Introducing
Pavan Soni
An innovation evangelist by profession and a teacher by passion.
Dr Pavan Soni is the founder of Inflexion Point, a strategy and innovation consulting firm. Apart from being an Adjunct Faculty at ISB Hyderabad and IIM-Bangalore, Pavan has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, including 3M, Amazon, General Electric, Qualcomm, and Samsung, amongst others. Pavan is a mentor for NSRCEL at IIM-Bangalore, and the Founder Institute. He has been invited to speak at ISRO as a part of their Distinguished Lecture Series and has delivered talks at over 120 organizations in India and abroad. Pavan was the only Indian to be shortlisted for the prestigious 'FT & McKinsey Bracken Bower Award for the Best Business Book of the Year 2016'. He has also been invited five times to speak at the TEDx. He is a gold medalist from MBM Engineering College Jodhpur, and did his PGDIE from NITIE Mumbai. Pavan finished his doctoral studies from IIM-Bangalore in the domain of innovation management.
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YourStory's 100 Digital Influencers of 2020
Dr Pavan is praised for his skills in areas such as management consulting, customer relationship management, leadership, and innovation consulting. His articles are primarily oriented towards brand building, new product development, design thinking, and entrepreneurial trends, among others. During the pandemic, he extended his support to startups by motivating them and helping them to seize this opportunity.
As he mentioned in one of his articles: “An enduring brand is not just meant for drawing a premium from your customers, but also to secure preferred investments and attract the best of the talent to work for you.”
His articles on design thinking were also received well by YourStory readers. In one of the articles he explained design thinking myths, including that it is meant only for the hi-tech industry and that one must have customers in place etc. However, in actuality, one need not go through all the stages of design thinking to solve a problem.
“Think of it more as a toolkit than a prescribed course. Secondly, you can crash the journey into as short as one day, provided you work with heterogeneous participants and have done decent groundwork.”
