Dr. Vaibhav Diwan has received a 2025 Global Recognition Award for outstanding leadership in regulatory compliance and sustainable business practices. The General Manager of Growth at GPC Group, Sweden, has positioned regulatory compliance from a business requirement into a catalyst for organizational excellence while developing innovative approaches to knowledge sharing and capacity building across the global regulatory landscape.

Strategic vision and purpose-driven leadership enabled Dr. Diwan to drive GPC’s remarkable global expansion while maintaining the company’s state of the art.  Under his leadership, the innovative 360-degree growth strategy involving multistakeholder strategic partnerships, marketing, strategic sales, new product development, and CSR efforts has helped quadruplestrengthen GPC’s market position. 

Leadership Excellence and Innovation

Dr. Diwan’s leadership philosophy combines agile methodologies with empathy-driven management to create a uniquely empowering workplace environment. He practices effort-and-impact-based evaluation model that takes over traditional performance metrics by emphasizing both quantitative results and qualitative improvements. Comprehensive AI integration strategies across departments optimized efficiency while maintaining strong human capital development, resulting in sustained growth and employee satisfaction.

Under his tenure, GPC’s service portfolio expanded and strengthened drastically through new business verticals from collaborations, IT, strategic outreach, knowledge sharing and team efficiency development approaches. The Lippitt-Knoster Model for change management is his go-to framework for sustainable performance improvements across all organizational levels. His trust and respect-based top down and bottom up leadership approach at all levels further elevated employee engagement metrics to record levels.

Global Industry Impact

Dr. Diwan is a Governing Council and Executive Committee member of the Regulatory Representatives and Managers Association (RRMA), the world’s first nonprofit organization dedicated to regulatory compliance capacity building. Through this platform, global leaders united to develop accredited certification courses and chartered professional programs that address critical industry needs. Policy advocacy initiatives strengthened regulatory frameworks worldwide while promoting standardized best practices across regions.

He is also a programming committee member  at the Helsinki Chemicals Forum  and played a critical role in establishing and managing the Asian Chemical Forum for enhanced regulatory dialogue. These strategic platforms accelerated knowledge transfer between developed and developing markets, creating lasting impact across the regulatory landscape. Standardization of best practices improved significantly through collaborative efforts between diverse stakeholders and markets.

Final Words

Professional excellence marked Dr. Diwan’s progression from research scientist to business leader, demonstrating remarkable expertise in building sustainable organizations. Innovative approaches to employee development, industry capacity building, and regulatory compliance established new benchmarks for excellence throughout the field. Strategic partnerships with academic institutions and research initiatives amplified the impact of his leadership vision.

Recognition through this award acknowledges Dr. Diwan’s significant contributions to organizational development and industry advancement. Leadership strategies implemented under his guidance continue to influence regulatory compliance practices globally. Environmental sustainability and inclusive growth remain central to his vision for responsible business leadership.