Leadership Essentials for First Time Managers

Ravindra Dey has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate and academic sectors. He specialises in Organisational Behaviour, Organisation Development, Human Resource Development and Competency Assessment. He has led programs on a wide range of topics in the field of behavioural sciences, HRD, organisation development and management within the organisation. Some of the training/consulting assignments he has are Organisational Effectiveness, Performance Development, Strategy and Vision, Customer Service Excellence, Customer Relations Orientation, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation Skills, Personality Development, Communication and Interpersonal Relationship Workshop, Development and Assessment Centre.

In the corporate sector, Mr Dey has worked as Vice President (HR & Admin), EWDL (Indore, India), General Manager – HR, TCGRE (Mumbai, India), DGM-HR, Wockhardt (Mumbai, India) and Head of HR, OMCI (Mumbai, India). Currently, he is pursuing the Fellow Program in Management from the Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad, India. He is actively engaged with consulting and training work in the corporate, education and social development sectors. He has published research papers in many reputed journals.

Dr Arindam Banerjee is a Professor of Finance and the Assistant Dean – Global MBA & Master of Global Business at SP Jain School of Global Management’s Dubai Campus. He also serves as a strategic advisory board member at the Department of Finance, College of Business Administration at Ajman University. Additionally, he is on the board of Governors at Delhi Private School, Sharjah.
He has been part of university teaching for the past 15 years. During his stint in various universities, he has travelled across the globe and lectured in more than twenty countries across Asia, Africa and Australia. He has edited/authored over a dozen finance books as an academic. In 2019, Dr Banerjee was recognised among the top 100 leaders in education by the Global Forum for Education and Leadership, US, for his continuous research contributions to higher education. In 2021, he was awarded SP Jain’s most prestigious professor of the year amongst all professors from its global campuses, including Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai. Dr Banerjee holds two master’s degrees and a Doctoral degree from the UK.

Dr Gary Stockport is the Dean of the Executive MBA program at SP Jain School of Global Management across the Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney campuses. Having lived and worked at leading business schools in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the UAE, he has won numerous teaching and research awards including being shortlisted for the Australian Universities Postgraduate Teacher of the Year Award. He has consulted for many organisations including the Aboriginal Policy Services Directorate (Australia), Alcoa (Australia), Bank Nagara (Malaysia), BHP Billiton (Australia and South Africa) and Supersport (South Africa).

M Hariharan has advised corporates across industry sectors like steel, cement, automobile, auto ancillary, bank, insurance, power, infrastructure construction and more. He has done pioneering work in the field of Strategic Cost Management. He has conducted more than 600 training programs and trained several managers on the concept of Lean, Constraints Management and Cost Management.
He is currently working on a book on “Sustaining Inequality of Value, Price and Cost –Journey of Cost Excellence”. He is a visiting faculty at S P Jain School of Global Management, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, and Great Lakes Institute of Management. He has been rated the Best Professor of the Year 2009 by SP Jain School of Global Management. He has presented papers in various international forums and regularly writes for business magazines.

Professor Nitin Patwa is an esteemed academician and a highly accomplished expert in various fields, including Business Statistics, Decision Science, Operations Research, Research Methodology, Business Analytics, Marketing Research, and Applied Economics, with a focus on Financial Markets and Macroeconomics.
His expertise extends to Empirical Methods in Economics, such as Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, as well as Asset Management and Investment Banking. In addition to his research, Professor Patwa has a deep understanding of Cost & Management Accounting. He currently serves as the Professor and Director of Simulation, and he even holds the position of Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Dubai campus.
With more than 50 publications to his name, he is a respected contributor to academia. Furthermore, Professor Patwa is actively involved in editorial work and is a member of the Editorial Boards of prestigious journals such as European Accounting Review, Accounting Education, Irish Accounting Review, and IMA Educational Case Journal. His multifaceted expertise and extensive academic contributions make him a distinguished figure in his field.

Ravindra Dey has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate as well as the academic sector. He specialises in Organisational Behaviour, Organisation Development, Human Resource Development and Competency Assessment.

He has led programs on a wide range of topics in the field of behavioural sciences, HRD, organisation development and management within the organisation. Some of the training/consulting assignments he has handled are Organisational Effectiveness, Performance Development, Strategy and Vision, Customer Service Excellence, Customer Relations Orientation, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation Skills, Personality Development, Communication and Interpersonal Relationship Workshop, Development and Assessment Centre.

