Co-Author · CEO · Advisor
The Next
The Next
Mountain
Helping leaders navigate transition, growth, reinvention and scale.
Former CEO of India's largest news network.
Helping leaders navigate transition, growth, reinvention and scale.
Former CEO of India's largest news network.
Former CEO, Network18 (Broadcast & Publishing) · Former CEO, TV Division — The Times Group · Co-Author, The Next Mountain
For nearly three decades I led some of India's most influential media organisations, through launches, turnarounds and reinvention.
I don't advise from theory. I advise from the chair — from the decisions that built category leaders and broke monopolies.
Today I work with CEOs, founders and boards as a strategic advisor, speak on the forces reshaping leadership, and write The Next Mountain.
Read the full story →Three signature keynotes — drawn from a lifetime of building, scaling and reinventing at the top.
Every summit reveals a higher one. How leaders find the next climb — and the resolve to begin it — after success, setback or reinvention.
Explore this keynote →The path to the top is engineered, not stumbled into. The mindset shifts and decisions that turn capable managers into decisive chief executives.
Explore this keynote →What it really takes to build category leaders — systems over personalities, data with conviction, and the discipline to scale without breaking.
Explore this keynote →Not consulting. A trusted, senior sounding board for the decisions that define an organisation's next decade.
I work with a small number of founders and senior leaders at any given time — privately, and over time. Not a coaching framework. Someone who has been at altitude long enough to hold the silence, and ask the one question that lets what's already true become sayable.
Request a conversation →What leadership actually looks like from the inside — real frameworks, not recycled advice. A letter for senior leaders, written by someone who has made the calls.
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Ambition may start the climb. Only purpose carries you to the summit.
You can hand someone the words. You cannot hand them the truth about your own life
The question waiting on a staircase I had not climbed in 36 years.
Notes on Resilience, Leadership and Purpose
From fleeing Srinagar at seventeen to becoming one of India's youngest CEOs — his story, in his own unfiltered voice. By Avinash Kaul, as told to Priya Kumar · HarperCollins · releasing 13 July 2026.
Whether it's a keynote, an advisory engagement, or a private conversation — the most consequential moves begin with one.