Debashis Chatterjee has taught leadership classes at Harvard University and at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, Lucknow and Kozhikode for more than two decades. He has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral work at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His published work include 17 books, including Leading Consciously (foreword by Peter M. Senge) and Timeless Leadership, which have been translated in several international languages. He has trained more than 25,000 managers globally in Fortune 100 corporations and over 20,000 school principals and teachers. His recent book Invincible Arjuna has emerged as a path-breaking book in recent times. He has served as a leadership coach to political leaders and CEOs of major Indian organizations. He has served as the dean of an international business school in Singapore. A pioneer in the field of Asian models in leadership, he served as the director of IIM Kozhikode (2009–2014). Dean and a 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 director general of IMI, New Delhi, India’s first corporate-sponsored business school, and as independent director on the boards of several multinational and Indian companies. He was the mentor director of IIM Amritsar from June 2018 to July 2019. He has been reappointed as the director of IIM Kozhikode for a secondfive-year term from June 2018. Deepa Sethi is Professor, business communication, in the areas of humanities and liberal arts in management at IIM Kozhikode, India. With more than 15 years of teaching and research experience, she specializes in business communication, soft skills, social media communication, advanced corporate communication and cross-cultural communication, among others. She has published in high-impact factor ABDC-A* and A/B category journals. She is also the guest editor of various special issues of journals listed in ABDC and Scopus. Experiential and activity-based teaching have been her forte, and she is known for her style of teaching which has practical implications in addition to the theoretical underpinnings. Her training programmes on topics such as managerial effectiveness lab, communication effectiveness lab and soft skills for interpersonal effectiveness for working executives are highly acclaimed. Her faculty development programme titled ‘Innovative Approaches in Management Teaching’ is much sought after. She has a flair for writing and likes to read interesting books and do gardening in her leisure time. She values humility and integrity in life and believes in ‘live and let live!’ Known for her sense of humour and assertiveness, she loves nature, specifically flowers, a lot. Surya Prakash Pati is associated with the Human Resource Management Group of IIM Kozhikode for the last 10 years. He obtained his Master’s in chemistry from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanthi Nilayam. After a brief work experience in the pharmaceutical sector, he spent six enriching years in IIM Lucknow for his doctoral studies. He researches in the areas of spirituality and management, employee engagement and dirty work and has published in many reputed national and international journals. He is also an avid trainer and is involved as a consultant with many organizations associated with the Government of India. Currently, he serves as the Chairperson, Management Development Programme at IIM Kozhikode and is also a member of Board of Studies of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth.
