Gaurav Rastogi
Founder, Builder, and Teacher, Ekrasworks

Gaurav Rastogi

Gaurav Rastogi lives in worlds that didn’t use to intersect: technology, business, and service. From these experiences, he builds tools to work on the self.

San Francisco Bay Area

IIM Ahmedabad
MBA, Finance · 1994–1996
E-RYT 500
Advanced yoga teacher · registered 2011 · 15+ years teaching
Books
Oxford · Penguin · Penguin · Amazon Kindle
Editorial Board
Kutumba · Journal of Hindu Spiritual Care
GTU Trustee
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley · since 2024
HSCI
Board Member · Dean · Resident Faculty
Visiting Faculty
IIM Ahmedabad · Ashoka University
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Business, technology, and service, in the Age of Intelligence.

We have entered the Age of Intelligence, but it feels like we checked the Opt-Out button. We are working faster and feeling worse, and nobody teaches us how to handle ourselves through this rising onslop.

In times like these, it is said that the wise must serve, for the welfare of the world. (BG 3:25, kuryad vidvans tathasaktash chikirshur loka-sangraham)

Gaurav Rastogi lives in worlds that didn’t use to intersect: technology, business, and service. From these experiences, he builds tools to work on the self. He has run companies, builds technologies, and is active in service to the community.

Business. Senior leadership at Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), Nagarro (FRA: NA9), and Quest Global. Founder of Doloop Digital and Ekrasworks.

Technology. Business automation, AI, and learning.

Service (loka samgraha, welfare of the world). Teaching dhyana meditation and the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita. The Hindu Spiritual Care Institute as Co-Founder, Board Member, and Dean. The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley as Trustee. IIM Ahmedabad and Ashoka as Visiting Faculty. Oxford University Press and Penguin as co-author. E-RYT 500 yoga teacher.

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Featured talks and frameworks, by stream.

Spiritual
Dharma, dhyana, and meaning at work
Spotify Podcast · since 2016
Yoga of Living Deeply with Ekras Gorakh
See full Spiritual portfolio ↓
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From Infosys to Ekrasworks, in senior operating roles.

Now · 2016 → present
Ekrasworks, Doloop Digital, HSCI, and the GTU board
Ekrasworks
2023 – PRESENT
Founder, Builder, and Teacher

Spiritual technique, habit-building, and workplace technology for professionals, delivered through courses, retreats, and enterprise programs.

Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
2024 – PRESENT
Member of the Board of Trustees

The Graduate Theological Union is a consortium of seminaries, schools of theology, and religious centers that grants graduate degrees in the study of religion and theology.

Hindu Spiritual Care Institute (HSCI)
2018 – PRESENT
Board Member, Dean, and Resident Faculty

Founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018, HSCI is a training and community-service institution for the global Hindu diaspora. A Sangha of over 300 volunteers across management, faculty, and operations; programs reach the US, India, Australia, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.

Doloop Digital
2016 – PRESENT
Founder and CEO

Doloop Digital runs retained learning transformations for services businesses, so institutional intelligence compounds in margins instead of being lost to headcount.

Ventures · 2015 → 2023
Nagarro and Quest Global; Infinote acquired in 2020
Quest Global
2021 – 2023
Sales Transformation Leader

Quest Global solves the hardest engineering problems for the world's largest companies. Gaurav led the transformation of its global sales function.

Infinote
2017 – 2020
Co-founder · Acquired 2020

Infinote was AI for Documents.

Nagarro (FRA: NA9)
2015 – 2016
President

Gaurav helped position the firm with companies obsessed about the impact of "-tech" (hyphen-tech) inside their industry.

Infosys · 2001 → 2013
Building Infosys's global sales engine, 10X growth in 10 years to $7.5Bn
Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY)
2001 – 2013
Vice President & Global Head: Practice Sales, Value Design, Strategic Accounts

Led and transformed Infosys's global sales organization across Practice Sales, Value Design, and Strategic Accounts. Practice Sales brought deep technology expertise into client conversations across the company; Value Design was the pursuit engine that helped Infosys win more deals; Strategic Accounts drove long-term revenue and relationship growth across the firm's largest investment accounts.

