique perspective and a deep-seated desire to help build peaceful communities. As a result, Eeshan also has nearly two decades of meaningful community engagement and civic work in the Washington, D.C. area. He has invested his personal time doing things like working with county officials and a local mediation group to create a program to keep kids out of shelters by offering them free mediation to solve their issues with family. He served as a Commissioner and eventually the Vice Chairman of his county's Human Rights Commission. Then, looking for a more "hands on" role, he become one of the founding batch of certified Diversity facilitators for his local public school system. He helped author the training materials and train multiple years of new facilitators while working with assigned schools to help lead facilitated community meetings to address challenges around race and diversity.
Eeshan has a lifelong passion for science, ancient history and myth, comic books, religion, culture, cosmology and metaphysics. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. He also holds a Master’s degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he studied under Dr. Everett Rogers, one of the pioneers of innovation theory. His formative professional experience came while working as a junior analyst and consultant with HR and Management Consulting firms in New York and Washington, D.C. He worked on projects in multiple industries in progressively responsible roles leading him into organizational management. His areas of interest are: complex solutions engineering; systems implementation; organizational transformation; public speaking; proposal development; research; thought leadership and evangelism; HR and people management; software development; operations management; technology strategy; process optimization and change management.
In his personal life he is the father of two amazing children, an active guitar songwriter and cartoonist. He is also the founder and President of the Single Dads Foundation which he created in 2016 to provide training and support with parenting and co-parenting for single Dads. He lives in Maryland, USA.
Growing up moving between the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and civil conflict in Sri Lanka gave him a unique perspective and a deep-seated desire to help build peaceful communities. As a result, Eeshan also has nearly two decades of meaningful community engagement and civic work in the Washington, D.C. area. He has invested his personal time doing things like working with county officials and a local mediation group to create a program to keep kids out of shelters by offering them free mediation to solve their issues with family. He served as a Commissioner and eventually the Vice Chairman of his county's Human Rights Commission. Then, looking for a more "hands on" role, he become one of the founding batch of certified Diversity facilitators for his local public school system. He helped author the training materials and train multiple years of new facilitators while working with assigned schools to help lead facilitated community meetings to address challenges around race and diversity.
Eeshan has a lifelong passion for science, ancient history and myth, comic books, religion, culture, cosmology and metaphysics. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. He also holds a Master’s degree in Communications Management from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism where he studied under Dr. Everett Rogers, one of the pioneers of innovation theory. His formative professional experience came while working as a junior analyst and consultant with HR and Management Consulting firms in New York and Washington, D.C. He worked on projects in multiple industries in progressively responsible roles leading him into organizational management. His areas of interest are: complex solutions engineering; systems implementation; organizational transformation; public speaking; proposal development; research; thought leadership and evangelism; HR and people management; software development; operations management; technology strategy; process optimization and change management.
In his personal life he is the father of two amazing children, an active guitar songwriter and cartoonist. He is also the founder and President of the Single Dads Foundation which he created in 2016 to provide training and support with parenting and co-parenting for single Dads. He lives in Maryland, USA.