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Narayan Pant

Professor of Management Practice

Biography

Narayan works with leaders to improve leadership effectiveness. He directs INSEAD’s senior leadership programme – LEAP: Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice. The program focuses on enabling leaders to transform organizations through transforming themselves.

Narayan began his academic career, writing and teaching in Strategy. He taught strategy and policy at New York University's Stern School, and the business faculties of the University of Alberta (Canada) and the National University of Singapore, before joining INSEAD. He published in areas including forecasting, value conflicts, strategic choice, organizational structure and culture, and other strategy related areas. He has also presented papers at academic conferences such as The Academy of Management, The Strategic Management Society and ORSA/TIMS.

Over the last several years, Narayan shifted his focus towards enabling leaders to make the changes they needed (rather than talking about what they should change). He observed that senior leaders commonly knew what they needed to do; the challenges lay in doing what was needed. This led Narayan to develop programs aimed at targeted, identifiable changes in behavior leading to sustained improvement in leadership effectiveness.

Prior to joining INSEAD, Narayan worked as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group, and continues to consult with his own firm, Clean Slate Consulting. He worked with companies in FMCG, financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, retail and many others. Since joining INSEAD, Narayan has been Associate Dean of Executive Education for Asia, and Dean of Executive Education for all INSEAD.'

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How Leaders Can Effect Change by Changing Themselves

Narayan Pant

A four-step framework to help leaders look inwards to better lead organisational change.

Leadership & Organisations

It Doesn't Have to Be Lonely at the Top

Narayan Pant

Tips for leaders to gain valuable, actionable and informed feedback from their peers.

Leadership & Organisations

Leadership in the Moment of Decision

Narayan Pant

Leaders collect vast amounts of knowledge, but if there is one area of expertise they must develop, it is the art of making the judgment call. Decision-making doesn’t come from models, it comes from practice.
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