Dr. Sangeeta Chopra has 24 years of experience in Academia and Corporate sectors. In the Education Industry she has worked for leading Business schools and Universities at the positions of Dean / Co-Director and been involved in Strategic Roles, Teaching, Training, Research, Curriculum Management, and
Accreditation work.
In the Corporate sector, she dealt with a gamut of HR roles, worked in the corporate setup of Gujarat Heavy Chemicals limited, overlooking corporate HR roles, and also liaising with the factory HR. She actively contributed to end-to-end cycle of Management Trainees’ recruitment, orientation and
induction.
She has worked at senior levels in the Academic sector, and in her last role she was working as an Associate Professor (HR, OB & Communication) at the Fortune Institute of International Business, Delhi. She extensively conducted soft skills training (and teaching of the same) at Amity University, where she
trained larger number of students of the Amity Group in soft skills and life skills. In her career she has conducted training sessions for IPS officers, IRFC officers (and staff), Engineers India Limited (EIL) executives, Airport Authority of India (AAI) executives, Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) senior executives and NTPC executives. She also conducted training programs for an Afghan Delegation (members of Finance Ministry and Government sponsored officials). She has conducted
workshops for Chartered Accountants, Engineering students, on Group Discussion and Interview skills.
Her most recent training Programme focused on ‘Performance Management and Capacity Building’ for IT professionals, and was conducted for ‘Far Eye (Technology Solution company), Noida’. In the training, diverse pedagogy was used, that of Lecture, Discussion, Role plays, Psychometric profiling, Individual
feedback, Situation Analysis and Class discussion.
In her training experience she has dealt with middle to senior level executives, and conducted extensive
feedback sessions on one-to-one and group bases. As a niche, she has been deeply involved in conducting Behavioral Training Programme, especially on ‘Time Management’ that she conducts using a psychometric inventory and a business game. In all her training experience has been on topics such as – Human Resource Management concepts, Strategic HR, Performance Management, Conflict resolution, Interpersonal Relationship, Relationship management, Communication skills, Motivation, Written communication skills, Time Management, Behavioral skilling, and Management Development for Young and Middle level Executives.
She has extensive experience of teaching Behavioral sciences, Organization Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Business Ethics and Communication Modules. Within the HR vertical, she has extensively taught electives such as Performance Management, Training & Development, Power & Politics etc.
She has handled responsibilities of the Dean of undergraduate and Postgraduate Programme, partnered with foreign universities like the University of Bradford. She has been the Editor of research journal ‘Management and Change’. She has worked in quality area, prepared institutional reports, such as SIP for
the UNGC, for accreditations such as SAQS and EPAS, and recently she prepared and edited NBA’s SAR, and AACSB’s and Progress Report. She specializes in report writing, editing for Accreditation purposes, and has been significantly involved in ‘Internationalization’ pursuit, during her tenure at private business
schools.
Also, she has been involved in writing for TED license, guiding, mentoring team members in preparing for the event. She enjoys teaching HR, OB, General Management to MBA and Executive audience. She has mentored Masters’ students of a UK University for their dissertation, and has been involved in teaching working executives enrolled with a German University. She has also been exposed to teaching at a Malaysian University, having diverse set of learners from varied cultures.
By qualification she is a BBA, MBA, Ph.D. and a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Training and Development from ISTD. She has been a rank holder in her MBA Education, and a silver medalist (All India) in her Training Diploma from ISTD. She is a certified assessor from XLRI, and is interested in ‘Competency mapping’.
Also, she has expertise in English Language, and thus trains and coaches’ students and adults in language skills in her free time. At present she is consulting with Mindskillz as a senior faculty and working as a Visiting Faculty at couple of B-schools in the NCR, mentoring post graduate learners of a UK University, onboarded with Upgrade as a Subject matter expert, and engaged in English skills training and coaching of diverse age groups.
Languages known – English, Hindi, Punjabi
