<p>In his work with companies including Toyota, Bank of America, Key Bank, ICICI Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Novartis, Max Group, Yildiz Holdings, UST Global, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), Humana and Matrix, he is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast-changing environment to uncover the core business problem. </p><p>His real-world solutions, shared with millions through his books and articles in top business publications, have been praised for being practical, relevant and highly actionable — the kind of advice you can use Monday morning. Jack Welch, former Chairman of GE said, “He has the rare ability to distill meaningful from meaningless and transfer it to others in a quiet, effective way.”</p><p>Professor Charan has coached more than a dozen leaders who went on to become CEOs. He reaches many more up-and-coming business leaders through in-house executive education programs. His energetic, interactive teaching style has won him several awards, including the Bell Ringer award at GE’s famous Crotonville Institute and best teacher award at Northwestern. </p><p>He was among <em>Business Week</em>‘s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. Ram has authored or co-authored more than 35 books that have sold over 4 million copies in more than a dozen languages. Four of his books were <em>Wall Street Journal</em> bestsellers, including <em>Execution</em> (coauthored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy), which spent more than 150 weeks on the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller list. He also has written for publications including over 12 articles for <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, 12 articles for <em>Fortune</em> and numerous articles for <em>BusinessWeek</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>Chief Executive</em> and <em>USA TODAY</em>.</p><p>Ram was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and was named one of the most influential people in corporate governance and the board room by Directorship magazine. He has served on the Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance and serves or has served on a dozen boards in the US, Brazil, China, India, Canada, and Dubai.<span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>
Business Advisor, Author, and BusinessWeek "Top 10 Resource"
<ul><li><strong>Innovation and Growth: Cultivating the Game-Changers</strong></li><li>Ram Charan demystifies innovation and explains how powerhouses Proctor & Gamble, Nokia, LEGO, and Honeywell do it. With his penchant for real-world practicality, he translates insights from the best companies into concrete steps that make innovation repeatable and measurable.</li><li><strong>Reinventing How You Sell: What the Customer Wants You to Know</strong></li><li>Too often selling becomes a war over price. Ram Charan shows the way out with a new approach to selling that starts with helping customers reach their business goals. Does it require new skills and ways of working? Yes, with salespeople leading the charge. Here Charan discusses companies that have made the shift and escaped from commodity-pricing hell.</li><li><strong>Leadership Know-How: Developing Leaders at All Levels</strong></li><li>Charan brings realism and specificity to a subject that is often vague and amorphous: leadership. Why do so many leaders fail? Very simple, he says, they don't know how to run a business. Charan breaks through the façade of leadership to explain the capabilities leaders must possess.</li><li><strong>Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done</strong></li><li>For many leaders, creating a strategy is the easy part. Making it happen is the bigger challenge. Why is flawless execution so hard to achieve? Because few leaders understand what it demands. Execution takes personal discipline, and more important, a systematic approach to synchronizing the moving parts of the organization.</li></ul>