Navi Radjou நவி ராஜூ 🇮🇳 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

Co-Founder

Paris, Île-de-France, France30 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Ranked among the top 50 management thinkers globally.
  • Awarded the Thinkers50 Innovation Award in 2013.
  • Delivered a TED talk with over 2 million views.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a thought leader in Sustainability and Innovation, specializing in Frugal Innovation and Leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Innovation ManagementSustainabilityFrugal InnovationLeadershipPublic SpeakingStrategic ConsultingLeadership DevelopmentInnovationJugaad Innovation

Other Skills

Strategic LeadershipDynamic SpeakerMotivational SpeakingEmerging MarketsIntrapreneurshipGlobalizationCreative WritingStrategic ThinkingMarket ResearchOrganizational DevelopmentExecutive CoachingStrategic CommunicationsStart-upsPublished AuthorStrategic Partnerships

About

I am an independent scholar and an inspirational keynote speaker who has written 3 books and delivered hundreds of speeches worldwide on frugal innovation, jugaad, and wise leadership. Since 2021, I am ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world: https://thinkers50.com/t50-ranking/ In 2013, I won the prestigious Thinkers50 Innovation Award, given to a management thinker who is redefining the way we think about and practice innovation: https://tinyurl.com/45j8ypda With 30 years of global work experience as a strategy advisor, author, and scholar, I combine my multicultural background (Indian, French, American) and my deep insights into the emerging trends and challenges of the 21st century. My mission is to help create a safe, healthy, caring, and sustainable world by awakening and igniting the ingenuity, compassion, and wisdom of people across sectors and cultures. My new book The Frugal Economy: Building a Better World with Less was published by Wiley and Thinkers50 in October 2024: https://tinyurl.com/su3zw2jb I have also co-authored three books: Jugaad Innovation (over 200,000 copies sold): https://tinyurl.com/28thhydu Frugal Innovation: https://tinyurl.com/4umv66hc From Smart to Wise: https://tinyurl.com/5dfhwycv I've given a TED talk with over 2 million views: https://tinyurl.com/2s3nuexx In the past, I've served as a fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, a Vice President at Forrester Research in Boston, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. To book me as a speaker, email: speaking@naviradjou.com Here is what others have to say about me: "Navi is pioneering breakthrough business and social paradigms that will reinvent our economy and society for the better" - Henry Chesbrough, father of Open Innovation "Navi offers a truly unique and valuable perspective which powerfully fuses together Europe, Silicon Valley, and India" - Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, co-founders of Thinkers50 "Navi is one of the most creative minds to have ever advised our clients. He is truly a man from the future" - George F Colony, founder and CEO, Forrester

Experience

30 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
9 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
17 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Freelance (self employed)

2 roles

Author, The Frugal Economy (Wiley)

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • In The Frugal Economy: A Guide to Building a Better World With Less, award-winning author Navi Radjou delivers an incisive and engrossing treatment of how human beings facing climate change can reconcile our built-in drive to “do more” and “be better” with our planet's finite resources.
  • You'll discover how we can thrive within planetary boundaries while achieving sustainable growth for generations to come.
  • In this groundbreaking book, enriched with over 100 inspiring examples, you'll learn how to create greater value with less and find:
  • Practical strategies for doing more with less, benefiting both people and the planet
  • Success stories of businesses fueling transformative megatrends like B2B sharing, distributed manufacturing, and triple regeneration
  • Insights into reshaping economic systems to promote social and ecological harmony
  • Whether you're a businessperson, professional, student, academic, policymaker, regulator, or entrepreneur, you can join the movement towards a sustainable future.
  • Get your copy of The Frugal Economy today and become a catalyst for positive change!
  • The Frugal Economy was published by Wiley and Thinkers50 worldwide on October 8, 2024.
  • Order this inspiring book now: https://a.co/d/hoF1grR
SustainabilityFrugal InnovationInnovation Management

Inspirational Keynote Speaker

Jan 2000Present · 26 yrs 3 mos

  • I am a dynamic inspirational speaker who has keynoted hundreds of conferences worldwide.
  • I harness my multicultural (Indian, French, American) background and my 30 years of global work experience as a futurist to tell untold stories of cutting-edge innovation and leadership that inspire and galvanize the audience.
  • My TED talk has been viewed +2 million times: https://tinyurl.com/e33ej3bt
  • Today, I deliver visionary keynotes on 6 timely topics:
  • Topic 1: The Frugal Economy: Turning Climate Change into Climate Opportunities
  • Topic 2: Frugal Innovation: Doing Better with Less
  • Topic 3: Jugaad: Unleashing the Ingenuity of Your Employees, Customers, and Partners
  • Topic 4: Beyond Inclusion: ‘Integralizing’ Diversity to Boost Performance and Impact
  • Topic 5: Beyond AI: Leading Wisely In The Post-Digital Society
  • Topic 6: Intrapreneurship: How Large Organizations Can Accelerate Growth Through Innovation
  • Here is my speaker reel: https://youtu.be/4HbcK_5L12Y
  • To book me as speaker, email: speaking@naviradjou.com
Dynamic SpeakerMotivational SpeakingLeadershipPublic Speaking

Le guide de l'innovation frugale: les 6 principes clés pour faire mieux avec moins

Co-auteur

Oct 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • En plein essor mondial, l’innovation frugale est un mouvement éclairé de cocréation de valeur qui répond à l’urgence à la fois écologique et sociale. Il s’agit de développer des produits et services de qualité abordables et durables qui ont un impact positif sur la planète, tout en consommant le moins de ressources possible. Le Guide de l’innovation frugale, le premier livre sur ce sujet, vous donnera les clés pour faire mieux avec moins grâce à 6 principes indispensables :
  • 1. Engager et itérer
  • 2. Booster l’agilité (fluidifier et flexibiliser vos ressources)
  • 3. Co-créer des solutions durables et régénératrices
  • 4. Façonner le comportement client
  • 5. Cocréer de la valeur avec les consom’acteurs
  • 6. Collaborer avec des partenaires innovants.
  • Dans ce livre, écrit par les auteurs du best-seller L'Innovation Jugaad, vous trouverez plus de 50 cas inspirants d'entreprises pionnières et des start-up révolutionnaires qui vous pousseront à l’action, que vous soyez dirigeant, manager, entrepreneur, ou salarié.
  • « Navi Radjou et Jaideep Prabhu démontrent comment — et pourquoi — le concept d’innovation frugale a rapidement évolué d’un simple slogan des écoles de commerce à un impératif stratégique pour toutes les entreprises. L'innovation frugale est une idée — et un livre — dont l’heure est venue. »
  • Paul Polman, ancien PDG d’Unilever, et président d’ICC, de B Team, et vice-président du Pacte Mondial des Nations Unies
Frugal InnovationSustainability

Do better with less: frugal innovation for sustainable growth

Coauthor

Apr 2019Present · 7 yrs

  • This groundbreaking book shows how INDIA can harness three megatrends -- the sharing economy, the maker movement and the circular economy -- and disruptive technologies such as AI and 3D printing to generate jobs and drive inclusive and sustainable growth in the decades to come.
  • The world faces a stark challenge: meeting the needs of over 7 billion people without bankrupting the planet. India, with its large population and limited resources, is at the very epicentre of this challenge. It also offers a creative way out. Its resilient jugaad mindset, dynamic ecosystem of start-ups and enterprises, and the practice of NGOs and governments working together promises not only to meet its own requirements in a sustainable way but also the needs of billions around the world.
  • According to the UN, 50% of the progress towards UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must come from India in coming decade. This means that IF WE WANT TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE WORLD, WE MUST BUILD A SUSTAINABLE INDIA. As this book shows, the future of humanity hinges on India!
  • Packed with over fifty case studies, Do Better with Less offers six proven principles that Indian entrepreneurs and businesses can use to co-create frugal solutions in education, energy, healthcare, food and finance that are highly relevant to India and the world.
Frugal InnovationSustainability

World economic forum

Member of Global Future Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Jul 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs

Conscious society: redefining who we are. reinventing how we consume, work, relate, and live (2021)

Author

Jan 2016Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

  • An uplifting and empowering book that shows how all of us can consciously direct human evolution towards a better future — and steer away from a self-destructive course. The book draws on Eastern spiritual traditions (Vedanta, Tantra, Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism) and Western philosophy and sciences (quantum physics, neuroscience) to show how all of us — as entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy makers, nonprofit and citizen groups — can expand our (self) awareness and tap into abundant inner resources—love, ingenuity, wisdom—to co-build inclusive, healthy, and sustainable communities that value quality of life over quantity in life.
  • This genre-defying/defining book will feature over 50 inspiring initiatives to build caring “human-centric” communities worldwide. Offering a strong antidote to our mainstream culture, Radjou offers an alternative conscious approach to consuming, working, relating, living, and being.
  • This book presents an optimistic and empowering alternative to the techno-centric, deterministic, and dystopian view of the future depicted in Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus.
  • Here is my FastCompany article that captures the spirit of my next book:
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/40587024/before-we-reinvent-the-economy-we-must-reinvent-ourselves
  • watch my TEDx talk to understand how you can become “conscious” and find your true Self:
  • https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pqvmzSRe9hE
LeadershipSustainability

Frugal innovation (the economist)

Co-Author

Apr 2015Present · 11 yrs

  • Frugal innovation is a way that companies can create high-quality products with limited resources. Once the preserve of firms in poor markets, Western companies are now seeking ways to appeal to cost-conscious and environmentally-aware consumers at home. With an estimated trillion-dollar global market for frugal products, and with potentially huge cost savings to be gained, frugal innovation is revolutionizing business and reshaping management thinking. This book, published by The Economist with a Foreword by Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever, is packed with over 50 original case studies and explains the principles, perspectives and techniques behind frugal innovation, enabling managers in R&D, operations, HR, sales/marketing and more to profit from the great changes ahead. Learn about this book at http://frugalinnovationhub.com
Frugal InnovationInnovation Management

Wave: how collective ingenuity is changing the world

Curator

Sep 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Paris, Milan, San Francisco, Istanbul, Mumbai, Berlin, Nanjing

  • A wave of collective ingenuity is sweeping across the world. Drawing on a wide range of concrete examples, the WAVE exhibition, sponsored by BNP Paribas, explores the major currents on every continent: co-creation, the sharing economy, the maker movement, the inclusive economy, and the circular economy. These examples feature people from all walks of life who share a positive vision of the world of tomorrow.

From smart to wise: acting and leading with wisdom

Co-Author

Apr 2013Present · 13 yrs

  • This book offer a different and counter-intuitive approach to leadership that goes beyond the optimization of intelligence and leverages your innate wisdom.
  • Wise leadership involves cultivating greater self-awareness, broadening one's perspective, integrating logic, emotions and intuition into decision-making, and acting with ethical clarity, discernment, flexibility and authenticity. This new paradigm is the basis for lasting success in a purpose-driven post-digital society.
  • Wise leaders are best placed to help their organizations thrive in the VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) environment that will dominate the 2020-21 period.
  • Drawing on inspiring case studies from wise leaders from around the world, Kaipa and Navi identify the six key capabilities that you and your managers can cultivate and apply to lead more effectively. As Navi points out: “You can’t out-smart AI, but you can out-wise it!”
  • Read our MIT Sloan Management Review article on Wise Leadership:
  • https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/leading-with-your-head-and-your-heart
LeadershipInnovation

Jugaad innovation (250k copies sold)

