Dr. Ravishankar Gundlapalli’s vision and life purpose are to bring the transformative power of mentorship to 100 million people in the world.
Dr. Ravi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MentorCloud, an online mentoring technology platform for organizations to scale their mentoring programs for rapidly growing skills, leadership, and performance of their people. Under Ravi’s leadership, MentorCloud has grown into a global movement with users from over 100 countries actively sharing and learning from each other as mentors and mentees. Dr. Ravi is a globally recognized thought leader on mentoring. He is the author of the book “The Art of Mentoring” that is fast becoming a global reference for mentoring best practices.
Dr. Ravi is a frequently invited speaker on the topics of mentoring, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and spoke at global conferences in 12 countries across 4 continents. Prior to founding MentorCloud, Dr. Ravi led supply chain solutions for Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Raytheon and Hitachi Global Storage.
Ravi has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, U.S.A, M.S. from Florida Atlantic University, U.S.A, and B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. Ravi lives in Silicon Valley, California and enjoys traveling, singing and having inspiring conversations with new people.
Written by Dr. Ravishankar Gundlapalli, The Art of Mentoring is a book written for people who are looking for ways to achieve their full potential.
The book gives several tools and techniques to find, connect and engage with mentors and to make the most out of mentoring relationships and in the process achieve one's true potential.