Prasad Kaipa
Dr. Prasad Kaipa (born 1956) is an Executive Coach, Mentor, Author and founder and executive director (2007–2009) of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business. He also has been a part-time visiting faculty at Saybrook Graduate School. Since 1990, Dr. Kaipa has advised CEOs and coached Executive Teams in the areas of Innovation, Business Transformation, Decision Making, Strategic Thinking and Personal Mastery. He is an author of the book 'Discontinuous Learning: Igniting Genius Within by Aligning Self, Work, and Family’.
Biography
Dr. Prasad Kaipa received a B.S. in physics, chemistry and mathematics—Sri Venkateswara University, Anantapur, India. (1974). He later earned an M.S. in physics—Sri Venkateswara University, Anantapur, India (later became Sri Krishnadevaraya University) (1976). He also earned a Ph.D. in solid state physics—Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India (1983).
He is founder and executive Director (2007–2009) of the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change at the Indian School of Business.
He also has been served as the Center for Creative Leadership's new H. Smith Richardson Visiting Fellow for 2010-2011.
During 1983-1987, Dr. Kaipa was assistant professor in the TL Laboratory of The Radiobiology Division, Pharmocology department in the school of Medicine of University of Utah. Earlier he was a post doctoral research associate in the department of Physics between Sept. 1981- Jan. 1983
Roles and Memberships
Council membership info in Marico innovation Foundation
International Leadership Association (ILA) board membership
International School of Business (ISB) faculty
Society or Organizational Learning (SoL) council between 2002-2006
Center for Creative Learning (CCL) Fellowship
Work
Prasad has been an advisor and coach focusing on innovation and leadership since 1990 for about 120 C-level executives in Global Fortune 500 companies. Prasad’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 kept them stuck, it is difficult to ignite and channel their creativity to come up with innovative decisions, products, and services. He assists clients in becoming effective in managing people as well as oneself (personal mastery), getting reenergized and building new capacities, and exploring more risk taking, innovative, and strategic decisions.
He is a part-time faculty member at the Saybrook University and works with students in the areas of creativity and innovation, transformational learning and leadership. Prasad is/was on the board of directors/trustees for International Leadership Association, Aankhen, Turning Point Global, Intertec Communications, Yoga Bharati, and Hindu University of North America.
As a senior manager in Apple, Prasad 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,’ Prasad interviewed high achievers and exceptional people researching how they learn (and ‘unlearn’), create, communicate, relate and lead.
Consulting of executive leadership
Active Consulting through Kaipa Group, Selfcorp.com, Mithya Institute for Learning and Knowledge Architecture since 1990. Coached over 110 CEOs and senior executives in US, Europe and Asia. Worked with Over 50 companies in the areas of leadership development, Change management, Innovation and personal mastery areas.
Publications and writings
Dr. Kaipa is a regular contributor/ blogger to Harvard Business Review
Kaipa, Prasad Recover Your Credibility (2012) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/recover_your_credibility.html
Kaipa, Prasad What Wise Leaders Follow (2012) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/what_wise_leaders_always_follo.html
Kaipa, Prasad Steve Jobs and the Art of Mental Model Innovation, Ivey Business Journal May/June 2012 http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/topics/leadership/steve-jobs-and-the-art-of-mental-model-innovation
With Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja India's decade of collaboration May 2011—Business Week Online (reprinted from HBR.org).
With Navi Radjou. Ayurveda Wisdom for Building Innovative Organizations Economic Times, Nov. 12, 2010.
With Navi Radjou. Do Multinationals Really Understand Globalization? Business Week, Aug 6, 2010.
With Kriger Mark, 2010 “Empowerment, Vision and Positive Leadership: An Interview with Alan Mulally, Former CEO -Boeing Commercial, Current CEO – Ford Motors,” Journal of Management Inquiry vol. 19, no. 2, pp110–115.
Kaipa, Prasad “Indian Model of Leadership,” in Ethics, Business and Society (2010) pp 149–156. Ananda Das Gupta Editor, Response Books.
With Kriger Mark, 2009. The inner sides of leadership and lessons from the East: an interview with Peter Senge. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, Vol.6, No.3, pp. 183–193.
Kaipa Prasad, “Discontinuous Learning: Igniting the Genius Within by Aligning Self, Work and Family,” ISBN 978-0-9779826-0-8 e-book downloadable from Kaipagroup.com (2006).
Kaipa Prasad, “Six Principles for 21st Century Leaders,” in Systems Thinker Vol 17, No. 8, pp 9–11 (2006).
Keynotes and talks
Feb. 25, 2012 Keys to Entrepreneurial Success in Turbulent Times Keynote at TiE Nagpur Annual Conference, Nagpur, India.
TIECon 2012 Nagpur, India
ISB Leadership Summit 2008
GODS summit 2009
Sambodh Society talk 2010
Managing During Turbulent Times
Feb. 18, 2012 Where do you want to go Next? Closing keynote address at GITPRO 2012 Conference on Emerging Technologies and Opportunities, Silicon Valley, CA
Sept. 15, 2011 Igniting the Genius Within, keynote at GITPRO Hyderabad chapter inauguration
External links
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