Discussion-led, Case Study-based
Adaptive Leadership
Strategy Workshops
Jay conducts case study-based “Adaptive Leadership Strategy Workshops” for leaders and organisations and has facilitated 65+ workshops with ~1650+ participants.
Adaptive Leadership Strategy Workshops for CXO’s and Senior Leadership Teams
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. Jay’s 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
What Makes These Workshops Unique
Jay brings a strategy-led perspective to leadership development based on his 36+ years of management consulting experience. His workshops are built around real business situations faced by case study companies, not on abstract theories, and are designed to help leadership teams engage with the critical issues: disruption, adaptation, transformation, resilience, execution, and organisational alignment.
Each workshop is highly interactive and discussion-driven, using carefully selected cases and practical frameworks to stimulate reflection, challenge assumptions, and improve strategic thinking. The objective is to strengthen how leaders interpret change, anticipate risk, and adapt to disruption.
Who These Workshops Are For
These workshops are especially relevant for:
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CXOs and Senior leadership teams leading business transformation and navigating disruption
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Business heads managing complexity across functions, levels and geographies
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Organisations seeking stronger strategic alignment across business
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Organisations that need to build adaptive capacity.
Workshop Clients
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 tohear 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 ofthese learnings to the projects we are working on! Look forward to many such sessions as we dream big and push ourselves toreimagine 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
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
These Workshops Are Most Valuable For Organisations That Are ...
Undergoing a business transformation
Facing market or technology disruption
Preparing leadership teams for a strategic inflection
Developing organisational alignment across functions, and business units
Dealing with uncertainty, volatility, or rapid change
Workshop Methodology
Every workshop is strategy-led, case study-based, and discussion-driven, customised for the strategic needs of the business. Jay creates a workshop ambience where senior leaders can think together, challenge each other constructively, and develop sharper insights on the case study company. These learnings can then be transposed onto their own organisation.
Learning outcomes from these workshops
Stronger strategic thinking and judgment
Improved organisational and cross-functional alignment
Heightened ability to anticipate, respond, and manage disruption
Enhanced organisational adaptive capacity
April 2026
Oil Field Instrumentation India & Netel India – “Evolving Future Leaders”
February 2026
Bajaj Electricals – “Evolving the Future”
Mar 2025
The Indian School of Business (ISB) – “Adaptability”
Jun 2024
License to Lead, cohort 5 - Shilputsi Consultants – “Adapting to Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
March 2024
Larsen & Toubro – “Leading with Strategy”
December 2023
Mohinani Group – “Leading Through Collaboration”
April 2023
Runwal Group – “Envisioning the Future”
April 2023
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres – “Enterprise Leadership”
March 2023
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres – “Enterprise Leadership”
May 2022
The Oberoi Hotels/ Trident Hotels – “Adapting to Change”
February 2022
Terumo India Private Limited – “Leading Transformation”
January 2022
Pfizer India – “Adapting to Digital Disruption”
December 2021
Danaher Corporation – “Ten Lessons of Transformation”
July 2021
Welspun Corp – “Sustainability for Growth”
April 2021
Bolivian Catholic University - “Adaptive Leadership”
January 2021
Welspun Corp – “Innovating to Disrupt”
September 2020
Welspun Corp – “Adapting to Disruption”
August 2020
Hardcastle Petrofer - “Leading Collaboration”
August 2020
Hardcastle Petrofer - “Driving Innovation”
Feb 2020
Seedworks - “Leading Collaboration and Driving Innovation”
February 2020
The Kirloskar Group - “Collaborative Leadership”
January 2020
Harvard Business Publishing (SBI Card - Executive Leadership Development Program)
January 2020
Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd – “Collaborative Management”
Nov 2019
Piramal Corp. ASCEND 4.0 – “Business Excellence & Change Management”
Nov 2019
Welspun Corp – “Enterprise Leadership”
Nov 2019
CMS – “Adapting to Complexity”
Nov 2019
NSDL e-Gov – “Adapting to Change”
September 2019
Great Place to Work – “Harvard Café Case Study & Reflection”
September 2019
IMA India's Annual CFO Strategy Roundtable – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
August 2019
Harvard Business Publishing (10th Indian Management Conclave 2019) “Escape the Competition”
July 2019
Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Chennai Chapter – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
July 2019
Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd – Leadership Team – “Ten Lessons of Transformation”
June 2019
CHRO Forum - IMA India, Delhi/ Gurgaon – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
May 2019
BOSCH - High Potential Leaders Conference
March - July 2019
Harvard Business Publishing (Jones Lang LaSalle India) – “Transformational Leadership”
March 2019
Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Maharashtra Chapter – “Artificial Intelligence - The Structure of a Revolution”
March 2019
IMA India - CEO Forum, Mumbai – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
March 2019
Ambit Corp Leaders Offsite
January 2019
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University – “Comparative Perspectives on India”
January 2019
CEO Forum - IMA India, Hyderabad – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
January 2019
CHRO Forum - IMA India, Hyderabad – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
January 2019
CEO Forum - IMA India, Pune – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
January 2019
CHRO Forum - IMA India , Mumbai – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
December 2018
IMA India - CEO Forum, Bengaluru – “Navigating Crisis - Ten Lessons of Strategy”
September 2018
True North Pathfinders, CFO Meet
August 2018
Personal Excellence Academy Workshop, TCS – “Ten Lessons of Strategy”
August 2018
Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), Mumbai Chapter – The Structure of the AI Revolution
July 2018
SDA Bocconi Asia Center
February 2018
DP World – “Artificial Intelligence - An Evolutionary Perspective”
September 2017
Raymond Lifestyle Leadership Development Program - Harvard Business Publishing
August 2017
Harvard Club of Mumbai – “White Corridors: Nine Lessons from a Battle for Justice”
March 2017
MISB Bocconi and Rotman School of Management – “Comparative Perspectives on India”
February 2017
Ashoka University – “Accountability -The Heartbeat of Governance”
February 2017
TedEx - MISB Bocconi – “Accountability -The Heartbeat of Governance”
September 2017
Johnson & Johnson Vision – Leadership Team “Comparative Perspectives on India”
November 2016
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University - “Adapting in Emerging India”
November 2016
Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University - “Adapting in Emerging India”
Workshops & Lectures
Jay Desai
Workshop Facilitator
Workshop Delivery Team
Sonali Aggarwal
Finance & Legal
Stephanie James
Market Development
Lakshmi Priya Panicker
Research Development
Arati Ghadge
Administration
Shrikant Amin
Technology