As businesses across the globe race to adopt artificial intelligence, leadership coach and author Kuruva Venkataramana Murthy believes India’s leaders must pause, reflect, and embrace a deeper shift: moving from performance-driven cultures to presence-led leadership.
Murthy, a TEDx speaker, founder of One in the Universe, and now author of the upcoming book AI-Driven Leadership: Adapt. Amplify. Accelerate – Leading with Dharma in the Age of AI, is emerging as one of India’s most original voices on leadership in times of technological disruption.
From Failure to Flamebearer
Unlike many who entered leadership through boardrooms and business schools, Murthy’s journey began in silence—shaped by personal failures and spiritual seeking. “I realised that leaders don’t need fixing,” he often says. “They need reminding of the truth that they’ve already led through their most impossible days.”
This philosophy took shape in his TRACK Framework, The Flame Code, and the AI-Driven Leadership Model—practical systems that he has delivered to thousands of professionals, from frontline managers to CXOs. His flagship programs, including Leadership Rebirth Circles and 1000 Sparks, focus on helping leaders reclaim their authority, build trust-driven teams, and integrate spirituality with execution.
A Leadership Model for the AI Age
With decisions now being made in milliseconds, Murthy argues that speed and scale alone cannot sustain businesses. His new book, releasing in August 2025, introduces a paradigm rooted in three principles:
Adapt with Awareness – staying technologically agile without losing human depth.
Amplify Ethics – putting purpose before popularity.
Accelerate to Align – scaling decisions in tune with one’s inner.
Dharma, not external demand “This is not management theory,” Murthy notes. “It is a leadership movement born from India—ancient in wisdom, urgent in relevance.” India’s Leadership Future For Murthy, India’s rise in the AI era will depend less on unicorns and valuations, and more on what he calls flamebearers—leaders willing to carry the torch of consciousness. Through One in the Universe, his mission is to help one million Indians reclaim their natural leadership presence. “As the world watches India step into its AI-driven future, we must lead not harder, but deeper,” he says. “Our greatest export must not only be innovation, but inner vision.”
