About Gautam
Gautam Kumra is a director in McKinsey's Delhi office and leads McKinsey’s Organisation Practice in Asia. He is the founder of McKinsey Leadership Institute in India, which develops leadership capabilities to deliver transformational change; and he convenes our Bower Forum for CEOs across Asia.
Gautam is also the leader of the McKinsey Asia Center, a special McKinsey initiative on globalisation, and he has helped several major Indian companies shape their global agendas. Gautam also led McKinsey's thinking and research on performance transformation over many years.
This expertise is at the core of Gautam’s client work. For example, he helped one of India's leading pharmaceutical companies define its ten-year vision, redesign its organisation and upgrade its capabilities to execute the vision. He helped a leading infrastructure company in India set its organisational, strategic and operational agenda, and develop a 18-month roadmap for implementation. And he helped redesign the organisation of one of India’s top tier IT services companies, to sharpen accountability, build functional excellence and accelerate growth.
Gautam has also worked with one of world’s largest multinationals to set its agenda for growth in India—and reorient its organisation and operating model to compete with aggressive local companies.
Gautam has a longstanding passion for improving healthcare. He is a co-founder and board member of the Public Health Foundation of India—an innovative public-private initiative to strengthen India’s public health system by developing skills and helping shape public policy.
Published work
“India healthcare: Inspiring possibilities, challenging journey” (PDF–594 KB), McKinsey, December 2012
“Perspective 2020: Transform business, transform India” (PDF–285 KB), McKinsey and NASSCOM, February 2009
Education
| Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
MBA |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi |
BTech in chemical engineering |