Debashis Chatterjee has taught leadership classes at Harvard University and at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, Lucknow and Kozhikode for three decades. He has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His published works include eighteen books, such as Leading Consciously (foreword by Peter M. Senge) and Timeless Leadership. He published his debut novel Krishna: The 7th Sense in 2022. His books have been translated in several Indian and international languages. He has trained more than hundred thousand managers globally in Fortune 500 corporations and over sixty thousand school principals and teachers. He has served as a leadership coach to prominent political leaders and CEOs of major Indian organizations. He has also served as a dean of an international business school in Singapore. A pioneer in the field of Asian models in leadership, Chatterjee served as the director of the IIM Kozhikode for two terms (2009-2023) and as dean and tenured professor at IIM Lucknow. He is credited with transforming IIM Kozhikode from an obscure regional school to an institution of national impact and global recognition. He also served as the director general of IMI, Delhi, India's first corporate sponsored business school, and as independent director on the boards of several multinational and Indian companies. Debashis Chatterjee was the mentor director of IIM Amritsar from June 2018 to July 2019. He was reappointed as the director of IIM Kozhikode for a third five-year term in 2023. He can be reached at:
Email: [email protected]
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