Professor Debashis Chatterjee has taught for more than a decade in IIM, Lucknow and IIM, Calcutta. He pioneered and founded the global Center for Leadership and Human Values at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM). Prof. Chatterjee's professional career has been a rich blend of international professional and academic experience in India, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, South East Asia and South Africa. Dr. Chatterjee was a Fulbright Fellow at the Harvard University and MIT. He was recently a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He also taught in the MBA programmes at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota and at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Debashis Chatterjee was founder Dean of the Leadership Center, S.P. Jain center of Management in Singapore. He is currently the Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Dr. Chatterjee's interest areas include Transformational Leadership, Personal Growth, Learning Organization, Self-Mastery and Asian Culture and Management. His publications include several internationally published books such as Leading Consciously (Butterworth-Heinemann). Leading Consciously has been translated in several foreign languages and was adjudged among the top 5 international management titles of 1998 by the magazine Management General published from the United States. His recent books, Light the Fire in Your Heart (Full Circle) and Break Free (published by Penguin in 2006) focuses on creating a cognitive model of wisdom leadership. His research papers have been published in Harvard University's Journal, Compass and in Business The Ultimate Resource (Perseus) edited by Daniel Goleman. Chatterjee writes a column called "Success Sutras" that is read by more than four million readers every week in all editions of ASCENT, Times of India.

Dr. Debashis Chatterjee has directed Executive Development programs on Leadership, Self-Management and Learning Organization for over ten thousand managers in more than 100 Companies in all six continents of the world. Some of the large organizations that have subscribed to his programs include Motorola Inc., Ford Motor Company, British Petroleum, AT&T, 3M, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Tata Steel, Monash University, Australia, University of St. Thomas, USA and Lucent Technologies. He was described as one of the "thought leaders" of the world by Professor John Kotter of the Harvard Business School for his contribution to the theory and practice of leadership. Prof. Chatterjee can be reached at: dciiml@gmail.com


Endorsements:

"Chatterjee presents and explains diverse threads of ancient wisdom teachings, relating these insights to the challenges of leading contemporary organizations. He does so with remarkable clarity, simplicity and persuasiveness."
- Dr. Peter M. Senge, Management Guru MIT, Author of Fifth Discipline

"Chatterjee will make leaders think more deeply about what it is they actually do."
- Mrs Kim Campbell, Former Prime Minister of Canada

"A refreshing contrast to our conventional management wisdom"
- Professor Kenneth Goodpaster, Harvard Business School

"Debashis offers, through experiential methods, an opportunity for individuals to experience the power of the mind through visioning, concentration, and focusing on personal and corporate change."
- Top Philips, Plant Manager, Ford Motor Company