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Robert is the founder of Institute for Generative Leadershipand consulting company Enterprise Performance, works closely with executives and management teams to produce value-creating enterprises. He also founded the Company of Leaders, a group dedicated to continued practice and learning in Leadership. Since 1981 he has been developing the discipline that is now offered in the three-year Generative Leadership Program, teaching people sucessful practices of leadership and management. This program is based on Leading-edge thinking in linguistics, biology, embodied learning, commitment-based management, communication, and co-ordination. This program is practice based and focuses participants on learning through application on the job with personal coaching, with the criteria for learning being measurable improvements in the performance of teams and organizations.

Prior to founding Enterprise Performance, Dunham was a vice president of consulting for Business Design Associates (BDA), an international business process redesign firm. Before that he was chief operating officer for Action Technologies, Inc., and co-holds two patents for thier Action Workflow technology. Prior to that he served as the vice president of system development Motorola Computer Systems, where he directed the development of three hardware and software system product lines and delivered over one hundred and fifty software product releases to the marketplace. Early in his career, he led the on-board software development team for Hubble Space Telescope for several years.

Dunham has trained hundreds of executive managers. He has published nine articles on business, managment, and coaching, and another thirty proprietary papers for his Leadership and management development programs. His past clients include Toshiba America, IBM, Discovery Channel, Scholastic, Adobe Systems, Fidelity National, several Silicon Valley companies, and many others.

His management and leadership training programs are unique combinations of communication, language-action, leadership and management practice, and embodied learning. His programs draw on the pioneering work of Dr. Fernando Flores in language and action, and Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler in Somatic Leadership.

Dunham earned two degrees from Stanford University, completed three years of postgraduate work in Ontological Design, and four yeras in Somatic Leadership with Strozzi Institute. He is executive in residence, adjunct faculty, at Pre-sidio School of Manaement where he taught in their MBA program, and currently teaches in the Executive Certificate program. He currently leads the Coaching Excellence in Organizations program offered by institute for Generative Leadership and Newfield Network.

• Listed by Thinkers50 (the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking, and sharing leading management ideas) in the global list of 30 emerging thinkers to watch, and those who will shape the future of business. The Thinkers50 listing is considered to be “the Oscars of Management Thinking” by the Financial Times, UK.
• Founder, Institute for Generative Leadership, India (www.generativeleadership.asia)
• Founder and Chief Curator, India Business Literature Festival. (iblf.in)
• World’s leading authority on “Declaring Breakdowns”, a powerful leadership move, and his best selling book on this subject titled, “Declaring Breakdowns: Powerfully creating a future that matters in 6 simple steps” continues to be used as study material by several management and leadership institutes globally. This book went into its second print within the first week of its launch, and has been published in two more languages: Hindi and Marathi. (sameerdua.com/declaring-breakdowns/)
• Bestselling Author of “Become: The 5 Critical Conversational Practices that Shift ‘Who You Be’ as a Leader” published by Harper Business, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. In the first 6 hours, “Become” became a bestseller in 5 different categories on Amazon. (sameerdua.com/become)
• Leadership faculty member, Naval Higher Command Course, a program for senior officers of the armed forces (Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force) at the Naval War College, Goa.
• 26 years of experience in the field of management and leadership education, and worked with program participants from 52 different countries.
• Set up and lead institutions in India and in the UK, and worked with top global universities from the US and the UK.
• Clients include top global and Indian organizations such as Mercedes Benz, John Deere, Siemens, NetApp, T-Systems, BMC Software, Jungheinrich, Elringklinger, Wipro, ResourcePro, Amdocs, Schaeffler, Faurecia, Volvo, Reliance, amongst many others.
• Received the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Business Tycoon Award 2017 by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Oldest, leading, largest and apex chamber of commerce and industry of India), Bangalore Chapter.
• Founder and Chief Catalyst, Gift Your Organ Foundation (GYO). Amongst many other successes in the last 8 years, GYO introduced the Green heart Drivers’ License project in the states of Karnataka and Maharashtra along with these respective state governments in India. In Karnataka, the number of pledges increased 7 fold in a matter of 7 months; and the number of organ transplantations has doubled, year on year.
  The federal government in India has adopted this project in March 2018 to be implemented across all states in India. (www.giftyourorgan.org)
• TEDx Speaker.

Prashant has over 20 years of experience running and leading management institutions in India and in the UK. He’s been a Director of the holding company of the Institute for Generative Leadership, India since inception.

In addition to being a part of the top management team at TASMAC, Prashant headed the Student Recruitment Division of TASMAC and was responsible for all admissions related activities for various top American, British and Swiss based State and Private Universities and Colleges, generating numbers unprecedented at that time for these institutions.

TASMAC, under Prashant’s leadership set up its first college in London in June 2008 and grew to add a second college in June 2010. As one of key leaders of the London colleges, Prashant had a key responsibility of Marketing and Admissions, i.e., of bringing in quality students in good numbers to study at the London campus. The Marketing and Admissions team at the London campus along with the marketing teams at the campuses and branch offices in India, recruited 1146 students from 48 countries in 3 years.

Prashant, in his earlier avatar, has also run retail stores and headed a direct marketing company.

Sumit has a rich experience of 16 years across technology and leadership. He is committed to create nourishing work environments where people can express themselves fully, and to use the heroic spirit of business as a force for good on our planet.