Emerging Leadership Program
Starting From: 28/01/2019

Independent academician teaching in various Universities and Business Schools.



He was full time faculty at IIM Ahmedabad for 2 decades, and specializes in Business Policy Area and General Management.

Prof. Dass is currently Managing Director of CEEI and founder of the super speciality expert network, Catallysts. He has served as the Regional Director for India and Strategic markets for the Samuel Johnson School of Management, Cornell University and is former Professor of IIM Ahmedabad.

Prof. Dass works on the area of Technology Strategy and has worked with many Fortune 100 companies globally. He was awarded as the Best Professor in Information Technology in 2012 by the World Education Congress, Singapore.

Teaches at IIM Calcutta and is also a visiting professor at IIM Ahmedabad, CFVG, Vietnam, ESCP Paris, National University of Singapore, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, IIM Ranchi, IIM Bodh Gaya, Reims Business School, Bordeaux Business School and ESC Toulouse in France.

Debjani holds a doctorate in Change Management and has been teaching Leading and Managing Change, Leadership and Organizational Development, Organization Behavior and Human Resources Management. She had worked at IIM Ahmedabad in helping firms innovate, incubate new business ideas and create a culture of entrepreneurship leading to many successful spin offs and spin outs. She has worked in numerous high impact initiatives for Reliance Money, Indian Railways, Mitsubishi Chemicals, Quest Mall to name a few, the Operation Savdhan of the Anti Terror Squad (ATS) etc.

Specialization: Leadership and Change Management

Dr Pallab Bandyopadhyay has over thirty five years’ experience as a Leadership Architect, Career Coach, Change and Transition Specialist and Teacher. A skillful HR practitioner, he helps his client organizations to align people strategies with their business goals. He blends practice with concepts through his corporate experience coupled with academic rigor. He is an expert in change and transition management having lead people related strategic interventions in twenty five M&A deals across the globe. He teaches “HR issues in M&A” at XLRI, Jamshedpur. His clients include Citrix Systems, Dell Services, Perot Systems, Cambridge Solutions, Sasken Communication Technologies, Ashok Leyland Information Technology and National Dairy Development Board (NDDB.) He has worked across USA, Europe, India and the APAC region. A doctoral fellow in HRD from XLRI, Jamshedpur, he has received training in various human processes and organization development interventions at NTL, USA. He is also certified in Hogan and Thomas personality profile assessments.

Shantanu has completed Engineering from IIT Kanpur with a B Tech in Metallurgical Engineering and is a British Chevening Scholar from Leeds University Business School UK.

He is a veteran of the industry having worked in companies like the HCL group, Bahwan Cybertek, Oman and Tech Mahindra for over 25 years. He was Director and Vice President, Sales in Tech Mahindra. He has had considerable expertise in managing and integrating cross functional teams as well in mentoring Managers at various levels.

Shantanu has done many Facilitation workshops with Indian and Global Companies. His area of interest and expertise include Customer Centricity, Creating Customer Value, Leadership, Personal Development, Team Dynamics and Collaboration between Cross Functional and Virtual Teams, Program Management, large account management, influencing and maintaining Business Relationships at various levels. In the past one year alone, Shantanu would have conducted workshops for over 2,000 Managers many of whom are in the leadership level.

He is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach. The basic philosophy of this approach is to leverage ones own’s strengths as opposed to focusing only on weaknesses. Shantanu works closely with the Gallup Strengths Community to deliver results to his clients.

Shantanu has Coached individuals on the Gallup Strength finder and his clients include CXOs at companies, Directors at Management Institutes, Faculty imparting education and students.

For over a decade and a half, Ami Shah has been involved in the profession of creating brands, managing customer expectations & creating demand for complex solutions. An engineer by training, and a marketer by choice; Shah has worked with B2B and B2C companies across different industry sectors in India and Southeast Asia.

Presently, she is associated with IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta as a visiting faculty for Digital Marketing courses. She has authored several business cases that are published in Harvard Business Publishing and Ivey Publishing. Ms. Shah is serving the Ministry of I&B as an advisory panel member on the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC); and is also a mentor at L-Incubator, an incubation center at IIM Lucknow.

Sanjay is a leadership & managerial development facilitator and leadership coach enabling leaders, High Potentials and teams increase their focus, influence and impact by being more aware of - ‘who they are’ and ‘who can they be’. Take their performance to the next level, address their professional and personal challenges, find their ‘purpose’ and align them all together to achieve greater effectiveness and ‘balance’ in their work as well as their life. He had been a student of some of the great world thought leaders - Thich Nhat Hanh (Zen master - mindfulness), Dave Ulrich (top 50 management thinkers, Ross Business School, Michigan), Swami Chinmayananda (Vedic monks - Upanishads), Marshal Goldsmith (top10 leadership Coach).

Sanjay is a certified practitioner on ‘Mindfulness’ from Plum village, France (Zen master – Thich Nhat Hanh) and Emotional Intelligence. He is currently working with SIYLI (Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute) school, born in Google and based on Neuro Science. He thereby leverages his learnings while coaching senior leaders and in leadership retreats/ sessions helping the participants to be happy leaders, create happy teams and lead joyfully while gaining ‘personal mastery’ with high productivity.

He is engaged with some of the very reputed organisations like premier multinational investment and retail banks- Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, RBS, the big 4 consultancy firms, fortune 100 and 500 IT consultancy and product companies, fortune 500 FMCGs, e-commerce companies, premier US and Indian manufacturing organisations, premier entertainment organisations, networking organisations like SHRM, NASSCOM etc. Sanjay conceptualises, customises and designs situation specific interventions to ensure that business gets the desired result, while the leadership (senior execs and Team leads) find a purpose to ‘make the difference’. As Global OD head and being part of Global Talent management team in different global organisations, Sanjay gained a wide exposure and a great global view point.

Sanjay drives business results for organisations to the next level by diagnosis and organisation interventions, unleashing individual and collective potential of senior leaders and teams – Make them aware of themselves & their strengths + release their inner potential + align their strength and purpose to strike organisational goals, creating more commitment and accountability while building their own ‘Executive Presence’.

He is currently the Founder CEO of Inner Dynamics specialising in Executive Coaching, Executive Presence, Organisation Interventions, Competency Modelling, Leadership development, Managerial Effectiveness, Team effectiveness, new millennials Communication skills, Leadership and Managerial Retreats.

Mr. Subir Das currently leads the BFSI sector practice at the CEEI. He is the former Chief General Manager of Bank of Baroda. He worked extensively in HR transformation and Business Process Reengineering in areas like SME, Retail, Agriculture, and branch set up. He steered entire HR transformation process in the bank of Baroda which became role model for other PSU banks. His philosophy for business growth was “Qualitative Growth with motivated staff” and with this guiding force he was always an achiever of business targets.

Dr. Sudip Chaudhuri has been a veteran Professor of IIM Calcutta teaching and doing research connecting Macroeconomics and Business Environment. After teaching at IIM Calcutta for more than three decades, Dr. Chaudhuri is now full dedicated into doing research in the area of policy making and its impact on Indian business.