Dr. Ranjan De Silva's Profile
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, as Director/Senior Management Consultant at Sensei Lanka, he provided leadership development consultancy, coaching and training for various multinationals, conglomerates and local companies in 30 countries from 1998 to 2023.
Ranjan was awarded the Hult Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Organisational Change 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 price 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 work places, at the Bangalore HR summit in 2011 received the 2nd runner-up award out of 22 papers presented.
He has also networked with management gurus of the calibre of Tom Peters, Edward De Bono, Jack Trout, Ron Kaufman, and Robert Holden, all of whom have spoken at various events he and his team organised.​

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Dr Ranjan De Silva endeavours to balance his time between family, providing his services, professional contribution through the Chartered Institute of Marketing and Social contribution through Rotary International.
past COnsulting roles

Director/Senior Management Consultant
Sensei Lanka (Pvt) Ltd
September 1998 - April 2023
Professional and Social RoleS


FCIM, Chartered Marketer,
Past Chairman,
​​​​​​​​​The Chartered Institute of Marketing​​​​​
Sri Lanka Branch
Paul Harris Fellow
Past President,
Rotary Club of Colombo Reconnections
RI District 3220 – Sri Lanka
past Corporate roles
Director [1992 – 1998]
Marketing Manager [1988 – 1991]
Keells Food Products Ltd
& Jaykay Marketing Service Ltd

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Rahimafrooz Superstores Limited
[Operator of Agora Supermarkets in Bangladesh]
July 2009 - August 2012


Chief Executive, Director Strategy Execution
Apollo Hospital Bangladesh
September 2012- January 2014

Director Organisational Development
Unisnacks Europe Limited - United Kingdom
May 2023 - January 2025