Ruchin Kansal

Professor Kansal builds purposeful leaders and companies and enables them to achieve their vision, win the future, and create a better society. He has 20+ years in the life sciences industry, where his business acumen, systems-level thinking, strategy, innovation & digital business expertise, and coaching mindset have earned him a stellar reputation for his ability to challenge the status quo, tackle complex challenges, and deliver sustainable outcomes.

Professor Kansal teaches Leadership and Innovation at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University. He advises companies on digital business, growth strategy, and innovation; and solves the most pressing corporate leadership challenges.

Previously, he served as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Strategy for Digital Services at Siemens Healthineers. He launched AI-enabled health tech during his tenure: AI-Rad Companion and AI-Pathway Companion. He established and led the first Business Innovation & Transformation department at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he architected industry-leading strategic partnerships, commercially launched the first smart inhaler, and built AI-based predictive models and clinical decision support systems. Additionally, he spent 12 years at Deloitte and Capgemini/Ernst & Young, focused on growth strategy, business and product launch, commercial model transformation, and post-merger integration. Trained as an Architect, he has worked at TATA and built movie theaters. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for Newtown Public Library. Additionally, he has served on the Board of Stanford Medicine X.

He received the 2016 MM&M Top 40 Healthcare Transformers Award and Boehringer Ingelheim’s President’s Award. He was invited to the Obama White House to share best practices for engaging patients in research supporting the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative.

He co-authored Redefining Innovation: Embracing The 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry and contributed a chapter in Digital Strategies and Organizational Transformation. He is In The Lead’s founding editor and the primary investigator of the Future of Leadership Survey. He hosts 30 Minutes, a TV talk show in Connecticut.

Ruchin received his MBA from NYU-Stern, a Master’s in Architecture from Kansas State University, a Bachelor in Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, a certificate in Disruptive Innovation from MIT, and an ICF-Accredited Certificate in Leadership & Performance Coaching through Brown University. Boehringer Ingelheim sponsored him to participate in the Global Leadership Development Program at Duke Kunshan University. He is a member of the International Coaching Federation and certified in Hogan Assessments and EQ-i 2.0.