About the Author

Jatin H. Desai, cofounder and chief executive officer, The DeSai Group, is a seasoned business executive, strategic advisor, and coach for senior leadership teams. He has extensive field experience in the areas of strategy alignment, corporate innovation, talent management, large-scale change, culture transformation, and information technology.

Jatin has been active in leadership and operating roles since 1983, when he cofounded The DeSai Group, which offers solutions for strategy, innovation, and leadership development and provides innovation execution and management services to Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.

Jatin has helped address and manage the complex issues of worldwide market strategies, positioning, market expansion, development of innovative applications, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture management, cross-border outsourcing, new product introductions, human resource development, sales and marketing, and manufacturing.

His firm's clients in United States include: The Hartford Insurance, Bristol-Myers, Cigna, Merck, Macy's, Atkins, Wal-Mart, Vistage, Ketchum, BIC, Pitney Bowes, Prudential, ESPN, Duracell, United Technologies Corporation, Pratt & Whitney, Carrier Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft, Hamilton Sundstrand, Vistage International, and many more. In India, the firm's clients include: 3M, ABB, Aditya Birla Group, Bangalore Airport, Bosch, Coromandel International, Cognizant, JRF, Infosys, Infotech, Larsen & Toubro, Siemens, Titan Industries, ...

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