Frame the challenge
Separate symptoms from causes and understand the people, patterns and interdependencies shaping the problem.
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Ravi Kant
Enterprise Leadership, Innovation & Transformation
Former RBS/NatWest Business Head | Founder, Innovation Spark Asia
Ravi brings more than three decades of experience across banking, technology and enterprise transformation. Today, he works with enterprises and GCCs to strengthen leadership, innovation and human-centred problem-solving capability around real business priorities.
As a Design Thinking consultant and facilitator in India, he combines human-centred methods, Systems Thinking and practical experience of leading large teams, managing complex portfolios and working across global organisational boundaries.
30+years across enterprise leadership, technology and transformation
200+innovation engagements
40+organisations
3,000+professionals reached
A practitioner shaped by enterprise reality
Enterprise experience that informs the work.
Before founding Innovation Spark Asia, Ravi served as a Business Head at RBS/NatWest, managing technology portfolios exceeding £80 million and leading more than 750 professionals.
That experience informs his current work with GCC and enterprise leaders: understanding business context, navigating global stakeholder relationships, aligning teams and connecting delivery responsibilities with wider enterprise outcomes.
What Ravi helps teams do
Make progress on the right problem.
Align diverse perspectives
Bring leaders and cross-functional teams into a structured conversation grounded in evidence and stakeholder needs.
Create and test options
Move beyond familiar answers by developing, prioritising and validating solution concepts before significant investment.
Build lasting capability
Equip participants with practical methods, coaching and playbooks they can apply beyond a single engagement.
Advisor · Consultant · Facilitator · Coach · Programme architect
The role changes with the work.
Some priorities need strategic advisory and a diagnostic before the organisation commits to a programme. Others need focused Design Thinking consulting, a facilitated workshop, an applied capability journey or support as an initiative moves towards leadership decisions. Each engagement is designed around the organisation’s context and intended outcome.
Experience & foundations
Credibility beyond the workshop room.
- Enterprise leadershipFormer Business Head, RBS/NatWest
- Design ThinkingUniversity of Virginia · Design Thinking & Innovation
- Futures thinkingInstitute for the Future
- CoachingErickson coaching foundation
- Current practiceFounder & CEO, Innovation Spark Asia
Evidence from the work
Explore applied Design Thinking in enterprise contexts.
Selected case studies show how teams have used human-centred problem solving to understand stakeholders, reframe challenges and develop decision-ready actions.
Strategic advisoryInnovation & Transformation AdvisoryExplore the advisory approach ↗ConsultingDesign Thinking Consulting in IndiaExplore the consulting approach ↗ProgrammeCorporate Design Thinking Workshops in IndiaExplore the programme ↗GCC capabilityDesign Thinking and Innovation Capability for GCCsExplore the GCC offering ↗
Start with the business priority
Looking for a Design Thinking consultant or facilitator in India?
Share the challenge, audience and outcome you have in mind. Ravi will help you determine whether consulting, a facilitated workshop, an applied programme or a coaching journey is the right fit.