Kaustubh Dhargalkar

About Kaustubh Dhargalkar

Design Thinking Trainer/Coach and an ‘Innovation & Strategy’ Consultant. Author of ‘It’s Logical: Innovating Profitable Business Models’ (Sage Publications) https://bit.ly/ItsLogical Serial entrepreneur since 1990. In 2005, sold commercial interests in his first 3 companies and plunged into academics and research. He calls himself ‘An Accidental Academic’Kaustubh relishes the challenge of ‘Enhancing the Innovation Quotient’ of an organization, by helping create new offerings to tap existing as well as new markets. Visualising unique & sustainable Business Models is his forte. Associations: 1) Mercedes Benz 2) Daimler 3) Citibank 4) HP 5) Deloitte 6) Mahindra Group 7) YES Bank 8) Accenture 9) Amazon 10) L&T 11) ICICI bank 12) Syngenta 13) Eaton 14) CEAT 15) Honeywell 16) Shoppers Stop 17) IIT-Bombay, IIT-Mandi, ICT-Mumbai, Weschool-Mumbai etc. Awards/Honours: 1) Honoured as \'Entrepreneurship Educator & Mentor\' Award by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship-Govt. of India, INTEL, British Council, NEN, EDII. 2) Work in the field of ‘Unconventional User Research’ was acknowledged by The Wharton School of Business. Awarded the runner-up award in the global \'Wharton Innovation Tournament\' in 2010 for an app for mining Consumer Pain Points 3) His proposal on clean energy integration with electric vehicles was adjudged as the top seven in the world at the Smart City World Expo Congress held in Barcelona, Spain. Events: 1) http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Entrepreneurship-Kaustubh-Dharg2) TEDx-Sanofi 3) TEDx-NICMARMentor with Stanford Seed, a worldwide outreach program of Stanford University for nurturing startupsConducts Innovation Hackathons/ Design Sprints across domains and specializes in bringing out the Creative force in organisations.An acclaimed professor of Innovation, Design Thinking & Entrepreneurship. Currently, the Dean-Business Design & Innovation at WeSchool and a visiting faculty @ IIT-Bombay, IIM-Sirmaur, ICT-Mumbai. Mentor at various startup incubators, active on various startup forums s.a. IIT-Mandi Catalyst, ET-Power of Ideas, WF Global etc. At WeSchool, he has been responsible for imbibing the practice of ‘Prototyping’ among the students. His philosophy with students is, “Don’t show me PowerPoint presentations, show me Prototypes. Seek user-feedback, tweak them & achieve Product-Market Fit‘Contributor at Knowledge@Wharton, published by the Wharton School of Business.

Experience

1. Business Mentor

   Stanford Seed

   Mar 2022 — Present · IN

Education

• Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS)

  MMS, Marketing Mgt

  1988 — 1990

• Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

  B.Tech, Electrical Engineering

  1984 — 1988

• University of Mumbai

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Design Thinking & Corporate Innovation

  2010 — 2015

Skills

• Innovation Consulting
• Analytics
• Strategy
• Business Strategy
• Energy
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Team Management
• Leadership
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Marketing
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Product Management
• Crm
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Entrepreneurship
• Market Research
• Business Development
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Analysis
• Vendor Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Management
• Consulting
• Business Analysis
• Mentoring
• Training
• New Business Development
• Marketing Management
• Strategic Planning
• Business Planning
• Management Consulting
• Research
• Financial Modeling
• Leadership Mentoring
• Brand Management
• Marketing Strategy