Dr Narendra Laljani
Executive Fellow
Programme Director: Henley Executive Management Programme |
The Henley Strategy Programme
Co-Programme Director: Henley Strategic Innovation Programme

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
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:
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
Specialisms
- Strategic thinking
- Building market-focused organisations
- Innovation
- Strategy execution
- Leader development
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