156: The Secret to Transform Organizations into Learning Powerhouses with Ujjwal Kumar, Group President of Teradyne Robotics

The World Class Leaders Show

Andrea interviews Ujjwal Kumar, Group President of Teradyne Robotics, in an insightful conversation about turning organisations into powerful learning machines that drive performance. They discuss how past experiences at companies like General Motors and GE shaped Ujjwal's leadership approach centred on resilience, execution, and staying relentlessly focused on solving bigger problems. Ujjwal shares his vision for accelerated growth at Teradine through customer adoption, strategic investments in startups, and potential acquisitions. He stresses the importance of building a culture that encourages smart risk-taking and frames failures as learning moments rather than personal shortcomings.

Episode Highlights ⤵

• Draw talent with diverse perspectives from around the world to solve complex issues that benefit societies
• Transfer learnings across industries to spot patterns and common links between end markets
• Cultivate resilience through open communication and regularly confronting weaknesses or blind spots
• Avoid complacency even in market-leading positions by staying attuned to inevitable disruption
• Focus your career on depth of learning over job titles to build capabilities as an effective CEO
• Lead with humility and executive stamina to calmly connect with all stakeholders

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About Andrea Petrone:

Andrea Petrone is a Performance and Executive Coach, Facilitator, and Speaker. He helps CEOs and their Leadership Teams to achieve breakthrough performance and build healthy organizations.

Before launching his advisory firm, Andrea held C-suite executive roles in energy, industrial and consulting for more than 20 yrs at the international level. He worked in six countries and three continents.

Andrea works with clients from all over the world, from North America to Saudi Arabia.

Andrea hosts the popular podcast "The World Class Leaders Show". In his podcast and YouTube channel, Andrea and his guests deconstruct the success of high-performance leaders, share their stories and teach the most effective strategies to move from average to greatness.

Andrea is originally Italian and he lives in London, UK.
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About Ujjwal Kumar

Ujjwal Kumar is the Group President of Teradyne Robotics. The Teradyne Robotics Group includes Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), which build human-scale robotics, designed to work alongside people doing tasks that are dull, dirty, and even dangerous. Ujjwal has a 25-year career spanning multiple industries and major multi-national corporations, including General Motors, General Electric, and Honeywell. He has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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