About Us

PLANDGE CENTER is a multidisciplinary provider of training, mentoring, and coaching, covering the full spectrum of needs of modern business — from large corporations to small agile teams and ambitious entrepreneurs — in education, development, and growth. Geographically we focus on India, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, the Emirates, and Russia / CIS.

• We offer a wide range of trainings, mentoring, and coaching that meet the needs of individual specialists, senior management, and line staff alike.
• Managing Partner and key trainer of PLANDGE CENTER is Professor Dmitry Kulish, who has thirty years of experience in technology, management, and teaching. His most practice-proven trainings focus on technological innovation, change management, and personal effectiveness in business.
• When clients need canonical, large-scale programs in sales, marketing, operational and strategic management, as well as leadership and teamwork, PLANDGE CENTER delivers them through a network of experienced partners specializing in a wide variety of fields — from psychology and stress management to business strategy and operations.

Professor Dmitry Kulish

Professor Dmitry Kulish

• PhD in Biological Sciences: MITXT, New York University
• Postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard
• MBA: Wharton School of Business
• Intel Capital: Investment Director
• Bioprocess Group: CEO
• R-PHARM: Vice President of Development
• Nanolek: CEO
• Binnopharm – Fresenius Kabi: COO
• Skoltech University: Technological Innovation teaching; “Best Professor” for five years (2019–2025) by anonymous student and peer voting; best corporate trainings.
• Angel investor: 7 startups (3 successful)

What We Offer

• Problem #1: they haven’t yet found a project that truly inspires and drives them forward.
• Problem #2: they have a project, but something is going wrong.

Based on this system we build the PLANDGE MATRIX. For each segment of the matrix we have an individualized, deeply developed, practice-proven approach and a corresponding training / mentoring / coaching offering. Return to the matrix and explore each segment:

One Matrix, Every Situation in Life

The PLANDGE MATRIX is not limited to corporations. The same two questions — do you have a project that inspires you? and is it going well? — apply to each and every social situation in life: in a corporation, in a startup, in the family, and in sport. Whatever the domain, at any moment you are in one of the four states — and the way forward is always the same.

The four states — across Corporation, Startup, Family and Sport

How We Work

PLANDGE CENTER conducts training, mentoring and coaching in formats that adapt to the client’s request and context — any location, venue format, program, or audience size.

• Formats range from intensive 2–4 day workshops and semester-long programs with twice-weekly sessions to distributed hybrid online and offline courses.
• Venues can be anything from resorts to tent camps; clients may choose the location as they wish.
• Group size — from 10 to 300 participants.
• For ambitious entrepreneurs and small business (startup) teams, we offer customized personal mentoring and coaching, conducted both online and in person.

Our Partner Network

Why It Can’t Be Done From Inside

Even strong, well-resourced teams struggle to jump-start technological innovation on their own — and it is not a matter of talent or effort. It is a matter of leverage. Archimedes said: “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” The defining feature of a lever is that its fulcrum sits outside the load. An organization cannot get that purchase on itself — the fulcrum has to come from outside. That is the role PLANDGE CENTER plays.

Three forces make internal attempts almost impossible — and none of them is a failing of your people:

• Operational gravity. Inside the building, the day-to-day always wins. People have to be taken out of their routine — physically, to a dedicated external event — before they can think and create differently.
• Territory. No one willingly cedes ground to a peer; a colleague who tries to lead change is read as a rival, while an outside guide is not. The external trainer can convene, challenge, and align people in ways no insider is permitted to.
• Sequence. Internally, energy is held hostage to negotiation — “raise my pay first, then I’ll take on the new work.” An external event reverses the order: people engage and get inspired first — and recognition and reward land far better after the spark than before it.

By definition, an external guide is more inspiring and less politically dangerous than any insider. That is the fulcrum — the fixed point outside the organization from which a small force moves a very large one.

Why PLANDGE CENTER is chosen

• Professor Dmitry Kulish has lived three lives in the world’s leading centers of technology, business, and teaching. He instantly reads people and situations and breaks them down into components for training and execution.
• PLANDGE CENTER’s trainings, mentoring and coaching do what is impossible “inside” a corporation due to operational and political constraints: they ignite and sustain employee inspiration and initiative, as well as cross-departmental and cross-functional interaction.
• PLANDGE trainings inspire activity and cooperation through inspiration, whereas inside an organization that would require financial and political stress. Such transformation becomes possible thanks to our unique empirical, gamified teaching methods.