Leadership diagnostics and behavioral analysis for 4- and 5-star hospitality, and for the corporate sector broadly.
He taught himself to code at 11 and was an IBM Champion by 15. He now measures how leaders actually behave, and builds the instruments that do the measuring.
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Kovid Panthy (born 12 December 2003) is a Nepali leadership and behavioral analyst based in Kathmandu. His practice is leadership diagnostics: assessing how leaders and teams actually behave, then building development around what the assessment finds. The focus is 4- and 5-star hospitality, though the work applies to any corporate client. Clients include Ramada Encore Kathmandu, Marriott Kathmandu, and Hotel Yak & Yeti. At Ramada Encore, a 3-day, 18-hour programme took 35 participants through individualized action planning41718. He co-founded Impact Yes with Kim Baaden in 20211920 and built the instruments the practice runs on: Pactomics, a behavioral-assessment framework grounded in established neuroscience and psychology research; GALA, the assessment clients sit; and Vector9, the leadership framework GALA measures against. He is a member of the American Psychological Association24, a Lifetime Associate of the International Luxury Hotel Association, and since 2026 a Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery23.
He came to the field through technology. He taught himself to code at around 11, and by 14 was being written about as a coder in his own right79. A self-published book followed while he was in class 1011, then a web-development company at 1512, and an IBM Champion title in 201926. He has served the Rotary Club of Kathmandu Circle since 2022 and is its President-elect for 2026–27. Away from the work he rides horses, travels, swims, plays golf, and solves the Rubik’s Cube.
Away from the work.
Scuba diving
Open water.
Golf
Plays the long game.
Horse riding
On the trail.
Sport shooting
At the range.
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10 entries, 3 chapters, and the quiet years between them.
2015–2018
Self-taught from around 11, and publishing what he learned before he had finished school.
2015
HTML, CSS and JavaScript, then Python, at around 11. The first profile of him as a coder came 3 years later, at 14.
2016 – 2017
2018
Self-published an introduction to Python, written in 2 months while in class 10.
2019–2020
A company, an international conference, and recognition from IBM, all at 15.
2019
Convened it in Kathmandu on 1 June 2019, leading a team of 35 adults, at 15. Announced under both names — International in the call for participation, Internal in the event listing and on the banner.
Recognized in the Cloud category for work with Watson machine-learning tools. Reported as Nepal’s first.
Marketing educator, speaking on entrepreneurship, including WordCamp Bharatpur.
2020
Advised small-business owners across the US, Europe, and the Middle East, and guided MBA students.
Self-reported
2021–present
From building software to measuring how leaders behave, and to the service that surrounds it.
2021
2022
Now
2 entries still running.
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A company, a behavioral-assessment concept, a leadership assessment, and the framework the work is scoped within.
All of it sits under Impact Yes, LLC. Registered in Delaware, United States. Co-founded with Kim Baaden.
Behavioral assessment
A behavioral-assessment concept grounded in established neuroscience and psychology research. It stands on its own rather than sitting under the others.
Grounded in established research. Independent validation is an active, in-progress phase of the work.
Leadership assessment
Gap Analysis for Leadership Alignment. An AI leadership coach, and the leadership assessment clients actually sit. It is built on the Vector9 framework.
In deployment with hospitality and corporate partners.
Leadership frameworkinside GALA
A leadership framework built in-house. Not an assessment and not a separate product: it is the framework GALA is based on and measures against.
In use within GALA.
Pillars of impact
Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Marketing. The 3 pillars the practice works across, and the framework most engagements are scoped within.
Applied across engagements.
“closer to astrology than science”
His verdict on the leadership-assessment industry as he found it — the personality quizzes and colour-coded typologies sold to companies, not the instruments above. Pactomics, GALA and Vector9 are the attempt at an alternative.
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Where the work has actually been delivered.
Case detail
Bringing behavioral measurement into hospitality leadership.
OutputIndividualized action planning
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International work first, then Nepal, newest in each.
Broadcast
Hotel leadership training, for a Czech hospitality audience.
August 2025
Feature
A short feature on the work from Spain, from outside the field.
September 2023
Organizing
Kathmandu, with Nepali government figures and organizations from several countries taking part.
2019
Speaking
A session on the closing day of the university’s Student Immersion Program, delivered with Kim Baaden.
2026
Broadcast
Interviewed with Kim Baaden on raising standards in Nepali hospitality.
2024
Speaking
2024
Broadcast
On building a company as a teenager.
March 2024
Speaking
2023
Podcast
On founding Techsamaj and Impact Yes.
May 2023
Speaking
Convened by the Nepal Youth Council.
2022
Broadcast
Video interview on running 2 companies while still a teenager.
