Hyderabad life skills coach GVN Raju conferred D.Litt
Hyderabad-based life skills coach GVN Raju has been awarded a Doctor of Letters degree at a Delhi convocation, recognising his contributions to life skills training, communication and performing arts across diverse professional sectors.
Published Date - 24 April 2026, 06:22 PM
Hyderabad: Renowned life skills coach GVN Raju has been conferred with a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) for specialising in life skills training, communication and performing arts. The doctorate was presented in Delhi on April 24 during the convocation of California Public University.
The Dean of the university for Asian countries, Prof Reghunath Parakkal, and the Ambassador of Madagascar presented the certificate.
Raju has been a professional life skills coach and corporate trainer since 1991 and is a visiting faculty across sectors such as education, culture, pharma, life insurance, banking and retail marketing organisations.
Having groomed and trained himself at JCI India under the leadership of JCI R Sunil Kumar, and as an international training fellow from JCI University, USA, Raju has multiple talents and has used them effectively in different electronic media as a speaker, talker, moderator and poet. He has authored seven books on various life skills.
An international artiste and trainer in ventriloquism for Telugu University under the guidance of Dr Nerella Venumadhav, he served in the Central government and later as Head of the Training department in different multinational companies.