Prakash Iyer
Best-selling Author, Leadership Coach, and Motivational Speaker
Prakash Iyer is a former CEO, a best-selling author, a motivational speaker, a certified leadership
coach and an uncertified cricket junkie.
He spent three decades in the corporate world before stepping out to pursue his passion for helping other people unleash the leader within them. In his last corporate role, Prakash was the Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark. Earlier roles include Managing Director and CEO of Infomedia India Limited (formerly Tata Press) and prior to that, Executive Director at PepsiCo India. Interestingly, he also served as the CEO of the Mumbai Indians in their title-winning IPL campaign in 2015. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he started his career with Unilever.
He spent three decades in the corporate world before stepping out to pursue his passion for helping other people unleash the leader within them. In his last corporate role, Prakash was the Managing Director of Kimberly-Clark. Earlier roles include Managing Director and CEO of Infomedia India Limited (formerly Tata Press) and prior to that, Executive Director at PepsiCo India. Interestingly, he also served as the CEO of the Mumbai Indians in their title-winning IPL campaign in 2015. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he started his career with Unilever.
Prakash speaks and writes extensively on leadership, teamwork, execution, culture, storytelling and
winning. He writes a fortnightly column on leadership in BusinessWorld called PI Talkies, has a
popular YouTube channel called Chai With Pi, and is the author of four best-selling books – including
The Habit of Winning, The Secret of Leadership and How Come No One Told Me That.