He is rated as India’s No 1 Bestselling Business author. With 17 best selling books on Chanakya, starting with all-time record breaking sales of ‘Corporate Chanakya’ to children series named ‘Chatur Chanakya’ he has readers from all age groups from across the globe.

He is the Founder and Director of Chanakya International Institute of Leadership studies (CIILS) at the University of Mumbai. The institute is created by offering the world's first post graduate academic program in Leadership- Masters in leadership science (MA-LS). The research and outcome is helping students and leaders across the globe. He also teaches in various universities and educational institutions as a Visiting faculty. He has done over 1000 lecture in institutions like National Defence college (NDC), Defense services staff college (DSSC),Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Bombay stock exchange (BSE), National stock exchange (NSE) etc.

He has been a leadership and strategy advisor to over 500 organizations including various corporations, government and non government (NGO) organizations. These include - Indian Oil corporation, HPCL, BPCL, Tata group of companies, Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla group, Mahindra and Mahindra, Indian Army, Navy, Airforce, police academies etc.

Many national and international awards have been conferred on him. Some of them includes - Avishkar research award (Governor of Maharashtra fellowship), International Yoga day organizer (Government of Chandigarh), Sardar Patel international award for contribution to Industrial development, Rotary International award in the field of education, Lokmat award for best teacher of philosophy, Litofest award received at the House of Lords (British Parliament) among others.

He has been the part of various national and international projects of the government of India including - First international Yoga day academic conference organized in USA by Indian council of Cultural Relations (ICCR, New Delhi) and consulate general of New York as the chief convenor. Also participated and presented papers in various conferences and seminars in universities in over 20 countries.

Rated as the top 50 Management thinkers from India by thinkers50.com he is on a mission mode to bring back ancient Indian wisdom in a modern format

Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai