Ramya Ranganathan
Ramya Ranganathan is an educator, author, coach, poet and four-time TEDx speaker whose
work explores the intersection of psychology, human potential, work, wellbeing and our
relationship with the natural world.
She holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras, an MBA from
IIM Ahmedabad, a Master’s in Research from the University of London and a PhD in
Organisational Behaviour and Management from London Business School. She is teaching at IIM Bangalore for past 16 years, including a decade as full-time faculty. She is a trained life coach,
with training from Coach for Life Education, USA, and Back to Source, India.
An alumna of IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad, with a PhD from London Business School,
she coaches leaders and professionals through an inside-out approach and was recognized
among India’s Top 15 innovators in higher education by MHRD.
Alongside her academic work, Ramya is a corporate trainer, facilitator and keynote speaker
who has worked with organizations across industries, including Samsung, Cognizant,
Mercedes-Benz, Atlas Copco, Accenture, Infosys, JP Morgan, HSBC, Airbus, Novartis,
Indian Oil, Union Bank of India and others. She conducts leadership programmes on
resilience, personal mastery, innovation, design thinking and future readiness. She also
conducts retreats to help startups and founding teams articulate their values, purpose and
vision. Through her teaching, coaching and workshops, she has impacted more than 50,000
participants in India and internationally.
Her work draws on neuroscience, psychology, behavioural science and lived experience. She
is trained and certified in multiple modalities of holistic wellbeing and is a practitioner of
yoga, breathwork and somatic movement. A lifelong student of nature, she explores the
connection between our inner ecology and the outer ecology of the natural world.
Ramya is the author of Career Alchemy: An Inside-Out Approach to Joy, Success, and
Fulfilment through Work and the poetry collection I’m Choosing Life. She is also the creator
of the edX course Crafting Realities: Work, Happiness and Meaning, taken by learners across
16 countries.
Her four TEDx talks—Attention: Our Gateway to Change, Cultivating an Innovation
Mindset, Overcoming the Fear of Failure and Your Difference Isn’t a Flaw, It’s Your
Superpower—reflect recurring themes in her work.
She has been recognized by the Government of India among its Top 15 innovators in higher
education and received the Academy of Management Best Paper Award for her research on
values and conflict.
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