Vice President, Head, Learning Services (October 2007 – January 2012)

In 2007, Infosys was looking for ways to enter new services that could extend its core business model without dipping into its traditional talent pool. Gaurav created the strategy to enter a new service line, secured board approval, and built a completely new Learning Services business from zero clients to fifty-five. He designed the award-winning Sustained End-User Adoption and Learning (SEAL), and Infosys's first productized service offering, LITE.

Ekrasworks, built in the open.

Tools and systems shipped as live code, every day. The graph below is the past year of public commits to the Ekrasworks repositories: sustained activity, every month.

GitHub contribution heatmap showing daily commit activity across the past year.
GitHub contributions, last year
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Frameworks across sales, software, social, and spiritual.

Frameworks, masterclasses, and habit systems delivered self-paced, in cohorts, and in classrooms, at startups, large enterprises, business schools, and universities. (learn → do)

Sales
Enterprise sales, account management, marketing, and growth
Strategies for Revenue Leadership
An 8–10 week cohort program to master enterprise relationships and revenue skills through gamified contests (Charades Clues, Broker Hain Ya Party?, Snakes & Ladders, Ashoka's Got Talent). Key frameworks: rapport building, problem identification, solution design, proposal presentation.
Ashoka University · IIM Ahmedabad · cohort-based
Business Storytelling
Five-stage C.R.U.S.T. methodology: Context, Remove unwanted noise, Unusual details, Show (don't tell), Twists. Taught as the IIM Ahmedabad Emerging Leaders' Program (ELP2) masterclass.
IIM Ahmedabad · masterclass
Business Growth Flywheel
A six-element model for 3x growth: Accounts, Leadership, Relationships, Ideas, Large Deals, Discipline.
Sales transformation
T.I.M.E.
How to deliver the story: Truth, Intelligence, Model, Enthusiasm. Grounded in Cicero's rhetoric and Mehrabian's 7-38-55 rule.
Story delivery
Hook-Look-Cook-Book
Storytelling for product demos: Hook (capture attention), Look (surface pain), Cook (show value), Book (drive action).
Pitching technique
CRI/S FORD
A model for developing rapport: Credibility, Reliability, Intimacy divided by Self-orientation. Family, occupation, recreation, dreams.
Trust-building
Professional Leadership in the Age of Intelligence
A masterclass on leading professionals through the age of generative AI; the practical companion to Global Business in the Age of Destruction and Distraction (OUP, 2022).
IIM Ahmedabad
Software
Tech, data, and AI in the flow of work
GenAI for Leaders / GenAI for next-gen
A learn-do loop for senior leaders, CXOs, and consultants navigating generative AI.
upGrad Enterprise · 2024
SEAL: Sustained End-User Adoption and Learning
Award-winning solution for the common ERP-led transformation problem of user adoption. Built at Infosys.
Tech eLearning
Decision Engineering
A method for engineering better decisions inside complex organizations.
Workshop
Hands-On ML for Tech Leaders
A practical machine learning curriculum for engineering and product leaders.
Cohort-based
Social
Connection, conversation, and the human web
Focus and Finish: 5x Habit System
A 21-day habit challenge built on ten principles: calendar as magic machine, big rocks first, intentional attention, deep work, timeboxing, decluttering, dhyana meditation, flow, habit systems, accountability.
21-day program · startups, enterprises, business schools
Five Ways to Thrive
A five-finger framework for the age of destruction and distraction: give up old playbooks, embrace failure, engage through storytelling, cultivate belief, reclaim mind-attention-energy.
From the OUP 2022 book
Burnout & Professionals series
A linked sequence of workshops on professional burnout, the Bhagavad Gita's working philosophy, and recovery: Karma Yoga for Professionals and Burnout is Not the Nirvana You Wanted.
Workshop · corporate & cohort
Spiritual
Dharma, dhyana, and meaning at work
Yoga of Living Deeply
A practice for cultivating presence and depth in the middle of professional intensity. Spotify podcast since 2016, hosted under Gaurav's spiritual name Ekras Gorakh.
Spotify podcast · workshop
Meditation for Professionals · 12 Days of Meditation
Dhyana meditation curriculum for working professionals; ten years of refinement across cohorts.
Self-paced and cohort
Introduction to Sanatana Dharma
A foundational course for students of chaplaincy and spiritual care.
GTU · The Chaplaincy Institute · San Francisco
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A meditation podcast since 2016, plus selected lectures.

