About

I'm Dr. Kaushik Ghatak — practitioner, educator, coach, and occasional contrarian when the situation calls for it.

Over three decades, I've worked at the intersection of supply chain strategy, digital transformation, and business leadership — first as a practitioner inside large enterprises, then as an advisor helping organisations navigate change, and now as a founder, educator, and coach trying to close the gap between theory and what actually works.

I've held VP and senior director roles at SAP, PwC, IBM, and Oracle, and have led programmes across Asia Pacific, India, and globally. Each of those experiences added a layer — new industries, new failure modes, new ways of understanding why smart people and well-resourced companies still get transformation wrong.

Today, I'm the Founder and Director of ValueQwest Pte. Ltd. in Singapore — a boutique practice focused on advisory, executive education, and coaching. I also serve as visiting faculty at leading management schools across Singapore, India, and Malaysia, and as Chairperson of the EGN Supply Chain Leaders Group in Singapore.

The consulting, teaching, and coaching all feed each other. Problems from the boardroom become cases in the classroom. Student questions send me back to first principles. Coaching conversations remind me how much leadership has to do with the person, not just the strategy.

A theme I return to constantly — in coaching, in the classroom, and in my writing — is the growing importance of the thinking skills that AI cannot replicate: systems thinking, critical thinking, and the ability to connect the dots across domains and disciplines. I use the Iceberg Model of Systems Thinking in my coaching practice to help leaders move below the surface of their problems, from reacting to events to reshaping the mental models that create them.