Academia

I’ve often found a subtle, yet significant, gap between the elegant theories taught in lecture halls and the messy, high-stakes reality of executing those theories in large organizations.

This channel for me, is an attempt to bridge that gap.

I want to move beyond the abstract and share the concrete, operational knowledge I’ve gained navigating the complex corridors of the Public Sector, Banking, and Financial Services.

My hope is that by sharing these ground-level truths, we can collectively sharpen the insights that will shape the next generation of business and technology leaders.

Practice to Pedagogy

As a practitioner, my career has been an intense, hands-on masterclass in the intersection of large-scale Management, Leadership, and Applied AI, specifically across the highly regulated and complex domains of the Public Sector, Banking, and Financial Services.

It’s a world defined by high stakes, rapid technological cycles, and the constant pressure to deliver robust, ethical, and transformative value.

Alongside spending years operating at this critical nexus, I have always been keen to engage deeply with our leading business and management schools. My motivation is simple: to share knowledge and, crucially, to give back to academia a little treasure trove of nuggets that I’ve accumulated from the trenches, while doing so learn from the young minds.

Sample Engagements

I believe the most potent learning happens when theory is vigorously tested by reality. While academic research brilliantly forecasts the future and establishes the conceptual frameworks for success, the practitioner’s world offers unfiltered lessons in execution, organizational friction, and real-world ethical dilemmas.

I have been fortunate enough to translate this commitment into action through various specialized sessions and interactions.

• IIM-Kolkata
  Focus: Social Media Strategy and Governance

  
  My discussions here went beyond standard digital marketing. We focused on the high-stakes environment of Social Media Governance for Financial Institutions.

  This involved deep dives into crisis communication during digital reputation events, the regulatory tightrope walk of customer engagement on public platforms, and leveraging social data for risk modelling without compromising privacy.

  The emphasis was on how top management leads in a perpetually public-facing domain.

• IIM-Lucknow
  Focus: Data-Driven Marketing in Regulated Sectors

  
  The core of my sessions here centered on advanced Marketing and Business Strategy, particularly within heavily regulated banking and public sectors. We explored how to build truly personalized customer journeys using AI and Big Data, while strictly adhering to data residency requirements, compliance mandates, and fairness principles in algorithmic decision-making.

  The challenge is often optimizing conversions within a defined ethical and legal boundary.

• SCMHRD
  Focus: Applied AI, People, Privacy, and Ethics
  
  This engagement tackled the fundamental, human-centric challenges of large-scale AI deployment. We dissected the real-world implications of People, Privacy, and Ethics in operational AI systems.

  

  This included practical frameworks for establishing AI review boards, the organizational psychology of re-skilling teams displaced by automation, and methods for conducting internal “bias audits” on production models to ensure fair outcomes for all customer segments.

Ongoing Engagement Matters

My goal isn’t just to lecture, but to provide the real-world operational context that makes abstract concepts tangible, enabling the next generation to succeed.

• For Future Entrepreneurs

  I offer insight into the genuine challenges of scaling an AI concept from a proof-of-concept to a production system trusted by a million users. It’s about operationalizing regulatory risk and understanding the difference between a great idea and a viable business model within regulated environments.

• For Business Leaders

  I illuminate the nuances of leading transformation. I share how the principles of organizational psychology shift when you introduce non-human decision-makers, and what true “leadership in the age of automation” looks like.

• For Academic Researchers

  I provide real-time, ground-level feedback on where academic models successfully predict industry behaviour and, just as importantly, where they might fall short or require adaptation when meeting the constraints of government policy or financial compliance.

Boardroom to the Classroom

I am dedicated to making my experience accessible to the academic community.

I am available for talks, panel discussions, speaking engagements, and guest lectureships to share these real-world knowledge nuggets.

More than just sharing war stories, I am keen to work directly with faculty and management to explore avenues where we could collectively enhance curricula, develop case studies based on actual industry outcomes, and improve the preparedness of students for the complex, fast-moving techno-business environment they will inherit.

My aim is to enrich the curriculum, not to replace theory, but to provide the vivid, often painful, case studies that only come from having been personally accountable for the outcomes.