Meditation playlist & further listening

The featured Spotify show in §02 is Yoga of Living Deeply with Ekras Gorakh: guided meditations, philosophy talks, and study guides since July 2016, including a long arc on the Vigyana Bhairava Tantra. Hosted under Gaurav's spiritual name.

For the full library:

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Books, an editorial board, and a meditation manual.

Oxford University Press
2022

Global Business in the Age of Destruction and Distraction

Joshi, Rastogi, and Klein

An examination of how a world already stressed by rampant change reacts to a global crisis. The authors investigate voice, tools, and strategies for coping and remaining relevant in the middle of a technological revolution.

Hindu Spiritual Care Institute
2022 –

Kutumba: The Journal of Hindu Spiritual Care

Editorial Board

A twice-yearly publication focused on the evolving discipline of spiritual care from the global Hindu diaspora.

Amazon Kindle Books
2016

Unplug and Go Deep Within: Create Your Own Silent Meditation Retreat

Ekras Gorakh (Gaurav's spiritual name)

A manual for intermediate practitioners who have read enough and learned enough and now want to find the space to do the practice. The book assumes familiarity with Tantra, Yoga, and the eight limbs of ashtanga, and addresses the reader who is looking for a safe and quiet place to sit.

Penguin Books
2012

Offshore: India's Services Juggernaut

Rastogi and Pradhan

0 to 60 in two decades. The book explores the Indian offshore services industry from the inside: what conditions created this $60bn industry in a single generation, whether it can keep growing, and what challenges it faces in the next decade.

Penguin Books
2010

Leadership@Infosys

Barney, Mathew, et al; contributing author

The first book to codify Infosys's history, values, and leadership practices. Chapters draw on the Infosys Leadership Journey Series and cover strategic, change, operational, talent, relationship, content, and entrepreneurial leadership, alongside reviews of leadership research and practical examples.

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Boards, faculty appointments, and the schools that shaped the work.

Governance

Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Member, Board of Trustees
since 2024
IIM Ahmedabad North America Alumni
President; alumni network across business, technology, academia, and social service
2018 – present
Living Deeply Foundation
Founder and Trustee; bringing meditation to professionals
2015 – present
Hindu American Foundation
HAF Advisory Committee
2022 – 2024

Faculty & Service

Hindu Spiritual Care Institute
Board Member · Dean · Resident Faculty
2018 – present
IIM Ahmedabad & Ashoka University
Visiting Faculty; ELP2 Business Storytelling, Strategies for Revenue Leadership, Professional Leadership in the Age of Intelligence
The Chaplaincy Institute
Faculty Lecturer; Introduction to Sanatana Dharma
2018 – present
GTU Interreligious Chaplaincy Advisory Board
Member
2021 – present

Education & Practice

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Post-graduate Diploma in Management (MBA), Finance
1994 – 1996
Delhi College of Engineering (now DTU)
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
1990 – 1994
Yoga Alliance · E-RYT 500
Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500-hour level: underlying 200-hour training, 500-hour training on top, four-year teaching minimum. Registered 2011; teaching since. Dhyana meditation, philosophy, and yoga breathwork taught regularly. Ekras Gorakh is the spiritual name under which the meditation books are written.
since 2011 · 15+ years teaching

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