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Innovation capacity & culture building

Design Thinking for superior customer experience

Mindfulness

Upcoming workshop: TBD

Strategic management of technology and innovation (IIM Bangalore) - course page (2019-2024)

Managing innovation and IP for entrepreneurs (IIT Bombay) - course page (2016-2024)

Books:

"8 steps to innovation" book resources

Order: "8 steps to innovation: Going from jugaad to excellence" on Amazon

Mindfulness book resources

Order: "Mindfulness: Connected with the real you" on Amazon 

Recent blogs/podcasts/research papers:

• Insights from a serial entrepreneur - Gupshup CEO Beerud Sheth's perspective, September 1, 2024
• My favourite quotes from Daniel Kahneman, April 6, 2024
• Psychedelics-Mindfulness relationship: My 3 takeaways from Roland Griffiths' perspective, March 24, 2024
• Culture of innovation: 3 attributes and 4 kinds of evidence, March 17, 2024
• "Episode #11: Mindfulness as learning to see impermanence", podcast discussion between Gauri and Vinay, Feb 21, 2024 (10 min)
• "A critical review of journey-centric mindfulness," a paper presentation at the second International Research Conference on mindfulness, IIM Bodh Gaya, Feb 9-10, 2024.
• My 3 takeaways from Agastya's "Student, teachers, and AI" conference at Kuppam, Jan 26, 2024

Recent/Upcoming events:

• "Limits of thought: An exploration" a talk and dialogue facilitation at Retreat House, Bandra organized by KFI Mumbai, Feb 15, 2025
• "Understanding innovation and design thinking", a Leadership development program for Novo Nordisk, IIM Bangalore, Feb 10, 2025 (Program directors: Prof. Debolina Dutta and Prof. Shubhabrata Das)
• "Building systematic organizational innovation capabilities", for Mercedes-Benz R&D India, IIM Bangalore, Jan 28, 2025 (Program director: Prof. Sai Yayavaram)
• "ENT607: Managing Technological Innovation", a half-sem course at IIT Bombay, Jan-Feb 2025
• "Design Thinking", for NSRCEL managers at IIM Bangalore, Dec 12-13, 2024
• "Design Thinking", Salesforce Bangalore Engineering Leaders, Dec 10, 2024
• "Design Thinking", part of Leadership Development Program for Central Bank of India, IIM Udaipur, Dec 5, 2024.
• "Mindfulness", Tanmatra - Women in Leadership Program, IIM Bangalore, November 20, 2024
• "Creating Successful New Products", An open program at IIM Bangalore, (collaborator: Prof Ganesh Prabhu), November 7-9, 2024
• "Design Thinking", CREDAI Business Leadership Program, IIM Bangalore (Program Director: Prof Venkatesh Panchapagesan), October 17, 2024
• "Strategic management of technology and innovation", EPGP-PGP-PGPBA course, IIM Bangalore, Sep-Nov, 2024
• "Design Thinking", India Health and Climate Resilience (IHCR) Fellows, Blockchain for Impact, Aug 27, 2024
• "Design Thinking" Open program at IIM Bangalore in collaboration with Prof. Ganesh Prabhu, Aug 23-24, 2024  

2024 Highlights