Dr Ranjan De Silva, Managing Director and Chief Catalyst of Purposeful Leadership (Pvt) Ltd., is an experienced Organisational and Leadership Development Catalyst and Success Coach, helping CEOs and Senior Leaders create more purposeful, aligned, passionate and emotionally engaged teams to deliver spectacular results. He has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding.

 

His practical experience comes from 40 years of corporate experience, from his time as Director of the food business of John Keells Holdings from 1992 to 1998, CEO of Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd. Bangladesh from 2009 to 2012 and Director Strategic Executive, Apollo Hospitals, Bangladesh from 2012 to 2014 and Director of Organisational Development of Unisnacks Europe Ltd, UK from 2023 to 2025. In between these assignments, as Director/Senior Management Consultant at Sensei Lanka, he provided leadership development consultancy, coaching and training for various multinationals, conglomerates and local companies in 30 countries from 1998 to 2023.  

 

Ranjan was awarded the Hult Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Organisational Change for his thesis on 'Purposeful Living - An Inquiry into the Life of a Leadership Development Practitioner.' He also holds an MBA from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, and is a world prize winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK (FCIM) and served as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Branch in 1998 and 1999.

 

Ranjan is the author of two books, 'Mind Programming for Sales Success' and 'A Better Way to Sell'. His paper on creating passionate workplaces, at the Bangalore HR summit in 2011 received the 2nd runner-up award out of 22 papers presented.

  

He has also networked with management gurus such as Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman, and Robert Holden, all of whom have spoken at various events he and his team organised.