Mayank Verma (मयंक वर्मा)

Co-Founder & CEO @ Leadup Universe

About

With over 20 years of diverse industry experience, I have had the privilege of building and driving business, product, and talent strategies across APAC for leading organisations like PwC, Samsung, MetLife, and Casio. Throughout my career, I’ve consistently led high-performing teams and delivered significant business outcomes, including scaling operations to 5x growth. As a consultant, entrepreneur, and coach over the past decade, I’ve focused on the development of leadership capabilities, impacting the growth of approximately 6,000 leaders. I bring deep expertise in aligning HR and sales practices with organisational goals, fostering high-performance cultures, and developing talent to thrive in dynamic business environments. In my current role as Co-Founder & CEO at Leadup Universe, an ed-tech firm specialising in future-readiness for executives and organisations, I have spearheaded initiatives like the 'Emerging CXO' programs with top B-schools and curated the "Employer of the Future" study in collaboration with Outlook Business and Kantar. My work is focused on helping organisations build sustainable leadership pipelines and create impactful, future-ready business strategies. Recognised as one of India’s top 70 business icons in 2022, I continue to drive transformative growth through a combination of strategic insight, leadership development, and a passion for empowering people and organisations to succeed.

Country

India

City

Gurgaon

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Sales Management Coaching, Sales Process Development, SPIN Sales Training, Performance Improvement, Business Strategy, Strategic Negotiations, Performance Management, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Change Management, Training, Business Development, Employee Engagement, Employee engagement, HR Consulting, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Strategy, Talent Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Experience

Co-Founder & CEO

Leadup Universe

2021-5 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Leadup Universe focuses on "empowering organisations and executives to be future ready". We curate high impact programs in collaboration with Top B Schools, international academicians, global practitioners and career coaches for senior working executives. Leadup Universe also conducts an annual study, "Employers of the Future" in association with Outlook Business (as media partner) and Kantar (as research partner). The insights from the study are shared with 500+ CXOs across APAC through round table dialogue, which is further shared with more than 2000 CXOs in our network through case lets and digital distribution.

Advisory Board

Branduits Pvt. Ltd.

2021-4 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Founder and MD

Corporate Acharya

2019-4 - 2022-12 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Gurgaon, India

Corporate Acharya is a management advisory and coaching firm. A tech enabled performance advisory service focusing on leadership development, executive coaching, sales enablement / solutions for MNCs, MSMEs and Indian conglomerates.

Director - Management Consulting (People and Organisation)

PwC India

2018-6 - 2019-4 · 11 mos

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Managed the design and development of an advanced technology enabled leadership development platform. An end-to-end leadership development/ performance enhancement solution designed, developed & deployed through an advanced integrated technology platform hosting global products i.e. assessment, 1:1 meetings, personalized content hosting & learning journey, learning analytics & report. Delivered advisory services for key accounts across MSME, Indian organisations, Indian multinationals and Multinational organizations.

Deputy General Manager

Samsung Electronics

2013-6 - 2018-5 · 5 yrs

HO Gurgaon, India

Led large & multi cultural teams across South West Asia region for the consumer durable division. Product performance & training solution design & deployment across exclusive, regional and modern retail channels. Sell-out enhancement solutions and performance management tools / matrices for teams across channels (~11k team members). Aptly supported sell out operations of INR 10k crore across 41 branches in India.

Associate Partner

Vyaktitva

2009-2 - 2013-5 · 4 yrs 4 mos

New Delhi Area, India

Led the business for HR / Management advisory. Productization of learning solutions, solutioning and sales to Large accounts across Industries. Building deep and long-term relationships across levels for both cross & up sell.

Senior Manager

PNB MetLife India Insurance Co. Ltd

2007-8 - 2009-1 · 1 yr 6 mos

Gurgaon, India

Regional Business Manager

NIS Sparta

2005-5 - 2007-7 · 2 yrs 3 mos

New Delhi Area, India

Business development and account management for Sales Capability building products by NIS Sparta and International partners (i.e. Huthwaite Inc., Carlson Learning etc.). Led northern region, managed the product sales teams, regional P&L and built relationships across industries.

Business Manager

Network Programs (India) Ltd (Arizona based Aspect Inc., India Partner)

2004-2 - 2005-4 · 1 yr 3 mos

Noida Area, India

Business development, relationship building and account management for call center architectural solutions/ products (end to end). Managed OEMs.

Executive - Channel Sales & Development

Casio India

2002-12 - 2004-1 · 1 yr 2 mos

New Delhi Area, India

Was instrumental in the launch of EMI (Electronic Musical Instruments/ products) in India. Learnt the product positioning, price and channel management for EMIs across categories. Built relationships with the Channel partners for both sell-in and sell-out across channels (exclusive & regional retail)