Co-Author

Jan 2012Present · 14 yrs 3 mos

  • Innovation is a key directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't rely on the old formula that has sustained innovation efforts for decades—expensive R&D projects and highly-structured innovation processes. Jugaad Innovation argues the West must look to places like India, Brazil, and China for a new approach to frugal and flexible innovation. The authors show how in these emerging markets, jugaad (a Hindi word meaning an improvised solution born from ingenuity and cleverness) is leading to dramatic growth and how Western companies can adopt jugaad innovation to succeed in our hypercompetitive world. Filled with previously untold and engaging stories of resourceful jugaad innovators and entrepreneurs in emerging markets and the US, this groundbreaking book shows leaders everywhere why the time is right for jugaad to emerge as a powerful business tool in the West—and how to bring jugaad practices to their organizations.
Jugaad InnovationInnovation

Cambridge judge business school

2 roles

Fellow

Jul 2011Jun 2021 · 9 yrs 11 mos

Executive Director, Centre for India & Global Business

Jan 2009Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Co-founded the Centre for India & Global Business at Cambridge Judge Business School. The Centre aims to identify cutting-edge innovation models emanating from emerging markets such as India which have global relevance. It also helps build synergistic knowledge linkages between Western economies and emerging nations like India.

Harvard business review

Columnist

Jun 2008Present · 17 yrs 10 mos

  • You can read my columns here: http://hbr.org/search/radjou/

Forrester

Vice President

Jan 1999Dec 2008 · 9 yrs 11 mos · Boston and San Francisco

  • I led the firm's research on how globalized innovation — with the rise of India and China as both a source and market for innovations — is driving new market structures and organizational models called "Global Innovation Networks".
  • Advised senior executives around the world on technology-enabled best practices to drive collaborative innovation, global supply chain integration, and proactive customer service.
  • Authored more than a hundred thought-leadership reports on business topics related to innovation, leadership, and emerging markets. Wrote pioneering reports on Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (IA).
  • I was the inaugural recipient (2001) of the Forrester Bill Bluestein Award, given to the analyst whose outstanding body of work continually inspires clients and enables them to make highly effective decisions.

National science and technology development agency (nstda)

IT Consultant

Feb 1996Jul 1998 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

  • I designed the public web sites and the Intranet system for NSTDA, the public agency responsible for developing the science & technology infrastructure and promoting innovation/entrepreneurship in Thailand. The Intranet system was a finalist for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in 1998.

Self-employed

Strategy Advisor

Sep 1995Present · 30 yrs 7 mos

  • Since 1995, I have advised hundreds of companies worldwide on breakthrough innovation and leadership strategies.
  • As a “humanistic coach with an ecological soul”, I advised leaders on both their inner development and corporate high-growth strategies.
  • I leverage my 30 years of experience as strategy advisor to help C-level execs rethink and reinvent their company's organizational culture, business model(s), and leadership systems to thrive in a VUCA world.
Strategic ConsultingLeadership DevelopmentInnovation

Information technology institute (iti) - national computer board (ncb)

Business Process Management Consultant

Sep 1995Jan 1996 · 4 mos · Singapore

  • I worked with researchers at Information Technology Institute (ITI)-National Computer Board on Enterprise Modeling within the Framework of Business Process Reengineering (BPR). See our research paper: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5499-8_4

Ibm

Development Analyst

Apr 1995Aug 1995 · 4 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

  • I was part of the team that developed IBM VisualAge C++, a software development tool. It was the most multicultural team I ever worked in, with 10+ nationalities represented in my team.

Education

CentraleSupélec

MS — Open Information Systems

Jan 1994Jan 1995

Yale School of Management

Jan 1998Jan 1999

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam

DEST — Business IT

Jan 1992Jan 1995

Université Paris Nanterre

Licence — Management Information Systems and Services

Jan 1993Jan 1994

Lycée Français de Pondichéry (Inde)

Baccalauréat — Economics

Jan 1985Jan 1989

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