Our Story & Creed
Our Strategic Mission & Guiding Principles
We understand that every business leader is a changemaker. And the changemakers are supported by able advisors, such as Chanakya to Chandragupt. We partner with you to help your enterprise build robust capabilities, navigate organizational transitions, and achieve sustained growth.
Hands-On Partners
Business Enablers, Not Mere Advisors
We are Management Consultants and Business Consultants. Specialists in setting up businesses and building powerful organizations. We follow the principle that any business strategy is only as good as its execution! We follow a hands-on approach, understand your needs, identify the bottlenecks, outline bespoke strategies, create plans, and work closely with your teams to execute for desired results.
It is known about us that, like our clients, we strive for only one type of outcome – tangible, positive results!
We help our client organizations to formulate:
Diagnosis
Identify and diagnose structural, operational, talent and commercial issues early in the journey.
Blueprint
Envision immediate and long-term practical solutions tailored to organizational sizes and needs.
Enablers
Develop sustainable organizational enablers, which when implemented, would enable outcomes.
Prevention
Implement impregnable barriers and processes to prevent relapses. Thus, staving off repeat mistakes.
Core Philosophy
The GautamManthan Way
Our unique approach, based on pragmatism and empathy, is forged by decades of experience working in large global organizations; having set up successful businesses and companies, and a first-hand view of the struggles of business leaders.
Two tenets are the founding principles of our philosophy are:
Involvement Over Mere Engagement
In many ways, helping a business is like helping a child learn to walk. Letting go of the child’s hand after the first three steps gives her ‘independent’ ability without ‘teaching’ her how to walk. To truly enable her, her hand needs to be held only till she is skilled enough to be set free.
Similarly, we are interested in setting up your business for long-term success. We do not engage as piecemeal advisors. Our deep involvement in your business enables a complete makeover reinforced by effective leadership and team dynamics until your organization is strengthened to independently take on bigger battles.
Evolution over Disruption
Our projects are designed to metamorphose your organization by deeply immersing into your organizational milieu, but ensuring minimal disruptions to your ongoing business operations.
Our consultants have spent decades of experience in building, nurturing and running companies, living successful corporate careers with large organizations. This practical experience enables us to comprehend things well, foresee potential problems, and provide sustainable operational solutions.
Chief Facilitator
the mastermind & Founder
Navneet Gautam brings knowledge and experience amassed over 35 years of corporate experience, with a true C-Suite perspective. Supported by subject-matter experts and associate organizations, he enables client organizations to build, scale up, turn around, and transform into sustainable, profitable businesses.
Before founding GautamManthan, Navneet has been a pioneering contributor in building the business of Emergency Assistance, Specialty Risk Insurance, and On-Demand Services. He successfully built and nurtured, as its CEO, the South Asian subsidiary of MAWDY (MAPFRE- a Fortune Global 500 enterprise). In his earlier roles, he helped international auto companies establish brands and market shares. With successful stints in Marketing, Sales and Service areas, he fought battles of the mind to help these brands capture the markets.
A Mechanical Engineering graduate and post-graduate in Management, Navneet is a firm believer in constant learning. Nurturing healthy corporate ecosystems, he shapes frameworks in which people are intrinsically motivated to pursue perpetual self-development.
Navneet is an expert in setting up Indian subsidiaries of foreign companies, building Business Models, Growth Strategy, Leadership Development, Marketing & Sales – Strategies and objective-driven implementation, Organizational Development and General Management.
Core Expert Competencies:
Build Successful Organizations
Business Models, Growth Strategy
Leadership Development
Marketing and Sales
Organizational Development
General Management
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