From TLP

Jagdish Parikh

Leadership expert and visiting speaker at numerous universities (LBS, IMD, INSEAD etc)

Dr. Parikh is Managing Director of the Lemuir Group of Companies, a Director of the TechNova Group of Companies and Travel Corporation (India) Ltd. He is Co-founder of the World Business Academy (USA); Member, Board of Governors of the Asian Institute of Management (Manila); Founder President of the Centre for Executive Renewal (Switzerland) and Managing Trustee of the Education Foundation of India.

A graduate of Harvard with an MBA and Ph.D in Management, Dr. Parikh focuses on developing personal excellence and effectiveness through strategies for mastering change, converting knowledge into performance and transformative leadership, while taking into account the factors of interaction between an individual and the organisation as a whole. With an expertise in integrating Western Knowledge with Eastern Wisdom Dr Parikh assists organisation cultivate their Management so as to attain a global advantage and to help their managers to achieve sustainable peak performance.

Areas Research:

• Visionary Leadership
• Transformative Management
• Mastering Change
• Shared Vision Building
• Converting Knowledge into Performance

Dr Parekh is currently exploring a new set of ideas about how companies succeed in the new economy, looking at “strategy as a process of improvisation” in fast-changing environments, with a focus on how inclusion in industrial clusters can encourage or hinder strategic improvisation. Other recent research explores how success breeds corporate inertia, and how some companies avoid the failure of success.

He has worked in several honorary capacities for the Government of India as Chairman of FFC, now National Film Development Corporation (co-producer of the multiple Oscar winning film GANDHI); Vice Chairman of the Indian Institute of Travel and Tourism and in other advisory roles.

Selected Publications:

He is the author of "Managing Your Self: Management by Detached Involvement"; "Managing Relationships: Making a life while making a living"; Lead-author of "Intuition: The New Frontier of Management"; and co-author of "Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology". He has also produced a multi-media interactive CD ROM on "Managing Your Self."

Consulting/ Clients:

Dr Parikh has been invited to speak at numerous global conferences, and he is also a seminar leader / consultant at several multinational corporations which include Ambrosetti, British Telecom, ExxonMobil, Gerling, IBM, KPMG, Lufthansa, Microsoft, Nokia, Novartis, Phillips, Scancem, SEB, Swiss Air Group, Swiss Reinsurance, UBS, Weinerberger

Dr. Parikh is a Visiting Speaker at CEDEP (France), DIEU (Denmark), Euroforum (Spain), Hernstein (Austria), IMD (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), IFL (Sweden), LIFIM (Finland), London Business School (UK), Lancaster University (UK), MCE (Belgium).