2022
Broadcast
Interview on building a company from Nepal.
March 2022
Speaking
On applying artificial intelligence to supermarket and retail chains. Filmed at the Aloft Hotel with 12 speakers.
2021
Broadcast
On the route from early failures to founding a company.
2020
Speaking
Speaker on entrepreneurship and technology.
2019
Broadcast
Interviewed as a young coder.
2019
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Earned, and held.
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Service work, and the part of the record that is not about clients.
A charter member of the club, which was chartered on 7 June 2024 in District 3292. He has served as Foundation Chair and Secretary, and is President-Nominee and President-elect for 2026–27.
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Every claim above is footnoted to a reference here.
IBM’s own announcement of the 2019 Champions, captured by the Internet Archive. IBM has since retired developerWorks, so the archive is the only remaining route to the primary source.
The IBM Champion badge, verifiable at the issuer.
Czech hospitality channel. “Hotel Leadership Training: How to Cut Staff Turnover in Half.” The clearest record of the work reaching an audience outside Nepal.
Coverage of the Impact Yes and Ramada Encore partnership.
The hotel’s own post on the staff-training engagement. Client-side, so independent of Impact Yes.
Independent listing of the 2019 IBM Champions cohort, naming Kovid Raj Panthy.
ItalianThe organizer’s own record of the 2018 cohort, listing Kovid Raj Panthy by name and photo.
On TEDx Durbar Marg completing its filming at the Aloft Hotel, with 12 speakers on topics ranging “from marketing to AI to social work”. Kovid is named in the article’s own tag list rather than in its body.
Early independent profile, written when he was 14 — 3 years after he started coding.
Profile interview at 17, headlined “Nepal’s first IBM Champion”. Covers the book, the YET Conference, and Techsamaj.
Nepali“Conversation with Kovid Panthy | Founder of TechSamaj, Impact Yes.”
“Story of a Young Entrepreneur of Nepal”, television interview.
Call for participation, 2019. Evidence the event was real and publicly promoted; it does not name Kovid individually.
Listing for 1 June 2019, Kathmandu, posted by Techsamaj. Corroborates date and organizer; it does not name Kovid individually.
Speaker profile for the 2019 edition.
Ramada Encore Kathmandu adopts a data-driven leadership model.
Ramada Encore signs an MoU with Impact Yes for leadership training.
Interview with Impact Yes co-founder Kim Baaden, naming Kovid as co-founder and lead trainer.
Interview with Kim Baaden on raising standards in Nepali hospitality, naming Kovid as his partner.
NepaliThe district’s own register of the club’s board. A level above the club, so it is the district asserting the offices rather than the club asserting them about itself.
The club’s own site, the source for chartering on 7 June 2024, District 3292.
ACM member card, listing him as a Professional Member.
Membership certificate from the APA’s own system. The association publishes no searchable directory.
The organizer’s post on the National Youth Conference 2022, naming Kovid.
The college’s announcement of BizTalk 2024.
Photographs from the same event.
Announcement for the campus programme.
Photographs from the same event.
A short feature on the work.
“Luxury Hotel Training Seminar | Hotel Yak and Yeti | Impact Yes.” Filmed at the seminar; published on Impact Yes’s own channel, so first-party.
“Influence and Persuasion | Luxury Hotel Growth Seminar | Marriott International | Impact Yes.” Filmed at the 2021 seminar and published later; on Impact Yes’s own channel, so first-party.
Announcement of a Twitter Space he was invited to speak at. Recorded here for completeness; nothing on the page rests on it. X requires a login to view.
Announcement of a Twitter Space he was invited to speak at. Recorded here for completeness; nothing on the page rests on it. X requires a login to view.
The university’s own account of the closing day of its Student Immersion Program 2026, hosting Kim Baaden and Kovid Panthy for a session it titled “Know Your Color.”
Interview on the Being Champions programme, as a young coder. The broadcaster is credited on screen; the upload sits on a personal channel.
“From Failure to Success: How a Kid Became Young Entrepreneur of Nepal.” The Open Mic interview, posted to his own channel, so first-party for the recording though the programme is not.
The video form of the Bizmandu interview with Kim Baaden and Kovid Panthy on raising standards in Nepali hospitality. Same piece as the article.
Nepali09
3 routes in. Each goes straight to him.
Consulting & speaking
Diagnostics, leadership programmes, and speaking for hotel and corporate clients.
consult [at] kovidpanthy [dot] com
Press & interviews
The biography is written to be quoted, and every claim on this page carries its source.
press [at] kovidpanthy [dot] com
Causes & community
Rotary, charity, and community work.
charity [at] kovidpanthy [dot] com
Or message him directly
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Kovid Panthy
