Shantha Mohan Ph.D.

Shantha Mohan Ph.D. is an Executive In Residence at the Integrated Innovation Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, she was a global software engineering leader and entrepreneur, co-founding Retail Solutions Inc., a retail analytics company. Shantha also has over 20 years of experience focused on mission-critical systems to support semiconductor and other high-value-added manufacturing. She is the author of Roots and Wings - Inspiring stories of Indian Women in Engineering and is a co-author of Demystifying AI for The Enterprise - A Playbook for Business Value and Digital Transformation. Her book, Leadership Lessons with The Beatles, was published by Taylor & Francis in May 2022.

Shantha Mohan Ph.D. is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with her through LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

C-Suite Challengers

Trust: The Magic That Transforms Vision into Reality

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.C-Suite Challengers

“The capacity to generate and sustain trust is the central ingredient in leadership.” So wrote Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in the foreword of the book, “Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge.” Trust is essential in any relationship and vitally critical in business leadership. A trustworthy leader fosters a positive and...

CEO Insights

Riding The Wave of Generative AI: Tips for Enterprise Leaders

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.CEO Insights

"Generative AI represents the future of innovation, where machines not only automate tasks, but also generate new ideas and solutions." - ChatGPT Yes, ChatGPT gave me the above when I asked for a quote on Generative AI, and I believe it to be true. ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool created...

C-Suite Challengers

Optimism: What Every Leader Needs Today

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.C-Suite Challengers

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” - Confucius A January 17, 2023, CNBC article, “CEOs are the most pessimistic they’ve been in more than a decade as world faces a slowdown,” said, “Some 73% of CEOs think global growth will decline in...

Big Picture

Flex Your Curiosity to Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.Big Picture

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler. In his 1970 book, Future Shock, written with Adelaide Farrell, the prescient futurist foresaw the complexities of the 21st century. He anticipated the sharing economy,...

Critical thinking

The Power of Independent Thinking in Leading

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.Critical thinking

In his short philosophical essay, “On Thinking for Oneself,” Schopenhauer reinforced the message of individual thought. He compared the vast knowledge one may have to an enormous library: “Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the...

Business Transformation

Leading Knowledge Workers: Do You Want To Know A Secret?

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.Business Transformation

The Beatles sang, “Listen Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Whoa, oh, oh” I will tell you a secret, and I hope you will spread it. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a knowledge worker as “an employee whose job involves developing and using...

Business Transformation

Balancing Leadership Tensions: The Duality

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.Business Transformation

In their song, “Hello, Goodbye,” Lennon and McCartney wrote, “You say, ‘Yes’, I say, ‘No’ You say, ‘Stop’ and I say, ‘Go, go, go’ Oh no” McCartney was the primary writer, and he wrote the song when meeting with an assistant of The Beatles’ manager, asking for opposites to the...

CEO Insider

All You Need is Love: Seven Simple acts for Heart-Led Leadership

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.CEO Insider

Lennon and McCartney wrote the famous Beatles’ song “All You Need Is Love” at the height of the Vietnam war. A live and international television satellite production called “One World” played this song for the first time on June 25, 1967. The primary composer, Lennon, delivered a message that you...

CEO Insider

Leadership success requires the opposite of I Me Mine

Shantha Mohan Ph.D.CEO Insider

How empowering your organization is crucial: George Harrison wrote the song “I Me Mine” just as the Beatles were breaking up. In the book of the same name, George writes, “Suddenly I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego, like ‘that’s my piece of paper’ and...