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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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Mithun Sridharan

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Mithun Sridharan

Mithun Sridharan is the Managing Director of Blue Ocean Solutions PLC, a Germany-based Inbound Marketing company focusing on Technology companies. He brings with him over ten years of International experience in Business development, Marketing, Global Delivery and Consulting. He holds a Master of Business Administration from ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Berlin and Master of Science from Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. He is a Harvard Manage Mentor Leadership Plus graduate, a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He also served as the Communication Chair for the German Outsourcing Association in 2013 and is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

Contributions to UXM

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Book Excerpt  ·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis
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Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  ·  7 pieces  ·  April 2025