Sudhanshu Palsule

Sudhanshu Palsule is an award-winning educator, consultant, leadership coach and author. He is regarded as one of the leading thinkers in the field of Transformative Leadership and Leading in Complexity.

Programme Co-Director of the Møller Executive Education’s unique Explorer Mindset senior leadership development programme, Sudhanshu’s leadership work brings together the latest research emerging from neurology and psychology, and his own exploration of human thinking and behaviour over thirty years.

Sudhanshu Palsule – Background

Faculty staff at Duke Corporate Education (USA) for the past decade, Sudhanshu teaches at other global business schools and works with senior management teams across Fortune 500 companies, government organisations and the public sector.

Trained as a physicist, he uses principles of quantum mechanics in his work on building effective 21st century organisations and teams that can thrive in increasingly complex global eco-systems.

His newest work focuses on how leaders can develop a mindset to address the complex, disruptive and fast-evolving challenges presented by the 21st Century. From 1999-2003, Sudhanshu was a Senior Advisor in Leadership Development at the United Nations.

He is considered an international ‘thought leader’ of transformative leadership. His latest book, The Social Leader: Redefining Leadership for the Complex Social Age was published in 2014. He has also co-authored Managing in Four Worlds (development management) and The Ecology of Organizations. He is currently working on a new book about the Value of Purpose.

Palsiule's work on leadership brings together the latest research emerging from neurology and psychology, and his own exploration of human thinking and behavior over thirty years. Trained as a physicist, he uses principles of quantum mechanics in his work on building effective 21st century organizations and teams that can thrive in increasingly complex global eco-systems.

His notion of “Self-Ware”– the program of thinking, emotions, and beliefs that drives us – remains central to his work on leadership. His model of the "Four Mindsets" - Reaction, Control, Mindfulness, and Mastery has been succesfully used in many organizations globally, enabling teams and their leaders to operate at higher levels of cognition and leadership effectiveness.

Renowned for his expert facilitation and coaching, Palsule helps senior management teams engage in the difficult and sweaty conversations that bring resolution, energy and the right action. His clients include CEO's and senior management teams of several Fortune 500 companies. He also works with international organizations in the public sector and the United Nations. Palsule was featured in the magazine Developing Leaders for his work with pharma giant AstraZeneca. You can read the article here.

His new book, "THE SOCIAL LEADER: REDEFINING LEADERSHIP FOR THE COMPLEX SOCIAL AGE" was released in September 2014. He teaches at Duke CE, in the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, and at other business schools globally. His leadership workshops are renowned for their profound transformative impact.