About Ranjan

IMG_8974Ranjan De Silva is a Organisational and Leadership Development Catalyst and Coach.

Ranjan has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding, which makes his input value adding to the clients. His practical experience comes from 42 years of corporate experience that included over 33 years in Director & CEO roles in 3 leading Asian conglomerates; John Keels Holdings, Rahimafrooz Group and Apollo Hospitals. He is currently the Director of Organisational Development at Unisnacks Europe Limited.

He has provided consultancy and training for people at all levels of organizations in 24 countries in Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, and North Africa.

His multinational clients in these various countries include Unilever, VF Asia, Svister Wijsmuller, Siemens, SriLankan Airlines, Nestle, Nokia Siemens Networks, Novartis, Maersk, HSBC, Hilton, Glaxo Smith Kline, DHL, British American Tobacco and 3M. Additionally, he has served leading companies in various local markets including; John Keells Holdings, MAS Holdings, Jetwing Group, Hirdramani, Pan Asia Bank, Millennium IT, Rahimafrooz Group, Grameen Phone, BRAC Bank, Alrajhi Bank, SEDCO, and Mashreq Bank.

His theoretical grounding is derived from the Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing [CIM] UK, where he received the gold medal for the best results in the world at the final examination. His MBA is from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayawardenepura. He is an accredited trainer in delivering the personal transformation programme, ‘Mastery of Self through Neuro Linguistic Programming’ and its derivatives.

He is currently pursuing his Doctoral Studies in ‘Organisational Change’ at Ashridge Executive Education in the UK, a member of Hult University USA, inquiring in to ‘Purposefulness for Leadership Effectiveness’.

Ranjan is a Fellow of CIM, A Chartered Marketer and a Past Chairman of CIM, Sri Lanka Branch. These roles have enabled him to network with corporate leaders of top companies.

He has also shared the stage and networked with management gurus of the calibre of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout and Omar Khan.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Mind Programming for Sales Success and the new, further enriched edition of the book, A Better Way to Sell – Sales Mastery through Self Mastery published by Pearson Education.

 He is promoted globally by the world’s leading speaker’s bureau Big Speak.