Ravi Kant is qualified in Design Thinking and Innovation from the University of Virginia, USA and Partner at QGLUE, the Design and Innovation venture of QAI. Ravi guides organizational leadership towards strategic problem-solving. Using Design Thinking as the primary tool, he develops mindsets of Customer Empathy, Innovation Culture and Improved Propositions in his engagements. His immersive experiences create safe environments where participants thrive in sharing ideas, working together across organizational boundaries and getting a buy-in to implement them on the business floors.
He worked in corporate (the Royal Bank of Scotland and Polaris) and consulting (Innovation Spark Asia) for over 30 years and also managed strategic deliveries for Polaris’ marquee clients like Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank. For RBS, Ravi was the Business Head responsible for leadership of multiple Retail, Corporate and Investment Banking platforms, building capability, leveraging his banking experiences in M&A transitions and integrations and mentoring and coaching cross-platform teams.
Transformation and Leadership demonstrated by Ravi Kant:
IT Vendor Rationalization and Operational Excellence: Optimized IT Vendors and transitioned over 800 roles to strategic suppliers, P&L impact of £10M over 3 years in-flight with other ongoing programs of work Innovation Lab and Culture of Innovation: Initiated the Design Thinking through immersive workshops, across multiple locations, covering over 1000 persons for new ways of approaching strategic projects Workforce Transformation: Ravi led the highly matrixed and complex initiative to distribute and build the right capabilities across geographies, establishing domain and technology CoEs, with AGILE and DevOPs methodologies, creating a new target operating model for banking platform development and tech-ops.
