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PROFILE

Sanjay Jha is the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India, which has a global experience of having worked with over 400 of the Top Fortune 500 companies. His areas of professional interest and management science specialization includes leadership development, performance management, customer retention strategies , marketing communications, corporate reputation management, media training, creating the vision and mission map, and enhancing employee engagement. He has successfully initiated several new ideas and practices, which have received an excellent response.

Sanjay has often received an overwhelming feedback and recognition for his high-quality training and leadership talk . He is one of the senior trainers in the global Dale Carnegie Training network, and has addressed global audiences in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Singapore, Bermuda, Taiwan , Mexico and Toronto. He has conducted several corporate programs focused on executive development , advised companies on corporate image management , done executive coaching and consulted with companies such as Oracle, Prudential ICICI, Bajaj , Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Pricewaterhouse Coopers , Standard Chartered, Crompton Greaves, British Gas, amongst others. He has also addressed business schools, industry conferences and knowledge symposiums, and has also been engaged as a strategic consultant/ advisor on training to political parties.

He has made several contributions to mainline news and business dailies and magazines such as Business Standard, Indian Express, Financial Express, Hindustan Times, Mid-Day and IBN Live.Com, and appears regularly to air his views on print and electronic media.

He has founded one of the world’s leading internet portals called CricketNext.Com which is ranked amongst Alexa Top 1500 sites globally, and is now also part of the Network 18 media Group. He has also set-up new business initiatives with the world’s largest HR association, SHRM in India and an assessments firm , with the French company, PerformanSe.

Prior to starting Dale Carnegie , Sanjay was instrumental in setting up the private sector mutual fund industry in India , having worked as a Senior Vice President with ITC Threadneedle Asset Management ( part of BAT plc, UK) , Alliance Capital ( USA), Bank of America and ANZ Grindlays Bank. He started his career in sales with Bharat Petroleum.

Sanjay also co-launched a political blog called www.HamaraCongress.com during elections 2009 and now plans to escalate it into a full-fledged portal with multiple new features.

Sanjay completed his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and his Master’s in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune. He graduated with distinction in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune.