Rajib Ghosh
Global Product Design Leader | Innovation Strategist | Visionary | Coach
Empowering individuals and teams to invent and realize extraordinary new possibilities.
As a visionary, I am driven by curiosity and a passion for imagining a better future. I see opportunities where others see challenges and connect ideas across different fields to create meaningful solutions. With over 25 years of experience in design, innovation, and strategy, I focus on improving lives while helping businesses grow. I believe in purpose-driven work, using empathy to design solutions that truly meet people’s needs. I stay optimistic in the face of uncertainty, adapt to change, and see obstacles as chances to grow. As a leader, I inspire teams to think creatively, take risks, and experiment with new ideas, fostering collaboration and innovation. I’m committed to learning, mentoring future leaders, and turning bold ideas into real, impactful change to create a better, more connected world.
Over the past 25 years, I’ve had the privilege of working across diverse organizations and collaborating with few exceptional human-beings. Through this journey, I’ve cultivated a unique blend of knowledge, skills, and mindset—not merely acquired through information but deeply shaped by experiential learning, practice, and even failure. While the learning never stops, these experiences now enable me to empower others in meaningful ways through the following services.
Strategic Innovation and Culture
Empowering organizations to stay competitive and unlock growth opportunities by solving challenges through a unique blend of human-centered and business methodologies.
Strategic and Creative Workshops
Driving outcomes through workshops that align teams, spark collaboration, and drive action using tools like co-creation and LEGO® Serious Play® to craft effective strategies.
Design Strategy and Execution
Driving business success by aligning design strategy with execution, integrating creative vision, user insights, and agility to deliver impactful solutions and enhance user experiences.
Coaching and Mentoring
Helping individuals and teams unlock their true potential through coaching and mentoring, fostering growth, enhancing capabilities, and driving impactful outcomes.
Case Studies
Work Experience
Managing Director
The PropelLabs
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Drove innovation and client success through strategic solutions, efficient processes, and exceptional retention, delivering measurable impact.
Leadership in Innovation: Built and led a dynamic team responsible for delivering innovative, high-impact projects to top-tier clients, including Dr.Reddy ’s, Mercedes Benz, Stryker, WISH Foundation, Black+Decker, Novartis, and Covidien, ensuring alignment with client objectives and market demands.
Strategic Design Thinking and Workshops: Delivered strategic design thinking workshops and alignment sessions to drive product development, go-to-market strategies, and business model refinement, ensuring solutions were both innovative and aligned with client goals.
Innovation Solution Delivery: Developed and validated a range of innovative solutions, from VR walkthroughs and storyboards to comprehensive product UIs, enhancing user experience and achieving tangible results for clients.
Tool Development for Team Efficiency: Designed and implemented proprietary tools and frameworks aimed at improving team efficiency, streamlining innovation capabilities, and accelerating project timelines without compromising on quality.
Client Retention and Return Business: Successfully secured close to 100% return business from almost all clients, including Stryker, Black+Decker, and Dr. Reddy ’s, driven by the high quality of work delivered and the substantial business value generated.
Head of Design
DLabs @ Indian School of Business
Dec 2013 - Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 8 mos
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Built and led design innovation, mentoring startups, securing funding, and driving growth through design thinking, & product-market alignment.
Founder of India’s First Design-Led Business Accelerator: Part of the founding team that established India’s first Design-led Business Accelerator, securing funding from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) in DLabs at Indian School of Business.
Leadership in Securing Funding: Collaborated with co-founders to secure DST funding, ensuring financial support for the lab’s design initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation and growth within the organization.
Establishment of Design SWAT Team: Formed an in-house innovation consulting team and a Design SWAT team and a robust network of mentors and advisors, enhancing the design capabilities of the incubator and driving innovation for startups under the lab’s program.
Design Thinking: Led the organization from a design thinking perspective, strategically shaping and reining the acceleration/incubation program to empower startups with the tools, methodologies, and support needed to succeed in competitive markets.
Mentorship and Evaluation of Incubated Companies: Mentored and evaluated incubated companies, providing strategic guidance, design expertise, and critical feedback to drive better success rates and accelerate product-market it.
Fueled by purpose and driven with intentionality, design is a courageous and imaginative act to invent extraordinary new possibilities.
Courage
Design is courageous. To create exceptionally good design, we must dare to venture into the unknown, challenge conventions, and imagine possibilities that others have yet to experience.
Care
Design is caring. Good design is crafted with precision and attention to detail. It demands mastery of materials, tools, and processes. Good design passionately cares about its experiencer.
Context
Design is contextual. Context is the cornerstone of good design, shaping outcomes that are meaningful and relevant. Understanding the environment, needs, and nuances makes design intuitive and impactful.
Connection
Design is connecting. Good design connects its creator and experiencer as much as it connects deeply with the experiencer. This essential connection ensures purpose, fulfillment and meaning.
Clarity
Design creates clarity. Good design simplifies complexity with intention and precision, empowering people to connect with what truly matters, sparking inspiration, and creating impactful, lasting experiences.
Celerity
Design is timely. Good design comes from enabling swift iterations, agile thinking, and timely innovation, fueled by curiosity and collaboration, that transforms bold ideas into impactful and enduring realities.
Photography, Typography, Art and AI
I am deeply touched, moved, and inspired by art in any form. My personal exploration spans photography, experimental typography, and art, where I find immense joy in blurring the lines between these forms to create unique expressions. More recently, with the advent of Generative AI, I have ventured into the fascinating intersection of AI-driven creativity and human artistry. This collaboration aims to push boundaries and forge new paradigms in art.
Here are some of my works that reflect this ongoing journey of exploration and creation.
