Raghu Ananthanarayanan is a Post-Graduate in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.  He is a leading consultant to several blue chip companies - Indian as well as Multinational. He has devoted almost two decades to transforming the organizational culture of several leading organizations.  He is one of the founders of Sumedhas – The Academy for Human Context. He is a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has taught at Institute of Rural Management, Anand, and Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore. He has studied yoga with Yogacharya Krishnamacharya & TKV Desikarchari. He has taught yoga at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram for a decade and published a world-renowned book on Yoga.

Raghu’s present focus is in organisation design and change management. He has developed a unique methodology called “Totally Aligned Organisation” that brings together his understanding of Manufacturing Systems, Human Processes and Yoga. He has published a book (The Totally Aligned Organisation) where he has elaborated upon some of the key ideas from Yoga and process work that he has used in a management context.

Raghu has worked with several NGO’s helping them in personal development and organisation development. He is also actively involved with reviving craft groups and theatre. He has been passionately attempting a convergence between Indian traditional wisdom and modernity.