CXO Leadership
A Holistic Leadership Journey with Purpose: Enlisting Paradoxical Capabilities
Today’s senior leadership landscape is shaped by rapid change, competing demands, and the need for deep human insight. For CXOs, leading with impact requires more than strategic acumen—it calls for the ability to hold paradoxes, lead with authenticity, and navigate complexity with clarity and purpose. This page explores a holistic leadership journey that empowers top executives to cultivate transformative capabilities, align with their deeper purpose, and lead with both strength and vulnerability in a world that demands both.
Diagnostics, Consulting, Coaching, Workshops
Attend a cxo leadership playshop
​The next CXO leadership playshop will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 27th at Hotel Lake Castle. Click below to view the brochure, register now, or discuss a customised session for your organisation and take the next step in your purposeful leadership journey.
How Can We
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Why attend
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Gain Strategic Clarity – Discover how to lead with purpose amidst volatility, aligning your leadership with emerging opportunities and for the flourishing of life.
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Learn Practical Tools – Equip yourself with actionable frameworks and techniques to elevate your CXO leadership in real-world contexts.
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Connect with a Powerful Network – Engage with a vibrant community of CXOs, industry pioneers, and thought leaders to exchange insights and build lasting alliances.
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Craft Your Personal Action Plan – Leave with a customised roadmap to lead with authenticity, resilience, and transformative impact.
Key Themes
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Leadership Lessons from 2024/25 – Insights from real-world leadership experiences and organisational pivots.
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Strategic and Leadership Challenges – Navigating dilemmas and building resilience.
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Profit Pools of 2025/26 – Identifying growth sectors and strategic positioning.
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Breakthroughs for 2025 – Leading transformative shifts with clarity and courage.
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Six Intelligences for Future-Ready Leadership – Based on John Kao’s framework.
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Liberating Leadership Energy – Releasing limiting beliefs and unlocking inner strength.
Key Takeaway
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Learn what top leaders did differently during times of volatility.
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Understand strategic responses that foster resilience and foresight.
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Discover emerging opportunities and how to position your organisation for growth.
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Build capabilities across six leadership intelligences: contextual, moral, emotional/social, generative, technological, and transformative.
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Engage in guided practices to release fear, ego, and doubt, and cultivate courage and peace.
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Leave with actionable strategies tailored to your organisational context.
Event Details
Event Details
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Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2025
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Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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Duration: 1 Full Day (9 Hours)
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Venue: Hotel Lake Castle, Plot-1A, Road-68/A, Gulshan-2, Dhaka
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Investment: BDT 15,000 per person (excluding VAT)
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📄 Download the brochure for full details on registration, payment methods, and refund guidelines.
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📩 Upon registration, participants will receive pre-workshop guidelines, including assessments and recommended readings to enrich the learning experience.
cxo leadership SUIT OF Resources
CXO Leadership Playshop – Our playshops prepare senior executives to navigate complex business landscapes with confidence and purpose. Participants gain real-world strategies for leading through volatility, identifying growth sectors, and positioning their organisations for sustainable success. Through focused sessions on Strategic Visioning, Transformational Leadership, Operational Excellence, and Future-Ready Skills Development, we cultivate leadership intelligence and resilience.
Leadership Diagnostics: Developing CXO leadership begins with deep self-awareness. At Purposeful Leadership, we offer a comprehensive suite of diagnostics that help CXOs and senior leaders uncover their unique leadership DNA. These include assessments of leadership styles, leadership complexities, natural abilities, and EQ-IQ dynamics, along with a high-performing teams assessment to understand team impact. We also design customised 360-degree feedback tools aligned with leadership competencies tailored to each leader’s seniority, industry, and PESTEL context. These insights form the foundation for a purposeful leadership journey—one that is grounded in clarity, authenticity, and the courage to grow.
CXO Leadership Consulting – We partner with senior leaders to cultivate purposeful, paradox-embracing leadership across their organisations. Our consulting approach integrates leadership diagnostics, strategic alignment, and capability development to foster authentic, high-impact leadership cultures. We guide CXOs through a transformative journey—from uncovering leadership DNA and navigating complexity to designing bespoke leadership frameworks, coaching interventions, and culture-shaping strategies. Discover how our consulting can elevate executive leadership and drive sustainable organisational growth.
Leadership Coaching – We offer personalised coaching for CXOs and senior leaders, as well as group coaching for leadership teams, empowering them to lead with clarity, authenticity, and purpose. Our coaching approach helps leaders embrace paradoxes, strengthen emotional and relational intelligence, and apply purposeful leadership principles in real-world contexts. The result? Enhanced decision-making, deeper team engagement, and a leadership culture that inspires transformation and trust. Learn more about our coaching philosophy.
About your catalyst
Dr RANJAN L G De SILVA​
Managing Director / Chief Catalyst, Purposeful Leadership (Pvt) Ltd.
Dr. Ranjan De Silva, Managing Director and Chief Catalyst of Purposeful Leadership (Pvt) Ltd., is an experienced Organisational and Leadership Development Catalyst and Success Coach, helping CEO's and Senior Leaders create more purposeful, aligned, passionate and emotionally engaged teams to deliver spectacular results. He has an ideal mix of practical and theoretical grounding.
His practical experience comes from 40 years of corporate experience, from his time as Director of the food business of John Keells Holdings from 1992 to 1998, CEO of Rahimafrooz Superstores Ltd. Bangladesh from 2009 to 2012 and Director Strategic Executive, Apollo Hospitals, Bangladesh from 2012 to 2014 and Director of Organisational Development of Unisnacks Europe Ltd, UK from 2023 to 2025. In between these assignments, he provided leadership development consultancy, coaching and training for various multinationals, conglomerates and local companies in 30 countries from 1998.
Ranjan did his Doctoral Studies at Ashridge Business School in the UK and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Organisational Change by Hult University USA, for his thesis on 'Purposeful Living - An Inquiry into the Life of a Leadership Development Practitioner'. He also holds an MBA from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, and is a world prize winner of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK (FCIM) and the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Branch in 1998 and 1999.
Ranjan is the author of two books, 'Mind Programming for Sales Success' and 'A Better Way to Sell'. His paper on creating passionate workplaces, at the Bangalore HR summit in 2011, received the 2nd runner-up award out of 22 papers presented. He has also networked and shared the stage with management gurus of the calibre of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman, and Robert Holden.
TESTIMONIALS
"Thank you for the excellent 'stella' workshop. The success of the session was enormous. I can advise you that people have returned with a very positive spirit. Well done for helping to create that 'will do' feeling.“
-Ray Bremner, Chairman - Unilever – Egypt​
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"I’d like to personally thank you for a truly professional session at our annual Marketing Forum. I’m sure it gave a lift to the attendees.“
-Asif Osman, Head of Commercial and Rewards - Air Miles Rewards Management Middle East
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"Whilst this note should have been sent much earlier; it is far more relevant to send this note now, considering that our sales team went through a bit of a crises 2 months ago and it was the team leaders who were able to pull the team back on track. Most of the techniques that were used were what you had taught them during your sessions. The personal time that you have dedicated to our teams both during and out of sessions were truly appreciated and the sales leaders were able to benefit immensely from it.Thank you for your passion and commitment in the betterment of our staff and for always being there for the team.“
-Niranjan Mendonca, Head of Retail Banking – Mashreq Bank Qatar
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"The playshop was a very rewarding experience for all of us. There is a wonderful buzz in the organization. A lot of the material that we covered will be incorporated into our regular MIS."
- Kaiser Kabir, Managing Director - Renata Ltd, Bangladesh
