About Ramki Jayaraman

Ramki Jayaraman is the Managing Director of Synarchy Consulting, with more than two decades of experience guiding organizations through leadership challenges, strategy execution, and large-scale transformations. From his early roots in India to his professional journey in Dubai and across Africa, Ramki has built a career helping corporates, governments, and entrepreneurs navigate complexity with clarity.

His approach blends strategic foresight with a human-centered perspective, ensuring that innovation and execution go hand in hand. Over the years, he has led projects in diverse markets, always emphasizing context, adaptability, and empowerment. Whether advising family businesses in transition or shaping government reforms, Ramki’s passion lies in turning strategy into measurable results.

About this Episode
In this inspiring episode of The Matrix Green Pill Podcast, host Hilmarie Hutchison speaks with Ramki about his journey from corporate life to entrepreneurship and the lessons he’s learned leading transformations across the Middle East and Africa.

Ramki shares insights on shifting leadership models, the importance of execution, and the link between digital transformation and employee well-being. He introduces his 70-20-10 framework for resilience, highlights common leadership blind spots, and explains why empowering people is the key to lasting success.

Quotes

2:03 - I think I'm a builder at heart.

2:56 - Approach has always been a boutique approach to execution.

4:51 – Leadership is all about building cross-border teams, it's about cross-organizational structures.

5:05 - We need to adapt, we need to carry everybody together in this journey of leadership.

6:41 - To build an organizational resilience, especially in times like these, with disruptions and technology, we need to put a formula called as a 70-20-10, where you spend 70% of your growth should come from what we call as a core business, 20% of your business should come from what I call as a growth business or a new growth areas or diversification.

10:21 - Rather than taking a decision structure sitting at the top and then about people, working with people would probably be the only way organizations will thrive in the future.

11:52 - It's important to have global thinking so that you don't reinvent everything, because if you keep reinventing everything you can't build an organization at scale.

12:54 - That's one blind spot which I generally see where organizations tend to be more focused on activity and ignoring the impact.

14:05 - When you have that outcome-based assessment, and that's when you'll be able to distill these activities, and then all these activities should result in an impact or an outcome.

14:19 - They're the leaders of the future A and they are the stability carriers of organizations. Every organization will have a typical pyramid structure.

14:48 - If you don't invest heavily in middle management and then they become your weakest link.

15:00 - It's also about building their trust as well, because then you're trying to build a very committed and an invested middle management to take the organization to the next goalpost that they've set for themselves.

15:43 - We work with the leadership, we work with the board, we work with the client management to build an execution roadmap and that's a big pivot that we're seeing in terms of adopting AI in our core workforce.

16:55 - It's not that AI is not going to replace humans. You're possibly going to be replaced by a person who is using AI better.

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