About Prasad Kaipa (Co-founder of IIW)
An Author, Keynote Speaker & Coach
Prasad Kaipa was a thought leader in innovation, leadership, and change management, and a top Management Thinker of Indian origin till 2019. Prasad’s unique approach was in integrating business approaches with brain research and spirituality/wisdom models. In addition to having advised and coached 130+ C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies, he used the Bhagavad Gita framework and several interviews with CEOs to co-author a best-selling book “From Smart to Wise” in 2013. He founded the Center of Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as well as co-founded TiE Silicon Valley's Entrepreneur Institute, with 13,000+ participants over 10 years.
Since his retirement, he is working with several non-profits (focused on education and youth) and enjoying reflecting on his learnings from Indian spiritual wisdom and focusing on inner transformation.
Since 1990, he has worked with leaders in companies like Apple, Adobe, Arevo, Boeing, Disney, Intellect Design, J & J, Lunar, Microsoft, BMS, Nokia and Oracle. He’s also served as an educator/consultant in the areas of leadership, change management, innovation and management team development for 100+ companies. He wrote for HBR, Business Week, Forbes, and the New York Times, and in 2016 published “You Can: Be Smarter and Wiser” with Meera Shenoy. Prasad holds a Ph.D. in physics from IIT Madras and taught at the University of Utah where he helped built an international research laboratory. Later at Apple, he served as a technology advisor, manager in Apple International Product Marketing, and a research fellow at Apple University.
