Kannan is a seasoned senior Organization Development professional with over 20 years of internal and external consulting experience. He has varied areas of expertise including large-scale change initiatives, leadership and management development interventions, and performance consulting and building empowered teams. Kannan’s approach integrates the best of current research with practical, real-life application. His successful stint as the Head of OD in Lifestyle International and Max Retail (part of the Landmark Group) and Reliance Retail involved significant work in enhancing leadership capability and creating a culture of challenge with support. This included driving developmental workshops and coaching leaders on how to develop their own leadership capability through structured learning sessions including reflection and action on insights they gained from 360-degree feedback.