Third-time Director of IIM Kozhikode, is an academic, author, and leadership coach of global repute. A Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, he has taught at Harvard and several IIMs for nearly three decades, and is the longest-serving director of a first-generation IIM. His acclaimed works such as Leading Consciously, Karma Sutras, Leadership Chronicles blend scholarship with practice and have been translated into several languages.

His latest book One Minute Wisdom published by Penguin distils his transformative coaching methods. Featured in leading outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times and CNN, he has trained over 100,000 leaders from Fortune 500 companies and 50,000 educators worldwide.

Trained at Harvard, INSEAD, and IMD, Prof. Chatterjee is widely credited with transforming IIM Kozhikode into one of India’s top three IIMs and among the world’s top 70 business schools in the Financial Times rankings.

Prof. Debashis Chatterjee