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Prakash Iyer is the bestselling author of The Habit of Winning and The Secret of Leadership. In a corporate career spanning more than twenty-five years, he has worked with teams selling everything from soaps and colas to watches, yellow pages and diapers. He was the managing director of Kimberly Clark Lever. Passionate about people and cricket, Prakash is also a motivational speaker and trained leadership coach. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he is married to Savitha, and they have twin children, Shruti and Abhishek.

Prakash Iyer is the bestselling author of The Habit of Winning. In a
corporate career spanning more than twenty-five years, he has
worked with teams selling everything from soaps and colas, to
watches, yellow pages and diapers. He is currently the managing
director of Kimberly Clark Lever.
Passionate about people-and cricket-Prakash is also a
motivational speaker and trained leadership coach. An MBA from
IIM Ahmedabad, he is married to Savitha, and they have twin
children, Shruti and Abhishek.
Do you have a leadership story you’d like to share? Write in to
Prakash at pi@prakashiyer.com or visit www.prakashiyer.com.

Novoneel Chakraborty is the bestselling author of fourteen bestselling thriller novels and one short story collection titled Cheaters. His novel, Forget Me Not, Stranger, debuted as the No. 1 bestseller across India. While All Yours, Stranger ranked in the top five thriller novels on Amazon, India-the only one to feature amid other international bestsellers. His novel Black Suits You was in top five thrillers category on Amazon for fifteen weeks. While his Forever series was in the bestseller list for ten weeks straight after its release with Forever Is A Lie featuring in the highest selling books on Flipkart for 2017. Forever Is True made it to Amazon’s Memorable Books of 2017 and Times of India’s Most Stunning Books of 2017.

Known for his twists, dark plots and strong female protagonists, Novoneel Chakraborty is also called the Sidney Sheldon of India by his readers. His immensely popular thriller series, The Stranger Trilogy, has been translated into six Indian languages and has been adapted into a popular web series, titled Hello Mini, on MX Player produced by Applause Entertainment and Rose Movies. His erotic thriller novel, Black Suits You, has been adapted into the blockbuster hit Bekaaboo, while his exclusive digital novella, Red Suits You, is also being adapted into a web series by Alt Balaji. His short story collection, Cheaters, is now available in Hindi as well. Apart from novels, Novoneel has written and developed several TV and web shows for premiere channels and platforms. He lives and works in Mumbai.

Roopa Pai is one of India’s best-known authors for children. She has written over twenty-five books ranging from picture books to chapter books and fiction to non-fiction, on themes as diverse as fantasy, popular science, maths, history, economics, life skills and philosophy. Many of these are bestsellers, and are enjoyed as much by adults as children.

In his rather full life, supermodel MILIND SOMAN has worn many seemingly disparate hats, but the one common thread through them all has been his commitment to physical fitness. In the last several years, he has become an avid advocate of, and a role model for, a more holistic kind of fitness, one that incorporates mind, body and spirit. Through personal achievements like completing the Ironman and Ultraman challenges after turning fifty, and as the force behind breakthrough ideas like the Pinkathon movement and the Barefoot Marathon, Milind encourages women-and others-to take charge of their health, get back in touch with nature and believe in themselves.

Vikrant Khanna is the best-selling author of When Life Tricked Me, Love Lasts Forever, Secretly Yours, and The Girl Who Knew Too Much.

In his rather full life, supermodel MILIND SOMAN has worn many seemingly
disparate hats, but the one common thread through them all has been his commitment to physical fitness. In the last several years, he has become an avid advocate of, and a role model for, a more holistic kind of fitness, one that incorporates mind, body and spirit. Through personal achievements like completing the Ironman and Ultraman challenges after turning fifty, and as the force behind breakthrough ideas like the Pinkathon movement and the Barefoot Marathon, Milind encourages women-and others-to take charge of their health, get back in touch with nature and believe in themselves.

With over twenty-five books under her belt, including the award-winning The Gita for Children, ROOPA PAI is one of India’s best-known writers for children. Many of her books, on a range of subjects, including sci-fi fantasy, popular science, math, history, economics, life skills, philosophy and, most recently, medicine, are bestsellers, and are enjoyed just as much by adults. This computer engineer plays no sport, but holds sportspersons of every stripe in the highest esteem, and enjoys telling their stories.

Yuvraj Singh is an Indian cricketer and a cancer survivor. He was born in Chandigarh in 1981. He debuted for India in 2000 during the ICC Knock Out Trophy, still only nineteen. In 2011, he emerged as Player of the Tournament in the ICC World Cup, which his team won. That same year he was diagnosed with cancer. He returned to international cricket less than a year after his diagnosis.

This is his first book.

Harish Bhat is the chairman of Tata Coffee Limited and the Brand Custodian of Tata Sons. A conferee of the British Chevening Scholarship for Young Manager by the UK government, he is a columnist with The Hindu BusinessLine and Mint.
R.M. Lala was the director of Tata’s premier trust, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the co-founder and chairman of the Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy. A prolific writer, his books have been translated into several languages, including Japanese.

Matt Barney, PhD is the vice president and director of the Infosys Leadership Institute. Dr. Barney is the seniormost Infosys leader reponsible for the selection, development, research and succession of senior and high – potential leaders worldwide. Previously, he has held similar roles at Intel, AT&T, Lucent Technologies, Motorola and Merck. He is a Motrola Master Black Belt and a certified risk mamager by the Institute for Professional Education. In 2007, he was awarded the distinction of ‘ Future Leader’ by Human Capital Magazine.