Awards & Recognitions

Only Indian to be part of Fortune Magazine’s first ever Global ‘Executive Dream Team ' 2012

'Thinker’s 50' List 2011-12; World’s Top 50 Business Thinkers

Forbes 'Heroes of Philanthropy' List 2016 for Innovation led large scale social change

'Global Thinker 2016' by Foreign Policy for unplugging technology, so kids can learn

More About Vineet Nayar

Vineet is recognised as one of the world’s foremost voices on human potential management and workplace transformation, thanks to his ground-breaking Employees First, Customers Second philosophy which puts ‘humans’ at the centre of businesses. Vineet’s implementation of EFCS at HCL Technologies, where he was appointed CEO from 2007-2013, was a noted phenomenon in the business world; Fortune described the company as the “world’s most modern management”.

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His book on the same subject, titled 'Employees First, Customers Second', has sold 100,000+ copies worldwide and is a HBP bestseller. Its powerful message has inspired countless organizations to rethink their approach to employee and customer relations, making it an essential read for leaders and managers everywhere.

Under Vineet’s leadership, the innovative management practices at HCL Technologies were taught as case studies at the Harvard and London Business School.

Vineet has been chosen by Fortune Magazine for its first-ever global Executive Dream Team and also been featured on the elite Thinkers50 List.

He, along with his wife, was recently featured as a ‘Global Thinker 2016’ by Foreign Policy magazine for “unplugging technology so kids can learn”.

For the last 20 years, Vineet has applied his time and energy on solving India’s quality education challenge, through the application of his EFCS philosophy. Having rolled out to 1.4 Lakh schools across India, Sampark Foundation, the organisation he co-founded with his wife Anupama Nayar, is transforming learning outcomes for 20 million children at less than $1 per child per annum.

The Foundation operates with the help of a little over 200 team members, who partner and work with 8.5 lakh teachers, at the express invitation of the States’ Chief Ministers. The scale and impact of this transformation is also a case study at the Harvard Business School.

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