Ruchin Kansal, MBA

Professor of Practice
Department of Management

Professor Kansal teaches Leadership and Innovation at the Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University. He is the founder of Kansal & Company and advises companies on digital business, growth strategy, and innovation and solves the most pressing corporate leadership challenges; and TGG that focuses on transforming specialists into special leaders.

Prior, Professor Kansal spent 20+ years in the life sciences industry, where his strategy, innovation, and digital business expertise have earned him a stellar reputation for his ability to challenge the status quo, tackle complex challenges, and deliver sustainable outcomes. He served as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Strategy for Digital Services at Siemens Healthineers, where he launched AI-enabled clinical decision support technology. He established and led the first Business Innovation & Transformation department at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he architected industry-leading strategic partnerships, commercially launched the first smart inhaler, and built AI-based predictive models and clinical decision support systems. Additionally, he has served as a management consultant at Deloitte and Capgemini/Ernst & Young. He has served on multiple Boards, and currently serves on the Board of the NJ Society for Information Management.

He received the 2016 MM&M Top 40 Healthcare Transformers Award and Boehringer Ingelheim’s President’s Award. He was invited to the Obama White House to share best practices for engaging patients in research supporting the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative.

He co-authored Redefining Innovation: Embracing The 80-80 Rule to Ignite Growth in the Biopharmaceutical Industry, and contributed a chapter in Digital Strategies and Organizational Transformation.  He is In The Lead’s founding editor and the primary investigator of the Future of Leadership Survey. He hosts 30 Minutes, a TV talk show in Connecticut.

Ruchin received his MBA from NYU-Stern, a certificate in Disruptive Innovation from MIT, and in Leadership and Performance Coaching through Brown University.