Credentials

Business and Leadership Development

• Certificate Program in The Science of Wellbeing for Parents – Yale University
• Certificate Program and Capstone Project in Strategy – University of Virginia
• Crestcom International certified
• Dale Carnegie Program certified
• Ken Blanchard Program certified
• Development Dimensions International (DDI) certified
• ESI certified for facilitation skills
• Certified in Instructional Design – John Hinchliffe program
• TEFL Certified – TESOL 120-hour certificate program – Asian College of Teachers

Additional Learning

• High Impact Presentation Skills – Dale Carnegie Training
• Transactional Analysis 101 – International Transactional Analysis Association
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Franklin Covey
• High Impact Decision Making – American Management Association
• Applications of AI (ChatGPT and MidJourney)

• Certificate in Goat Farming – White Eduventures, India
• Documentary Film making – Domestika Inc, Berkeley, California
• The Fundamentals of Rehearsing Music Ensembles – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Film Scoring – Writing Music for Films – Jason Allen Certificate Course
• Exploring Beethoven’s Sonatas – Jonathan Biss Certificate Course
• Write Like Mozart – Peter Edwards, National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th Century Orchestra – Professor Thomas Forrest Kelly, Harvard University Online and edX
• Memoir Writing Essentials – The Duncan Koerber Certificate Course
• AI Fluency – Framework and Foundations – Anthropic

Leadership Development and Coaching

Konrad has delivered learning interventions for thousands of professionals across India, North America, Europe, S. Africa, APAC, and the Middle East and has coached thousands of students on career and leadership skills.

As a leadership coach, he has worked with learners from young learners at school to C level executives across industries.

Konrad is a single dad who has learnt hard lessons about raising children. He is passionate about sharing insights on Parenting, Public Speaking and many other personal and professional development themes.

Writing

Konrad published his first book “Learning to Cope with Suffering” St Pauls Publication, 2000, at the age of 21 and has written numerous articles and posts on business and personal themes.

https://trainingindustry.com/ar ticles/strategy-alignment-andplanning/from-push-to-pull-anew-approach-to-ld/

https://trainingindustry.com/articles/crafting-customlearning-pathways-the-whyand-how/

The Book “Learning to Cope with Suffering” – Konrad Fernandez, St. Pauls, 2000 was incorporated into the Syllabus of Post Graduate Christian Studies in the University of Mysore.

https://uni-mysore.ac.in/assets/P.GEntrance-Exam-2013/CHRISTIANITY.pdf

Music

Konrad is a self-taught western classical music composer and winner of the 2026 Beethoven International Awards Silver Prize for composition for his Chaconne in E Minor. He is passionate about music based on harmony and counterpoint.

Awards

Beethoven Awards Silver Prize for Music Composition Jan 2026, Gdansk, Poland

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