Dr. Prathap B (Ph.D.) is a board-level leader, management scientist, serial social entrepreneur and international consultant, focused on helping organisations strengthen governance-to-execution in ESG/CSR, sustainable infrastructure, organisation design, people analytics, performance excellence and culture building. He is the Founder & CEO of GroundReality and PotHoleRaja®, a road-safety and pothole-management initiative with the vision: “To Make Our World Pothole Free,” working through citizen engagement, CSR partnerships and public-impact programs to deliver safer commutes. He is also the innovator behind GridMats®, a durable, cost-effective stabilisation/rigid-surface and erosion-control system made from 100% recycled plastic, designed for applications such as roads, industrial floors, parking lots, sports courts and event spaces—with potential for solar and IoT integration.linkedin+1

With a Ph.D. in Management Science and research interests spanning PPPP/CSR and road safety, Dr. Prathap brings a rare blend of academic depth and practical leadership experience. He has completed the Advanced Leadership Development Program at Harvard (as stated in his public profile) and serves as visiting faculty at leading institutes including IIM Bangalore, Christ and Alliance, teaching leadership, analytics and strategy to Indian and international postgraduate cohorts. As a business and management consultant, he has worked with global organisations including Tenaga National Berhad (Malaysia) and Mashreq Bank (Dubai), advising on transformation, operating excellence and capability building.[linkedin]​

Independent Director / Board Advisor value

As a Board Director / Advisor, Dr. Prathap is valued for translating strategy into measurable outcomes through strong execution governance, stakeholder alignment and performance systems. His board contribution is particularly relevant where organisations need to connect ESG ambition with scalable operating models—combining sustainability innovation, CSR program design, and culture-led performance management. He serves on Boards and Advisory Boards for multiple organisations and startups, bringing cross-sector pattern recognition and a builder’s mindset to governance, growth, and institutionalisation.potholeraja+1

Leadership, credibility & service

Dr. Prathap is also recognised for service and leadership beyond the corporate sphere, including being awarded for excellence in the Indian Air Force ecosystem and representing India as a Youth Ambassador in an international exchange program (as profiled publicly). He has served as Team Manager/Coach and Team Leader roles in para shooting contexts (as profiled publicly), reflecting disciplined high-performance coaching and team leadership. An artist, author, runner and adventure enthusiast, he brings resilience, humility and learning agility into every boardroom and leadership engagement.[linkedin]​

Links

• PotHoleRaja®: https://www.potholeraja.com/[linkedin]​

• Dr. Prathap profile (PotHoleRaja): https://www.potholeraja.com/prathap[linkedin]​

• PotHoleRaja in Media: https://www.potholeraja.com/media[linkedin]​

• GridMats®: https://www.gridmats.com/[potholeraja]​

• Personal site: http://www.prathaap.com/[linkedin]​

• LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/bprathaap (link provided on your profile page; may depend on network access)[linkedin]​

Sample list of project executed by Prathap

PotHoleRaja- Pan India Social impact pothole management and road safety initiative - 2016 to date

• Eco-friendly material and method for pothole fix and road safety.

• Citizen volunteering and employee engagement for identification  and fixing issues

• Leverage CSR and Sustainability funds  along with PPPP modus operandi

• 15000+ children education on road safety, 6500+ potholes fixed, 4000+ signboards, 5000+ cat eye reflectors, 20000+ volunteering hours 10000+ volunteers and counting

• Products developed - cold asphalt with plastic waste and crumb rubber, GridMats with variety of wastes for creating eco-friendly road infrastructure 

Learning and Development Landscape at Siemens Healthcare- Feb- Sep'2019

• Discover both quantitatively and qualitatively the insights from all stakeholders of the company for their learning needs

• Survey, Face to Face and Focus group discussions for data collection

• Detailed analysis with advanced statistics and research focus for deep dive

• Define and propose to board of directors the learning and development landscape

Sourcing Strategy consulting @ EasyBuy Landmark Group India & UAE   Dec’2017 -  Jun’2018

• Discover the key areas of sourcing strategy and issues. Defined the key areas to define the first of its kind sourcing strategy in the Apparel and Retail industry. 

• Design and Develop processes, technology, vendors, supply chain, infrastructure and leadership

• Deliver and change the entire context of sourcing all through the value chain of fabric to garments.

• Involved training, project delivery, competency development, benchmarking, analytics and overall organisation redesign. 

Business Process & Systems Consulting @ PROPEL -Malaysia     August 2013- 2 years

• Organization Development - Creating a culture of performance excellence - Business Process & Systems consulting. Identified top priority business areas for Client Acquisition, Operational Excellence, Automation and building efficiencies. Executing projects with building world class models, frameworks, benchmarks and building capacity for ongoing process improvements.

Nurturing & building future ready organization @ CIGNEX- India        November 2014-1 year

• Creating a Culture of performance excellence. Nurturing & building future ready organization with Leadership assessments, workshops and coaching. Enabling People, Process, Technology, Culture, Belongingness and future readiness in the organization.

