The Touchstone
"Optimise yourself to achieve what you deserve"
Empowering individuals and corporate teams with practical skill sets, ESG compliance awareness, and strategic capacity-building for today's evolving workforce.
Our Vision & Methodology
The Touchstone embodies our collective vision of inclusive and sustainable development, where meaningful participation in the workforce is essential for creating lasting social and economic impact.
Drawing on years of experience in delivering capacity-building and training programmes across diverse industries and regions, Markzin has developed a distinctive training methodology that responds to the evolving skill and capacity-building needs of today's workforce. Designed to address the ever-changing demands of the market, our approach equips individuals and organisations with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to adapt and thrive.
Through tailored training, capacity building, and mentoring support, we help individuals, organisations, and companies enhance their capabilities, strengthen compliance, and optimise operational efficiency across their core areas of work.
Equipping Workforce for Sustainable Development
Through tailored training, capacity building, and mentoring support, we help individuals, organisations, and companies enhance their capabilities, strengthen compliance, and optimise operational efficiency across their core areas of work.
Leadership & Expert Guidance
Meet the lead trainer driving Touchstone's capacity-building initiatives.
Sudip brings extensive experience in capacity building, workforce development, ESG standards, and tailored training methodologies. Leading Markzin's Touchstone initiative, Sudip specializes in equipping individuals and corporate teams with practical skill sets, compliance awareness, and strategic growth competencies.
Key Focus Areas
Capacity Building & Training Catalog
Explore our 11 tailored training programs designed to enhance skills, ensure compliance, and boost operational efficiency.
Business Communications and Career Counselling
The training covers the fundamentals of business communication, interview preparation, effective CV writing, and career counselling, while also introducing participants to the effective use of AI to enhance their performance and competitiveness in the job and career marketplace.
ESG Beyond Compliance
A practical introduction to ESG that focuses on business value rather than reporting alone. Participants understand global ESG trends, investor expectations, Indian developments and how social and governance performance influence reputation, risk management and long term competitiveness through practical examples and case discussions.
The Social Pillar of ESG
Explores the people dimension of ESG including human rights, employee wellbeing, diversity, inclusion, worker engagement, community relations and responsible supply chains. Participants learn how strong social performance contributes to productivity, resilience and stakeholder trust.
National Guidelines for Responsible Business Conduct (NGRBC) Masterclass
Provides an in-depth understanding of India's National Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct and the nine principles. Includes practical exercises to assess organisational alignment, identify gaps and prepare action plans for responsible business practices.
Business & Human Rights
Introduces the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, human-rights due diligence, grievance mechanisms and responsible sourcing. Uses real examples from agricultural and manufacturing supply chains and adapts lessons for service industries.
Responsible Supply Chains
Covers supplier engagement, ethical sourcing, labour standards, supplier codes of conduct and social risk management. Participants learn practical approaches to building resilient and responsible value chains through collaboration rather than compliance alone.
POSH Beyond Compliance
Moves beyond legal compliance to build respectful workplace cultures. Covers prevention of sexual harassment, bystander responsibility, leadership accountability, unconscious bias, workplace behaviour and practical case studies suitable for hybrid and office environments.
Safeguarding Essentials
Builds organisational understanding of safeguarding risks affecting employees, communities, contractors and vulnerable groups. Covers safeguarding policies, reporting systems, survivor-centred approaches and creating safe organisational cultures.
Inclusive Leadership & Women in Leadership
Develops inclusive leadership capabilities through self-awareness, communication, coaching, gender inclusion, decision-making and influence. Includes practical tools for supporting women leaders and creating psychologically safe workplaces.
Responsible AI & Digital Ethics
A non-technical programme introducing ethical AI, algorithmic bias, transparency, privacy, responsible innovation and governance. Helps technology organisations integrate human centred principles into digital transformation initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement & Community Partnerships
Draws on extensive field experience to demonstrate how organisations can build trust with communities, employees, governments and civil society. Covers stakeholder mapping, participatory approaches, grievance mechanisms and measuring social impact.
Interested in Custom Corporate Training?
We deliver tailored training, capacity building, and mentoring support for teams, companies, NGOs, and educational institutions. Reach out to design a program suited to your organization.
Enroll / Register Now
Select your desired training program and submit your details. Our Touchstone program coordinator will contact you promptly.