Roshan Thiran is the Founder and “Kuli” of the Leaderonomics Group, a social enterprise ecosystem built around one stubborn belief: people can be grown, organisations can be transformed, and leadership should not be reserved for the few in corner offices with suspiciously large desks. Over the past 18 to 19 years, he has grown Leaderonomics into a multi-venture group spanning leadership development, digital learning, culture transformation, youth and community impact through MAD Movement, and an incubator ecosystem that includes CyberArmour, SpaceQuest, Budaya, eVulx, Leaderonomics.com and other ventures focused on technology, education and human flourishing.

Before founding Leaderonomics, Roshan spent nearly two decades inside large global organisations, beginning his career at ExxonMobil before spending more than 15 years with General Electric across the US, Europe and Asia, serving in roles across finance, operations, media, aviation, leadership development and HR. His GE journey included work with GE Capital, NBC, GE Corporate Initiatives and GE Crotonville, GE’s legendary leadership institute. In Malaysia, he led the transformation of GE Engine Services Malaysia from a struggling aviation business into a global benchmark, giving him a front-row seat to the messy, difficult and deeply human work of business transformation. He later served as GE’s Director of HR Asia Pacific, overseeing Finance organisations across the region, a role that shaped his conviction that HR must sit at the heart of business strategy, not beside it holding the party balloons.

Roshan then joined Johnson & Johnson as Director of Global Talent Management, where he helped drive global leadership development, succession planning and performance management efforts across the organisation. That experience, combined with his years at GE, shaped his belief that great organisations are not built by inspirational posters, annual engagement surveys or heroic CEOs, but by intentional systems that build leaders, reinforce culture and turn human potential into sustained organisational performance. Since then, he has worked with businesses, governments, boards, CEOs and senior leaders across Asia and beyond, helping them navigate transformation, culture shifts, AI adoption and leadership renewal.

Today, Roshan’s work sits at the intersection of HR, culture, AI and organisational intelligence. Through Budaya and other Leaderonomics ventures, he is helping reimagine the HR function from being primarily an employee advocate or administrative support function into an employee intelligence engine: one that uses culture data, behavioural insights, AI-enabled tools and leadership systems to help organisations understand their people, predict risks, strengthen performance and build healthier workplaces. His current passion is helping Chief People Officers move HR from “policy police” to strategic culture architect, from measuring engagement after the damage is done to building living systems that sense, learn, adapt and grow people before the organisational roof starts leaking.