Jeewan Rajpurohit
Leadership Strategist & Keynote Speaker • Vision That Matters™
India •
$1,501 - $5,000
5.0 (11 reviews)
About
There are thousands of leadership speakers in India. Very few have led under conditions where the cost of a wrong decision was irreversible. I negotiated a ceasefire with Khmer Rouge commanders in Cambodia, alone, unarmed, with no backup. I commanded 3,000 soldiers at 20,000 feet on the Siachen glacier. I led rescue operations that saved 10,000 civilians in a single night. I was commended three times by the Chief of Army Staff for gallantry. On Sena Diwas 2026, the Army Chief awarded me the Veteran's Achievers Award for continuing to build leaders long after retirement. I do not teach leadership from a textbook. I lived it in environments where getting it wrong cost lives. What I bring to your organisation is not inspiration, it is transformation. My proprietary JSR Hetero-Techno Leadership Model, registered with the Government of India, produces measurable KPI-based changes in leadership behaviour within 60 days. My sessions at RBI Staff College, Chennai, ran for three consecutive years. My programmes at the MIT School of Distance Education achieved an 85.9% Net Promoter Score. I integrate Chanakya's Arthashastra, 2,300 years of Indian strategic wisdom, with modern leadership science and battlefield-tested command experience. No other speaker in India currently offers this combination. If your organisation needs a speaker who will move your leaders, not just motivate them, I am the right choice.
Speaking Topics
Signature Programs (3)
Drawing on 37 years of live command experience, from the Siachen glacier to UN peacekeeping in Cambodia. This keynote translates battle-tested leadership frameworks into immediately applicable corporate tools. Audiences leave with three actionable frameworks they can implement before their next leadership meeting. Suitable for corporate leadership summits, annual leadership days, and senior management retreats.
Key Takeaways
- 1. A structured decision-making framework drawn from battlefield command, applicable immediately to high-stakes corporate situations where time is short and consequences are irreversible.
- 2. A personal Leadership Audit identifying dominant style, critical blind spots, and a 60-day KPI-based development roadmap, leaving every participant with a concrete action plan before the session ends.
- 3. Chanakya's four tools of strategic influence: Saam, Daam, Bhed, Dand: translated into a practical stakeholder management system for senior leaders navigating complex organisational dynamics.
- 4. The high-trust team leadership principles from 37 years of military command, building cohesion, loyalty, and performance under pressure that no policy manual or HR framework can manufacture.
- India's strategic patience as Chanakyan wisdom; why the nation that thinks in centuries always outlasts the nation that thinks in quarters. A perspective shift that changes how senior leaders approach long-term competitive positioning.
Audience
CEOs, MDs, COOs, CHROs, Senior Management Teams, L&D Heads, Corporate Leadership Summit Delegates, Annual Leadership Day Audiences
Format
Duration
60 minutes and half day
Delivery
How do you make the right call when information is incomplete, time is short, and consequences are irreversible? Drawing on counter-insurgency operations, the rescue of 10,000 civilians in the Jammu floods of 2014, and UN ceasefire negotiations with Khmer Rouge factions in Cambodia, this session builds structured decision-making frameworks for leaders navigating VUCA environments. Suitable for senior leadership programmes, crisis management workshops, and BFSI audiences. Duration 45–90 minutes.
Key Takeaways
- 1. The OODA Loop applied to corporate crisis. How military commanders process Observe, Orient, Decide, Act faster than the situation changes, and how your leadership team can build the same reflex for boardroom emergencies.
- 2. The three internal destroyers of sound judgment under pressure; incomplete information, fear of consequences, and ego, and a structured technique to neutralise each one before making a high-stakes call.
- 3. A personal Crisis Command Framework. A four-step decision protocol drawn from live counter-insurgency operations that works identically whether you are managing a hostile takeover, a reputational crisis, or a team in freefall.
- 4. Why most corporate crisis responses fail at the first decision point, and the single mindset shift that separates leaders who stabilise situations from leaders who accelerate them.
- 5. The Chanakya principle of Aantara Shatru, the internal enemy, and why the biggest threat in any crisis is not the external situation but the assumptions your leadership team is making about it.
Audience
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CHROs, Crisis Management Teams, Senior Leaders in BFSI, Manufacturing, Aviation, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Leadership Pipeline Development Cohorts
Duration
45-90 Minutes
Delivery
Kautilya's Arthashastra is the most comprehensive strategic leadership text ever written 2,300 years ahead of Porter, Drucker, and Covey. This session translates its core frameworks, the Saptanga theory of organisational strength, and the Mandala circle of stakeholders. The four tools of influence (Saam, Daam, Bhed, Dand), into boardroom strategy that senior leaders can apply immediately. Suitable for CXO forums, strategy off-sites, and leadership institutes.
Key Takeaways
- 1. The Saptanga Model of Organisational Strength. Chanakya's seven pillars of a resilient kingdom translated directly into a diagnostic tool for assessing your organisation's current vulnerabilities and strategic assets.
- 2. Rajamandala; the Circle of Stakeholders. How Chanakya mapped every ally, rival, and neutral party around a king, and how to apply this exact framework to competitive positioning, partnership strategy, and stakeholder management today.
- 3. The four tools of strategic influence: Saam, Daam, Bhed, Dand. When to align, when to incentivise, when to differentiate, and when to apply authority. A complete influence framework for senior leaders navigating complex organisational dynamics.
- 4. Kosha Mula Danda: the treasury is the root of all power. why Chanakya said financial strength is the foundation of every other strategic advantage, and what this means for how your organisation allocates resources under competitive pressure.
- 5. Why India's strategic patience in the current global order is the most Chanakyan choice any nation could make — and how the same principle of long-horizon thinking applies to building organisations that outlast quarterly pressure cycles.
Audience
CEOs, Strategy Heads, CXOs, Founders, Senior Government and Public Sector Leaders, Academic Institution Heads, IIM and ISB Executive Education Participants, Corporate Strategy Offsite Delegates
Duration
60–90 minutes.
Delivery
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