Prakash Iyer is a highly regarded independent business advisor, bestselling author, and the Founder and CEO of Leadership Works, a firm dedicated to helping leaders and teams achieve their full potential. With over three decades of solid, hands-on experience in the corporate world, he specializes in building businesses and developing winning teams in India and overseas.
Iyer's extensive corporate background includes serving as the Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark, CEO of Infomedia India Limited (formerly Tata Press), and Executive Director at PepsiCo, responsible for operations in South India and Sri Lanka. He began his career with Unilever. This deep, hands-on experience in high-level management and execution, coupled with his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, forms the foundation of his practical, results-oriented leadership advice.
After nearly three decades in the corporate world, Prakash chose to pursue his passion for helping others unleash the leader within them. He is a trained, CFI-certified leadership coach and a firm believer that teamwork will be the ultimate competitive advantage. His writing is prolific, including a fortnightly column in Business World (PI Talkies) and best-selling books like The Habit of Winning, The Secret of Leadership, and his latest, How Come No One Told Me That?
As a highly sought-after speaker and advisor, Prakash coaches CEOs, advises leadership teams, and works with organizations like the cricket franchise Mumbai Indians in their title-winning campaign in 2015. His presentations inspire and motivate large teams by sharing his insights and experience, focusing on how leaders can build passionate, high-performance, winning teams through a combination of strong strategic and execution skills and excellent people management capabilities.
