AMIT SRIVASTAVA

Amit Srivastava is an entrepreneur, strategy consultant and facilitator. He helps leaders turn plans into action. He believes a plan on paper can disappear the moment it meets reality and risk. Progress depends on leaders asking uncomfortable questions — of their teams, and harder still, of themselves.

He has spent twenty-seven years in start-ups, global companies and the public sector, in India and in Africa. One question has followed him through all three: why do capable people with a sound plan still fail to deliver? He works in that gap — designing strategy, carrying it out, and the leadership that has to hold both.

He has spent twenty-seven years in start-ups, global companies and the public sector, in India and in Africa. The question that has followed him through all three is why capable people with a sound plan still fail to deliver. He works in that gap: strategy design, strategy execution and the leadership that has to carry both.

He has built companies as well as advised them. Ezytaxi was an inter-city taxi service started from nothing. College to Company was a skill-development venture between campus and corporate. PixoMap is an iOS travel companion built so people search less and see more. He still writes software in the evenings. He builds, consults and writes, often in the same week.

The Truth about Myths was launched in 2016 by Lord Meghnad Desai. It asked how mythology has shaped Indian society, and why the story has to change.

This book asks a narrower question: how do you inspect an AI-assisted decision before a fluent answer turns into a commitment?

He is a photographer whose work has been recognised by the Embassy of Japan, and has been a practising Vipassana meditator for seventeen years. He works, watches and tells stories about what is not seen.