Ruchin is an educator, a C-suite executive, and a leadership coach with strong business, strategy, innovation, and digital acumen. He enjoys working with leaders to enable change and build a better society. He is a speaker and is frequently featured in news media and publications.
“I’m a builder at heart. I am at my best when I am building new companies, business units, products, and high-performing teams.” – Ruchin
Ruchin Kansal has been privileged to serve in transformative leadership roles as an industry executive and management consultant focused on growth, strategy, innovation, and digital business. Along the way, he experienced that in organizations, leadership matters. It has motivated him to learn how to become a more courageous, purposeful, and impactful leader by examining his career and earning certification in Leadership & Performance Coaching at Brown University.
Starting his career as an architect lodged a deep passion for building useful things that people love interacting with. Architecture allowed him to turn abstract ideas into concrete reality – he loved the blend of human-centered design, systems thinking, and scientific precision.
After completing his MBA at NYU-Stern, he spent 10+ years in management consulting. During this phase, he architected new organizational divisions, launched new ventures and products, and drove large-scale merger integration and commercial model transformation programs.
The last decade was spent at two leading life sciences companies – Boehringer Ingelheim and Siemens Healthineers. At Boehringer Ingelheim, as the Head of Business Innovation & Transformation, he built and led the first business innovation department focused on digital health, co-creation with customers, and patient engagement. At Siemens Healthineers, as Global Senior Vice President for Strategy/Digital Services, he helped define the global digital strategy with a focus on strengthening the core business. He co-led the transformation of the centralized Digital Services business unit into decentralized units embedded in the core business lines to drive competitive advantage and minimize internal interfaces.
Ruchin teaches Leadership and Innovation in the Department of Management, Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University. He founded Kansal & Company to advise companies on growth, innovation, digital, and transformation; and co-founded The Ganesha Group to solve the most pressing corporate leadership challenges.
I had the privilege of being invited to the Obama White House to share ideas on involving patients in healthcare research to drive precision medicine. I have served on the Board of Directors for Stanford Medicine X from 2014-2017 and Weston Education Foundation from 2018 – 2019. – Ruchin Kansal
In his first book, he shares what he’s learned over the years to help healthcare companies innovate. He has contributed a chapter in Digital Strategies and Organizational Transformation where he writes that true transformation of the healthcare industry will happen once digital skill sets are fully incorporated in the training and development of the healthcare workforce and its leadership.
He is also the lead researcher for the “Future of Leadership” survey focused on gathering insight and foresight on the future of leadership from the perspective of 18–30-year-old citizens. He is the co-editor of In The Lead, a semi-annual magazine with the mission to inform future leaders, generate global dialog on the topic of leadership, and build a community of leaders that see more effective leadership as a prerequisite to building a better world. Ruchin is also the director of “The 5thIndustrial Revolution,” a Vodcast and graduate-level course exploring the intersection of the human condition, health technology, and space exploration and developing leaders that are comfortable with ambiguity, analytical problem solvers, and good crisis managers.
His experiences have made him realize that leaders and teams need to transform to deliver real change. Only then can any transformation program succeed. This has led him to develop his self-awareness as a leader further and invest in becoming a leader-coach to enable people to become their best leaders. Ruchin is certified to offer EQ-I 2.0 and Hogan Assessments.
“I coach bright, ambitious and well-meaning individuals in becoming transformative leaders. I do so by helping them find their purpose and the courage to drive for change that they, their organizations, and their employees deserve.” – Ruchin Kansal
In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Gunjan (a physician), son Neil (a cellist) and their dog Roo. Always a traveler at heart and throughout his childhood, Ruchin now travels with his family, having visited all 50 states in the US, and more than 30 countries and counting. The peace, tranquil, and awe-inspiring vastness of the Indian Himalayas, the Swiss Alps, the Canadian Rockies and the Argentinean Andes; the culinary delights of Mexico, Morocco, and Turkey; historic cultures of Peru, Italy, Greece, and China; the efficiency of Japan, Germany and Dubai; the hospitality of Kenya and Nepal; all have unconsciously shaped his being and view of the world.
CERTIFICATIONS
EQi 2.0 • Hogan Assessment
ENGAGEMENTS
Professor and Director – Business Leadership Center at Seton Hall University
Editor – In the Lead Magazine
Primary Investigator – Future of Leadership Survey
Director Graduate Course and Vodcast Series – 5th Industrial Revolution
Author – Redefining Innovation
Speaker and TV Host
EDUCATION
Brown University: ICF Accredited Certificate in Leadership and Performance Coaching
Duke University and Kunshan University: Boehringer Ingelheim’s Global Leadership Development Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Executive Program, Mastering Five Skills for Disruptive Innovation
New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business: MBA, Finance & IS; Digital Economy Certificate
Kansas State University: M. Arch., Normative and Spatial Implications of Cyberspace on the Public Realm
Indian Institute of Technology: Roorkee; B.Arch., Architecture, Design & Planning
