Dr. Sudhiranjan Dey has a work experience of over 39 years across various industries which includes Automobile, Advertising, Media, Higher Education, Consulting, Training, Food FMCG, Social Development, Consumer Electronics, Travel, Real-estate, Healthcare Hospitality, Wellness, Retail, and others.
He has worked in international leadership roles as a people and profit leader in CEO, CMO, CCO-levels with Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infinity, Sony, Ford, Sony Music, Mazda, Isuzu, Citroen, Hino, Isuzu, Buick, Volvo, Michelin, Bridgestone, Nokia, Siemens, Casio, Electrolux, Carrefour, Tesco, etc. to name a few s across New Zealand, Europe, GCC, Middle East, North, West, and East Africa, Russia, Asia Pacific, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent
Dr. Dey has successfully delivered more than 360 consulting assignments and about 800 training sessions around the world for many of the most respected brands in different continents.
His current role as Chief Mentor and CEO of AcademicQA, US based world’s largest higher education quality consulting firm, he is responsible for consulting, coaching, mentoring, and quality success delivery of firms 27 international clients across 16 different countries.
He is one of those few leaders, case studies of his accomplishments are the topics of management textbooks, and also designed, developed, and delivered Leadership Development programs in his own organizations and in others across every continent in the world including world’s top names like Nomura, Bain & Company, McKinlay, Gerson Lehrman, USAID, UNDP, World Bank, etc.
He has led leading advertising agencies in India, Europe, and in Mediterranean. He also headed the entire people and profit leadership for Toyota, Ford, Nissan across Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for over 17 years with legendary performance records for most innovative marketing, product and branding.
His experience in social development sectors in leadership roles with USAID, UNDP, World Bank, etc. in some of the most challenging locations like Afghanistan and African continent had earned him excellent global respect and recognitions for delivering unprecedented results.
In most of his previous roles including very recent roles, he had transformed failing or low-performing business units into a responsive, indispensable operation that produced substantial gains in quality, productivity, and growth. In a few startups, he mentored the organizations from the conceptual stage to well grown large organizations operating across different countries and continents playing key and multifaceted roles in marketing and demand generation, products and service planning, Pre-sales and business acquisitions, deliveries and stakeholder relations, and by maintaining standards and profitability. A broad knowledge base across diverse sectors, markets, and a wealth of cross-cultural skills position me well aligned with any leadership team.
Dr. Dey is best known for most effectively and at ease addressing the areas of team-building, team development, and team management with a high degree of specific leadership skills related to this including how to instill pride, how to provide support, how to effectively engage in collaboration, how to lead a big, trans-global and cross-cultural teams, how to establish team norms, and what to do when taking over a new team and new team members.
Dr. Dey is a Doctoral degree holder and a Master’s in Business Administration from Europe’s premier La Trinity College y Universidad and a Bachelor of Commerce from India’s No. 1 ranked University of Calcutta, He is a Certified Automobile Engineer from UK. He is also a renowned applied researcher with global followings and been awarded with several international and Indian awards.
He a Professor of International Eminence with many B-schools and universities of international repute teaching Business, Technology, and Leadership.
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Assamese, Oriya, Nepali, Persian, etc.
