Milind M Lele is the managing director of SLC Consultants, Inc, a strategy consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. He was Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business for more than eighteen years and presently teaches in its executive education programmes all over the world.

He obtained his PhD from Harvard University and has published widely, including articles in Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review, and two books, The Customer Is Key and Creating Strategic Leverage.