About Us

Centre of Strategic Mindset

Who we are

We are a full-spectrum Growth and Transformation organization, with a mission to groom Strategic Minds, who can deliver Bold Business impact. We are a team of passionate professionals, driven by purpose, inspired by creative dissatisfaction; enthused by excellence and steered by ethics and integrity. For us, creativity, originality, and passion are three intrinsic motivators to be customer centric as well as customer relevant.

Centre of Strategic Mindset (COSM) is an ideology where the focus is on long-term and bold impact.

About COSM

What we do

We enable individuals and organizations identify ‘Growth Possibilities’, visualize ‘Future’, strategize their ‘Vision’, develop ‘Strategic Capabilities’ and realize their ‘Potential’ in a robust manner, through Talent, Thinking and Innovation.

Our most conspicuous pursuits fall under following categories:

Why Should we Exist

We exist for Leadership, Change and Future through our Ideas , Inspiration, and Impact.

Why should Customer Care for Us

Customer should care for us for our thought leadership, professionalism, commitment and deep impact. We put our skin in the game to ensure that the clients’ promise turns into intended outcomes. We can always be counted upon for Trust as well as the Results.

Our Edge

In this increasingly commoditized world, retaining our niche is a continuous pursuit. COSM takes pride in creating, maintaining and retaining its edge through following levers.
COSM's Edge

What differentiates us

Leadership Development Journey

Nine Nuances of Leadership Development Journey

Art & Science of Professional Development & Personal Growth

Our Ideology & Philosophy

COSM is born out of a prolonged tryst with the challenges and experience of developing more than 10500 leaders across industries and context, that led to exploration of following questions:

  • Why some organization become ‘built to last’, and others lose their way, enroute?
  • Why some leaders are able to create an impact far beyond measure?
  • What inspired and enabled them to think in a non-linear and exponential manner?
  • What made their pursuits so relentless and decisive?
  • What was their pattern of thinking and discipline of implementing?
  • What were those stimuli that influenced leaders to change their thinking and the impact they could create?
  • Is there a teachable pattern or a replicable algorithm that could transform potential leaders into strategic minds?
  • What is the art and science of developing leaders, reinventing organization and repurposing future that can be taken to a larger audience in a global context?

The collective critical experiences from above pursuits led to three ‘Insights’, considered largely responsible for COSM’s ideology and Philosophy:

  • Leaders are largely made, and a structured development process is as relevant today, as it was in ancient times.
  • Ambition can be stoked significantly, and assumptions can be challenged actively, through a scientific, structured and intellect-driven examination.
  • Context is king and decoding that requires a fair integration of timeless ‘Principles’ with timely ‘Interventions’ for renewal, relevance, and reinvention.

What We Believe

We believe that bold thinking, bi-focal vision, customer centricity; continuous innovation and operational precision are five fundamental pillars of growth and impact. COSM thrives on following core beliefs for its relevance to customers:

  • Purpose must remain at the centre as well as the forefront of whatever we do.
  • Trust, transparency, and authenticity are the key drivers of any strategic relationship.
  • Continuous Learning is the only permanent Competitive Advantage.
  • Data is the ‘New Oil’ and Empathy is the ‘New Dollar’.
  • No Credit for History – Only Premium for Future.

What is our Context

We partner with Fortune 500 Clients globally, in envisioning their strategies, facilitating their purpose-discovery, developing leaders, coaching executives, shaping innovation and transforming culture. Whether our clients are multinational giants or entrepreneurial start-ups, our thought leadership, expertise, experiences and beginner’s mindset always come handing in rendering a new leaf of imagination and bold execution. In the past, we have successfully served clients across technology, IT & ITeS, Banking, Pharma & Healthcare, FMCG, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Automotive, Telecom and e-commerce sectors.

Meet With Our Company

Himanshu Saxena

Founder & CEO

Ridima Wali

Managing Partner

Sakina Bharmal

Managing Partner

Himanshu Saxena A.K. Vishwanath Ajai Lal Amitava Pal Champa Ganguly Narayan Kamath Ram Gopalan Rani Desai Ridima Wali Sakina Bharmal Suchitra Bhaskar V.K.Raman

Gayatri Yadav



Gen. Praveen Bakshi



Manoj Kohli



Marshall



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