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Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker and author. Ram has coached some of the worlds’ most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, KLM, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, 3M and Verizon.
Ram started his business career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in India. He went on to earn an engineering degree and then MBA and doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School. He graduated from Harvard with high distinction and was a Baker Scholar. He then served on the Harvard Business School faculty. Ram cuts through the difficult problems and gets you to the right insights: he makes difficult problems simple with great insights.
Ram is known for his practical, real world perspective. His expertise runs deep in several areas of business:
* Organic Growth
* Succession & Leadership Pipeline
* Leadership
* Tools for Changing a Business Culture
* Corporate Governance
* Building Top Management Teams
* Business Acumen
* Execution: Discipline of Getting Things Done
* Culture of Innovation
* Slowing of the Economy
Ram is a favorite among executive educators. He has taught for 30 consecutive years at GE's famous Crotonville Institute and is the recipient of their Bell Ringer award (best teacher). He won the Best Teacher Award at Wharton and Northwestern. He was among Business Week’s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs.
Ram is a well-known author, whose books include Execution, co-authored with Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of Honeywell. Execution reached number one on the Wall Street Journal list, and has been on the New York Time’s best-seller list for more than one hundred and fifty weeks. Ram's other books include Boards That Deliver, What the CEO Wants You to Know, Boards at Work, Every Business Is a Growth Business, Profitable Growth, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don’t and What the Customer Wants You to Know. His latest book, The Game Changer, co-authored with A.G. Lafley, Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble, came out April 8, 2008. He also tailors his books for specific client companies such as Gateway, Ford and EDS.
He's written articles for Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Time, Information Week, Leader to Leader, Director's Monthly, Directorship, The Corporate Board and USA Today.
Ram is a director of Austin Industries, The Six Sigma Academy and Tyco Electronics. He was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2005. He serves as a co-host for the Fortune Forum on Corporate Governance and also serves on the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Blue Ribbon Commission on Corporate Governance.
Most Requested Topics:
The Game Changer - How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation: We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win—arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis. Managing in the Downturn – Tools to Use: Preparing a company to survive a prolonged period of slow growth or even contraction is one of the most difficult tasks that will ever confront management. Leaders must recognize the new reality confronting their companies and take the necessary steps to shore up the company and weather the storm. In this talk, Ram Charan will show you the tools leaders and managers need to implement to prepare for and steer through these tough economic times and also how to seize the opportunities that invariably arise out of difficult environments. Execution: 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 requires. Execution takes personal discipline, and more important, a systematic approach to synchronizing the moving parts of the organization. Based on the best selling and highly praised book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Business Acumen: Some people have a nose for business. More often than not, their instincts take them in the right direction, and the company makes money. These people have business acumen. What exactly is business acumen? Is it a raw talent or something that can be cultivated and improved? How does the business acumen of a Jack Welch differ from that of a street vendor in India? This program is based on the book What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works. Growth: Especially in a slow economy, growth can seem impossible to achieve. But growth opportunities almost always exist. What is needed is a disciplined approach to identify, pursue, and fund them. Based on the presenter's two books on growth, Every Business is a Growth Business and Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 9 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning. Corporate Governance: Sarbanes-Oxley and the NYSE guidelines can go only so far. Boards must go beyond compliance to ensure that they are focusing on the substance of corporate governance: providing oversight and adding value. Designed for those involved in corporate governance, this session is practical and down to earth. Based on Boards at Work and The New Board, and informed by working with some of the country's best boards, it shows how any board can be among the best. |
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