Middle East

KHURSHEED N. KHURODY

Ms. Khursheed Khurody’s background and education spans four countries and several disciplines. Raised and educated in the U.K., and the U.S.A, Ms. Khurody completed her schooling at Stowe in England and her formal higher education at Harvard University.

Together with her academic education, both in the humanities and in the sciences, she has a strong background in the western performing arts and several prizes and awards to her credit, in western classical music.

While representing Harvard Alumni in India, Ms. Khurody seeded the Harvard Club of Mumbai.

Presently, Ms. Khurody works with The School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) and SOIL School of Business Design: (SSOBD) – Coaching and mentoring students in the Post Graduate Diploma programme in Management (PGDM), integrating management, design thinking, and the liberal arts while emphasizing experiential learning through live projects, internships and global exposure.

She has also just joined Mr. Ravi Kant in his venture, Leading from the Back (LfB), as an Advisor to his leadership development initiative and strategic imperative for building resilient, adaptive, and high-performing organisations.

In addition, Ms. Khurody sits on several Social Purpose and Non-Profit Boards, while working as a Strategic Advisor & Consultant to both Domestic and Global NGOs, shaping organisational design, architecture, strategy, partnerships, culture, & governance.

Ms. Khurody is also presently country Chair of the Shivia Livelihoods Foundation – an international non-profit organisation, head-quartered in London – working for the poorest of the poor in India, through its livelihood development programmes.

With increasing relevance, Ms. Khurody believes, that the humanities & liberal arts fashion leaders who are organic, passionate and vitally relevant. For example, she says, “The parallels between music and management are astounding.”

In her spare time, she enjoys, trekking through mountains and forests. She loves the outdoors and enjoys swimming and riding. She also has a deep love of reading, writing, history, poetry and philosophy.