Leadership

Prof. Kalyan Chakravarti is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, in electrical engineering, in the graduating class of 1963. Thereafter, he received his business management training from IIM Ahmedabad and the Harvard Business School. He has over three decades of corporate experience in prestigious companies English Electric, Larsen & Toubro and Cable Corporation of India, and a decade of experience in IIT Kharagpur as Dean and Professor of the Vinod Gupta School of Management. In corporate life he has a wide range of experience in marketing, manufacturing, human resources, industrial relations, projects, administration and corporate affairs, rising from assistant manager, to executive director and a member of the Board. In academic life he has taught a wide range of courses human behaviour, human resources, values and ethics, strategic management and leadership. His current area of interest is change management and organisation development. He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Social Sciences. He is the founder president of the Indian National Suggestion Schemes Association, a member of the board of governors of the National Safety Council of India and chairman of the Healthcare Management Institute, KEM hospital, Pune.

Prof. Tuheena Mukherjee's core competency lies in handling issues of emotions in organizations, high performance work systems, and cross-cultural issues in business. Prof. Mukherjee is an industrial psychologist and a certified MBTI Trainer, one of the widely used psychometric assessment tools for training and consultancy world over and used as best practices for organizations world-wide. Prof. Mukherjee uses multiple pedagogic techniques like experimentation and psychometric assessments for training personnel.