Hari Abburi

Mr. Abburi is an Executive Education facilitator with the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education. His work focuses on agility for strategies, leaders, organizations, and human resources. A global executive with over 20 years of leadership roles in industry, his work is in the context of organizational renewal, digitalization, merger integration, and corporate start-ups and market entry.

Mr. Abburi’s thinking on leadership in a digital age is described in Leading in a World of Intangible Assets, a presentation he gave at the Gartner Reimagine HR Conference in 2018.

He defines agility as being at the speed of the customer. Based on his model for agility, he has developed for the Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education, a one-of-its-kind program on business strategy and leadership, Leading at the Speed of the Customer.

Mr. Abburi consults with CEOs and companies regarding strategy and leadership, people strategy and human resources, organization, and change. His transformation work included his recent work with Zurich-based HOERBIGER Group and US-based Dawn Foods in leading the organization elements to anchor transformation of traditional businesses into digital business models. This included customer process design, organization model, leadership capabilities, technology road-maps, and the future of work. He has been part of leadership teams and core decision teams in multiple M&As in Germany, Poland, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, the US, and Mexico. He was also part of the start-up leadership team for Coca-Cola and Walmart entry into India.

Mr. Abburi extensive international experience includes advising Aeon Asia-Pacific, Astra Zeneca Asia Pacific, Bank of America Global, Big C & Carrefour Thailand, Coca-Cola Malaysia, CIMB Bank Southeast Asia, Franke Global Switzerland, Glaxo Smith Kline Asia Pacific, HOERBIGER Global, Kimberly-Clarke International, Maybank Malaysia, Media Corp Singapore, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore, PTT Thailand, and Sberbank Europe.

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