In the corporate sector, Mr Dey has worked as Vice President (HR & Admin), EWDL (Indore, India), General Manager – HR, TCGRE (Mumbai, India), DGM-HR, Wockhardt (Mumbai, India) and Head of HR, OMCI (Mumbai, India).

Currently, he is pursuing the Fellow Program in Management from Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad, India. He is actively engaged with consulting and training work in the corporate, education and social development sectors. He has published research papers in many reputed journals.

Ravindra Dey has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate as well as the academic sector. He specialises in Organisational Behaviour, Organisation Development, Human Resource Development and Competency Assessment.

He has led programs on a wide range of topics in the field of behavioural sciences, HRD, organisation development and management within the organisation. Some of the training/consulting assignments he has handled are Organisational Effectiveness, Performance Development, Strategy and Vision, Customer Service Excellence, Customer Relations Orientation, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation Skills, Personality Development, Communication and Interpersonal Relationship Workshop, Development and Assessment Centre.

In the corporate sector, Mr Dey has worked as Vice President (HR & Admin), EWDL (Indore, India), General Manager – HR, TCGRE (Mumbai, India), DGM-HR, Wockhardt (Mumbai, India) and Head of HR, OMCI (Mumbai, India).

Currently, he is pursuing the Fellow Program in Management from Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad, India. He is actively engaged with consulting and training work in the corporate, education and social development sectors. He has published research papers in many reputed journals.

With over 19 years of professional experience in ICT education, policy, and consulting, Dr Dhrupad Mathur is currently an Associate Professor of IT Management and the Deputy Director of Faculty Management at SP Jain School of Global Management.

Before joining SP Jain, Dr Mathur was a senior consultant for the National e-Governance Plan, working on the e-Government policy initiatives for the Government of India, at the Ministry of Communications & IT. He has been recognised as one of the ‘Emerging Leaders of the Digital World’ by the Diplo Foundation Geneva and as the Hon. Coordinator for Internet Governance Capacity Building in Asia. He has been associated with various regional industry forums as a speaker, program chair and panel member including the Cloud MENA Forum, Smart Data Summit, WAN Summit, DSO Tech Forum and Arab Future Cities Summit.

Boman Moradian has been a visiting faculty at SP Jain for over 13 years, at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies for over 42 years and at the Indo-German Training Centre for over 16 years. He has extensive experience in Production, HRD, Marketing and Advertising in his career spanning 44 years. He is a Management Consultant in the field of Productivity Management with major emphasis in the areas of reducing flow times, increasing throughputs, inventory and manpower rationalisation, and increasing flexibility.

He is an Independent Director on the Boards of Essel Propack, Garware Polyester, Kabra Extrusiontechnik, Mutual Industries and Krystal Global Engineering. He is a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) and a Master of Management Studies, specialising in Operations, from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.

Smita Jain has over 8 years of experience in luxury education across dynamic markets such as Europe, the Middle East and India. She is a luxury coach and trainer with a specialised focus on training for luxury goods and services. Her area of expertise is luxury branding and strategy. She is a PhD researcher and, currently, is pursuing her research in luxury and strategy from Lisbon, Portugal. Her core work ranges from training, curriculum design and pedagogy to industry integration and coaching.

Vaibhav Dhumal is an Automation Subject Matter Expert and has 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked directly with clients in India and other countries to implement Automation capabilities. He is a regular speaker at Robotic Process Automation (RPA) events and has trained 500+ professionals on RPA Tools. He is consulting companies on RPA Process Assessments and Implementation. In his journey, he has been part of various roles right from Content Development and Delivering to Assessments. He believes, as a trainer, it’s his responsibility to bring abstract concepts to concrete and make participants think critically by questioning them based on Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Vikram Pandya is Director of the Fintech program at SP Jain School of Global Management. He is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA, USA) and Certified Information System Auditor (CISA, USA). He has more than a decade’s experience in Banking, Education and Consultancy. He has authored several white papers and articles on Fintech with extensive experience in Banking & Financial Services, Automation, Fintech, Consultancy and Training. He mentors various Fintech startups and funds across the globe. He is the Fintech Ambassador for the Government of Maharashtra, India.