Samir Sathe

Samir Sathe, is a disruptive thought leader and practitioner of management science, to bring about systemic change in entrepreneurial leadership with a deep global experience of 30 years.

He currently leads the Wadhwani Advantage program in India and provides global mentorship, focused on empowering small businesses with management capabilities and accelerating small business revenue and job growth. Since 2019, the program has helped ~600 SMEs adding over 5,000 employees in India, with a Net Promoter Score of 73. In addition, he leads the effort of Academy in building over 50+ AI Enabled ‘Do-it-Yourself’ consulting tools. He also leads Talent Acquisition function at the Foundation.

Samir is deeply conversant with the contexts in India, Asia, Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, and the US.

Samir has authored over 40+ articles in reputed Indian and International publications; he is a speaker at several recognized fora and platforms. Currently, he is authoring a book on the role of emotions in organizational health and longevity. He is a recipient of 3 awards, ‘Brand Impact Award’ by Indian Achievers’ Forum in 2020-21 and ‘Public Service Award’ by National Achiever’s Recognition Forum for contribution to society, in solving large scale society problems in 2021 and is mostly recently recognized by Film and TV Trade Preview as one of the ‘High Flyers’ in its second volume of distinguished personalities.

Samir has earned his master’s in ‘Consulting and Coaching for Change’ from INSEAD, France, studying psychodynamic principles that drive the decisions of the entrepreneurs, owners, leaders; he has attended programs on ‘Leading Professional Service Firms’ at Harvard Business School and ‘Challenges of Global Poverty’ at MIT.