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Dr Narendra Laljani

Executive Fellow

Programme Director: Henley Executive Management Programme |
The Henley Strategy Programme
Co-Programme Director: Henley Strategic Innovation Programme

Narendra Profile Photo

Specialisms

  • Strategic thinking, 
  • Building market-focused organisations, 
  • Innovation, 
  • Strategy execution, 
  • Leader development

Narendra Laljani is a management educator, consultant, CEO coach, and board member. At Henley Business School, he directs the Henley Executive Management Programme and The Henley Strategy Programme, and co-directs the Henley Strategic Innovation Programme. His expertise spans strategy, leadership, innovation, and organisational change.

With more than 30 years’ experience facilitating executive teams and developing leaders, Narendra brings both academic insight and real-world perspective, following a 15-year international corporate career. He has worked extensively with senior executives and boards across a wide range of global organisations.

Narendra previously served as Dean of Graduate Studies at Ashridge Business School. He earned his doctorate from Cranfield University in 2008, with research focused on the dimensions, development, and deployment of strategic leadership capability.

He is the author of Making Strategic Leaders (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and co-author of The Future of Management Development: A Manifesto (in Management Development That Works, Libri 2015). Most recently, he contributed Outside-In: Overcoming Toxic Assumptions with Market Insight to The Corporate Explorer Fieldbook (Wiley, 2023). He also contributes to podcasts including How to Get Your Boss’s Job and Keep It and The Leader as Coach.

Beyond his academic and consulting work, Narendra serves as Chair of the Acorn Early Years Foundation and as a trustee of Goods for Good, a humanitarian aid agency.

Henley Executive Management Programme

The Changing Nature of Management

Strategy in the Age of Agility

Strategic Planning Workshop

Making Strategic Leaders

Strategy Execution

The Management Challenge – Live Case

The Henley Strategy Programme

What is Strategy?

The Strategic Process

Developing Customer Insight

Strategy as an Organisational Learning Process

Strategy as an Analytical Process

Strategy as a Creative Process

Building the Change Agenda

Henley Strategic innovation Programme

The Pathology of Corporate Failure

Customer Insight

Value Innovation: Breaking the Rules

Developing Value Propositions

Scaling Innovation

Moving to Action

Outside-In: Overcoming Toxic Assumptions with Market Insight, in Corporate Explorer Fieldbook, Wiley, 2023

The Future of Management Development: A Manifesto in Management Development That Works, Libri Publishing, 2015

Making Strategic Leaders, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching, Henley Business School, England, 2021

Doctor of Business Administration, Cranfield University, England, 2008

Master of Management Studies, University of Bombay, India, 1980

2015-: Managing Director, Milan Consulting Group Limited

2010-2015: Dean of Graduate Studies, Ashridge Business School

2004-2010: Director of Executive Education, Ashridge Business School

1995-2004: Client/Programme Director, Ashridge Business School

1980-1995: Various general management positions with ICI PLC in India and Europe

The Narendra Laljani one: life and learning from a master of strategy:

About Time with Chris Nichols

Leaders as Coaches:

Coaching@Henley: Episode 5 | Henley Business School

Corporate Explorer: The innovation Show with Aiden McCullen:

Narendra Laljani - Corporate Explorer Part 4

How to Get Your Boss’s Job – and keep it:

Leading Edge - How to Get Your Boss’s Job –… | Henley Business School