Prasad Kaipa
Professor Prasad Kaipa splits his time between his role as the Executive Director of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC) and Kaipa Group consulting practice in California. CLIC is a centre of excellence focussing on integral approach (marrying lessons from wisdom traditions to traditional management approaches and scientific approaches) to develop innovative global leaders. CLIC recently received a multi year funding to initiate two research cells – SBI Cell for Public Leadership and Biocon Cell for Innovation Management.

Professor Kaipa has been an advisor and coach focussing on innovation and leadership since 1990 for over 110 CEOs, executive team members and board members in Fortune 500 companies like Disney, Adobe, Maxim Integrated Products, Boeing and also entrepreneurial/ International companies like Tata Steel, BAE Systems, State Bank of India, Lunar Design, Aztec, Mastek, Olixir, Scintera Networks, and Polaris.

He co-founded Entrepreneur Institute for the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in 2002 to help entrepreneurs marry their innovative ideas around products and services with effective ways to engage, co-create with others in the ecosystem and over 13,000 entrepreneurs have gone through TiE Institute programmes so far. He is a part-time faculty at the Saybrook Graduate School and works with students in the areas of Creativity and Innovation, Transformational Learning and Leadership; and a visiting professor in the areas of Leadership, Mindsets, and Change Management in ISB. Professor Kaipa was/is on the board of directors/trustees for Society for Organisational Learning (SoL), Aankhen, Turning Point Academy, Hindu University of North America, Integral Leadership Review, Intertec Communications and Catalyst.

The purpose of his innovation/leadership coaching is to ignite the genius within individuals. Professor Kaipa’s unique competence is in helping his clients find their next significant step and take it. He found that unless he helps clients to examine their signature strengths that have turned into “core incompetence” and keep them stuck, it is difficult to ignite and channel their creativity to come up with innovative decisions, products and services. In doing so, he assists clients in becoming effective in managing people and also managing oneself (personal mastery); get reenergised and build new capacities; and explore more risk taking and make innovative and strategic decisions.

Professor Kaipa also worked with 100+ companies like Boeing, Mobil, Ford, Sun, Pepsi, Navteq, BAE Systems, Sasken, Syngenta, Mastek, Union Bank, Canara Bank and AT&T (Pacific Bell) in the areas of leadership, change management, innovation and management team development. Executives from Cisco and HP have worked with him in developing innovative business models for creating a successful new business and in innovating unique, “brandable” product design that is consistent with their culture.

As a senior manager in Apple, Professor Kaipa was asked to create an educational menu for Apple engineers using innovative learning approaches. In 1999, as a research fellow in the Apple University, with a charter to help design ‘a learning processor that augments human intelligence,’ he interviewed high achievers and exceptional people researching how they learn (and ‘unlearn’), create, communicate, relate and lead.

Professor Kaipa got his doctorate in physics and as a professor in the University of Utah, helped build an international research laboratory with Dr Ed Haskell (1981-87). He has received several awards for his contributions. Athena Interactive released three award winning CD-ROMs for leaders based on his learning interface concepts and his pyramid building (thinking in three dimensions) methodology.

Professor Kaipa has published an e-book ‘Discontinuous Learning: Igniting Genius Within by Aligning Self, Work, and Family’ (http://www.kaipagroup.com) and many of his writings, blog, pyramids and tools are available on the same website.

He is married to Dr Vinoda and is father of Pravin (23) and Vidya (19). He enjoys exploring and reinterpreting ancient wisdom (and its application in developing highly effective and authentic leaders), photography (http://pkaipa.smugmug.com), listening to classical music and playing tennis.

Deepak Chandra
Deepak Chandra is the Deputy Dean and a member of CLIC's Management Council, where he executes a key function in developing the Centre and its activities, especially in fostering leadership academics.

Deepak drives the development and growth of the CEE. Under his leadership, the CEE at the ISB has evolved into a dominant provider of executive education in India and Asia. He is also an integral part of the Dean’s Council at the ISB, and partakes in all strategic and policy level decisions for the school.

Deepak regularly consults private, public and government sector organisations on their learning and development strategy. He has worked with several firms in India and abroad, and helped them align capability development strategy to their strategic challenges. He has created pioneering learning initiatives with reasonable returns on learning investments. To add to his experience in knowledge dissemination, Deepak also regularly teaches at leading business schools.

After completing his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Allahabad, India, Deepak worked in the Industry and gained rich experience in the arenas of marketing management and business strategy formulation and implementation. He has also established and managed an education-consulting firm specialising in sales, marketing, and key account management.

Deepak is extremely passionate about education and has managed large education initiatives for underprivileged audiences, with support from the government and national and international development agencies. A true entrepreneur in spirit and soul, challenge and change are his two favourite motivators.

S Ramnarayan
Dr S Ramnarayan is a Clinical Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and Member, Management Council of ISB’s Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change (CLIC). After his graduation in engineering and post-graduation in management, Ramnarayan earned his PhD in Organisational Behavior from the Weatherhead School of Management at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

During the initial years of his career, he worked for about 8 years in industry. He has been a faculty member at the Tata Management Training Centre, Pune for about 5 years, and later a Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad for about 13 years. During 1987-1988, he was visiting faculty in the Organisational Behavior area at the Case Western Reserve University. He was Guest Professor at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany during 1997-1998.

He has worked with a large number of organisations in different sectors on a variety of assignments in the areas of change, leadership and management development. He has designed and conducted a range of training workshops in different countries of Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. He has carried out assignments funded by different international agencies, such as US Office of Personnel Management, Ford Foundation, World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat, Department for International Development and German Science Foundation. Apart from research papers, monographs and case studies, Ram has co-authored books on “Change Management: Altering Mindsets in a Global Context” and “Managing Organizational Change”, and co-edited books titled “Strategic Management of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries”, “Managerial Dilemmas: Cases in Organizational Behavior” and “Organization Development Interventions and Strategies”. A recent book co-authored by him on “Changing Tracks: Reinventing the Spirit of the Indian Railways” is scheduled to be published by Harper Collins, India in November 2009.