Journey to Excellence @ KEMIN- India & Singapore        June 2013- 3 yrears and ongoing

•  Building and Nurturing the organization across levels to the journey of excellence. Leadership workshops, assessments, coaching, business process and systems discovery and defining top business priority, project execution and overall organization development

Project Management Certification @ UEMB- Malaysia         April 2014 - 2 years

• Project Management Training and Certification for Senior Project managers, Contract Managers, Site managers and senior functional heads. Supporting and guiding setup of Project Management office

Culture of Performance Excellence @ TNB Malaysia         May 2014- 10 years

• Top Leadership Development across Transmission, Distribution and Generation business Units. Building clear Vision, Values, Business Acumen for the Regional Managers, General managers and senior leaders of the business units.

Business Process & Systems Consulting @ UEMB- Malaysia   April 2014 – September 2014

• Business process and systems improvement- Discovering and Defining the top priority business areas for UEM Builders- Malaysia.

Culture of Performance Excellence @ CIPAL Indonesia   December 2014 – January 2015

• Building a culture of performance excellence for one of the biggest highway project of Indonesia

Organization Development for CapitalVia- India  May 2012 – November 2012

• Organization Development, Leadership Development, CRM, Analytics and project management consulting and training.

Organization Development for Giftwrapped- India  August 2012 – December 2012

• Organization development, business process and systems discovery and project execution. Training and workshops for leader development. Belongingness Inventory research and interpretation.

Black Belt Training @ HP- Worldwide  September 2010 – November 2010

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training and certifying Business Managers, Operations and Quality Managers in Costa Rica, Mexico, Poland & India

Creating Unified Process Improvement Methodology @ HP-Worldwide  April 2010 – December 2010

• Consolidating and Creating a unique- Unified process improvement methodology for HP.

And many more...

Strengths

·        Performance & Cultural Excellence leading to Organization Excellence:

Engaging teams, projects and organization to understand the inter connection of Vision, Value, Learning which drives culture, performance and overall organization excellence. 

Delivering consistency, leading performance by driving innovation as a way of life, spurring design & lateral thinking with engaged customer and delivery teams, high operational focus and still remaining lean and agile, always staying focused on core competencies to set and achieve aspirational targets

·        Business & Financial acumen: 

Enabling individuals, employees and teams to understand end-to-end of business with fun, game theory based intervention using simulations. Facilitate a deeper understanding of cross-functional silo breakup, interpersonal skills, problem solving and making profits.

Enabling fund raising activities including seed or venture capital term sheet negotiations 

·        Organization Design & Development

Metro mapping end to end of business in the simplest form to diagnose the health and status of organization, department or business unit. 

Discovering the areas to focus, defining the key priorities, CBA and P&L impact based design and development of interventions to ensure high quality and value adding delivery

Building entrepreneurs and project teams to be trained and nurtured on the 5 D process and enable ongoing high-performance design culture. 

·        Strategy, Leadership, Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship: 

Contributing to enterprise level strategies on growth, Market leadership, belongingness, employee engagement and client engagement. 

Mentor, Coach at Board level on Strategy, Corporate Governance, business excellence and leadership leveraging technology.

·        Research – Quantitative and Qualitative

Ability to look at a problem in a more organized and systematic manner. Converting a practical problem to a research or statistical problem, solving them with research methodologies both quant and qual. based. The convert that solution to practical solution and enable growth and evolution. 

Ability to connect the dots, correlate, create and capitalize.

·        People Analytics

Most innovative and unique way to understand “why do people do what they do”. This analytical approach with assessment based inputs with patented and out of world people analytics can be facilitated to understand complex human behaviour and beliefs which can be channelized for high performance culture.

Building statistical and analytical modelling, converting complex algorithms and logic to the most simplified representation is my strength. 

·        Advanced XL, PowerPoint, Projects & Visio Skills

Extremely comfortable in building complex algorithms, logics, dashboards, presentations, project and flow charts

Ability to showcase very cumbersome and complex processes and steps in the easiest to understand representation. Ability to connect head & heart in any presentation

·        Pothole Management using Public Private Partnership

Engaging employees, citizen and private companies/ associations / bodies / IT parks / and other private and public road users to develop social responsibility and contribute to society

Build holistic road and traffic safety by fixing potholes and related activities. 

Facilitate CSR and crowdsourcing models to fund pothole fixing activities. Visit www.potholeraja.com

Professional Contribution and Development

·        Multidimensional Leadership Training, Portfolio/Program/ Project Management delivery, Project Management Office setup and execution, CXO level Mentor and Coach, Lead Assessor of ISO, COPC, SOX, SAS 70, EFQM and Lean SixSigma Master Black Belt

·        Conducted multiple interventions on Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship, Balanced score card, Strategy formulation to implementation and enterprise change management.

·        Extensively trained and conducted scores of leadership development programs for middle Management and Sr. Management on Portfolio, Project Management, Enterprise Risk, Quality, Strategy formulation and implementation, Leadership Competency Development, Organization Turnaround, and High Performance

·        Certified and trained on multiple interventions from ISI, DDI, Stephen Covey Institutes, PMI, COPC, Agile-SCRUM, Lean SixSigma, Total Quality Management & Risk Management

·        Value creation and design thinking skills

Addressing at the World Entrepreneurship Summit 2019. Topic of Urban Social Entrepreneurship and holistic economic development

NPSC 47th conference - addressed and connected with over 300+ most progressive educators, teachers and institutes of India about how they can engage children and teachers for community development and engagement. 

Many more engagements with corporates for CSR, volunteers, citizen for pothole fix

Consulting and Training with hundreds of corporates, educational institutes and other platforms.