About me
Rahul Bhandari is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer in AI Strategy at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Affiliated Faculty at the Darden AI Institute, where he teaches Strategy in the Digital Age. His work focuses on how leaders can harness artificial intelligence not just for performance, but for human flourishing, reimagining organizations as systems that elevate both capability and meaning.
A thought leader at the intersection of strategy, technology, and human potential, Rahul’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Psychology Today, and Leader to Leader. He is the author of the award-winning book Slingshot: The Power of Bold Moves and is currently writing Abundant Intelligence, exploring the future of AI and human thriving.
His work bridges a central question of our time: how do we build intelligent systems that expand, rather than diminish, what it means to be human.