Ranjan L G De Silva, Managing Partner, Middle East & Southeast Asia
Ranjan is an extremely experienced Team Development Specialist. His innovative consulting and training style, which blends authentic deep communication with a spiritual flavour, appropriate situational humour, innovative thinking and world class professionalism has been a refreshing, interesting and effective bottom line driving mechanism for his clients.
Ranjan has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding which makes his input value adding to the clients. His practical experience comes from 24 years of corporate experience, from his time as Director of the food business of John Keells Holdings a leading Asian conglomerate, and subsequently for various SENSEI clients over the last seven years.
He has provided consultancy and training for people at all levels of organizations in Vietnam, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan, Oman, Maldives, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Egypt, Canada, Bangladesh and Bahrain. His multinational clients in these various countries include Unilever, British American Tobacco, DHL, HSBC, Maersk, Nestle, Nokia Siemens Networks, HSBC, Holcim, Ranbaxy, Reckitt Benckiser, Singer, Siemens, Sri Lankan Airlines and various local companies in these markets.
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.
Ranjan is a Fellow of CIM and a Past Chairman of CIM, Sri Lanka Branch. These roles and his current role at SENSEI have enabled him to network with corporate leaders of top companies. He has also networked with management gurus of the caliber of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman and Robert Holden , all of whom have spoken at various events organised by Sensei. His mentor, friend and partner, Omar Khan has been a tremendous influence in his development as a world-class Team development specialist.
He has shared the stage with Bob Urichuck and co-delivered with him the mega learning experience ‘Sales Power’. 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.
