Suj Chandrasekhar, Ph.D

Results-oriented business professional and educator with 25+ years of combined corporate and adjunct teaching experience in various aspects of Business- Sales, Marketing, Decision support analytics, entrepreneurship with an emphasis on how AI is transforming the applications in Business for the current and emerging workforce. Have taught at various exec education and business schools in the US and overseas. I am a regular presenter at conferences on thought leadership driven topics and serve at the Director of Business and Leadership at the NSF funded National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing.

Interested in adjunct faculty teaching to connect back and help upskill the emerging, current and future workforce of Iowa.

President and Principal - Strategic Insights Inc.

(2000-08)

• Responsible for client engagement projects that range from market strategy, sales and marketing strategies to delivering hybrid learning solutions for Workforce development.
• Experience in teaching students and training industry professionals at exec education programs for large and medium sized organizations.
• Active in a number of industry associations like the Manufacturing Institute where I partner with teams to roll out break through research and case studies to help scale manufacturing 4.0 for small and medium sized manufacturers
• Well published and recognized thought leader.

Ph.D. - Organizations and Strategy - University of Iowa (1992-05)

Masters - HR and Industrial Relations - Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (1985-05)