Experience & Expertise
Jay conducts case study-based “Adaptive Leadership Strategy Workshops” for organisations. These workshops address the strategic, operational and organisational challenges that organisations face, emphasising the need to constantly adapt to disruptive challenges.
36
Years of Management Consulting Experience
68
Workshops and Lectures conducted
400
MNC & Indian Consulting and Workshop Clients
1100
Strategy, Operations and Organisation Consulting Projects directed
1650
Workshop Participants
Jay facilitates Adaptive Leadership Strategy Workshops for CXOs, and their senior leadership teams across industry sectors, to strengthen their adaptive leadership capability. These workshops address the strategic, operational, organisational and technological challenges that organisations face and the need to continuously adapt to disruptions. Jays workshops are not generic leadership training sessions. They are strategy-led, case study-based, discussion-driven, and designed to improve strategic thinking, organisational alignment, and the adaptive capacity of the organisation.
Adapting to Disruption
Leading Enterprise Collaboration
Transforming the Organisation
Building Organisational Resilience
Anticipating Disruptive Crisis
Building Ecosystem Resilience
Mastering Negotiation Strategy
Evolving the Future
Building High-Reliability Organisations
Creating Adaptive Strategies
Building Adaptive Capacity
Understanding Disruption Pathways
Some Workshop Themes
Thank you for conducting our “Evolving Future Leaders” workshop. We, as a team, and I personally, learnt a lot through the case analysis and your facilitation. The session was thought provoking, insightful and inspiring. For many participants it might have been the first experience of learning through a case-based discussion and curated videos. Your suggestion to further discuss ideas generated at the workshop is well received.
Farrukh Siddiqui - Group Head, HR & Strategy
We wanted to … express our sincere appreciation for the Leadership workshop you conducted last week. The leaders found the case-based learning approach to be insightful and it helped them to build new perspective on business challenges. Your facilitation made the discussions engaging and encouraged the whole team to participate. Thank you for contextualising the program and creating such a valuable learning experience.
Neeti Shukla - Vertical Head- People & Culture
I got such wonderful feedback on your session. The overall narrative ; the content ; the finer details ; the talk was exceptional! Your passion for the topic clearly showed as you were able to pepper the talk with your own personal experiences and that made it even more special. I liked the Q & A session too as you were able to share with the team a bit of wisdom from your experiences.
Want to thank you Jay for your time and sharing. Really appreciate it .
Jai Shankar Krishnan, Vice President - High Growth Markets
Thank you so much Jay for an amazing workshop! Must say it was a truly insightful and engaging session with a lot of thought-provoking questions and learnings! Really happy to see the way all contributed to the various scenarios as a team. It was also great to hear the insightful thoughts and perspectives from the leaders in their field! And I believe this session really gave us all the opportunity to unwind, take a step back, read, reflect and share our learnings. We can now think of ways to possibly apply some of these learnings to the projects we are working on! Look forward to many such sessions as we dream big and push ourselves to reimagine and transform!
Debashish Roy - Director, Digital Excellence & Strategic Initiatives
In each Strategy Workshop, Jay, with his vast experience discussed cross-industry case studies which not only gave a wider perspective, but also completed a learning journey feedback loop. Starting from leveraging enterprise leadership, to adapting to disruption, to innovating to become a disruptor and finally on to developing sustainability strategies for growth, looking at situations from a different perspective was a key take-away from these workshops.
Anuradha Joshi - Associate General Manager
Thanks for leading a very interesting and successful workshop, which was appreciated by all our Leadership team. Your articulate, efficient, clear, and interactive approach - to engaging & educating the audience - on a complex case and subject, in a online environment, was excellent.
Sunil Mohinani, CEO
Thanks, Jay, for the brilliant and interactive session. As Sunil said I felt the session delivered more than expectations. Thanks a million!
Bright Nkosi, CPO
You brought out the best in the team and it not only paved the way for the rest of the conference, but gave clarity and confidence to the team for envisioning the future. Runwal team thanks you for making it so meaningful and invigorating.
Sangeeta Prasad, Group CEO
It was a great session and you really engaged the team for their active participation.
Sanjeev Verma, Sr. Vice President - HR Strategy
Thanks for an immersive, engaging and thought-provoking session. Interestingly we had multiple references to your anecdotes on following days. Hope to keep this “learning journey” on!
Dr. Amit Garg - Director Medical Affairs, Clinical Affairs, and Strategy Planning
Adaptability
Jay’s academic research interests centre around developing management insights from the fundamental principles of evolutionary biology, ecology and complex adaptive systems, to help inform the process of transformation in business ecosystems. This is the subject of his second book to be published in early 2027.
Accountability
"This book is a bold piece of writing that presents an in-depth look at the problem of accountability in India’s public administration. Jay P Desai confronts this sensitive and grave issue, directly and head-on, and substantiates his arguments with extensive research, data, analysis and action points. An essential read for the young citizen of India to understand the criticality of accountability and of taking concrete actions to help our nation achieve its full potential."
- N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman Emeritus,
Infosys Limited
"This is an important book, written at a crucial time. Jay P Desai has brought together many fields to write it; history, politics, economics and law. The book is wellwritten with strong conceptual foundations andempirical rigor and has many actionable implications forhow the Indian system needs to change, to makeprogress in the years to come."
- Jaideep Prabhu, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of IndianBusiness and Enterprise, Judge Business School,University of Cambridge
"Jay P Desai provides an insightful, analytical andpractical assessment of the current situation in Indiaand what can be done to take this cherished country tothe next level. With his focus on accountability in publicadministration and among citizens, he lays out how thecountry might embrace long term economic and societalchange. The author does not coddle the reader. Youwill find provocative ideas on virtually every page. Jay sets high but realistic expectations for all thestakeholders who can make a difference in acceleratingthe speed and direction of change for his country."
- Thomas J. DeLong, Philip J. Stomberg
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
"Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action, is a very timely contribution to the current debate over accountability in India. Jay P Desai brings critical thinking, creative conceptualization and compelling empirical evidence to bear on this important topic. He traces the historical origins and current multidimensional reality of this issue, shows how it hampers India’s progress, and suggests a comprehensive but practical approach to corrective action. This well-researched and well-written book is of course most relevant to India, but it also suggests broader lessons, as no country is immune to the problems described here."
- Patricia M. Danzon, PhD. Celia Moh Professor,
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"As a longtime lover and admirer of India, I strongly hope that this passionate study on "Accountability" by Jay P Desai, will serve as a guideline to all those invested with the responsibility of governing and administrating the world’s largest democracy. What Jay advocates in this remarkable book, is in fact true for all nations in the world. It should therefore be read all over the planet."
- Dominique Lapierre,
Author of "Freedom at Midnight“ and Author of “City of Joy”
