Purpose & Principles | Episode 23 - Hitendra Wadhwa - Columbia Business School

I'm grateful to introduce Hitendra Wadhwa to the Purpose &
Principles community. His writing and ideas are thought provoking
and needed in the world today. Indeed, his essay on "How Would
Lincoln Guide Our Nation Today?" really caught my attention and
the conversation took off from there. Take a listen as Hitendra
and I talk about his take on excellence in life and leadership.


Hitendra Wadhwa is Professor of Practice at Columbia Business
School and founder of the Mentora Institute. He teaches
Columbia's most popular MBA leadership class on Personal
Leadership & Success. He also teaches MBA and Executive
Education programs on Driving Strategic Impact and Leading from
the Inside Out, and has received the Executive-MBA Commitment to
Excellence Award, the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, the
Lear Award for Service to Students, and the Columbia Marketing
Association Award for the Most Dynamic and Engaging Professor.


Hitendra’s mission is to codify and teach scientific principles
of success in life and leadership. With a Ph.D. in Management
Science from MIT and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic
traditions, Hitendra brings a mathematician’s rigor and a
truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions
about authenticity, success, leadership, human potential, and
more. His widely acclaimed research and teaching on leadership
have been covered by Inc., Forbes, Fortune, CNN, Psychology
Today, BBC World Service, Financial Times, and Wall Street
Journal. His weekly webcast, Intersections, features
acclaimed thought leaders and practitioners in the craft of
leadership.


Hitendra’s Mentora Institute is at the forefront of
creating a new model of leadership for the 21st century where
executives achieve ever-growing Outer Impact through
ever-deepening Inner Mastery. Through its digital learning
platform, Mentora has created a pocket “flight simulator” for
leadership that helps learners gain mastery in a wide range of
leadership skills through MicroPracticeTM. His clients include
Accenture, SAP, Pfizer, Tata Group, Ericsson, GE, Kraft Heinz,
Siemens, a Big-4 Accounting Firm and Morgan Stanley.


In the past, Hitendra was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey &
Company and the CEO/founder of a Silicon Valley start-up,
Paramark, which was twice recognized as a Top-100 Internet
technology company by Technologic Partners/Venture Wire.