Sripada Chandrasekhar (Chandra) combines vast practitioner experience with deep academic interests in teaching, research and scholarship. Chandra’s current research interests are focused on leadership, talent, culture and the future of work in digital economies. He teaches a range of courses covering topics such as power, influence, change, networks, personal and organizational leadership, strategic human resource
management, and future of work and careers. Chandra was a C-Suite executive with a large public, private and MNC firms and held the role of the chief human resources officer (CHRO) for more than twenty-five years. He has wide cross-border experience of leading people and building human capital strategies across continents, nationalities and cultures. Apart from teaching postgraduate and modular programmes, Chandra teaches extensively in Indian School of Business’s executive education programmes. He is also a certified executive coach and sits on the boards of both for-profit companies and NGOs.

Chandra’s recent publications include Leading Human Capital in the 2020s (Sage Publications, 2020) and working papers on talent strategies in unicorns and global development centres.