Sagar Goel
Partner & Associate Director, People Strategy
Singapore
Sagar Goel leads Boston Consulting Group’s work in people strategy, and the Leadership and Talent Enablement Center for Southeast Asia. He is one of the firm’s experts on leadership development, culture and behavior change and skill-building at scale and speed, especially in the context of digital and agile. Since joining the firm, Sagar has worked with clients in industries including banking, infrastructure, technology, consumer goods, media, agribusiness, health care, insurance, energy, and industrial goods across geographies in Asia.
Sagar’s current focus is on end-to-end people enablement and change in the context of large-scale business and digital transformations, in both public and private enterprises, across the Asia Pacific region. He is a senior facilitator for BCG on leadership interventions, and a certified assessor and executive coach. He is also keenly interested in leveraging digital technologies to drive behavior change at scale and is one of the founders of BCG’s behavior change Amethyst App.
Before leaving to earn his MBA, Sagar worked with ZS Associates on data-driven consulting within the sales and marketing domain.
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In his guest column for The Edge Markets, BCG’s Sagar Goel discusses digital disruption and transformation in the 2020s. He references a BCG survey and report to describe the relationship between the changing market and the need to build new skills to ensure a competitive advantage for Malaysian society and business. Goel emphasizes that “whether organizations are ready or not, the time of digital transformation is now.”
In their guest column for The Jakarta Post, BCG’s Sagar Goel and Ching Fong Ong discuss how to build Indonesia’s workforce to seize value through digital transformation. The authors cite a BCG survey which found that half of Indonesian employees believe their jobs will be affected by technological change. They also outline actions that individuals, organizations, and policymakers can implement to compete in a transforming job market. They emphasize that “success in the 2020s will not be about what you know now, but about how you adapt to learn the skills you require tomorrow.”
