Fortune magazine called him the "most influential consultant alive”, a reputation the globe-trotting management guru earned by advising top-notch business leaders around the world with his unique perspective.

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker, who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with giants including GE, MeadWestvaco, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, 3M, Verizon, Aditya Birla Group, Tata Group, to name a few, he is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing environment. His real-world solutions have been praised for being practical, relevant and highly actionable.

From working in the family shoe shop in a small town in northern India, to earning an engineering degree, to a job in Australia, his talent for business could not stay out of sight. He earned MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and he then served on the faculties of HBSl and Northwestern University before pursuing consulting full time. Ram’s work takes him around the globe non-stop and that makes him someone who literally ''lives out of a suitcase''.

Ram was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance. He has served on the boards of Hindalco in India, Emaar, Austin Industries, Tyco Electronics, and Fischer and Porter.

Ram has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs and has authored 15 books since 1998 that have sold over 2 million copies in more than a dozen languages.

Former Chairman of GE Jack Welch says Ram "has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it in a quiet, effective way without destroying confidences,” while Ivan Seidenberg, the former CEO of Verizon, calls Ram his "secret weapon."