Dr. Madana Kumar, PhD

Dr. Madana Kumar, PhD, is an industry veteran with close to 4 decades of Industry Experience in organisations like Bharti, HCL, IBM etc.. He is a passionate student, thought leader and practitioner of Servant Leadership.  His passion is in evangelizing Servant Leadership (a topic he chose for his Doctoral dissertation) in all types of organisations, including Corporates, Educational Institutions and Social Sector organisations. Madana is recognized as  a Thought Leader, Strategist and Mentor, in the fields of Learning & Development and Leadership. He is currently shaping and implementing the Talent Development strategy of a Digital Services company, UST Global, to accelerate its transformation, bring in significant business impact for the organisation. He is also spearheading the implementation of Servant Leadership as the overarching Leadership philosophy all through the organisation.  His efforts have brought several national and international laurels to him personally (eg: CLO of the Year, Global CLO of the year, Talent Development Champion of the year etc) and for the organisation (Several Brandon Hall awards, ATD Awards,  Learning Elite Listings etc). He is a much sought-after speaker at Tier 1 Management Institutes in the country, and a prolific writer in several national and international magazines on the Topics of Learning Strategy and Servant Leadership.

He holds a PhD in Business Administration. He has dual bachelor Degrees , a B.Sc (Physics) and a BE from Indian Institute of Science. He holds an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and Certificates on Leadership awarded by the Cornell University , USA.

For his Doctoral work, Madana studied the application of Servant Leadership in Indian NGOs.