To know what you don’t run away from is to understand your strength.
I pride myself on being a management scholar-practitioner. Using my inquisitive nature and research background, I seek to understand and communicate the trends that move one from managing to leading, particularly in the Human Resource space.
Throughout both my educational and professional career, I’ve peeled back the layers of organizational management to better understand the nuances of effective leadership and transformational change. As a member of the Forbes HR Council and several other major HR councils and associations, I’ve published my learnings and insights in an array of topics, including:
Leadership
Transformation
Culture
Talent
Emotional Intelligence
I invite you to review my published works available below for a deeper dive into the insights I’ve shared throughout the industry.
My upcoming book, Reciprocate to Transform, gives you a research-backed, experience-tested roadmap for building what I call collective consciousness — a state where your team is genuinely engaged, aligned, and moving together through transformation, rather than being dragged through it.
This is not a book about being nice. It is a book about being effective — and understanding that the most powerful force in organizational transformation is the quality of the human energy you put into the room. Above all, it’s about understanding that reciprocity is an emotional system, not just a behavioral one.
The Promise: What Changes When You Reciprocate
Publications
Company Culture Contradictions Impact Your Collective Mindset
(August 2023)Aligning Fundamentals Of Growth In Today's VUCA Environment
(May 2023)Embracing The Workforce’s New Power-Trust Dynamics
(August 2022)Key strategies for leading culture change in 2022
(January 2022)Mastering the New World of Managing Performance
(February 2019)Leading Evolutionary Change with Emotional Intelligence
(May 21, 2018)The Changing Role of Talent Architects
(February 2018)
Books
Reciprocate to Transform: The Power of Collective Consciousness
(Arriving in 2027)Mission Matters: World's Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips To Success (Business Leaders Vol. 7, Edition 2): Torres, Adam, Vyas, Ekta
Available in Paperback on Amazon (2022)
Industry Publications
The Human Side of M&As
Society of Human Resource Management (October 2025)An Evidence-based Approach to Virtual Workforce Programmes
Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 7 (2), 179-187 (2023)Role of Technology in Transforming the HR Space
CIO Applications (May 2019)Applying Consumerism to the HR Landscape: A Corporate Brand Promise Delivered through Recruitment Strategy - Stanford Children’s Health Case Study
HR People + Strategy (September 2017)Relationship between Healthcare Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence and Staff Work Engagement during Transformational Change
International Journal of Strategic Management (June 2017)Leadership EQ and Work Engagement in Healthcare
Six Seconds Blog (March 2016)
Feel free to contact me to request copies of my previously authored works.
Available in Paperback
Mission Matters: World's Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips To Success
(Business Leaders Vol. 7, Edition 2)
By Adam Torres & Ekta Vyas
From the Introduction: “Being a leader doesn’t mean that you have to have everything figured out all at once. There was no singular point in my career when I realized that I was cut out for transformational leadership. It’s only when I look back that I realize how I’ve always ended up stepping into messy areas and turning them around that I see my natural skill set. Noticing where you keep ending up and embracing who you are can help guide you to where you will thrive.” - Ekta Vyas, Ph.D