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Prasad’s Life and Contribution

Prasad Kaipa was a thought leader in innovation, leadership, and change management, and a top management thinker of Indian origin.

About Prasad Kaipa

- An Author, Keynote Speaker & Coach

About Prasad Kaipa

- An Author, Keynote Speaker & Coach

Prasad Kaipa was a thought leader in innovation, leadership, and change management, and a top Management Thinker of Indian origin till 2019. Prasad’s unique approach was in integrating business approaches with brain research and spirituality/wisdom models. In addition to having advised and coached 130+ C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies, he used the Bhagavad Gita framework and several interviews with CEOs to co-author a best-selling book “From Smart to Wise” in 2013. He founded the Center of Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as well as co-founded TiE Silicon Valley's Entrepreneur Institute, with 13,000+ participants over 10 years.

Since his retirement, he is working with several non-profits (focused on education and youth) and enjoying reflecting on his learnings from Indian spiritual wisdom and focusing on inner transformation.

Since 1990, he has worked with leaders in companies like Apple, Adobe, Arevo, Boeing, Disney, Intellect Design, J & J, Lunar, Microsoft, BMS, Nokia and Oracle. He’s also served as an educator/consultant in the areas of leadership, change management, innovation and management team development for 100+ companies. He wrote for HBR, Business Week, Forbes, and the New York Times, and in 2016 published “You Can: Be Smarter and Wiser” with Meera Shenoy. Prasad holds a Ph.D. in physics from IIT Madras and taught at the University of Utah where he helped built an international research laboratory. Later at Apple, he served as a technology advisor, manager in Apple International Product Marketing, and a research fellow at Apple University.

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Latest Session

Here is a session with Mr. Prasad on Death, Vedanta and Business Leadership

Date: 10th May, 2022

Session was hosted by Deepak Goel and Claudia Vega.

Session was hosted by Deepak Goel and Claudia Vega.

Prasad’s Affiliations

Prasad is a board member/advisor to several organizations

Interviews with Prasad

4 Signs you have a superman complex

“If you feel that because your idea is great and you got a large amount of money from a VC, you're invulnerable, you're quickly
going to lose everything.”




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Mercury news interview: Prasad Kaipa, mentor to CEOs

““Wisdom is when you apply intelligence toward the common good, trying to do something for other people.””




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Q&A | Prasad Kaipa & Navi Radjou

You have to make decisions, you have to take actions, and you have to relate to, communicate with, influence people.




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Smart and Wise Leadership: An Interview with Prasad Kaipa

“Wise leaders focus on noble purpose and enlightened self-interest in order to engage with their role fully without being emotionally
entangled with it.”




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