Founder · Program Director
Faisal Hoque
Faisal is on a mission to humanize organizational transformation by bridging the worlds of business, technology, and philosophy. Recognized as one of the world's leading management thinkers and technologists, Faisal is committed to making the most sophisticated transformational approaches available to businesses of all sizes.
Faisal has spent three decades guiding leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. He is an Executive Fellow at leading Swiss business school IMD and the author of 11 bestselling and award-winning books. Faisal is a regular columnist at Fast Company, Psychology Today, and I by IMD, and his work has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Data Science Review, among many other outlets.
Faisal is a three-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards and has been named among Ziff Davis's Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology. He approaches transformation as a personal practice as much as an organizational one – an inheritance of the Eastern philosophical tradition in which he was raised.
Advisory Faculty
Paul is a researcher, systems designer, and writer whose work sits at the intersection of organizational transformation, philosophy, and technology. An Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool, his research has been published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and his applied work on AI transformation has appeared in Harvard Business Review and Harvard Data Science Review.
Paul brings a decade of experience translating complex strategic frameworks into structured, actionable processes for leadership teams. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and a collaborator on more than twenty books, including multiple national bestsellers. Paul regularly collaborates with Faisal as a contributing author for the journal I by IMD.
Pranay is a philosopher and ethicist whose work focuses on how technological and societal change alters what it means to be human. A former academic philosopher, he is the author of an edited volume on justice and climate change for Cambridge University Press and a contributor to the UN IPCC's 5th Assessment Report. He previously served as Head Tutor for The Economist's Critical Thinking course.
Pranay designs NextChapter's ethical frameworks for responsible AI, drawing on his expertise in business learning and development to shape how the program's modules translate principle into practice. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and regularly collaborates with Faisal as a contributing author for the journal I by IMD.
Tom is one of the world's foremost authorities on AI, analytics, and digital transformation. The President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, he is a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte. He has authored more than 25 books and over 200 articles for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, The Financial Times, and Forbes, and his 181,000+ Google Scholar citations make him one of the most cited management scholars in the world. His 2006 HBR article on competing through analytics was named one of the twelve must-read articles in the journal's 100-year history. Tom is the co-author of Reimagining Government.
Erik spent more than a decade as Senior Vice President at CACI International, where he led the $2B+ Enterprise IT operating group serving the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and civilian government. Before CACI, he held executive roles at Northrop Grumman – progressing from program manager through Chief Technology Officer to Operating Unit Director – and served as General Manager for Federal Financial Agencies at CSC. Earlier in his career, Erik held leadership positions at the United States Senate and the Department of the Army. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and of “Why AI Demands a New Breed of Leaders,” one of MIT Sloan Management Review's most-read articles of 2025.