Diyanat AliDiyanat Ali is a First Generation Entrepreneur. A Certified Trainer and Facilitator in Experiential and Adventure Based Learning. Diyanat has over 20 years of experience as an adventurer. He is the Founder & Director of the Great Hyderabad Adventure Club – GHAC www.ghac.in a not for profit company that promotes adventure to enhance youth development, Leadership and community building and healthy lifestyle among the youth. Diyanat also runs a startup “OutLife” www.outlife.in – An Adventure Travel and Behavioral Training Company that assists businesses and Teams all across India break their monotony and develop high performance teamwork by participation in adventure, Outbound and experiential learning activities.
Passionate about outdoors and adventure since he was a kid. Diyanat was a member of the National Cadet Corps – Army Wing holding A,B & C level Certificates. He was the Senior Under Officer and participated in the Republic Day Camp – New Delhi as the Best Cadet from AP in the year 1997.
Diyanat founded the Great Hyderabad Adventure Club -GHAC in May 2008 and nurtured it to become the Largest and most Active adventure club in India with over 18000 members and 150 certified and trained Outdoor leaders conducting about 600 adventure and nature related events all over India across the year. Diyanat authored the Open Team Leadership Model for the Great Hyderabad Adventure Club which is based on leadership principles derived from Nature and those that have been in existence over millions of years like the Honey bees, Wolfs, Elephants and how these leadership systems can be adopted for better leadership and teamwork to enhance the human workforce.
Diyanat holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering and a MBA in Marketing. He is a fellow of the Startup Leadership Program and a Founder with the Founders Institute, California – Hyderabad Chapter.
Diyanat was a speaker at the TEDx Deccan in July 2011, He also got featured in the Limca Book of Records in 2013 for his work with the Great Hyderabad Adventure Club.