Generate Results That Matter

Being alive to your power of choice and power of creation.

IGL India helps leaders and teams see the conversations already running their organization — and build the practices that turn those conversations into results that matter.

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Every result an organization produces traces back to a conversation like this one. IGL trains leaders to see it, structure it, and coach it — deliberately, not by accident.

What Generative Leadership Is

Leadership is a performance art — not a body of tips.

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It's practiced, not taught in the abstract

You won't learn generative leadership through models or case studies alone. It's built the way any performance art is built: by doing, in the actual work you're already responsible for.

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Conversations are the raw material

Commitment, clarity, and coordination all come from the same source — the conversations happening inside your teams right now. Most organizations never learn to have them well.

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Awareness creates choice

You can't choose what you can't see. IGL's programs are built to surface the blind spots that quietly limit a team's results — then hand people the practices to act differently.

The Cost of Underdeveloped Leaders

The Price of Blindness

What will your organization pay if these five skills stay underdeveloped?

Teams operating inside limited world views — without being challenged, respectfully, to see impending breakdowns and emerging possibilities — pay a price. It's rarely visible until it's expensive. These are the five skills every leader needs to build now.

01Anticipating and Managing BreakdownsFoundational
02Observing Emerging PossibilitiesBuilding
03Managing People and Teams EffectivelyCompounding
04Strategic ThinkingAdvanced
05Effective ExecutionWhere results show
Five Powerful Offers

Programs built for full-time working leaders.

Every engagement can be customized to your organization's requirements — from a single short conversation to a year-long transformation.

A few hours – 2 days

Short Programs

Short, powerful conversations that introduce new distinctions, show teams their blind spots, and hand them new practices to try immediately.

6 Months

6-Month Programs

Teams are habitual beings. This program introduces new practices and works with your people to shift the habits that are actually shaping their results.

12 Months

1-Year Program on Generative Leadership

Leadership muscle isn't built overnight. A full year of coaching and practice for the people your organization's success depends on most.

Ongoing

Executive Coaching & Consulting

Senior leaders need someone rigorous enough to show them the mirror, and safe enough to be honest with. One averted bad decision often pays for the entire engagement — and that's before you count the blind spots caught in the domains of "Me," "We," and "World."

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Consulting on AI and Leadership

Coordination and commitment are irreducibly human. We help leaders work out what AI changes — and what it doesn't — in how their organizations get results.

Bestselling short-program topics Setting Clear Performance Standards Breakdowns: How to Make These Work for You Building Resilient Virtual Teams Creating Team Alignment Building Trust in Teams Mastering Team Conversations Creating Leaders Who CARE Going Past Our Stuckness Designing Strategies That Work
Results Generated Through Our Work

Evidence, not just opinions.

25%Sales growth in 9 months — Endurance
50%Customer complaint reduction — Elringklinger
46Senior leaders coached in one engagement — Cosmos Bank

"This program brought in dynamic change in the outlook, performance and vision of my Senior Management — substantially enriched with skill sets to fix and achieve goals, and a deeper understanding of inter-personal communication."

Vikrant Ponkshe — Managing Director, Cosmos Bank
Founders

Forty years of practice, four people carrying it forward in India.

Bob Dunham

Bob Dunham

Founder, Generative Leadership

40+ years developing leadership as a discipline. Co-author of The Power of Owning Up and The Innovator's Way. Former Hubble Telescope team lead.

Ajit Pandalai

Ajit Pandalai

Managing Partner, Leadership Coach & Consultant

40 years across corporates and startups. Sr. General Management Program, IIM Ahmedabad.

Society Chair, ISHRAE Refrigeration Committee (2025–2027)
Jagadish Babu

Jagadish Babu

Managing Partner, Leadership Coach & Consultant

Chief Operating Officer at EkStep Foundation since its 2014 inception, with 25+ years across the corporate sector — including Intel Corporation — government, and non-profit sectors. Helped build Aadhaar and India's education DPI, DIKSHA, and now leads work applying AI to agriculture, education, and justice.

Training under Bob Dunham and Sameer Dua for 9 years View LinkedIn profile ↗
Tanmoy Das

Tanmoy Das

Managing Partner, Leadership Coach & Consultant

Three decades across technology, banking, and leadership development — from enterprise architecture at Deutsche Bank and Citi to coaching under Bob Dunham. Co-founder and Director, IGL India.

"Technology taught me how systems work. Leadership taught me why they don't."
Bob Dunham
The Founder's Discovery
Forty years ago I walked into an organization that hadn't shipped a product in two and a half years. Within six months — without replacing a single person — that same team delivered on time, on budget, at a quality level no one there had seen before. Nothing about their skills had changed. What changed was the conversations they were having with each other.

— Bob Dunham, Founder

From the IGL Bench

Books our founders and coaches have written.

The methodology taught in our programs is also written down — by the same people who teach it. A few places to go deeper.

The Power of Owning Up
Published

The Power of Owning Up

Bob Dunham & Sameer Dua

The book behind our founder's own credential — on taking ownership as the root act of leadership.

Uncommon Wisdom at Work
Published

Uncommon Wisdom at Work

Terrie Lupberger

Written by one of IGL's own coaches, on ending workplace dysfunction and unnecessary suffering.

Declaring Breakdowns
Published

Declaring Breakdowns

Sameer Dua

A close companion to our own Breakdown Recovery work — turning a stalled moment into a real opening.

The Innovator's Way
Published

The Innovator's Way

Bob Dunham & Peter J. Denning

Our founder's other body of work — practical mastery for turning ideas into adopted innovations.

The Seven Blindspots
Forthcoming

The Seven Blindspots

Bob Dunham

In progress — a closer look at the blind spots this site's "Price of Blindness" section only begins to name.

Become
Published

Become

Sameer Dua

The five critical conversational practices that shift who you be as a leader — not just what you do.

Our Commitment in India

IGL India is committed to impacting a million lives over the next ten years.

People who are alive to their power of choice and power of creation — committed to taking care of what they care about, together.

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