Hi, I'm Jay Puranik. I help senior leaders design Kaizen-based Governance Systems so their Health, Wealth, and Leadership compound over decades, not quarters.
Kaizen Practitioner • IIM Calcutta • 3x Bestselling Author
Ex-Danaher (CEO's Office) • Ex-Accenture Strategy
Most executives run complex organizations with discipline and rigor; yet they run their own lives on intuition.
In organizations, performance is governed.
Metrics are defined.
Cadences are enforced.
Feedback loops drive correction.
In personal leadership, none of this exists.
And effort quietly fills the gap. Until it breaks.
Performance breakdowns are rarely caused by a lack of discipline, intelligence, or ambition.
They are caused by missing governance.
No clear metrics for healthspan or energy
No review cadence for decision quality
No feedback loops for leadership load
No correction mechanisms when entropy creeps in
Execution compensates for a while.
Eventually, it fails.
Execution does not compound.
Governance does.
I help senior leaders design and install personal governance operating systems, using the same Kaizen principles that sustain performance in world-class organizations.
This work focuses on three compounding domains:
Healthspan & Energy — governed, not outsourced to willpower
Wealth & Optionality — systems over goals
Leadership & Relationships — load managed through architecture, not sacrifice
The objective is not optimization.
The objective is longevity with authority.
I’ve spent my career inside complex, high-stakes environments — across Accenture Strategy, IBM, ZS, and the CEO’s office at Danaher — where Kaizen and governance were operating disciplines, not slogans.
What consistently worked:
Clear metrics
Disciplined review cadences
Root-cause diagnosis
Small, systemic corrections
What never worked:
Heroics
Motivation campaigns
One-off initiatives
Today, I apply those same principles inward and upward: to the Executive as a system.
Most leaders sense something is off long before it becomes a crisis — but lack a framework to diagnose it.
The Executive Longevity Governance Map is a strategic framework that helps senior leaders:
Identify governance gaps across health, wealth, and leadership
Understand why execution alone is failing
See how Kaizen creates inevitability without burnout
This is not a checklist or a habit tracker.
It is a governance lens.
Senior leaders and CXOs
Founders managing increasing complexity
Executives who think in systems
Leaders who value process, cadence, and governance
Beginners
Motivation seekers
Productivity hacks
Anyone looking for intensity without responsibility
If effort alone worked, you wouldn’t need this.
For a limited number of senior leaders each year, I offer a high-touch, done-with-you advisory where we:
Diagnose governance failures across personal and leadership systems
Define the right metrics (not vanity metrics)
Install review cadences and feedback loops
Design correction mechanisms that make improvement inevitable
This is not coaching.
It is architecture and governance design.
The outcome is a system that quietly sustains performance — without reliance on willpower or burnout.
Longevity is not about doing more.
It is about governing better.
Kaizen is not about speed.
It is about inevitability.
Leaders are not separate from their systems.
They are the system.