About Shadoka

SHADOKA was built on a single conviction: that the organizations capable of sustaining transformation are not those with the best technology – they are those with the best leadership, the clearest governance, and the deepest human commitment to change. We have spent thirty years validating this idea, proving it at scale again and again across sectors and in conditions where failure was not an option.

The Bengali word ‘SHADOKA’ is derived from the sanskrit word sādhaka. A sādhaka is a practitioner of a particular sādhanā. A sādhaka, or practitioner, is one who skillfully applies mind and intelligence in practice towards a goal. Sanskrit word sādhanā, literally translates to “a means of accomplishing something”.

FOUNDER · CEO

Faisal Hoque

Faisal is on a mission to humanize organizational transformation by bridging the worlds of business, technology, and philosophy. Recognized as one of the world’s leading management thinkers and technologists, Faisal is committed to making the most sophisticated transformational approaches available to businesses of all sizes.

Faisal has spent three decades guiding leadership teams at Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. He is an Executive Fellow at leading Swiss business school IMD and the author of 12 bestselling and award-winning books. Faisal is a regular columnist at Fast Company, Psychology Today, and I by IMD, and his work has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Data Science Review, among many other outlets.

Faisal is a three-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and Fast 500™ awards and has been named among Ziff Davis’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Technology. He approaches transformation as a personal practice as much as an organizational one – an inheritance of the Eastern philosophical tradition in which he was raised.

Team

Paul is a researcher, systems designer, and writer whose work sits at the intersection of organizational transformation, philosophy, and technology. An Honorary Fellow at the University of Liverpool, his research has been published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and his applied work on AI transformation has appeared in Harvard Business Review and Harvard Data Science Review.

Paul brings a decade of experience translating complex strategic frameworks into structured, actionable processes for leadership teams. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and a collaborator on more than twenty books, including multiple national bestsellers. Paul regularly collaborates with Faisal as a contributing author for the journal I by IMD.

Pranay is a philosopher and ethicist whose work focuses on how technological and societal change alters what it means to be human. A former academic philosopher, he is the author of an edited volume on justice and climate change for Cambridge University Press and a contributor to the UN IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report. He previously served as Head Tutor for The Economist‘s Critical Thinking course.

Pranay designs SHADOKA’s ethical frameworks for responsible AI, drawing on his expertise in business learning and development to shape how the program’s modules translate principle into practice. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and regularly collaborates with Faisal as a contributing author for the journal I by IMD.

Tom Davenport is one of the world’s foremost authorities on AI, analytics, and digital transformation. He is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management and Faculty Director of the Metropoulos Institute for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and a Fellow at both the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He has been named as one of the top 25 consultants in the world, one of the 100 most important people in the tech industry, and one of the top 50 business school professors. He has written 27 books, more than 300 articles for Harvard Business Review, and hundreds of other articles and blog posts. His 181,000+ Google Scholar citations make him one of the world’s most-cited scholars. His most recent co-authored books are The New Science of Customer Relationships and Agentic Artificial Intelligence. Tom is the co-author of Reimagining Government.

Erik spent more than a decade as Senior Vice President at CACI International, where he led the $2B+ Enterprise IT operating group serving the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, and civilian government. Before CACI, he held executive roles at Northrop Grumman – progressing from program manager through Chief Technology Officer to Operating Unit Director – and served as General Manager for Federal Financial Agencies at CSC. Earlier in his career, Erik held leadership positions at the United States Senate and the Department of the Army. He is the co-author of Reimagining Government and of “Why AI Demands a New Breed of Leaders,” one of MIT Sloan Management Review‘s most-read articles of 2025.

Jason spent more than 25 years leading large-scale technology and mission service programs for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, directing portfolios approaching $300M in annual revenue and workforces of more than 650 personnel across U.S. and overseas operations, including combat and forward-deployed environments. His customers have included the White House, the Department of War CIO, the Department of the Army CIO, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, and Joint Special Operations Command. Spanning agile software development, systems integration, enterprise infrastructure, and information assurance, his work has earned a reputation for stabilizing troubled programs, professionalizing operations, and restoring customer confidence in the world’s most demanding mission settings.

Faisal Hoque

Dr. Paul Scade

Dr. Pranay Sanklecha

Prof. Thomas H. Davenport

Erik Nelson

Jason Cook